Tag: civilrights

• Episode 61: Education for Liberation with Brian Jones

  An authentic education rests on the twin pillars of enlightenment and liberation—it’s about opening doors, opening minds, and opening possibilities; the principal message to students is straight forward: you can explore, interrogate, and understand your world, and, working together, you can change it. Schooling is too often about judging and sorting students into a hierarchy…

  November 16, 2022

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  activists, black powers, civilrights, education, educators, radicals, student uprising, tuskegee

• Episode 56: Robert Shetterly

  Portraits of Freedom What history do you stand on? What future do you stand for? Robert Shetterly’s dazzling series of portraits—“Americans Who Tell the Truth”—cuts through the cotton wool that entangles us, shakes us awake from the deep American sleep of denial, and invites us to move beyond the United States of Amnesia. Here are…

  September 7, 2022

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  activists, AmericansWhoTellTheTruth, artist, citizenship, civilrights, portraits, radicals, rebels

• Episode 55: Heather Booth

  With Love at the Center More than a destination, freedom is a constant struggle, a verb as well as a noun. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous assertion that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice may be true, but only if, as he demonstrated with his entire being, we organize and fight to…

  August 24, 2022

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  abortion, abortionrights, civilrights, communityorganizing, feminism, freedomsummer, Heatherbooth, iamjane, reproductivefreedom, reproductiverights, studentsforademocraticsociety, thejanes