{"id":868,"date":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","slug":"meet-the-hosts-of-stateside-with-kai-and-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Meet the hosts of Stateside with Kai and Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A Guardian show trying to make sense of it all<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Award-winning journalists Kai Wright and Carter Sherman serve as co-hosts of the Guardian\u2019s US video podcast<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kai Wright <\/strong>is a Peabody award-winning host, editor, and writer whose work explores the intersection of history, power, and the evolving American identity. He previously hosted WNYC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/shows\/anxiety\">Notes From America with Kai Wright<\/a>, a live call-in show that aired on public radio stations around the country. Kai has also led several acclaimed limited-run podcasts for WNYC Studios, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/blindspot\">Blindspot Season 3: The Plague in the Shadows<\/a>, which documents the early years of the Aids epidemic in the US; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/shows\/caught\/episodes\">Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice<\/a>, honored with an Alfred I duPont-Columbia University award; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/anxiety\/projects\/usofa-season-1\">The United States of Anxiety<\/a><em>,<\/em> which chronicled the rise of the Maga movement and its impact on our political culture over four seasons of original reporting. Kai is the author of Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York<em>, <\/em>as well as two surveys of Black American history, and a contributor to the best-selling collection Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/meet-the-hosts-of-stateside-with-kai-and-carter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian show trying to make sense of it all Award-winning journalists Kai Wright and Carter Sherman serve as co-hosts of the Guardian\u2019s US video podcast Kai Wright is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=868\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}