Are You a Black, Brown or Indigenous People?

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In the past five years or so, campuses seem to have been hit by a fever they haven't experience since the 19 sixties. Instead focusing on professional skills or the sweet treaits of scholarship, millions of students and professors have made far left politics their only reason for being at school. You know, it just makes me think about paulo freres quote that educators really have a responsibility to not be neutral on issues of social justice. It's always been a higher priority for black, brown and indigenous people writ what some people call citizenship education.

In most American schools, children *hear about* democracy, but don’t get to *practice* it. What would a more engaged brand of civics education look like?

Story reported by Ben James, with host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Arielle Jennings, Hilary Moss, and Nikole Hannah-Jones.

The series editor is Loretta Williams. Music by the Summer Street Brass Band, Algiers, John Erik Kaada, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.

Photo: Stephen Buckley, Jelicity Mercado, Bella Goncalves, and Angelica Pareja, eighth-grade students at Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell, Massachusetts, with their award at Civics Day in Boston, December 2019.