How do you get a Beyonce, one of the top pop musicians of all time?

Even though she makes her success look effortless, it isn't so easy.

Black female artists have always been subjected to higher standards and limitations

as they strive to make a living from their work and share their gifts.

But it's clear that the road has been paved for the top artists of today through the persistence and brilliance of the black women musicians who came before them.

Join me, Smithsonian curator Dr. Crystal Klingenberg, for Season 2 of Collected, the musical genius of black women, as we take a deep dive into the biographies of four trailblazers, Ella Fitzgerald, Tina Turner, Donna Summer, and Dr. Bernice Johnson-Regan.

You can listen to Collected wherever you get your podcasts. Just search for Collected or find it online at Americanhistory.

www.se.S.I.edu slash collected.

Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick. I host Amicus Slate's legal podcast, and I wanted to flag our recent

episode, Trump's American Takeover.

Americans have this idea that when democracy fails, it's going to fail with tanks in the streets.

Listeners are saying that Professor Kim Lane Shepley gave the single best explanation they have yet

heard of how autocracy uses the law to establish itself

and what we can do about it. Another listener writes, I think I needed some contextual grounding

amidst the maelstrom. Dahlia Lithwick's amicus podcast was immensely grounding, not like I have a lot

of experience with my government becoming an autocratic healthcape.

You and me both, sister, you and me both.

Everything that this administration does now that is bringing down democracy and causing pain should be met with friction.

You may not be able to stop it, but you can slow it down.

Listen to amicus with me, Dahlia Lithwick.

Search Amicus wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Intersectionality Matters.

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