Akoto Ofori-Atta and Jenee Desmond-Harris chat with Root 100 honoreeDr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler about his work as a scholar, blogger,filmmaker, and social activist. Plus: Exploitation, and the biggestmisunderstandings about transgender issues.

Join Staff Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris, Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta, and guests Jelani Cobb and Imani Perry as they unpack the most controversial and confusing parts of the president's speech at the March on Washington commemoration.

Join Akoto Ofori-Atta as she chats with Jenée Desmond-Harris and Jozen Cummings about the Kendrick Lamar verse heard all over the internet, the New York mayoral race and how intelligence relates to racism.

Join Staff Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris and Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta as they chat with NPR 's Gene Demby and the Daily Beast's Jamelle Bouie about Don Lemon's respectability politics-inspired 5-point plan.

Join Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta as she chats with Staff Writer Jenee Desmond-Harris about how to make sure the "conversation on race" that everyone's calling for doesn't get too far off-track.

Join Staff Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris, Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and NPR's Gene Demby about some of the "Race 101" questions we just keep having to answer. Plus:  Everything you always wanted to know about the word "cracker."

This week on The Confab: Join Assistant Editor and Social Media Manager Akoto Ofori-Atta, Staff Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris, and Ebony's Miles Marshall Lewis, as we chat about 'Yeesus' and white people with locks.

Join Akoto Ofori-Atta as she chats with Lauren Williams, Jenée Desmond-Harris and Tracy Clayton about The Chatterati, The Root's new tool highlighting what's hot with blacks on Twitter.

Join Deputy Editor Lauren Williams, Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and Staff Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris about insidious forms of street harassment, how the "one drop rule" works in 2013, and why no one seems to care when female athletes come out.

Join Jenée Desmond-Harris, Akoto Ofori-Atta, Adam Serwer and Jamelle Bouie about "well-intended " race screw-ups in political speeches, songs, and comments about biracial kids. Plus:  We unpack Jay-Z's attacks on politicians.