Podcasts to Stay (Become) Woke

As I've brought up before in class, I love podcasts. I'm too much of a busy body to read as much as I would like. Instead I listen to a lot of books and podcasts. For anyone interested, here's a list of some podcasts/podcast episodes that may be of interest to you guys:

Ear Hustle: This is one I just discovered. It's produced by prisoners in San Quenton prison and explores various aspects of life inside prison. I listed to one about solitary confinement this morning that was really eye opening.

Pod Save the People:  DeRay Mckesson , a civil rights activist and former school administrator, produces this social  activism podcast. They do an excellent job reporting news stories that often are missed by mainstream media. If you find you like this one, they also have Pod Save America and Pod Save the World.

This American Life: My gateway drug to podcasts, a couple years back they spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago that had 29 students shot in one year. It is heart wrenching and incredible journalism.

Revisionist History: This is Malcom Gladwell (author of Outliers, Tipping Point, etc) explores things that are often overlooked. I would especially direct your attention to the episode "Miss Buchanan's Period of Adjustment," which will make you really rethink Brown vs. Board.


Honorable Mention

-Code Switch
-Politically Reactive with W. Kamau Bell
-See Something, Say Something
-2 Dope Queens
-Still Processing

Comments

  1. Valerie KunzeAugust 3, 2017 at 11:37 AM

    Podcasts are awesome!

    Another episode of This American Life that I highly recommended:

    https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with

    562: The Problem We All Live With
    JUL 31, 2015
    Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there's one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence that it works: desegregation. Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district that, not long ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program.

    And a link to the Harper High School one that Mark references above:

    https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/487/harper-high-school-part-one

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