Playlist: Cassius Adair's Portfolio
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1619, Past and Present (half)
From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes series | 28:59
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1619, the first Africans arrived in English-speaking North America. Cassandra Newby-Alexander explores how we should commemorate that history and what’s at stake when we ignore it.
Richard Chew explains how a British king’s fear of being beheaded impacted the expansion of slavery in the US colonies.
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Pilgrimage (hour)
From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes series | 53:55
-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's studios.
-In 2018, a hundred Charlottesville residents traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, to memorialize his death and commit to fighting white supremacy. Organizer Jalane Schmidt explains Charlottesville's Civil Rights Pilgrimage.
- Teachers reflect on how their classrooms have changed since the white supremacist attacks on August 11 and 12, 2017, and how they plan to teach race and racism going forward.
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In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reasons studios. In 2018, a hundred Charlottesville residents traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, to memorialize his death and commit to fighting white supremacy. Organizer Jalane Schmidt explains Charlottesvilles Civil Rights Pilgrimage.
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For teachers across the country, August is time to plan a new school year. For teachers in Charlottesville, its also an opportunity to reflect on how their classrooms have changed since the white supremacist attacks on August 11 and 12, 2017, and how they plan to teach race and racism going forward. Anne Ernst and Rachel Caldwell discuss racial healing in the classroom. Plus, author Nic Stone describes her transformative visit to Charlottesville public schools.
How to Go Clubbing (hour)
From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes series | 53:57
Bars, nightclubs, dance, and music have long held a special place in LGBTQ culture. But real-life gay bars and clubs are shuttering.
A raucous feature explores the sometimes-dangerous, always-exciting gay bars of the 1970s and 1980s before the AIDS crisis and gentrification changed the scene forever.
Plus: Hip-hop by both straight and LGBTQ artists
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Bars, nightclubs, dance, and music have long held a special place in LGBTQ culture. But even as shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pose bring that culture into the mainstream, real-life gay bars and clubs are shuttering. DJ and Professor Madison Moore argues that the club scene and the “fabulous” fashions on display there are radical spaces for queer and trans of color togetherness. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, Don Muse, and Peter Thornhill describe the sometimes-dangerous, always-exciting gay bars of the 1970s and 1980s in Roanoke, VA, before the AIDS crisis and gentrification changed the scene forever.
Later in the show: Choreographer and performer Al Evangelista brings us into the world of experimental queer Filipinx dance, a form that he and his collaborators say can spark conversations and social change. And: Growing up, Lauron Kehrer’s parents wouldn’t let her listen to hip-hop music. Now, she studies it for a living. Kehrer says hip-hop by both straight and LGBTQ artists can help us better understand race, gender, and sexuality.
Infrastructures of Power (hour)
From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes series | 53:57
-Across the nation, natural gas production has been ramping up. In many communities, this has meant new pipelines, new promises, and new protests. How do we balance environmental concerns and the public good?
-Economist Sarah Stafford argues pipelines require people to weigh environmental costs and economic benefits, and the results aren't always what you'd expect.
-Sociologist Travis Williams takes us to Union Hill, a historically African American community in Virginia, where a natural gas compressor station is being planned. Williams sees it as one example of how environmental hazards have disproportionately impacted African Americans.
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Later in the show: Sociologist Travis Williams takes us to Union Hill, a historically African American community in Buckingham County, Virginia, where a natural gas compressor station is being planned. Williams sees the Union Hill controversy as one example of how environmental hazards have disproportionately impacted African Americans.
Across the nation, natural gas production has been ramping up. In many communities, this has meant new pipelines, new promises, and new protests. How do we balance environmental concerns and the public good? Jaime Allison says that energy development has been controversial in the United States for over a hundred years. Economist Sarah Stafford argues pipelines require people to weigh environmental costs and economic benefits, and the results aren't always what you'd expect.
Friendsgiving (Half)
From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes series | 28:59
For many, the Thanksgiving holidays are a time to gather with your biological relatives. But what if you don’t have the traditional, Norman-Rockwell family?
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- Friendsgiving (Half)
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For many, the Thanksgiving holidays are a time to gather with your biological relatives. But what if you don’t have the traditional, Norman-Rockwell family? April Few-Demo (Virginia Tech) studies how queer families of color, especially Black lesbians, navigate biological and chosen family. She says that dialogue about identity and acceptance might happen in subtle ways during the holidays. And: Shannon Davis (George Mason University) argues that we should remember those families who can’t get together during the holidays at all, because time off work is too high a price to pay. Plus: Laura Heston (Oxford University Press) shares how they and their LGBTQ chosen family celebrate a “Friendsgiving,” complete with drama and drag. 
Friendsgiving (Hour)
From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes series | 53:56
For many, the Thanksgiving holidays are a time to gather with your biological relatives. But what if you don’t have the traditional, Norman-Rockwell family?
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For many, the Thanksgiving holidays are a time to gather with your biological relatives. But what if you don’t have the traditional, Norman-Rockwell family? April Few-Demo (Virginia Tech) studies how queer families of color, especially Black lesbians, navigate biological and chosen family. She says that dialogue about identity and acceptance might happen in subtle ways during the holidays. And: Shannon Davis (George Mason University) argues that we should remember those families who can’t get together during the holidays at all, because time off work is too high a price to pay. Plus: Laura Heston (Oxford University Press) shares how they and their LGBTQ chosen family celebrate a “Friendsgiving,” complete with drama and drag. 
Later in the show: Some scholars argue that what we call non-traditional families aren’t so non-traditional after all. Alicia Andrzejewski (William and Mary) has found chosen families and alternative bonds throughout the works of William Shakespeare. And: Before she became an instructor, Rosalyn Durham (Norfolk State) was a social worker helping families in crisis. She shares her strategies for supporting families experiencing trauma, including how families can stay connected when a child is placed into foster care.