Tonight on Amanpour and Company, Friday, May 29th, 2026
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Author, "Backtalker" / Professor of Law, Columbia Law School / Professor of Law, UCLA
The Trump administration is ramping up its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blasted "the woke military" in his address to West Point graduates, while the Department of Justice is accusing both Yale and UCLA of illegally considering race in applications to their medical schools. Many academics say all this goes beyond just college admissions, hitting right at the heart of who gets to belong in America. Civil rights activist and law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" and helped spearhead critical race theory. Her new memoir "Backtalker" traces her own journey growing up in Ohio during the Jim Crow era. The author tells Christiane how she was inspired to speak truth to power, and why it is essential to continue to do so.
Sally Hayden
Author, "This Is Also a Love Story"
This week Lebanon experienced one of its deadliest days since the ceasefire began. The country's health ministry, reporting 31 fatalities in Tuesday's Israeli airstrikes, accused the IDF of carrying out "a series of massacres" in multiple locations across southern Lebanon. Award-winning foreign correspondent Sally Hayden has lived in Beirut for years and has seen the devastation there up close. But she's also seen the strength and resilience of the human spirit, and in her new book, "This Is Also a Love Story," Hayden focuses on the kindness and connection between ordinary people that is too often left out of war reporting. The author joins Christiane to discuss finding love in the darkest of places.
Jeffrey Winters
Author, "The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy" / Professor, Northwestern University
Fewer than 60,000 people — 0.001% of the world's population — control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. This statistic from the World Inequality Report shows the extreme inequality in our modern world. Political scientist Jeffrey Winters argues that, while the wealthy have dominated the masses throughout history, the gulf between oligarchs and the average citizen today is even greater than during Imperial Rome. In his new book, Winters points out one key difference: Today, this disparity is often achieved and maintained through democratic means. The author joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss this so-called "blind spot."
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