War on Woke: Where We Hold Out Hope
Antonio and other business owners in Florida sued the state after the Stop WOKE Act was signed, and won. What does that mean for the future...
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Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
On Who We Are, host Carvell Wallace and ACLU Deputy Director Jeffery Robinson reach back to tipping points in American history, to examine the white supremacist foundation on which the natio...
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War on Woke: The Real Heart of the Problem
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is on a mission to curb conversations about race, diversity, and inequity of all shades. He’s banned books, tr...
War on Woke: Not Just About The Ice Cream
According to Antonio McBroom, a day without dessert is a disaster. So it makes sense that he’s now an ice cream entrepreneur, slinging scoop...
Final Mini-Series Coming Soon!
We'll be back in November with our final mini-series of this season which delves into Florida's War on Woke and the ongoing fight to protect...
Crooked Coffee: Let Us Shine
Ms. Livvy’s heroic efforts to protect voting rights have come at a cost. Her health has suffered, and she’s tired. But she knows there’s mor...
Crooked Coffee: The Fight Against Voter Suppression
Ms. Livvy has watched as Georgia has become ground zero for voter suppression efforts. Laws that wipe people from the polls are popping up l...
Crooked Coffee: Ms. Livvy Against The Machine
Voters in Coffee County, Georgia have another name for this place: Crooked Coffee, where elections officials have waged war on voters of col...
Cancer Alley: Victory is Mine
Ms. Sharon never thought she’d be the one to take down the industry harming her community. But as her fight gains momentum, she’s scoring wi...
Cancer Alley: This is OUR Briar Patch
The violent history of Cancer Alley began long before the petrochemical industry arrived in the 1960s. Prior to being dominated by plastics...
Cancer Alley: Plan A is the Only Plan
The beautiful stretch of Louisiana where Ms. Sharon Lavigne lives goes by many names: the River Parishes, The Great River Road, The Mississi...
The Workhouse: How to Close a Jail
How do you close a jail that’s as old as your city? Step one: gather your people. In the final episode of this series from St. Louis, we’re...
The Workhouse: The Court's ATM
More than half a million Americans are sitting in jail awaiting trial. And 60% of them are there because they can’t afford not to be. That’s...
The Workhouse: A Scorpio Walks Into a Jail
Inez Bordeaux needs you to know three things: she’s a mom of four, a Scorpio, and she always gets her lick back. So when a court error sent...
Season 3 Trailer: Let's get into it!
Into the Mix is all about joy and justice in action, and this season, Ben & Jerry’s is bringing you four multi-part stories that take you be...
34 Cents an Hour: Prison Labor & the Exception in the 13th Amendment
Johnny Perez worked hard throughout his 13 year prison sentence. He sewed sheets and facilitated classes, met demanding quotas and helped ot...
The Price of Freedom: Cash Bail and Pretrial Detention
When Flo was arrested in 2016, he did not expect to be wrapped into the predatory bail industry. $7,500: that was the amount the judge set f...
“This is My City”: The Promise of Reparations and the Legacy of Urban Renewal
Priscilla Robinson says the Southside neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina was once a thriving, tight-knit community. She describes fru...
New Front Lines: How Med Students are Adapting to a Post Roe Future
When 3rd year med student Megh Kumar told a mentor she’d decided to go into OB GYN, she got an unexpected piece of advice: don’t. It’s been...
I Am the Water: Grassy Narrows’ Land Back Story
On a cold night in 2002, Chrissy Isaacs watched yet another logging truck loaded with old growth trees hurtle past her home in the Grassy Na...
Libraries Off-limits: Examining Florida’s book bans
Andrea Phillips loves her job. She works at an elementary school as a reading interventionist, teaching struggling readers to love books. Wh...