Another Round

The return of Tracy's Joke Time, and an interview with Bahraini human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa Harris-Perry says she's "ready to talk." The Wake Forest University professor and the former host of "Melissa Harris-Perry" on MSNBC opens up about her very public, often contentious split from the cable news station.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the genius behind Hamilton and In The Heights, visits us at BuzzFeed. We learn a lot about his life, geek out about Outkast, and sing. Plus: Jeb! An Uncomfortable Musical.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gene and Linda from Bob's Burgers (aka Eugene Mirman and John Roberts, respectively) grace the stude. Plus: a short recap of the Oscars, Stacy's Career Corner tackles internships, and Tracy's plant is trying to kill her.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blacker History Month wraps up with more little known heroes, we talk all things Kanye with Jezebel's Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, and interview Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic, Seven Scribes) about Afrofuturism and #DuragHistoryWeek.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get healthy living tips from Wendy and Jess of 'Food Heaven Made Easy,' then chop it up with Wyatt Cenac on safe spaces, #OscarsSoWhite, and his role on that Kanye West HBO show that hasn't come out...yet.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we were guests on the Longform Podcast with our pal Max Linsky. He asked us all about Another Round, but also asked us a lot of personal questions about ourselves. It was kind of uncomfortable! But like, in the best way. You can hear more Longform interviews at longform.org/podcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little commentary on White Privilege II, a little What Had Happened Was, then a long conversation with Anil Dash about mangoes, representation on screen and in tech, and teaching his son about feminism (with a little tangent about Bee Movie).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We premiere a new segment called White Devil's Advocate, Tracy finds an unexpected Google result during Stacy's Career Corner, and we chat with comic Janelle James. "Hit Me On The Buzz" courtesy of Soul Creator: https://soundcloud.com/soulcreator

We go to the White House and talk to Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama, about everything from gun control to Hamilton to Kendrick Lamar.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a slice of Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa cake and celebrate with Drunken Debates, Tracy's Joke Time, Stacy's Career Corner, Jean Grae, Gene Demby, Stacy-Marie Ishmael, Jazmine Hughes, Ashly Perez, a ~surprise celebrity guest~ and more. This episode has been condensed and edited from two live recordings, at the Jerome L. Greene Space on Dec. 2, and the Bell House on Dec. 5. Watch the entire first night's performance and the Kwanzaa cake video at buzzfeed.com/anotherround or facebook.com/anotherround.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quiz about Flemish proverbs, based on a painting by the Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel. (No really.)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In honor of BuzzFeed's Mental Health Week, we talk through a beginner's guide to starting therapy, and interview comedian Aparna Nancherla about how she makes depression funny. Find all of BuzzFeed's Mental Health Week content at buzzfeed.com/mentalhealthweekLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heben quizzes Tracy on collective nouns, Stacy's Career Corner returns, and we talk to Uzo Aduba of Orange Is The New Black and NBC's The Wiz Live, about how she's "making up for lost smiles" and is obsessed with the Real Housewives.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracy shares her essay "On Thanksgiving, Caring For Those Who Cared For Us."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heben saw something she needs you to know about. Then "America's foremost public intellectual" Melissa Harris-Perry joins us for a wide-ranging chat about hair, surrogacy, Rachel Dolezal, chickens, and much more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BuzzFeed News' Shani Hilton talks black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and Tracy tells a joke. Check out BuzzFeed's Black College Issue at buzzfeed.com/hbcus.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of "On The House," we answer an email from a listener who is feeling insecure about her beauty and her blackness. Please take our listener survey! We want to know your thoughts about the show: tinyurl.com/anotherroundsurveyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A British round of Heben's White Guy Name Quiz, and Lena Dunham is game for a segment called "White Women Gotta Do Better."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracy tells the story of a bad flight. We add some things to the reparations tab. And we talk to Ta-Nehisi Coates, the recently anointed genius and author of "Between The World and Me."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices