Episode 07: Unchained Memory

“How would things have been different if we’d been able to talk about all this sooner?”

-Maya Wanner

During a discussion with Erica, Maya Wanner, a documentary film graduate student at Northwestern University, emphasized the significance of having conversations about complicated topics sooner rather than later. Maya played an audio documentary that she produced, which detailed a field trip she took with her grammar school classmates to learn about the underground railroad through a simulation. Following the documentary, Erica and educator Ayesha Al-Shabazz talked about practical methods for teaching "hard history."

Show Notes

Created by: Bill Healy, Katie Schneider Gumiran, Rosa Gaia, and Erica Young.

Original music, audio engineering, and mixing by Sean Brennan

Artwork by Rosa Gaia

Theme music adapted from original song by Larii, “Is It Freedom?.”

Theme music adapted from an original song by Javy Polanco, “You Forgot.”