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In honor of Civic Learning Week, we explore the promise of civics education to help us move through disagreements about teaching race, gender and other hot-button issues.
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On this Take Note, we hear about the Colored Conventions Project. For much of the 19th Century, African Americans gathered in cities across the United…
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Today we’re going to hear the untold stories of Black Americans during the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War.The podcast “Seizing Freedom”…
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This Take Note is from the Democracy Works podcast.We’ll hear about Gerrymandering and the people fighting to take the politics out of drawing districts.…
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Many, many articles, books, documentaries — and even podcasts — have been produced over the past four years to try and explain who Donald Trump's base is…
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What does jazz music have to do with democracy? We’ll find that out from this week’s guest, jazz great Wynton Marsalis. He’ll explore power, struggle,…
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In this crossover episode with WPSU's Take Note, Anne Danahy interviews Michael Berkman and Candis Watts Smith about several factors impacting the 2020…
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The COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. intensified just as the 2020 Census was getting underway in earnest. As Americans fill their days with news about the…
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As if the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't enough to deal with, the World Health Organization says we're now in an infodemic alongside it. We've seen this play…
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On this Take Note, we talked about public health messaging, specifically how the U.S. government has communicated about and reacted to the coronavirus…