Created Equal

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Sinopsis

a music-rich podcast examining modern issues of inequality through the lens of history, fusing the insights of award-winning journalists and experts with creative, illustrative storytelling.

Episodios

  • S2E8 Virg Bernero - p.178

    06/11/2019 Duración: 15min

    Virg Bernero was the 51st Mayor of Lansing and is currently CEO of Bernero Hannan LLC. Bernero put pressure on the Lansing Board of Water & Light to remove lead lines. Lansing is one of two cities in the county to completely have all lead lines removed.

  • S2E7: Jiquanda Johnson

    29/10/2019 Duración: 20min

    Flint-area native with more than 16 years of experience in journalism including print, television and digital media. She has worked for The Detroit News, NBC25, Fox and MLive Media Group/The Flint Journal, where she covered the city of Flint. Jiquanda discovered that the community needed a news publication focused only on Flint, Mich so she launched Flint Beat on March 13, 2017 to fill that need.

  • S2E6 Thomas Sugrue

    29/10/2019 Duración: 09min

    S2E6 Thomas Sugrue p.120. Thomas Sugrue is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race. He is the author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.

  • S2E1: Stephen Henderson

    17/10/2019 Duración: 07min

    Created Equal Host and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Stephen Henderson previews Season Two of The Created Equal Podcast and discusses the impact of race, equity and disinvestment in Flint before the water was switched to the Flint River causing the crisis.

  • S2E2: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha

    17/10/2019 Duración: 33min

    Flint pediatrician who discovered elevated lead levels in children and blew the lid off of the Flint Water Crisis. Author of “What The Eyes Don’t See”

  • S2E3: Congressman Dan Kildee

    17/10/2019 Duración: 18min

    Flint native and Congressman Dan Kildee details how the system failed the citizens of Flint, and his efforts to make Washington understand. “Page 131 of What the Eyes Don’t See”

  • S2E4: Elin Betanzo

    17/10/2019 Duración: 13min

    Long-time friend of Mona Hanna-Attisha and former EPA water quality expert suspected Flint water was not safe in spite of government reassurances and spoke up. “Page 30 of What the Eyes Don’t See”

  • S2E5: Curt Guyette

    17/10/2019 Duración: 34min

    Among the first journalists covering the Flint Water Crisis, Guyette went door-to-door searching for the truth about Flint water. “Page 54 of What the Eyes Don’t See”

  • Declarations: Jim Wallis on America's Original Sin

    03/02/2017 Duración: 12min

    Author and pastor Jim Wallis talks about the need for white people to stand against racism in America.

  • 06. Radical Empathy

    30/01/2017 Duración: 27min

    In order to make positive change for marginalized people, privileged people must care about and stand up for equal rights. The story of Viola Liuzzo shows us how deep the impact of true empathy is felt.

  • Declarations: Khizr Khan on American Patriotism

    20/01/2017 Duración: 17min

    Gold Star father Khizr Khan may be the most patriotic American we've ever spoken with. In this conversation he talks about his belief in America's core values.

  • 05. The Electoral College Compromise

    13/01/2017 Duración: 26min

    The Electoral College was created in 1787 through something that made the founding fathers great -- compromise. But in that compromise the founders failed to confront deep-seated inequalities in the nation, and created a government that still today reflects that injustice.

  • Declarations: Four Tops

    05/01/2017 Duración: 14min

    Four Tops founding member Duke Fakir talks about capturing lightning in a bottle with Motown in the 1960s.

  • 04. American Hymnal

    30/12/2016 Duración: 03min

    Art is a reflection of society, and society is a reflection of art. American music has been a global standard bearer for a century, in part for its ability to shift dramatically with society. Two Motown insiders talk about how the legendary record label resisted and then embraced change in the '60s.

  • Declarations: Mass Incarceration

    22/12/2016 Duración: 13min

    Created Equal host Stephen Henderson speaks with "Blood in the Water" author and University of Michigan professor Heather Ann Thompson about the modern mass incarceration and its implication on communities.

  • 03. Of Prison and Politics

    16/12/2016 Duración: 28min

    Being "tough on crime" is politically popular. But does it make communities safer? In 1971 a prison uprising in New York state opened the door for President Richard Nixon and Governor Nelson Rockefeller to push for harsh drug laws with lasting repercussions.

  • Declarations: The Undefeated

    08/12/2016 Duración: 19min

    “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” The team at ESPN's The Undefeated website talks about covering black American life holistically in the media landscape.

  • 02. Jacking the Media

    01/12/2016 Duración: 22min

    Who tells your story? The media hold the narrative for marginalized people, for better or worse. The word "carjacking" written in print got swept into a '90s narrative about black American life.

  • Declarations: The Neo-Liberal Turn

    23/11/2016 Duración: 15min

    These "Declarations" feature more thoughts from the experts you hear in episodes of Created Equal. This week, author and professor Lester Spence (01. The Kiss) discusses the effect of "neo-liberalism" in American politics and marginalized communities.

  • 01. The Kiss

    18/11/2016 Duración: 22min

    How one man's livelihood was destroyed with a simple kiss.

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