In Person. Emmy-winning humorist Randy Cohen is back to host his live podcast, where guests share captivating stories by discussing one person, one place, and one thing they deeply care about. Join us for engaging conversations and unexpected tales from these great talkers.

Randy Cohen welcomes Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

With music from Hubby Jenkins.

Randy Cohen's first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for
newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for Late Night with David Letterman, for which he won three Emmy Awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore's TV Nation. He received a fifth Emmy due to a clerical error, and he kept it. Cohen also wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for The New York Times magazine for twelve years.

Kevin Young, before joining the Smithsonian, previously served as the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. A professor for two decades, he began his career in museums and archives while serving as curator and Candler Professor at Emory University from 2005 to 2016. Young is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, most recently Stones, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015, longlisted for the National Book Award; He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Society of American Historians, and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.