Tonya Mosley’s Truth Be Told Podcast Returns

Back by Popular Demand, KQED’s Advice Show Returns Beginning March 12

KQED’s popular podcast Truth Be Told is returning for a new season beginning Thursday, March 12. Truth Be Told helps to correct the age-old diversity problem in the field of advice columns, which leave many people of color out of the conversation entirely. The series uses listener questions to explore how we can authentically be ourselves and thrive. For each episode, host Tonya Mosley (NPR’s Here & Now) chats with a “Wise One” to unpack a question, dilemma or experience about race and culture in America. Mosley provides a space where hard questions meet understanding ears—where people can be candid with each other and work through tough predicaments.

Listen to the new season trailer

Launched as a limited-run series in spring 2019, Truth Be Told quickly picked up a fervent audience and was widely praised and featured in publications, including Vulture; Financial Times; and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. The podcast series returns March 12 with new episodes dropping every other Thursday.

The second season will be full of joy, understanding and collective thriving. Early episodes tackle audience questions, such as:

• Why are Black Americans expected to overcome and thrive without the necessary mechanisms of healing from slavery?
• How do you begin to heal from a family member being deported?
• Why is therapy so often a taboo among Black men?

Like the friend you call after a long day to laugh, cry and scream with—Truth Be Told is the one who gets it.

Listen and subscribe to Truth Be Told on Apple, Spotify, TuneIn,  NPR One and other podcast platforms. If you want to submit a topic or question for consideration, email truthbetold@kqed.org or call (415) 553-2802, or simply use the hashtag #AskTBT on Instagram or Twitter.

Listen to the new season trailer

About the Host
Tonya Mosley has always been fascinated by stories that illustrate the complexities of the human condition. When she was a kid, a friend’s father nicknamed her “Scoop.” It was the perfect name for what Mosley would one day become. As a journalist, she has used her curiosity and tenacity to find and expose truths for the greater good of society.

Mosley currently serves as the co-host of Here & Now, a daily national newsmagazine show reaching 4.5 million people every week. Prior to Hear & Now, she served as the Silicon Valley bureau chief for KQED, leading a team of journalists covering the impacts of technology companies on society, and prior to that as a television correspondent for Al Jazeera America and reporter and anchor in several cities throughout the country. In 2015, Mosley was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University where she co-created a workshop for journalists on the impacts of implicit bias, and co-wrote a Belgian/American experimental study on the effects of protest coverage.

Mosley has won several national awards for her work, including an Emmy Award in 2016 for her televised piece “Beyond Ferguson,” and a national Edward R. Murrow award for her public radio series “Black in Seattle.”

About KQED
KQED serves the people of Northern California with a public-supported alternative to commercial media. An NPR and PBS affiliate based in San Francisco, KQED is home to one of the most listened-to public radio stations in the nation, one of the highest-rated public television services and an award-winning education program helping students and educators thrive in 21st-century classrooms. A trusted news source and leader and innovator in interactive technology, KQED takes people of all ages on journeys of exploration — exposing them to new people, places and ideas.
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