Jodi Picoult is going to take some heat for her new book, Small Great Things. There are going to be plenty of black folks who think, What does she know about our struggle? She may very well lose some white readers as well — the ones who love to tell themselves that they don't have a racist bone in

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This past April, WNYC studios premiered 2 Dope Queens, a comedy podcast starring Phoebe Robinson, a writer/comedian/actress, and Jessica Williams, an actress/The Daily Show correspondent. The two friends had been running 2 Dope Queens as a successful regular stand-up show at Brooklyn's Union Hall