New Visions, New Voices
by New Visions, New Voices
New Visions, New Voices brings to public radio some of the nation’s most important diverse and emerging voices, offering the rich and varied perspectives needed to reach an increasingly diverse audience. New Visions, New Voices will use multimedia formats and engage established and emerging talents to produce short-form segments including commentaries, vignettes, and features for public radio. Long-form productions will offer in-depth exploration of topics in education, technology, politics and more.
Episodes
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Five Back-to-School Tips - EM
In this special Education Matters segment, internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, offers five tips for parents and students for a successful school year. From getting to know the teacher to keeping a watchful…
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Back to School Tip 5: Build a Strong Parent/Child Relationship - EM
In this special Education Matters series, internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, offers tips for parents and students for a successful school year. Tip number five: Continue to build a strong relationship with...
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Back to School Tip 4: Visit Your Child’s School - EM
In this special Education Matters series, internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, offers tips for parents and students for a successful school year. Tip number four: Visit your child’s school regularly.
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Back to School Tip 3: Know Your Child’s Friends - EM
In this special Education Matters series, internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, offers tips for parents and students for a successful school year. Tip number three: Make decisions about who your children...
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Back to School Tip 2: Provide a Space for Homework - EM
In this special Education Matters series, internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, offers tips for parents and students for a successful school year. The second: Make sure your child has a place to do homework.
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Back to School Tip 1: Get to Know Your Child’s Teacher - EM
In this special Education Matters series, internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, offers tips for parents and students for a successful school year. The first: Get to know your child’s teacher.
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Grace Flores-Hughes: A Tale of Survival - EHH
In the 1950s, Taft, Texas, was a segregated cotton town with a sizeable Mexican-American population, all of whom lived on the South Side of the railroad tracks. It was in a part of the state had a history of Anglo-on-Mexican violence, including police brutality and lynchings. Ramona Martinez…
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Latino Veterans - EHH
Latino veterans have been fighting in America's wars since the mid 1800s. Though many join out of a sense of duty, the military benefits and the prospect of a better future are undeniable draws to service. Ramona Martinez examines whether Latino veterans have gotten enough back from the country...
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Seniors’ Moment - EHH
When we talk about immigration, many people forget that Latinos have been living in the United States for a long time, even before English settlers arrived on the East Coast. At the Vida Senior Center in Washington, D.C., many elderly Latinos come together to participate in a bicultural community...
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Latina Stereotypes - EHH
Sofia Vergara Maid, immigrant, bombshell. Oddly these are the most common roles that Latina actresses get to play in television and movies. These roles often re-enforce stereotypes that negatively affect Latina Americans in the real world. And they've existed since Latinas made their entrance…
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Remembering Ruben Salazar - EHH
In the 1960s, a Civil Rights Movement in the Latino community was beginning to take hold. Young Mexican Americans began to organize for greater political rights, better educational opportunities, and worked to establish a new collective identity. Los Angeles was the epicenter of this movement…
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Dreams on Ice - EHH
In the United States, over 1,000 people are deported daily. About a quarter of people deported in the last two years are parents of a U.S. citizen child. Currently there are more than 5,000 children in foster care whose parents have been deported, and that number is expected to grow to 15,000 by...
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Life on the Fringes - EHH
Although immigration reform seems all but forgotten compared to the crisis in Syria and the debt ceiling, it is still relevant to the 11 million undocumented people in the United States. Many of those are youth who were brought to the country as children, but live in the shadows, where a chance…
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Hispanic or Latino? - EHH
Hispanics are the largest and fastest growing minority group in the country. Though many are recent immigrants, Hispanics have been living in America as far back as the 16th century, even before settlers from England. But where did the terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” come from? Ramona Martinez…
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Supporting Women in Labor (The workplace, that is) - FP
As we pause to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of workers on this national observance of Labor Day, it’s worth pondering: What would the American labor force look like if not for the contributions of women? The short answer: It would be a shell of itself, says Jones-DeWeever. She...
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Courtland Cox - MOTM
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom remains the most significant mass gathering in the Civil Rights Movement, and its success was largely due to the efforts of the many committee members who planned the event. As a student at Howard University, Courtland Cox served on the steering...
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David and Toko Ackerman - MOTM
It seems almost natural that a movement with an aim of racial equity would include the young and the old, men and women, Northerners and Southerners, as well as various races. The husband and wife team of David and Toko Ackerman were true representations of this diversity. David, a…
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Esther Terry - MOTM
When the Civil Rights Movement began to gain traction throughout the south, much of the credit for its success rightly went to the college students from the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Well-trained and educated, these young men and women were some of the first…
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Gwendolyn Simmons - MOTM
Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, many of the Southern states in America were segregated and openly oppressive to African Americans. With themes of civil resistance, nonviolent protests, boycotts and voting rights at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, there was another...
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Dorie Ann Ladner and Dr. Joyce Ann Ladner - MOTM
The Civil Rights Movement is sometimes portrayed as the courageous efforts of individual men and women whose bigger-than-life heroism transformed American society. While working to prepare for the March on Washington in 1963, two sisters from Mississippi, Dorie Ann and Joyce Ann Ladner, realized...
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Dorie Ann Ladner and Dr. Joyce Ann Ladner, March on Washington - MOTM
1963 was a momentous year for the Civil Rights Movement. Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter-registration campaigns merged to galvanize people for the historic March in Washington on August 28. As two sisters from Mississippi— Dorie Ann and Joyce Ann Ladner—worked to prepare for the March, they...
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Phil Hutchings, March on Washington - MOTM
The March on Washington was one of the largest organized efforts for human rights in United States history. With its focus on civil and economic rights for African Americans, the overarching theme of jobs and freedom permeated the nation’s capital for this August 28, 1963 event. As time leading…
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Robert Hayling - MOTM
Dentist Robert Hayling has been hailed as the "father" of the Saint Augustine, Fla., civil rights movement. The NAACP recruited Hayling in the early 1960s to organize demonstrations and coordinate visiting activists, including Martin Luther King Jr. in Saint Augustine. Using his dental office as…
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William Anderson - MOTM
As much as the Civil Rights Movement was driven by the men and women who boldly took steps toward change, it was clear that not much could be done without well-run organizations taking the lead. Americus, Ga., native Dr. William Anderson founded the Albany Movement in Georgia in 1961 in an effort...
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Freeman Hrabowski - Moments of the Movement
With so much on the line, one might think that everyone in the Black community would be on the same page when it came to fighting for civil rights. But Birmingham native Freeman Hrabowski explains that many middle-class African-Americans worried that there could be serious consequences for…
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New Visions, New Voices brings to public radio some of the nation’s most important diverse and emerging voices, offering the rich and varied perspectives needed to reach an increasingly diverse audience. New Visions, New Voices will use multimedia formats and engage established and emerging talents to produce short-form segments including commentaries, vignettes, and features for public radio. Long-form productions will offer in-depth exploration of topics in education, technology, politics and more.
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