Unruly Subjects
with Chenjerai Kumanyika
Chenjerai Kumanyika, host of the award-winning podcasts Empire City and Uncivil, is known for connecting history, politics, and powerful storytelling. Unruly Subjects is his new weekly podcast, created in partnership with Rowhome Productions, where he brings all that energy to the present moment.
This is not just news analysis—it’s a raw, unscripted space for listeners to join Chenjerai, his family, and his community to think through the week’s politics, culture, and struggles together.
With humor, music, interviews, and personal reflections, the show becomes a gathering place to laugh, debate, and stay grounded while making sense of the world.
Unruly Subjects is created and produced in partnership with Rowhome Productions.
Chenjerai Kumanyika is an assistant professor at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Alongside his scholarship and teaching, and service on the intersections of social justice and media, Kumanyika specializes in using narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American historical myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing. He is the creator, executive producer, and host of Empire City; co-executive producer and co-host of the Peabody Award–winning podcast Uncivil; and a collaborator on Scene on Radio’s Seeing White series. Kumanyika works with a number of organizations including the National Council of the American Association of University Professors, where he organizes labor, academic freedom, and the fight for higher education that serves the common good. He also serves on the boards of Street Poets, Hammer & Hope, and The Moth.