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Empowerment Starts Here
Empowerment Starts Here is a podcast that explores power, social change and disrupting the margins.
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Ep72- The Case of BLM with Dr. C. Eric Ervin
This episode is the fifth conversation in the Black Lives Matter
series. In it, you will hear Dr. Ervin talk about the collapse of life, liber...
Ep71- The Case of BLM with Reverend Valerie Bridgeman
This episode is the fourth conversation in the Black Lives Matter series where empowerment starts here with Reverend Dr. Valerie Bridgeman. In this c...
Ep70-The Case of BLM with Senator Lena Taylor
In this episode, Empowerment Starts Here with Senator Lena Taylor from Wisconsin. The Senator joins this BLM series as a public servant trying to dis...
Ep69- The Case of BLM with Demetrius Bennett (Y-DOT)
In this episode, the Informant, a local artist, talks black lives matter through the lens of a black man growing up in Milwaukee, WI. He talks about...
Ep68-The Case of BLM with Henry Leonard
In this episode, Henry Leonard talks about public education and black lives matter through the lens of a union worker. He also shares his perspective...
Ep67- Introducing Season 6: The Case of Black Lives Matter
This episode is the first of a season of seven where the host explores what black lives matter means to her on a personal level and then engages with...
The Case of ESH (Ep61)
In this episode, the host returns (from an extended break) with a conversation about her continued commitment to Empowerment Starts Here (ESH). She t...
Ep54- The Case of Capital and School Choice
In this episode, the informant talks about the capital required for parents to enroll their children in charter public schools and the ways in which t...
Ep53- The Case of EduColor
In the recorded conversation, the Informant talks about public school employment for educators of color and how it differs from what their white count...
Ep52- The Case of Racism
Contrary to public treatment, racism is not just about the n-word. It is also not just about blatant discrimination on the grounds of color. In this...
Ep51- The Case of Black Love
In the Case of Black Love, the informants talk about happiness, love, sex, sexuality, sexual assault, black men, black women, black consciousness, R....
Ep50- The Case of Words
In this episode, the informant shares insight on words and the human experience those words represent. She talks about writing, publishing and the dev...
Ep49- The Case of Sex
In this episode, the informant and host talk about sex from a sociological perspective. Together, they interrogate ideas on sex as an act of pleasure...
Ep48- The Case of the Sunken Place
The Sunken Place is a term/metaphor borrowed from Jordan Peele's movie, Get Out. In this episode, the host proposes four conditions that creates this...
Ep47- The Case of the Critical
To be critical is to understand all events, experiences and phenomenon by examining their relationship with the social world. One who is critical acc...
Ep46- The Case of Role Reversal
In this episode, the informant talks about three levels of power shifting: the power shift that happens at the classroom level when whiteness is de-c...
Ep45- The Case of White Male Privilege and Identity
In this episode, four ESH returns come back to talk about a common theme they share: being white, male and privileged. In this conversation is Chris...
Ep44- The Case of the Awkward White Feminist
In this episode, the informant models what it means to be unapologetic around issues relating to women. She talks boldly about birth control, about a...
Ep43- The Case of Social Class
In this episode, the host talks about property, power and prestige as conditions of social class; about class inconsistency and class stratification;...
Ep42- The Case of Being Black at School
In this episode, the informant talks about being black at school as a psychosocial phenomenon impacting black students and families, black educators,...
Ep41- The Case of Standardized Tests
In this episode, Dr. Marachi offers a critique on standardized testing as part of a larger phenomenon of big data and predictive analytics. She talks...
Ep40- The Case of Rejecting the Middle
In this episode, the informant talks about individualism versus collectivism (in terms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness); about tradition...
Ep39- The Case of Judge Kavanaugh
This case explores three themes extracted from Senate hearings around the Supreme Court vacancy and the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh: bo...
Ep38- The Case of Giftedness
In this episode, we spend a good chunk of time talking politically about giftedness, about the federal definition provided for gifted and talented pro...
Ep37- The Case of Bioethics and Race
In this episode, the informant talks about medicine and the health profession in terms of how prepared it is (or not) in dealing with communities of c...
Ep36- The Case of Low-income Black Fathers
In this episode, the informant talks about socioeconomic conditions of fathering and challenges faced by black, low-income dads (unemployment, housing...
Ep35-The Case of Social Change from the Margins
When you have multiple access points to powerlessness, the work of social change can seem impossible—even secondary to the work of survival. But none...
Ep34- (Part 2) The Case of Self and the Resistance
In this eisode, the host focuses on the social world as relating to the power and privilege afforded to specific cognitive functions (within Meyers Br...
Ep33- The Case of Self and the Resistance
The final case is being presented over two episodes allowing for an adequate representation of two related yet distinct discussions. In the first epi...
Ep32- The Case of Critical Race Feminism
In this episode, the informant talks about self-love and self-care as liberatory practices. She provides a five-part construct on critical race femin...
Ep31- The Case of the Academy and Women of Color
In this episode, the informant explores racism and sexism in higher education.
To get more of a description and access resources mentioned in...
Ep30- The Case of Race and Dignity
In this episode, the informant talked about dignity as a sense of mutual self-worth within the human race and race and gender as social constructs tha...
Ep29-The Case of Student Power
In this episode, the host talks about student power as a practice of teaching and learning. She makes a case that it is an essential element of stude...
Ep28- The Case of Integrity and Its Price
In this episode, the informant talks about what happens when your life becomes the place of protest impacting your body, your home and your reputation...
Ep27- The Case of the Black Female Educator
In this episode, the informant talks about the unique teaching style of black female educators that comes from suffering and surviving in an inequitab...
Ep26- The Case of Taking a Knee in Math
In the recorded call, you are going to hear the informant offer four (possibly five) ways that math teachers can do social justice work in a math clas...
Ep25- The Case of Technology and Schooling from the Margins
A significant portion of this case explores race and gifted and talented programming. The case also explores issues around testing and cultural biases...
Ep24- The Case of Learning and Moving
In this conversation, you will learn about movement as vital to building brain cells, moving information from short-term into long-term memory, and po...
Ep23- The Case of City X
This episode explores American Apartheid as a system of structures that routinely disadvantages people of color for the advantage of white Americans: ...
Ep22- The Case of Two Times
This episode is based on a song entitled Two Times written and performed by the informant (Jerry B Seus).
In the case segment of the episode, th...