Castina Charles is a poet and activist; both of her passions are fueled by her drive to educate, to make people understand different perspectives — including her own as a black woman in modern America. In this week’s podcast, she reads poems that are at once playful and pointed. She also talks about the Women’s Empowerment Conference and March she organized, which included Christine Ahn who led a women’s march across the Korean DMZ, and Lacey Schwartz who made the documentary, “Little White Lie,” about being raised in a Jewish family only to discover at 18 that her biological father was a black man. Charles makes politics personal.