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In 1860, the steamship Lady Elgin was struck by a small schooner in Lake Michigan. Around 300 people drowned in the disaster, making it the deadliest shipwreck in Great Lakes history. The tragedy would have a major influence on maritime safety in the Great Lakes.This episode comes from Curious City, a podcast from WBEZ Chicago._______________________If you enjoy this episode, please text it to a friend! Help us get Points North out to more ears...Join the Points North Fan Club today! For just $5/month, you can support the show you love, and we'll send you some cool Points North goodies in return.Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.

Justin Reich is an Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing program and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. He is a longtime educator and host of the TeachLab podcast. His research focuses on how learning technologies shape teaching and learning in real classrooms and what actually happens when schools adopt new tools. He brings a thoughtful, historically grounded perspective to how generative AI is transforming education.Jesse Dukes is a journalist, comedian, and audio storyteller with a long career producing narrative audio. He works with MIT's Teaching Systems Lab on The Homework Machine project, bringing teachers' and students' voices into the public conversation about AI in schools. Previously at WBEZ Chicago, he has produced award‑winning radio and documentary work and has a special talent for capturing humanity and humor in complex educational stories.Generative AI is entering classrooms quickly—but not evenly, and not without complications. In this conversation, Justin Reich and Jesse Dukes share what they've learned while creating The Homework Machine, a seven‑part narrative podcast about how students and teachers are navigating AI in real time.Complete show notes and transcript: https://mcie.org/think-inclusive/the-homework-machine-what-ai-is-really-doing-in-classrooms-1319/

This episode is all over the place. Jonathan may have witnessed a crime (and is both willing and able to be subpoenaed), while Zachariah is convinced that his new snatched bod has put him on every kidnapper's radar. PLUS there is a Thai fortune-teller drama unfolding (tea) and Illinois is being lame by rejected vanity license plates (booo!) There is almond milk slander, gummy vitamin love, and obvi so much more.This episode was mixed and edited by Kevin Betts.Get your tickets to see Zachariah Porter's new Live Comedy Tour!Want BONUS CONTENT? Join our PATREON!Sponsors:➜ Skip the junk without overspending. Head over to ThriveMarket.com/camp to get 30% off your first order and a FREE $60 gift.➜ Feel your best self, every day with IM8. Go to IM8health.com/CAMPCOUNSELORS and use code CAMPCOUNSELORS for a Free Welcome Kit, 5 free travel sachets, plus 10% off your order.➜ Go to FactorMeals.com/camp50off and use code camp50off to get 50% off plus FREE breakfast for a year!➜ Go to Progressive.com to see if you could save on insurance.Sources:➜ Sarkar, Alisha Rahaman. “Fortune-teller accused of stealing client's phone to make ‘bad luck' prophecy come true.” The Independent, 2 Jan. 2026. ➜ Miller, Violet. “‘IBPOOPN' and ‘ICUP' among 550 license plates rejected by Illinois secretary of state.” WBEZ Chicago, 22 Dec. 2025.Camp Songs:Spotify Playlist | YouTube Playlist | Sammich's Secret MixtapeSocial Media:Camp Counselors TikTokCamp Counselors InstagramCamp Counselors FacebookCamp Counselors TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As Chicago neighborhoods continue to expand with newly built businesses and homes, new opportunities emerge for residents to shape their communities. Yet, traditional development often leaves residents with little to no say on – or stake in - what gets built in their neighborhoods. Shared ownership flips the traditional development script by allowing residents to help improve their communities while also benefiting from new investment. Community members can take a stake in housing, business, and land, ensuring long-term community control, preserving affordability, and building community wealth. In this episode of Trust Talks, host Mariah Van Ermen, the Trust's program manager for neighborhood impact and shared ownership, is joined by Linda Lutton, co-founder and project manager for expansion at Pilsen Housing Cooperative; Kimberly Britt, co-owner of Jumpstart Housing & Worker Cooperative and co-owner of ChiFresh Kitchen; and David Feinberg, director of coaching and knowledge transfer at Chicago Community Loan Fund. Together, they explore how shared ownership can be a powerful tool for advancing community-led development. Shared ownership approaches are community-specific and can be tools to build generational wealth, combat displacement, and enable community self-determination.  They also share resources and funding strategies to help others explore shared ownership in their own communities.This episode was produced by Juneteenth Productions and recorded at WBEZ Chicago.

Although nonprofit organizations play a vital role in recognizing and addressing the needs of the community, research shows the percentage of nonprofits involved in advocacy or lobbying has dropped considerably over the past two decades. However, nonprofits working together on an issue are more likely to engage in policy advocacy. Over the past few years, The Chicago Community Trust has successfully supported nonprofit organizations in working together to advance systems and policy changes that facilitate economic mobility. However, policy change is a long road. Passing new laws is a step in the process, but implementing these policies and holding decision-makers accountable for the true intent is essential and ongoing work. In this episode of Trust Talks, host Ianna Kachoris, associate vice president of people, power and policy at The Chicago Community Trust, is joined by Erion Malasi, policy director at the Economic Security Project; Tracy Occomy Crowder, deputy director of organizing and policy at Community Organizing and Family Issues; Ellen Nissenbaum, senior advisor at the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities; and Ameya Pawar, president & CEO of the Michael Reese Health Trust. Using Illinois' Child Tax Credit as a case study, they explore the power of coalition-based advocacy, the critical steps that follow the passage of a bill, and the essential role philanthropy plays in supporting nonprofit advocacy and community organizing. This episode was produced by Juneteenth Productions and recorded at WBEZ Chicago.

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The podcast Sold a Story explores how a generation of children has been taught to read based on a flawed idea. The consequences can be seen in the lives of millions of struggling students across the country. Over a third of Minnesota fourth graders cannot read at a basic level, according to scores released last month by the National Assessment of Education Progress. The Sold a Story series was one of the most-shared shows on Apple Podcasts when it came out in 2023 and one of Time magazine's top podcasts of the year. It spurred 25 states — including Minnesota — to pass new laws regarding reading instruction. The original 10 episodes explain the rise of this entrenched approach to reading instruction, who benefited from it and how it persisted despite cognitive science research that exposed its flaws. MPR News host Angela Davis talks with colleagues who worked on Sold a Story about its impact and new episodes coming out this month looking at solutions. Guests: Emily Hanford is a senior correspondent and producer at APM Reports and the host of Sold a Story. Her career in public radio began in college in Amherst, Massachusetts. She worked for Ira Glass when he was making the pilots for This American Life, was a reporter and host at WBEZ-Chicago and news director and senior editor at WUNC-Chapel Hill. She has been at American Public Media (APM) since 2008. She is based in Washington, D.C.Christopher Peak is an investigative reporter covering education and co-reporter of the Sold a Story series. He previously worked for the New Haven Independent, NationSwell and the Point Reyes Light, and he contributed research for the Peabody Award-winning podcast Uncivil. He is based in New York City.  Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify or RSS.    Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.

Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Banks, was arrested in Florida on October 24, 2024, facing serious federal charges linked to a murder-for-hire plot. Federal prosecutors allege that Durk orchestrated the 2022 attempted assassination of rapper Quando Rondo as retaliation for the 2020 killing of Durk's close associate, King Von. The operation reportedly involved multiple members of Durk's collective, "Only the Family" (OTF), who were directed to carry out the hit in Los Angeles. However, the plot went awry, resulting in the mistaken death of Rondo's cousin, Saviay'a Robinson, rather than the intended target.Durk's arrest is part of a broader investigation that has put intense scrutiny on his connections and influence within the music industry. Alongside the federal charges, five OTF members were also apprehended and charged in connection to the murder-for-hire scheme. Durk, currently detained without bond, has denied the allegations, asserting his innocence as his legal team prepares for what is expected to be a complex trial. The high-profile case has not only captured significant media attention but has also cast uncertainty over Durk's career, upcoming music releases, and public persona.(commercial at 8:40)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Lil Durk arrested in Florida on murder-for-hire charges - WBEZ Chicago

Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Banks, was arrested in Florida on October 24, 2024, facing serious federal charges linked to a murder-for-hire plot. Federal prosecutors allege that Durk orchestrated the 2022 attempted assassination of rapper Quando Rondo as retaliation for the 2020 killing of Durk's close associate, King Von. The operation reportedly involved multiple members of Durk's collective, "Only the Family" (OTF), who were directed to carry out the hit in Los Angeles. However, the plot went awry, resulting in the mistaken death of Rondo's cousin, Saviay'a Robinson, rather than the intended target.Durk's arrest is part of a broader investigation that has put intense scrutiny on his connections and influence within the music industry. Alongside the federal charges, five OTF members were also apprehended and charged in connection to the murder-for-hire scheme. Durk, currently detained without bond, has denied the allegations, asserting his innocence as his legal team prepares for what is expected to be a complex trial. The high-profile case has not only captured significant media attention but has also cast uncertainty over Durk's career, upcoming music releases, and public persona.(commercial at 8:40)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Lil Durk arrested in Florida on murder-for-hire charges - WBEZ Chicago

Whether we're battling fake news, censorship, or just sloppy reporting, it can be extremely difficult for the average person to be engaged with what's going on — especially in their city or region. Not to mention challenges with the funding model for some types of journalism. The news landscape can look bleak at times. The first half of 2024 has brought mass layoffs — and even shutterings — for legacy publications that are both nonprofit and for profit. Multiple NPR member stations have seen layoffs — like Colorado Public Radio, WAMU (DC's local), WBEZ (Chicago), and WBUR (Boston). It's not just radio. The Los Angeles Times also laid off entire departments, and they faced sharp critique for eliminating some of their post-2020 diversity-focused programming. Pitchfork is restructuring to a point that no one is even sure if they really still exist. With guest host Emily Siner, we'll ask what conditions reporters are facing right now and unpack what it means to be audience-funded. This episode was produced by Elizabeth Burton. Guests: Emily Siner (host), Nashvillager newsletter contributor and former WPLN News Director Rosetta Miller Perry, Publisher, Tennessee Tribune Eli Motycka, Reporter at the Nashville Scene Jesse Dukes, Freelancer and former producer on WBEZ's Curious City Mack Linebaugh, Vice President of Audience Engagement, Nashville Public Radio Alicia Montgomery, Vice President of Audio, Slate Further Reading and Listening If print is more your speed, read Eli Motycka's July 2023 Nashville Scene cover story  Trying to sort out what's happening at bigger NPR stations like WBEZ, WAMU, or WBUR beyond station leadership's official statements? Good luck. Check out Jesse Dukes Substack or the WAMU Union Twitter. If the Uri Berliner debacle was news to you, here is his piece in The Free Press, and a rebuttal from Slate's Alicia Montgomery. Want more This Is Nashville? Consider giving to WPLN for this year's Public Media Giving Day.

We love to talk movies on the Re-integrate Podcast. Why? Because we want to reintegrate our enjoyment of pop culture with our Christian faith.Our guest on this episode is film critic Josh Larsen. He is co-host of the WBEZ (Chicago's NPR station) radio show Filmspotting, which is also one of the top movie podcasts. Josh is also the editor and producer for Think Christian, a website and podcast exploring faith and pop culture. He has been writing and speaking about movies professionally since 1994.Scroll down to read more about this episode.Subscribe on your favorite podcast app!We discuss with Josh Larsen his two books:Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings (InterVarsity Press, 2017), andFear Not!: A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies (Cascade Books, 2023, a part of Fuller Seminary's Reel Spirituality Monograph series).Movies we discuss (with time stamps):From Movies are Prayers:* The Tree of Life (7:41)* Avatar (10:31)* 12 Years a Slave (12:39)* Toy Story (16:57)* My Neighbor Totoro (20:31)From Fear Not:* Night of the Living Dead (29:20)* The Wolf Man (33:26)* Frankenstein (36:49)* The Creature from the Black Lagoon (37:46)* Halloween, Friday the 13th, & Nightmare on Elm Street (39:03)* The Conjuring (41:00)* The Sixth Sense (46:19)* The Shining (49:09)Connect with Josh Larsen:* Larsen on Film* Letterboxd* X (formerly Twitter)* Facebook* YouTube Film Reviews* Filmspotting* Think ChristianYou can purchase Josh Larsen's books from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off.________________Thanks for listening!Please share this podcast with your friends. Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney.Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God's mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission.On Reintegrate's podcast page, you'll find more episodes and ways to contact Bob and David.  Get full access to Bob Robinson's Substack at bobrobinsonre.substack.com/subscribe

We love to talk movies on the Re-integrate Podcast. We want to reintegrate our Christian faith with our engagement with pop culture.   Our guest on this episode is film critic Josh Larsen. He is co-host of WBEZ (Chicago's NPR station) radio show Filmspotting, which is also one of the top movie podcasts. Josh is also the editor and producer for Think Christian, a website and podcast exploring faith and pop culture. He's been writing and speaking about movies professionally since 1994.   Josh is the author of two books about which we talk with him: Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings (InterVarsity Press, 2017), and Fear Not!: A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies (Cascade Books, 2023, a part of Fuller Seminary's Reel Spirituality Monograph series).     Movies we discuss (with time stamps):   From Movies are Prayers: The Tree of Life (7:41) Avatar (10:31) 12 Years a Slave (12:39) Toy Story (16:57) My Neighbor Totoro (20:31) From Fear Not: Night of the Living Dead (29:20) The Wolf Man (33:26) Frankenstein (36:49) The Creature from the Black Lagoon (37:46) Haloween, Friday the 13th, & Nightmare on Elm Street (39:03) The Conjuring (41:00) The Sixth Sense (46:19) The Shining (49:09) Connect with Josh Larsen: Larsen on Film Letterboxd X (formerly Twitter) Facebook YouTube Film Reviews Filmspotting Think Christian You can purchase Josh Larsen's books from independent booksellers Byron and Beth Borger at Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Order online through their secure server or call 717-246-333. Mention that you heard about this book on the Reintegrate Podcast and get 20% off. ________________ Thanks for listening! Please share this podcast with your friends.  Your hosts are Dr. Bob Robinson and David Loughney. Go to re-integrate.org for the latest articles on reintegrating your callings with God's mission and online resources for further learning. You can also find out about a Bible study book that you can use in your small group or individual devotions: Reintegrate Your Vocation with God's Mission. On Reintegrate's podcast page, you'll find more episodes and ways to contact Bob and David. 

Jennifer Brandel is a co-founder of Hearken, which she'll talk about extensively today, but she's also behind Zebra's Unite, Civic Exchange Chicago, Democracy SOS and WBEZ Chicago's Curious City. She joins Carrie Fox for a conversation on approaching the most challenging problems with an open and curious perspective in this rebroadcast from season 7. She is a serial entrepreneur and innovator who works between industries to address how to design better systems for listening, responding, and evolving with their stakeholders. She is a co-founder of Hearken, which she'll talk about extensively today, but she's also behind Zebra's Unite, Civic Exchange Chicago, Democracy SOS and WBEZ Chicago's Curious City. Now that we have her bona fides out of the way, here's the real reason Jennifer is special to us: there are so few people able to clearly create an environment that makes the complicated approachable, and the messiest of problems solvable. Even the problems we face today, problems many believe to be impossible.  “We're coming to a moment in which many more people are recognizing that collaborations and the interdependencies of sectors, of organizations, even departments within a company need to be in better and closer communication with one another. And the more we divide and silo ourselves and separate the work, it's at our peril. We're missing insights. We're missing opportunities to leverage one another's work. We're being less efficient. All of these things translate into the workplace of making our lives harder and also making us  keep doing things the same way over and over again, rather than evolving at the speed at which we could be.”How does she approach these intractable problems at Hearken? Curiously. She's an enthusiastic observer with inexhaustible energy to face hard things and try to make them better. If you've never heard of Jennifer or her work, we're thrilled and honored to be able to present her worldview to you on this show. Thank you to Jennifer for joining us on the show this week. (00:00) - Welcome to Mission Forward (03:40) - Introducing Jennifer Brandel (09:55) - Hearken (13:02) - Addressing Systems & Institutions (19:40) - Name and Ideal System (25:21) - Addressing Division (28:57) - Hearken's Next Steps

What makes a Christmas movie a Christmas movie? How do Christmas movies react to – and help us heal from – collective trauma? How can a British Christmas movie feel quintessentially American? We discuss all that and more this week at the 20th Anniversary of Love Actually, with G. Vaughn Joy, a film historian, writer, podcast host, and PhD candidate at University College London. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The first mid-episode musical selection is “The First Noel,” from Christmas Songs and Carols (1912) by Trinity Choir; in the public domain and available via the Library of Congress National Jukebox. The second mid-episode musical selection is “Jingle Bells,” from Favorite Colleges Songs (1916) by Victor Male Chorus; in the public domain and available via the Library of Congress National Jukebox. The episode image is from a publicity poster for Love Actually. Films Discussed: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) The Bishop's Wife (1947)  A Christmas Story (1983) Die Hard (1988) Love Actually (2003) The Holiday (2016) Red Nose Day Actually (2017) Klaus (2019) Additional Sources: “From Fiction to Film: ‘The Greatest Gift' and ‘It's a Wonderful Life,'” by Elizabeth Brown, Library of Congress Blog, December 21, 2018. “How World War II shaped ‘It's a Wonderful Life,'” by Rachael Scott, CNN, December 25, 2021. “What ‘It's a Wonderful Life' Teaches Us About American History,” by Christopher Wilson, December 16, 2021. “How A Christmas Story Went from Low-Budget Fluke to an American Tradition,” by Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, November 30, 2023. “What's That Building? The real-life locations from ‘A Christmas Story,'” by Dennis Rodkin, WBEZ Chicago, December 21, 2023. A Christmas Story House. “Love Actually,” by Roger Ebert, RogertEbert.com, November 7, 2003. “FILM REVIEW; Tales of Love, the True and the Not-So-True” by A.O. Scott, The New York Times, November 7, 2003. “Love Actually Is the Least Romantic Film of All Time,” by Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, December 6, 2013 “25 Surprising Facts About 'Love Actually' for Its 20th Anniversary,” by Kristy Ruchko, Mental Floss, Posted on November 6, 2018 and Updated on November 13, 2023. “The Visible Magic of Asking ‘Why?' A Contemporary History Approach to Klaus (2019),” by Vaughn Joy, Review Roulette, December 24, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this very special episode former domestic terrorist hunter, Denver Riggleman chats with former white supremacist Christian Picciolini.  Short Bio and Links Christian Picciolini is an award-winning television producer, a public speaker, author, antiracismadvocate, and a former extremist. Christian chronicles his involvement in and exit from the earlyAmerican white-supremacist skinhead movement in his memoir, WHITE AMERICAN YOUTH, andis the featured subject in season 3 of WBEZ-Chicago's 'Motive' podcast, which received the 2021National Edward R. Murrow Award for best podcast in large market radio. For nearly two decades,he has helped hundreds of individuals disengage from hate. He has highlighted his disengagementprocess in a second book, BREAKING HATE, published in 2020 by Hachette Books, as well as in theMSNBC documentary series of the same name that aired in 2018-2019. https://storycorps.org/stories/johnny-holmes-and-christian-picciolini-171006/TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/christian_picciolini_my_descent_into_america_s_neo_nazi_movement_and_how_i_got_out?language=enSupport the show"Mighty Peculiar Theme" by Doug Wortel Our Linktree: linktr.ee/themightypeculiarOur Spreadshirt Merchhttps://the-mighty-peculiar.myspreadshop.com/

After years of downward enrollment trends, Chicago Public Schools is seeing an influx of newcomer students, many of whom are new to the United States.  Nereida Moreno of WBEZ Chicago is covering their stories, from the challenges of learning a language and making friends to efforts by schools and community leaders to help them – and their families – acclimate.

Today, I'm sharing an episode of When Magic Happens, a new podcast from WBEZ Chicago, where intergenerational convos of love and laughter collide. In this episode we're discussing dolla dolla bills, y'all. How exactly do you make a dollar out of 15 cents? We attempt to answer this question and more this week as we discuss all things money honey! Jennifer, Cheryle and Taylor share their stories on entrepreneurship, wealth-building and new approaches to making that coin in the age of technology. Plus, they talk with financial educator Markia Brown about getting your finances in order ASAP.Find When Magic Happens from WBEZ Chicago wherever you listen to podcasts.

Today, we're sharing an episode of When Magic Happens, a new podcast from WBEZ Chicago, where intergenerational convos of love and laughter collide. In this episode we're discussing ambition.We've all heard the tired saying “be twice as good to get half.” This week Cheryle, Jennifer and Taylor talk about weaponized ambition and finding motivation at different phases in life. Then, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx reflects on her political journey, the battles she's fought behind closed doors and the things that keep her rooted throughout the challenges of public-facing ambition.Find When Magic Happens from WBEZ Chicago wherever you listen to podcasts.

Today, were sharing an episode of When Magic Happens, a new podcast from WBEZ Chicago, where intergenerational convos of love and laughter collide. In this episode were discussing ambition.Weve all heard the tired saying be twice as good to get half. This week Cheryle, Jennifer and Taylor talk about weaponized ambition and finding motivation at different phases in life. Then, Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx reflects on her political journey, the battles shes fought behind closed doors and the things that keep her rooted throughout the challenges of public-facing ambition.Find When Magic Happens from WBEZ Chicago wherever you listen to podcasts.

Today, were sharing an episode of When Magic Happens, a new podcast from WBEZ Chicago, where intergenerational convos of love and laughter collide.In this episode, were discussing Black maternal health, reproduction and quality gynecological care. We hear maternity journeys from not only the hosts but also from listeners like you. Later, we learn from gynecologist and surgeon Dr. Nicole E. Williams about the disparities Black women face when receiving care. She also explains why we need culturally competent advocates in the no birthing room and the complex ties between Black history and gynecology. Find When Magic Happens from WBEZ Chicago wherever you listen to podcasts.

Sometime in the mid-1780s, Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable, a Black man from Saint-Domingue, and his Potawatomi wife, Kitihawa, settled with their family on a swampy site near Lake Michigan called Eschecagou, “land of the wild onions.” The homestead and trading post they built on the mouth of the Chicago River, with a comfortably appointed cabin, workshop, bake house, stable, smokehouse, and more, was the first settlement on what would become the city of Chicago. Their importance was long forgotten, but in 2006, the Chicago City Council belatedly voted to amend the Municipal Code of Chicago to add DuSable as the city's official founder.  Joining me in this episode is Dr. Courtney P. Joseph, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Lake Forest College who is writing a book titled DuSable's Diaspora: Haiti, Blackness, and Belonging in Chicago. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode audio is: “Chicago (that Toddling Town),” written by Fred Fisher and performed by Jazz-Bo's Carolina Serenaders in 1922; the audio is in the public domain and is available via the Internet Archive. The episode image is a photograph of the bust of DuSable just north of DuSable Bridge in Chicago; the bust was created by Erik Blome in 2009; the photograph was taken by Matthew Weflen on June 17, 2023, and is used with permission. Organizations: DuSable Heritage Association Friends of the Park DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center Sources: “Chicago's Authentic Founder: Jean Baptiste Point Dusable Or Haitian Secret Agent In The Old Northwest Outpost 1745-1818,” by Marc Rosier, Trafford Publishing, 2015. “Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the First Chicagoan,” by Thomas A. Meehan, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 56, No. 3, Emancipation Centennial Issue (Autumn, 1963), pp. 439-453. “The Father of Chicago: Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable,” by John R. Schmidt, WBEZ Chicago, August 8, 2011. “'The First White Man in Chicago Was a Negro'?” by Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root, September 30, 2013. “Do Chicagoans know DuSable had a Native American wife? We should celebrate her, too,” by Laura Washington, Chicago Sun-Times, June 13, 2021. “The Black Founder of Chicago: Point du Sable | Black History Explainer [video],” Unique Coloring, 3,027 views  Oct 1, 2022. “The Story of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable [video],” Field Museum,  “Who Is Jean Baptiste Point du Sable? [video],” 77 Flavors of Chicago, February 6, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men were endowed with the rights of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” he did not have in mind the rights of the hundreds of human beings he enslaved. But the enslaved population of the United States, and the abolitionists who supported them, like Frederick Douglass and John Brown, adopted the American symbols of revolution and freedom in their own fight for liberty.   Joining me on this episode to discuss the power of symbols like the flag and Independence Day is historian Dr. Matthew Clavin, Professor of History at the University of Houston and author of Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode audio is Frederick Douglass's speech, “What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” originally delivered on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, and performed by Chicago actor Anthony C. Brown. The mid-episode music is “Dramatic Atmosphere with Piano and Violin,” byUNIVERSFIELD from Pixabay. The episode image is: "Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave, on an English platform, denouncing slaveholders and their religious abettors," 1852, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. Additional Sources: “July Fourth used to be a protest holiday for enslaved Americans,” by Matt Clavin, The Washington Post, July 3, 2023. “Declaration of Independence: A Transcription,” National Archives. “These are the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence,” by Colman Andrews, USA Today, July 3, 2019. “Today in History - July 4: Independence Day” Library of Congress. “Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence?” by Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, July 2, 2016. “Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776, ‘Had a Declaration…' [electronic edition],” Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive. Massachusetts Historical Society.  “Practical Considerations Founded on the Scriptures: Relative to the Slave Population of South-Carolina,” by Frederick Dalcho, 1823. “'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?': The History of Frederick Douglass' Searing Independence Day Oration,” by Olivia B. Waxman, Time Magazine, Originally published July 3, 2019, Updated June 26, 2020. “A Nation's Story: ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'” Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. “Frederick Douglass Knew What False Patriotism Was,” by Esau McCaulley, The New York Times, July 3, 2023. “John Brown's Passionate ‘Declaration of Liberty,' Written on a Lengthy Scroll,” by Rebecca Onion, Slate: The Vault, December 2, 2013. “The Harpers Ferry 'Rising' That Hastened Civil War,” WBEZ Chicago, October 22, 2011. “John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry,” History.com, Originally published November 13, 2009, Updated October 14, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Latino USA brings you an episode of the Motive podcast, from WBEZ Chicago. Chicago gangs: Real people. Real stories. A way forward. The new season of Motive explores violence on the streets of Chicago and the former gang members working to stop it. You can subscribe to the Motive podcast here.

Jennifer Brandel is a serial entrepreneur and innovator who works between industries to address how to design better systems for listening, responding, and evolving with their stakeholders. She is a co-founder of Hearken, which she'll talk about extensively today, but she's also behind Zebra's Unite, Civic Exchange Chicago, Democracy SOS and WBEZ Chicago's Curious City. Now that we have her bona fides out of the way, here's the real reason Jennifer is special to us: there are so few people able to clearly create an environment that makes the complicated approachable, and the messiest of problems solvable. Even the problems we face today, problems many believe to be impossible.  “We're coming to a moment in which many more people are recognizing that collaborations and the interdependencies of sectors, of organizations, even departments within a company need to be in better and closer communication with one another. And the more we divide and silo ourselves and separate the work, it's at our peril. We're missing insights. We're missing opportunities to leverage one another's work. We're being less efficient. All of these things translate into the workplace of making our lives harder and also making us  keep doing things the same way over and over again, rather than evolving at the speed at which we could be.”How does she approach these intractable problems at Hearken? Curiously. She's an enthusiastic observer with inexhaustible energy to face hard things and try to make them better. If you've never heard of Jennifer or her work, we're thrilled and honored to be able to present her worldview to you on this show. Thank you to Jennifer for joining us on the show this week. (00:00) - Welcome to Mission Forward (02:15) - Introducing Jennifer Brandel (08:31) - Hearken (11:38) - Addressing Systems & Institutions (18:16) - Name an Ideal System (23:57) - Addressing Division (27:33) - Hearken's Next Steps

Jeff and Phil welcome Susie An and Esther Yoon-Ji Kang, hosts of WBEZ Chicago's Shoes Off: A Sexy Asians Podcast. They talk about scheming up the podcast as a shameless, naked excuse to talk to sexy Asians; the public radio hoops they had to jump through to get it made; and why listeners in search of "bold sexual discourse" might be disappointed. And of course, they discuss The Good, The Bad, and The WTF of sexy Asians.

Earlier this month, we saw the largest bank collapse since the 2008 financial crisis. For many of us, seeing Silicon Valley Bank's meltdown brought us right back to that time 15 years ago, at the beginning of what would become the Great Recession. In early 2009, one or two banks were failing every week. That's when Planet Money reporter Chana Joffe-Walt went inside one of those banks: the Bank of Clark County, in Washington State. Her reporting on the inner workings of a bank collapse and government takeover helps explain exactly what happens when a bank goes under, minute-by-minute. This story originally aired in March 2009 on This American Life, from WBEZ Chicago. We're airing it for the first time in full on our podcast.This version of the story was produced by Dylan Sloan and edited by Dave Blanchard. It was fact-checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Katherine Silva. Jess Jiang is Planet Money's acting executive producer.Music: "Butter" "Bassline Motion" and "Fantasmi." Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

This week on Brazen Presents, we're bringing you an episode from the investigative podcast Motive from WBEZ Chicago. Chicago gangs: Real people. Real stories. A way forward. The new season of Motive from WBEZ Chicago explores violence on the streets of Chicago and the former gang members working to stop it. In episode 1, host Patrick Smith and Cecilia Mannion, takes listeners out to the streets where workers are desperately trying to prevent shootings and help the victims of gun violence. Mannion, a former gang member herself, works for a nonprofit organization called Enlace. Her title is victim advocate. Basically, if you're shot in Little Village, she shows up to try and help, to minimize the harm. She helps families navigate health care, funerals, counseling, she acts as a conduit between victims and cops, talks people out of retaliating, whatever is needed. You can listen to the whole series wherever you get your podcasts – just search for Motive and subscribe. 

If you've ever lived in Chicago, you've probably heard at some point that Chicago has the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw. While that's an exaggeration it's certainly the case that the Chicagoland region has a large population of people of Polish descent and that Chicago is important historically to American Polonia. From the earliest Polish immigrants to Chicago in the 1830s through today, Poles have helped shape the culture, politics, religion, and food of Chicago. This week we dive into that history. Joining me to help us understand more about Polish Chicago is Dr. Dominic A. Pacyga, professor emeritus of history in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago and author of several books on Polish immigrants and Chicago, including American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago in 2019. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-roll audio is “Mazurka, Op. 24, No. 4, in B Flat Minor,” by Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, performed by Polish pianist and Prime Minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski in in the early 1920s and captured on an Aeolian Company "DUO-ART" reproducing piano; the performance is in the public domain and is available via the Internet Archive. The episode image is the Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument, an outdoor sculpture by artist Kazimierz Chodziński, installed in the median of East Solidarity Drive, near Chicago's Shedd Aquarium; the photograph was taken by Matthew Weflen on Sunday, February 19, 2023, and is used with permission. Additional Sources: “Poles,”by Dominic Pacyga, Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2005. “Can Chicago Brag about the Size of its Polish Population?” by Jesse Dukes, WBEZ Chicago, October 26, 2015. “Where Have All the Polish Pols Gone?” by Edward McClelland, Chicago Magazine, January 6, 2020. “How Chicago Became a Distinctly Polish American City,” by Marek Kępa, Culture.PL, April 27, 2020. “Explore Polish culture in Chicago's neighborhoods,” Choose Chicago. “Chicago's Milwaukee Av. to be renamed Polish Heritage Corridor in honour of city's Poles,” by Stuart Dowell, The First News, June 20, 2022. “Chicago, The Polish City,” Interview of Dominic Pacyga by Łukasz Kożuchowski, Polish History. “Chicago's Polish Constitution Day Parade is back. This year, it has a new theme,” by Adriana Cardona-Maguidad, WBEZ Chicago, May 3, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WBEZ reporter Shannon Heffernan brings us the story of Anthony Gay, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation but ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. Gay lives with serious mental illness, and after time in solitary confinement, he began to act out. He was repeatedly charged with battery – often for throwing liquids at staff.  Gay acknowledges he did some of those things but says the prison put him in circumstances that made his mental illness worse – then punished him for the way he acted. With help from Chicago-based lawyers, Gay appealed to the local state's attorney. What happens when a self-described “law and order” prosecutor has to decide between prison-town politics and doing what he believes the law requires?  Finally, host Al Letson speaks with Ear Hustle co-creator and co-host Earlonne Woods about the power of local prosecutors and the complicated politics of prison towns. This episode is a partnership with the podcast Motive from WBEZ Chicago.  Support Reveal's journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

WBEZ Chicago has a new podcast that we think Art of Power fans will enjoy. It's called Shoes Off: A Sexy Asians Podcast! It's a show celebrating badass Asians who are making a mark on pop culture and entertainment. Give it a listen!

When the tea is hot, where do you spill it? If your answer is the group chat, then look no further, because the group chat just added three new members. Introducing When Magic Happens, a new podcast by WBEZ Chicago, where intergenerational convos of love and laughter collide. Three Black women – Cheryle, Jennifer, and Taylor. Three generations. No filters.

Today we're joined by Greta Johnsen, host and producer of the Nerdette podcast from WBEZ Chicago, at host of HBO's House of the Dragon recap podcast. We get into Greta's positive approach to reviewing books and how she currates all things nerd. We also hold a grilled cheese debate and discuss the art of balancing book criticism with never having written a book.The Stacks Book Club selection for December is True Biz by Sarah Nović. We will discuss the book on December 28th with Greta Johnsen.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2022/12/07/ep-244-greta-johnsenConnect with Greta: Instagram | Twitter Connect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode we discuss the rise and fall of R. Kelly. The man who some believe to be a musical genius and the King of R&B. His music career continued to excel all while he was sexually, emotionally and physically abusing countless people at the same time. We talk about how he transitions from victim to perpetrator. References: Nigel Bellis, Astral Finnie, (2019). Surviving R. Kelly. Lifetime Nigel Bellis, Astral Finnie, (2020). Surviving R. Kelly. Lifetime Andrea Kelly Details Allegations Of Abuse By Ex-Husband R. Kelly | The View. (2018, October 4). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFpcvwPrbR8 CBS News. (2021, September 30). Azriel Clary, who defended R. Kelly in 2019 interview, says the singer coached her on what to say. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/azriel-clary-r-kelly-accuser-gayle-king-interview/ Danielle, B. (2020, December 7). Op-Ed: Yes, R. Kelly Is Trash, But So Are Those Who Enabled Him. Essence. https://www.essence.com/entertainment/r-kelly-is-trash-but-so-are-those-who-enabled-him/ DeRogatis, J. (2017, July 12). Timeline: The Life And Career Of R. Kelly. WBEZ Chicago. https://www.wbez.org/stories/timeline-the-life-and-career-of-r-kelly/f6aed43d-d7a4-418c-b707-385640a43dfb Heath, C. (2016, January 20). The Confessions Of R. Kelly. GQ. https://www.gq.com/story/r-kelly-confessions Lisa Van Allen on R. Kelly, Aaliyah, Aaliyah's Mother, Arrests, Trial (Full Interview). (2019, March 20). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COanAq2iUF4 R. KELLY AND MGM WINNERS ON BIG BREAK. (2007, January 31). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AND9B3FRQo R Kelly Full Interview with Tavis Smiley. (2019, February 5). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRTU4gJ6Ks R. Kelly tape; reporter Jim DeRogatis recounts how it began. (2022, August 26). Chicago Sun-Times. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/8/26/23323384/rkelly-tapes-jim-derogatis-sparkle-stephanie-edwards-ian-alexander-abdon-pallasch Savage, B. M. (2022, June 29). R. Kelly: The history of allegations against him. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40635526 Staff, C. T. (2021, October 20). R. Kelly timeline: Chicago upbringing, rapid rise to stardom and years of sexual abuse charges, suits and rumors, conviction. Chicago Tribune. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-viz-r-kelly-timeline-htmlstory.html Taylor, S. T. (2021, August 10). MUSIC MAN. Chicago Tribune. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-10-02-9203300009-story.html White, A. (2021, August 4). R Kelly finally admits to ‘underage sexual contact' with Aaliyah. The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/r-kelly-aaliyah-relationship-b1896521.html Wikipedia contributors. (2022, August 26). Aaliyah. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaliyah

Monarch butterflies are still in the middle of their story – and it's one that is precarious. Humans are still trying to figure out a lot about them, and aspects of the monarch story have been misrepresented over the years. Research: Monarch Joint Venture: https://monarchjointventure.org/ “Monarch Butterfly.” The National Wildlife Federation. https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Invertebrates/Monarch-Butterfly Sutherland, Douglas W.S. and Jean Adams, ed. “The Monarch Butterfly – Our National Insect.” Part of “Insect Potpourri: Adventures in Entomology.” CRC Press. 1992. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Danaus". Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 Feb. 2018, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Danaus-Greek-mythology Kathleen S. Murphy. “Collecting Slave Traders: James Petiver, Natural History, and the British Slave Trade.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 4, 2013, pp. 637–70. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.70.4.0637 Müller-Wille, Staffan. "Carolus Linnaeus". Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus Stearns, Raymond Phineas. “James Petiver: Promoter of Natural Science, c.1663-1718.” American Antiquarian Society. October 1952. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44807240.pdf “Mark Catesby (1683 – 1749).” Catesby Commemorative Trust. 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20130906122250/http://www.catesbytrust.org/mark-catesby/ Smith-Rogers, Sheryl. “Maiden of the Monarchs.” TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE. March 2016. https://monarchjointventure.org/images/uploads/documents/legacy_monarch_catalina_trail_article.pdf Scott, Alec. “Where do you go, my lovelies?” University of Toronto Magazine. Aug. 24, 2015. https://magazine.utoronto.ca/campus/history/where-do-you-go-my-lovelies-norah-and-fred-urquhart-monarch-butterfly-migration/ Hannibal, Mary Ellen. “How you can help save the monarch butterfly -- and the planet.” TEDTalk. April 28, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJTbegktKc Jarvis CE, Oswald PH. The collecting activities of James Cuninghame FRS on the voyage of Tuscan to China (Amoy) between 1697 and 1699. Notes Rec R Soc Lond. 2015 Jun 20;69(2):135–53. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2014.0043. “The US Endangered Species Act.” World Wildlife Federation. https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/the-us-endangered-species-act#:~:text=Passed%20with%20bipartisan%20support%20in,a%20species%20should%20be%20protected. Associated Press. “Beloved monarch butterflies are now listed as endangered.” WBEZ Chicago. July 23, 2022. https://www.wbez.org/stories/beloved-monarch-butterflies-are-now-listed-as-endangered/0f3cf69b-8376-42eb-af0a-9e8b8b4ab6b3 Garland, Mark S., and Andrew K. Davis. “An Examination of Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus) Autumn Migration in Coastal Virginia.” The American Midland Naturalist, vol. 147, no. 1, 2002, pp. 170–74. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3083045 “Natural History – Monarch Butterfly.” Center for Biological Diversity. https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/invertebrates/monarch_butterfly/natural_history.html Catesby, Mark. “A Monarch butterfly, with orchids.” C. 1722-6. Royal Collection Trust. https://www.rct.uk/collection/926050/a-monarch-butterfly-with-orchids Daly, Natasha. “Monarch butterflies are now an endangered species.” July 21, 2022. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/monarch-butterflies-are-now-an-endangered-species Walker, A., Oberhauser, K.S., Pelton, E.M., Pleasants, J.M. & Thogmartin, W.E. 2022. Danaus plexippus ssp. plexippus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T194052138A200522253. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T194052138A200522253.en Price, Michael. “Monarch miscalculation: Has a scientific error about the butterflies persisted for more than 40 years?” Science. Feb. 24, 2007. https://www.science.org/content/article/monarch-miscalculation-has-scientific-error-about-butterflies-persisted-more-40-years Jiang, Kevin. “Study sheds light on evolutionary origins and the genes central to migration.” UChicago News. Oct. 6, 2014. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/genetic-secrets-monarch-butterfly-revealed Borkin, Susan Sullivan. “Notes on Shifting Distribution Patterns and Survival of Immature Danaus Plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) on the Food Plant Asclepias Syriaca.” The Great Lakes Entymologist. Vol. 15, No. 3. Fall 1982. https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1437&context=tgle Cudmore, Rebecca. “SNAPSHOT: Monarchs with big, bright wings arrive in Mexico first.” ScienceLine. June 16, 2014. https://scienceline.org/2014/06/monarch-migration/ Brower, Lincoln P. “UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING THE MIGRAnON OF THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY (NYMPHALIDAE) IN NORTH AMERICA: 1857-1995.” Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. Vol. 49, No. 4, 1995. https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/Monarch_Butterfly/documents/Understanding_Monarch_Migration1995-Brower.pdf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast we're getting ready for House of the Dragon.  Or what we would like to refer to as #DragonsYall! As we prep for watching and live-tweeting we chat with experts and superfans of the A Song of Ice and Fire fandom! House of the Dragon premieres on HBO Sunday, August 21st. Segment 1: We welcome Imara Jones of Translash Media and host of the Translash Podcast.  She is an award-winning journalist, thought-leader, content creator and founder who pushes the envelope to help us think in new ways so that we can save ourselves and the world around us. Host: Jamie Segment 2: Greta Johnsen is the co-host of HBO Max's "The Official Game of Thrones Podcast: House of the Dragon". She also hosts WBEZ Chicago's Nerdette podcast, an interview show that helps listeners unwind from the week while doubling down on delight.  Host: Jamie and Angelica Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax

The Ear Hustle team is hard at work on our next season, which launches September 7! In the meantime, we'd like to tell you about a new podcast, hosted by Jason Reynolds. Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author, and the Library of Congress' national ambassador for young people's literature. He's ambitious, he says yes to everything, and he's feeling overwhelmed. On the first episode of My Mother Made Me, his new podcast with Radiotopia Presents, Jason turns to his mother for advice, and discovers that overwhelmed is a feeling she knows very well. Find out more about My Mother Made Me here. Also mentioned in this episode: The latest season of Motive, from WBEZ Chicago, explores the culture and secrets of prisons in small-town Illinois. And the podcast series Deliberate Indifference examines how the Alabama prison system became one of the most dangerous in the country. As always, big thanks to Lt. Sam Robinson and Warden Ron Broomfield for their support of the show. Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Find a full list of episode credits at earhustlesq.com.

In this episode, we talk about our bodies play a crucial role in requiring us to shift from unsustainable social justice organizing from fear, anxiety, hyper-vigilance, and chaos  to organizing from the more sustainable  care, trust, love, and even joy.  We also talk about the how organizational dynamics such as perceived leadership, funding, and results strengthen fear, too. Our guest invites us to "build our capacity to enter into new relationship with white supremacy, patriarchy, and sexism.""Freedom is both personal and collective."-Robin Wright-PierceOur guest, Robin Wright-Pierce is a coach and facilitator of individual and collective liberation with more than a decade of experience cultivating race equity in organizations and in social change efforts.  She is the founder of The Wright Institute for Transformative Change which partners with individuals and organizations to build their capacity to advance courageous change.  Robin has worked on issues related to community re-entry and rights for returning citizens, education justice, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, immigration justice, and ending anti-Black police brutality. Her approaches to change spanned formal and informal pursuits involving policy and legislative change, community organizing, design thinking and inclusive facilitation, research and advocacy, and field training and development.Robin is a thought leader. Her insight and perspective has been captured in NPR's WBEZ Chicago, KCUR, and WVXU. Her wisdom has been captured in The New York Times, Diversity Issues in Higher Education and in the documentary This Changes Everything now available on Netflix. Recently, she was named one of the top 22 leaders in the country to learn from by Bunch, a coaching company.  She is a proud alumnus of both The Ohio State University where she received her Master of Public Administration from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and Kent State University where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Pan-African Studies. Resources:Robin Wright's website The Wright Institute . Originally recorded on May 12 , 2022.Support the show

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Anthony Gay was sentenced to seven years in prison on a parole violation but ended up with 97 years added to his sentence. Gay lives with serious mental illness, and after time in solitary confinement, he began to act out. He was repeatedly charged with battery – often for throwing liquids, like urine, at staff.  Gay acknowledges he did some of those things but says the prison put him in circumstances that made his mental illness worse – then punished him for the way he acted. With help from Chicago-based lawyers, Gay appealed to the local state's attorney. What happens when a self-described “law and order” prosecutor has to decide between prison-town politics and doing what he believes the law requires? Today's show was a partnership with the podcast Motive from WBEZ Chicago.  Support Reveal's journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Pontiac Correctional Center is a maximum security prison in the small town of Pontiac, Illinois. It's the oldest in the state - founded in 1871 - and has a reputation for being one of the most violent. There is a guard at Pontiac who some staff praise for being tough and having their backs. But other staff and people in the prison say she is known for abuse. In 2019, she was investigated by the Department of Corrections and State Police. Investigators had obtained 427 of the guard's emails, revealing the conversations she'd had with other staff when it seemed like no one was looking. This episode is in collaboration with the podcast Motive, from WBEZ Chicago, hosted by Shannon Heffernan. Season 4 of Motive investigates the hidden world of big prisons in small towns. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Officials say prisons protect the public from lawlessness, but often they're the most lawless places in the country. And the security used to keep detainees IN, also keeps OUT transparency and accountability. In season 4 of “Motive” from WBEZ-Chicago, host Shannon Heffernan explores the Illinois prison system. She finds their rural locations, protective culture, and hostility toward inmates creates opportunities for systemic misconduct.OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS FOR SEASON 4 OF "MOTIVE" BEGIN AROUND MINUTE 41:00

Democrats now claim they are in favor of funding law enforcement, it must be election season;  What was in the criminal reform bill and how this Democrat sponsored bill has hurt our police and safety; What are the real numbers on crime; The repercussions of the SAFE-T act. We welcome Illinois State Representative Blaine Wilhour as he gives us a rundown on the closing days of the 2022 Illinois legislative session;  Has opportunity been destroyed in Illinois?; Title IX debate on the house floor as questions upset Democrats; Big budgets and pay raises again. In the Chicago Sun-Times, Arnie Duncan writes what Chicago really thinks of police, Is mayor Lightfoot trying to buy the vote with giveaways?  Is JB Pritzker trying to buy the vote with tax dollars and rebates? WBEZ Chicago breaks the Vendor Assistance Program business model and how much they have made from Illinois not paying bills on time.

This week we're bringing you a story from our friends over at the Motive podcast from WBEZ Chicago. This season, they're investigating the hidden world of small town prisons and the issues behind the walls that go unseen. The series exposes violence and coverups within the intertwined lives of the prisoners, guards and staff. Set in a place where everyone knows each other, Motive is a story of scandal and the truths being buried in our prisons.

Roger Latimer says he was beaten by guards in a security camera blind spot at Western Illinois Correctional Center. He complained at the prison. He complained to local officials. He asked medical staff to take pictures. Nothing happened. Then another prisoner, Larry Earvin, died after an altercation with guards in the same blind spot.In this episode of WBEZ Chicago's Motive podcast, host Shannon Heffernan tracks the pattern of beatings in that blind spot, surfacing nine additional cases, sometimes involving the same guards, using very similar behavior in the same location. We ask the question of why this pattern persisted, even as prisoners like Latimer tried to stop it.Season 4 of Motive investigates the hidden world of big prisons in small towns. Places where everyone knows each other and difficult truths get buried.Listen to Motive on Apple podcasts and Spotify.

For over twenty years, Peter Kahn has been fortunate to employ the power of poetry to help give voice to those previously unheard. He has been a high school teacher at Oak Park/River Forest High School in Chicago since 1994 and has recently also taught at Roosevelt University. Peter was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2009 and 2017. He is a founding member of Malika's Kitchen and co-founder of the London Teenage Poetry Slam. Peter holds an MA in English Education from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. His 2020 book, Little Kings, is a book with interconnected poems and recurring characters that feels more like a book of poetic short stories that speak to one another. His new book, Respect The Mic, is an expansive, moving poetry anthology representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.Natalie Rose Richardson was born in New York City to a long line of border-crossers and proud people of blended heritage. Natalie is a graduate of the University of Chicago (BA), and the Litowitz Creative Writing Program (in poetry) at Northwestern University. She is a current non-fiction MFA candidate at NYU. Her poetry and prose has appeared, or is forthcoming in: Poetry Magazine, Narrative, Orion Magazine, North American Review, The Adroit Journal, Brevity, The Cincinnati Review, Arts & Letters, Emergence Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and others, along with numerous anthologies, including The Golden Shovel Anthology. She has received awards, residencies or fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Foundation, Tin House, The Newberry Library, The Luminarts Foundation, Crab Orchard Review, Davis Projects for Peace, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the National Student Poets Program. Natalie's work has featured at BBC Radio London, Tedx, WBEZ Chicago, The British Royal Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Poetry Foundation. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee.Rich Robbins is a rapper, songwriter, producer, and educator. But more than anything, the Oak Park-born, Chicago-based artist is a world-builder. Rich's early years as a college student in Madison, Wisconsin's First Wave hip-hop scholarship program jumpstarted his artistry. He recorded wide-reaching tracks like “Dreams” feat. Mick Jenkins, along with records with Saba, Mother Nature, and more. He has performed at historic venues like the Apollo Theater in New York, and has done everything from music festivals, to working at Hot 97 as an intern, to teaching classrooms of high school students how to read and write poetry/songs. His work is an inward look at society's ills and creates spaces for listeners to explore. In short, Rich's work critiques the old while envisioning and manifesting the new. His latest releases are available on all streaming platforms.Poet t.l. sanders is a modern-day renaissance man who lives to build minds and loves to body build. He speaks French. He plays bass. He is a cage-fighting martial artist. He educates. Give him a stage, he articulates. Lend him an ear, he motivates. As a performance professional based in Kansas City, MO, Poet has performed at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (in the 2019 Lyric Opera of Kansas City production of Bizet's Pearl Fishers), at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and—serendipitously—he has performed at several venues located in Kansas City's Historic Jazz District, 18th and Vine: the American Jazz Museum, at the Gem Theater, and in the Blue Room (which is the setting of his book, kNew: The POETICscreenPLAY). As Paper Birch Landing Art Gallery's 2019 Poet in Residence Recipient, the Winner of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts' 2021 Artful Poetry contest, a 2021 Missouri Arts Council Featured Artist, Prairie Lands Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, a Missouri Writing Project Network Teacher-Consultant, a current curriculum director, and former elementary, middle, and high school English teacher turned filmmaker, Poet embraces the value of our shared stories. In 2021, Poet delivered The kNew-Born, an art house film that explores the human side of drug addiction.

For over twenty years, Peter Kahn has been fortunate to employ the power of poetry to help give voice to those previously unheard. He has been a high school teacher at Oak Park/River Forest High School in Chicago since 1994 and has recently also taught at Roosevelt University. Peter was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2009 and 2017. He is a founding member of Malika's Kitchen and co-founder of the London Teenage Poetry Slam. Peter holds an MA in English Education from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. His 2020 book, Little Kings, is a book with interconnected poems and recurring characters that feels more like a book of poetic short stories that speak to one another. His new book, Respect The Mic, is an expansive, moving poetry anthology representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.Natalie Rose Richardson was born in New York City to a long line of border-crossers and proud people of blended heritage. Natalie is a graduate of the University of Chicago (BA), and the Litowitz Creative Writing Program (in poetry) at Northwestern University. She is a current non-fiction MFA candidate at NYU. Her poetry and prose has appeared, or is forthcoming in: Poetry Magazine, Narrative, Orion Magazine, North American Review, The Adroit Journal, Brevity, The Cincinnati Review, Arts & Letters, Emergence Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and others, along with numerous anthologies, including The Golden Shovel Anthology. She has received awards, residencies or fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Foundation, Tin House, The Newberry Library, The Luminarts Foundation, Crab Orchard Review, Davis Projects for Peace, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and the National Student Poets Program. Natalie's work has featured at BBC Radio London, Tedx, WBEZ Chicago, The British Royal Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Poetry Foundation. She is a 2020 Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee.Rich Robbins is a rapper, songwriter, producer, and educator. But more than anything, the Oak Park-born, Chicago-based artist is a world-builder. Rich's early years as a college student in Madison, Wisconsin's First Wave hip-hop scholarship program jumpstarted his artistry. He recorded wide-reaching tracks like “Dreams” feat. Mick Jenkins, along with records with Saba, Mother Nature, and more. He has performed at historic venues like the Apollo Theater in New York, and has done everything from music festivals, to working at Hot 97 as an intern, to teaching classrooms of high school students how to read and write poetry/songs. His work is an inward look at society's ills and creates spaces for listeners to explore. In short, Rich's work critiques the old while envisioning and manifesting the new. His latest releases are available on all streaming platforms.Poet t.l. sanders is a modern-day renaissance man who lives to build minds and loves to body build. He speaks French. He plays bass. He is a cage-fighting martial artist. He educates. Give him a stage, he articulates. Lend him an ear, he motivates. As a performance professional based in Kansas City, MO, Poet has performed at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (in the 2019 Lyric Opera of Kansas City production of Bizet's Pearl Fishers), at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and—serendipitously—he has performed at several venues located in Kansas City's Historic Jazz District, 18th and Vine: the American Jazz Museum, at the Gem Theater, and in the Blue Room (which is the setting of his book, kNew: The POETICscreenPLAY). As Paper Birch Landing Art Gallery's 2019 Poet in Residence Recipient, the Winner of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts' 2021 Artful Poetry contest, a 2021 Missouri Arts Council Featured Artist, Prairie Lands Writing Project Teacher-Consultant, a Missouri Writing Project Network Teacher-Consultant, a current curriculum director, and former elementary, middle, and high school English teacher turned filmmaker, Poet embraces the value of our shared stories. In 2021, Poet delivered The kNew-Born, an art house film that explores the human side of drug addiction.

We're sharing the third episode of the Hard Truths podcast series. In this episode, we examine the role of both policy and the private sector in perpetuating segregated housing. We explore the legacy of housing segregation in Chicago, how housing segregation impacts wealth-building, and how it lays the foundation for other forms of segregation.  Guest: Natalie Moore, author of The South Side and WBEZ Chicago race, class and communities reporter. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Carol Wu, Cara Shillenn, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Dan Bobkoff, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alex Sugiura and Naomi Shavin. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

60年代以来，北美的传统中餐馆被认为惯于大量使用味精，成为饮食界的反面典型，可这一切竟是建立在未经充分科学论证的基础上的？米其林三星餐厅的魔力究竟几何，能深刻改变川菜大师对烹饪的理解？大董开在纽约的分店为何反响平平，墨尔本的粤菜完全可以超过上海？这期节目里，来自媒体的林子人和餐饮达人Ian一起聊了聊我们关心的中餐议题。【主持】程衍樑（微博：@GrenadierGuard2）【嘉宾】林子人，界面新闻记者戴鸿靖，小圃酿造创始人[05:00]经常有人声称自己可以从餐厅菜食里吃出味精的味道[06:05]中国的味精消耗量在逐渐走低[10:40]葡萄酒品酒第一课：酸甜苦咸鲜[11:50]味精在北美销声匿迹始于六十年代[12:20]新英格兰医学期刊与味精丑闻的发作[17:40]中餐馆背了味精的锅[22:00]高级日料在全世界广为流行[28:25]美国老人自认是味精恐慌的始作俑者[30:00]This American Life介入追查发现罗生门[31:15]葡萄酒圈对二氧化硫的恐慌如出一辙[34:25]代餐与有机食品同时流行的年代[43:20]全球最顶级的主厨和餐厅在做啥[57:00]法国干洗店（French Laundry）和玉芝兰的故事[62:30]“正宗”是一个狭隘的话题【参考播客】“668: The Long Fuse”, This American Life, 2019年2月15日, WBEZ Chicago【音乐】"Night Walker"（松任谷由實·REINCARNATION·1983·EXPRESS）"Blackbird"（Sarah McLachlan·I Am Sam·2002·V2 Benelux）【logo设计】杨文骥【收听方式】推荐您使用「苹果播客」或任意安卓播客客户端订阅收听《忽左忽右》，也可通过喜马拉雅FM收听。【本节目由JustPod出品】【互动方式】微博：@忽左忽右leftright微博：@播客一下微信公众号：播客一下

60年代以来，北美的传统中餐馆被认为惯于大量使用味精，成为饮食界的反面典型，可这一切竟是建立在未经充分科学论证的基础上的？米其林三星餐厅的魔力究竟几何，能深刻改变川菜大师对烹饪的理解？大董开在纽约的分店为何反响平平，墨尔本的粤菜完全可以超过上海？这期节目里，来自媒体的林子人和餐饮达人Ian一起聊了聊我们关心的中餐议题。【主持】程衍樑（微博：@GrenadierGuard2）【嘉宾】林子人，界面新闻记者戴鸿靖，小圃酿造创始人[05:00]经常有人声称自己可以从餐厅菜食里吃出味精的味道[06:05]中国的味精消耗量在逐渐走低[10:40]葡萄酒品酒第一课：酸甜苦咸鲜[11:50]味精在北美销声匿迹始于六十年代[12:20]新英格兰医学期刊与味精丑闻的发作[17:40]中餐馆背了味精的锅[22:00]高级日料在全世界广为流行[28:25]美国老人自认是味精恐慌的始作俑者[30:00]This American Life介入追查发现罗生门[31:15]葡萄酒圈对二氧化硫的恐慌如出一辙[34:25]代餐与有机食品同时流行的年代[43:20]全球最顶级的主厨和餐厅在做啥[57:00]法国干洗店（French Laundry）和玉芝兰的故事[62:30]“正宗”是一个狭隘的话题【参考播客】“668: The Long Fuse”, This American Life, 2019年2月15日, WBEZ Chicago【音乐】"Night Walker"（松任谷由實·REINCARNATION·1983·EXPRESS）"Blackbird"（Sarah McLachlan·I Am Sam·2002·V2 Benelux）【logo设计】杨文骥【收听方式】推荐您使用「苹果播客」或任意安卓播客客户端订阅收听《忽左忽右》，也可通过喜马拉雅FM收听。【本节目由JustPod出品】【互动方式】微博：@忽左忽右leftright微博：@播客一下微信公众号：播客一下

60年代以来，北美的传统中餐馆被认为惯于大量使用味精，成为饮食界的反面典型，可这一切竟是建立在未经充分科学论证的基础上的？米其林三星餐厅的魔力究竟几何，能深刻改变川菜大师对烹饪的理解？大董开在纽约的分店为何反响平平，墨尔本的粤菜完全可以超过上海？这期节目里，来自媒体的林子人和餐饮达人Ian一起聊了聊我们关心的中餐议题。【主持】程衍樑（微博：@GrenadierGuard2）【嘉宾】林子人，界面新闻记者戴鸿靖，小圃酿造创始人[05:00]经常有人声称自己可以从餐厅菜食里吃出味精的味道[06:05]中国的味精消耗量在逐渐走低[10:40]葡萄酒品酒第一课：酸甜苦咸鲜[11:50]味精在北美销声匿迹始于六十年代[12:20]新英格兰医学期刊与味精丑闻的发作[17:40]中餐馆背了味精的锅[22:00]高级日料在全世界广为流行[28:25]美国老人自认是味精恐慌的始作俑者[30:00]This American Life介入追查发现罗生门[31:15]葡萄酒圈对二氧化硫的恐慌如出一辙[34:25]代餐与有机食品同时流行的年代[43:20]全球最顶级的主厨和餐厅在做啥[57:00]法国干洗店（French Laundry）和玉芝兰的故事[62:30]“正宗”是一个狭隘的话题【参考播客】“668: The Long Fuse”, This American Life, 2019年2月15日, WBEZ Chicago【音乐】"Night Walker"（松任谷由實·REINCARNATION·1983·EXPRESS）"Blackbird"（Sarah McLachlan·I Am Sam·2002·V2 Benelux）【logo设计】杨文骥【收听方式】推荐您使用「苹果播客」或任意安卓播客客户端订阅收听《忽左忽右》，也可通过喜马拉雅FM收听。【本节目由JustPod出品】【互动方式】微博：@忽左忽右leftright微博：@播客一下微信公众号：播客一下