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Facing Race: Stories & Voices

"Facing Race: Stories & Voices" is a special series of oral histories recorded at the 2014 Facing Race National Conference in Dallas, TX. Featuring an array of thinkers and advocates sharing their personal stories and formative experiences, the series illustrates the many paths and experiences of racial justice work.

Episodes will be released weekly, starting in June 2016, and are available on the Race Forward site (https://www.raceforward.org/media/facing-race-stories-voices), or listeners may subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

For more of these conversations, join us at the next Facing Race conference November 10-12 in Atlanta, GA!! To learn more and register, visit facingrace.raceforward.org.

Facing Race is presented by Race Forward (http://raceforward.org), publisher of Colorlines (http://colorlines.com). The "Facing Race: Stories & Voices" series is produced by Race Forward's Jay Smooth & Rebekah Spicuglia, with interviews recorded by StoryCorps. Learn more at www.storycorps.org.

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Rinku Sen and Gary Delgado on Multiracial Movement Building from 2016-11-07T20:22:55

In the final episode of our Facing Race: Stories & Voices podcst, Race Forward Executive Director Rinku Sen, and our founder, and Former Executive Director Gary Delgado share stories of growing up ...

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Lutze Segu (@FeministGriote) on twitter activism, and finding your love ethic. from 2016-10-24T19:19:22

In this session, social justice educator Lutze Segu (FeministGriote), and Johnathan Fields discuss the effects of social media on racial justice movements. Lutze speaks about critical self reflecti...

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Janna Zinzi and Tara Conley on Growing Up in Multiracial Families from 2016-09-21T22:01:06

In this episode, Janna Zinzi tells our Race Forward Senior Research Associate Tara Conley about what it's like to grow up in a multiracial family when one side of that family clings to racist notio...

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Ai-jen Poo and Kai Wright on Race, Gender, and Employment from 2016-09-02T14:47:48

In this podcast, Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance tells Kai Wright about the ways that women in her family inspired her to fight for the rights of domestic workers–wh...

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Chief Thomas Dardar on surviving "Indian Schools," and keeping traditions alive from 2016-08-25T14:08:19

Former Colorlines staffer Aura Bogado speaks with Chief Thomas Dardar, principal Chief of the United Houma Nation in Louisiana. Chief Dardar speaks on the vital importance of preserving their cultu...

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Franchesca Ramsey on how to survive YouTube as a content creator of color from 2016-08-18T21:28:28

Franchesca Ramsey tells our former Race Forward producer Kat Lazo all about the origins of the classic Chescaleigh video "Sh*t White Girls Say," and what she has learned from her work tackling race...

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Bishop Tonyia Rawls on working with the Black church for LGBTQ justice. from 2016-08-12T13:27:08

Melinda Weekes-Laidlow, former managing director of Race Forward, speaks to Bishop Tonyia Rawls of the Freedom Center for Social Justice, on how Rawls has found surprising common ground with churc...

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Larry Fellows III on finding himself, in Ferguson from 2016-08-07T18:37:58

Akiba Solomon talks to Larry Fellows III, a young St. Louis resident who was so affected in the first days after Michael Brown's death in 2014, he left his day job to help build the growing movemen...

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Jeff Chang on "Who We Be," a conversation about race and culture from 2016-07-28T14:21:56

Author Jeff Chang tells Race Forward's Jay Smooth about his Hawaiian roots, and how reggae and liberation movements for people of color helped shape his sociopolitical views.

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Glenn Harris on racial equity, and changing the system from within. from 2016-07-19T13:55:28

Glenn Harris of the Center for Social Inclusion speaks to Race Forward's Terry Kelleher on his family's experience with institutional racism through the Tuskegee Experiment, and how this led to his...

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Malkia Cyril on media technology, and telling the story of power. from 2016-07-07T16:08:56

In this episode media technologist Deanna Zandt talks to Malkia A. Cyril, founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice. Malkia shares about the inspiration she draws from her moth...

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Pramila Jayapal on Resilience, Resistance and Making America Home. from 2016-06-30T17:28:30

In this session former Colorlines reporter Carla Murphy interviews Indian-American activist Pramila Jayapal. Pramila talks poignantly about finding her place in the USA as a teenage immigrant from ...

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Parker T Hurley on queer identity and finding family. from 2016-06-26T00:26:48

This week former Colorlines reporter Jamilah King talks to the queer, black-mixed race, trans-activist Parker T Hurley, about on forging your own path to home and family as a queer person of color.

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Linda Sarsour on how Islam feeds social justice from 2016-06-17T15:11:12

In this conversation with former Colorlines staffer Julianne Hing, racial justice and civil rights activist Linda Sarsour tells how her activism is informed by her family and Palestinian roots, and...

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