If you want to understand what’s wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: white parents. (5-episode podcast.)
Hosted by two white educators, episodes come out about twice a year and are 30-45 minutes long. Topics include Whiteness; which books are part of the K-12 canon; race in school.
Recommended by Nehemiah: Center for Urban Leadership Development
Tim Wise, known for his book White Like Me, hosts this podcast, with topics focusing on democracy, justice, religious tolerance, education, politics and more.
Recommended by Nehemiah: Center for Urban Leadership Development
All My Relations is a podcast to discuss our relationships as Native peoples-- relationships to land, to ancestors, and to each other.
Recommended by the YWCA Racial Justice Learning Resources
Madison-based pastor Dr. Alex Gee has had over thirty years' experience working for racial justice through such organizations as the Fountain of Life Covenant Church, The Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development and the citywide movement Justified Anger. His podcast Black Like Me 'invites you to experience the world through the perspective of one Black man, one conversation, one story, or even one rant at a time.'
This two-part series, which originally aired in July 2015, focuses on school integration and the challenges school reformers have faced in closing the achievement gap. Interviews focus on two schools, one in St. Louis and one in Hartford, Connecticut, and the differing success both schools have had with becoming more inclusive.
