HeyJaredWith Good Reason
Each week scholars explore the worlds of literature, science, the arts, politics, history, religion, and business through lively discussion with host Sarah McConnell.
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Voices Behind Walls (opens the original)
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College classrooms are opening up behind federal prison walls, sparking a massive shift in American higher education. Driven by the return of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students, community colleges across the country are meeting communities where needs are greatest–in prisons. Beth Benson and Maria Durso of are part of a two-year degree program inside the federal prison complex in Petersburg. Later in the show: The number of young people held in juvenile facilities, adult prisons, a
America After 1619 (opens the original)
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In late August 1619, twenty or more enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia at what’s now called Fort Monroe. They were the first Africans documented in British North America. Fort Monroe’s Park Superintendent Terry Brown recalls how America commemorated their arrival 407 years later. And: We hear from the Tuckers, the descendants of the very first African-American baby, about their work to uncover the stories of their ancestors. Plus: Poet Synnika Lofton reflects on 1619 and shares how he channel
Rights to Nature (opens the original)
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The James River provides drinking water for 1 in 4 Virginians. But it was once the most polluted river in America. Justin Black and Will Gemma’s two-part documentary Headwaters Down captures a 360-mile, 18-day journey from the headwaters of the James River in the Blue Ridge Mountains all the way to its mouth at the Chesapeake Bay. Friendship is the vehicle that moves the documentary through the James' history of colonization, enslavement and industry pollution. And: Since gaining federal recogni
Jazz and Civil Rights (opens the original)
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The personal and professional lives of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane cannot be divorced from the struggle for racial equality. Antonio Garcia says they contributed in significant ways to interracial understanding and social progress. Also: The composers of the Civil Rights anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” also created musical theater at the turn of the century that transformed the image of African American characters and performers. Paula Marie Seniors looks
Healing from the Holocaust (opens the original)
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After liberation, concentration camp survivors were left a shell of themselves - malnourished, diseased, and traumatized. Children who lost their parents and extended family had nowhere to go. Maggie Fraser Kirsh studies the caregivers who swooped in from around the world to help begin the healing process. Later in the show: Death by hanging was the harshest punishment assigned to Nazi-era war criminals. But Jessica Trisko Darden says not all who were sent to the gallows were men. She’s the auth
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