EpisodeEvicted!
All across the country there’s an eviction crisis, and it’s disproportionately affecting minority communities.
BlogHarriet Tubman: Disability Icon
When we were producing Episode Three of American Dissent, we wanted to highlight one of our “dissent heroes:” Harriet Tubman. We found Vilissa Thompson’s essay “The Harriet Tubman Casting Cripping Up …
BlogA Pilgrimage for John Henry James
On July 7th, 2018, a group of almost 100 Charlottesville residents set off to Montgomery. They carried with them a jar of soil, symbolizing the remains of a man named …
EpisodePilgrimage
Content warning: this episode includes vivid descriptions of racial terror lynching, an auditory reenactment of racist assaults on protestors, and a description of police brutality against a black child. Please …
EpisodeDegrees of Separation: Secondary
In the third part of our special series on education, Degrees of Separation, we examine how inequality is at work in the high-stakes world of high school, from who we …
EpisodeThe Innocence Project
In this hour we look at the failures in our judicial system. We’ll also hear about the impact jealousy has on relationships and whether there’s causal relationship between more gun ownership and …
EpisodeThe Truth About Cultural Bias
Hoodie Rally in Memory of Trayvon Martin by Madison Guy, on Flickr Sharply different reactions to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial reveal the racial divide that persists in …
EpisodeStories from the Streets
Dan Kerr (James Madison University) says America has a homelessness crisis. To find out why, he spoke to homeless people on the streets and in the shelters of Cleveland, Ohio, …
EpisodeRace – Does it Exist?
In 1998, a group of American anthropologists garnered attention by questioning the meaning of “race.” These scholars, from a discipline that long supported the concept of race, announced they no …
