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Antiracist-students: Listen

     Talking about Race:

     Resources & Reads for Students

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Essential Questions for Listening

While listening, these are some essential questions to consider and share:

  • Did the podcast you listened to include examples of microaggressions, racism, or white privilege?  If so, what happened?
  • There are a wide range of stories told in these podcasts. When people share their lived experience can their stories have the power to create change?  Why or why not?
The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Kojo For Kids: Jason Reynolds Talks About Racism And The Protests

On Monday June 1, 2020 radio host Kojo Nnamdi interviewes YA author Jason Reynolds to talk about why people are angry and what can we do about racism.  (25 min)
NPR Throughline

Milliken v. Bradley

July 25, 2019 (36 min.)

After the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, public schools across the country were supposed to become more integrated, but by the 1970s, many weren't. As a way to remedy segregation in their city, the Detroit school board introduced busing across Detroit. But the plan was met with so much resistance that the issue eventually led all the way to the Supreme Court.

This week, segregation in Detroit public schools and the impact of a Supreme Court case that went far beyond that city.
NPR Code Switch

A Tale of Two School Districts

September 11, 2019 (30 min)

Public school educations are not created equal, thanks to a long history of segregation in schools and housing. In this episode, we look at neighboring school districts that, despite their geographic closeness, have wildly different racial demographics and school funding.
NPR Code Switch

Songs Giving Us (Much Needed) Life 

May 26, 2020  (23 min)

Talking about race can get real heavy, real fast. Listening to music is one way people have been lightening the mood and sorting through their feelings. So this week, we're sharing some of the songs that are giving all of us life during this especially taxing moment.

 
NPR Code Switch

On the Shoulders of Giants

February 19. 2019 (40 min)

When Colin Kaepernick took a knee to protest police brutality in 2016, he joined a long line of black athletes using their platform to fight for a better world for black people. In 2019, we featured an episode of NPR's Throughline podcast, which tells the stories of three black athletes who protested injustice: Jack Johnson, Wilma Rudolph and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.
NPR Code Switch

Who Counts in 2020?

April 1, 2020  by Karen Grigsby Bates (38 min)

Right now, the U.S. Census Bureau is trying to count every single person living in the country. It's a complex undertaking with enormous stakes. But some people are very afraid of how that information will be used by the government — especially given how it's been misused in the past. The first in our series about who counts in 2020.
RadioLab

Nina

June 6, 2020 (13 min)

Producer Tracie Hunte stumbled into a duet between Nina Simone and the sounds of protest outside her apartment. Then she discovered a performance by Nina on April 7, 1968 - three days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tracie talks about what Nina’s music, born during another time when our country was facing questions that seemed to have no answer, meant then and why it still resonates today.