Imagining How to End America's Racial Dilemma
April 11, 2021
We know that children's life chances are overwhelmingly dependent on the income and education of their parents. Over 65 years after the Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board, black children are as segregated from white students as they were in the mid-1970s.
Host Jim Vrettos discusses this topic with guests Edmond "Buddy" Noel Jr. and Joel Allen, M.D.
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315
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The Radical Imagination
The Radical Imagination looks at radical alternatives of what the United States could be like, offering a safe space in which people can discuss what they imagine in order to transform the criminal justice system, economic system, political system, etc.; understanding that the same issues that...
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