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Setting Them Up to Succeed: A Parent's Guide to Academic Support
Episode 96
What does success actually look like for our children — and how do we help them get there?
In this episode of Rethinking Freedom, host Aya Fubara Enel…
2 months, 1 week ago
It Takes a Village: Who's Responsible for Our Kids' Education?
Episode 95
Who failed our kids, and what will it take to fix America’s education crisis?
In 2024, 70% of U.S. fourth graders scored below proficient in reading. …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Jalil Muntaqim: Black August, Political Prisoners and the Fight Against Genocide
Episode 94
He spent 49 years in prison for something the state never wanted the country to fully understand. Now he's telling the whole story.
Our Black August e…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Black August: The History They Don’t Want You to Know
Episode 93
What is Black August, and why has it become one of the most significant traditions of remembrance and resistance in the Black freedom struggle?
In thi…
3 months ago
Get Into Good Trouble
Episode 92
What does it mean to get into “good trouble” in today’s America?
In this episode of Rethinking Freedom, we examine recent federal and Texas legislatio…
3 months, 1 week ago
Life by Design in the Homeland
Episode 91
What does it mean to truly come home? In this episode of Rethinking Freedom, we sit down with Nannette Atuahene — the first in her lineage to be born…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Blueprint for Apartheid: How the U.S. Government Engineered American Segregation
Episode 90
Most of us were taught that segregation in America happened by accident - that it was simply the result of personal prejudice or private choice. It w…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
A Promise, Not a Fact — The Mythmaking Behind America's Symbols
Episode 89
We were taught to stand for the anthem, place a hand over our heart for the pledge, and treat July 4th as the day freedom began. But who wrote these …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Democracy That Never Was: An Afro-Indigenous History of America
Episode 88
We're taught that American democracy was built on liberty and self-governance. But what if it was actually built on two erasures at once — the enslav…
4 months ago
"No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed": Dr. Cynthia Orozco on the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Episode 87
In this episode of Rethinking Freedom, part of our summer series The Other Side of Freedom: USA at 250, we sit down with historian Dr. Cynthia E. Oro…
4 months, 1 week ago