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As administrators, teachers, and parents struggle to help children make sense of our racially and politically polarized nation, Hagerman offers concrete examples of the kinds of interventions necessary to help kids learn how to become members of a multi-racial democracy and to avoid the development of far-right thinking in the white youth of today. Children of a Troubled Time expands our understanding of how the rising generation grapples with the complexities of racism and raises critical questions about the future of American society.

Troubled Waters is a 10-part ground-breaking podcast exploring the untold story of Louisa Ioannidis' tragic and mysterious death in 2011. Louisa Ioannidis was only 24. Beautiful, courageous, and vulnerable, yet her untimely death barely received a two-line report in a small local newspaper. Her body was discovered by passers-by in a local creek, clad in a pink dressing gown. Despite being a strong swimmer, police quickly determined there were no suspicious circumstances. Yet no one has been able to explain how or why she came to enter the creek.Louisa’s brother Tass has always doubted the ...

Do you ever feel like something's watching you through your phone? Don't trust the intelligence agencies tracking your digital footprints?Are we sharing Earth with interdimensional beings pretending to be aliens? Has artificial intelligence already infiltrated government systems to monitor our thoughts?Do consciousness and quantum mechanics prove we're living in a simulated multiverse?Is time travel being tested in classified black projects while missing temporal visitors from the future erase their own timelines?Are UFO disclosures just sophisticated disinformation campaigns hiding advanced ...

A three-year investigation by WSMV 4 Investigates uncovered systematic failures by local, state and federal government to prevent and protect residents from deadly flooding ravaging Middle Tennessee at an alarming pace.

overhear a controversial topic discussion between three friends with wildy different beliefs, with deep dives into what we feel and why we feel it.

video game talk. new releases, retro news, new news, memories, and random discussion. https://www.patreon.com/thetroubledhelixpodcastnetwork

When Winston Churchill was a boy of 16, he already had a vision for his purpose in life. "This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion...I shall be in command of the defenses of London...it will fall to me to save the Capital, to save the Empire." It was a most unlikely prediction. Perceived as a failure for much of his life, Churchill was the last person anyone would have expected to rise to national prominence as prime minister and influence the fate of the world during World War II.

"Samsung Stumbles in Race to Recall Troubled Phones" is from the September 15, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Su Hyun Lee and Paul Mozur and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Panama Canal's Troubled Bet on Its Future" is from the June 22, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Walt Bogdanich, Jacqueline Williams and Ana Graciela Méndez and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Toshiba warned Tuesday that it might need to write off “several billion U.S. dollars” because of its purchase of a U.S. construction firm that specializes in nuclear power projects. In a statement, Toshiba said it was still figuring out the size of the write-off, which was related to its acquisition a year ago of the business, CB&I Stone & Webster.

"Toshiba Could Lose Billions From Troubled U.S. Deal" is from the December 27, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Jonathan Soble and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Most Americans still see Brown v. Board of Education as a triumph - but was it? James T. Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African-Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits; to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision.

On a pitch-dark night in April 1989, a young man named Chip Flynn was shot in a Florida orange grove. His ex-girlfriend Kim was the only surviving witness and claimed a Black man had robbed, kidnapped, and killed Chip. A year later, Crosley Green was sentenced to death by an all-white jury for Flynn's murder—a crime Green insists he didn’t commit. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty has followed this controversial case for 25 years, delving into inconsistencies — from coerced confessions to allegations of a racial hoax — that challenge the integrity of the verdict. Now, Moriarty ...

"'Always Agitated': Omar Mateen's Path from Troubled Child to Aggrieved Killer" is from the June 18, 2016 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski, Alan Blinder and Mujib Mashal and narrated by Paul Ryden.