A special edition of Building Better Stories including 30 minutes with Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, author of Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade, and more thoughts about James, by Percival Everett....

Should we teach Huck Finn in schools? This and so much more about the stories we tell and how they help us grapple with the real past, talk about real present challenges, and build a better future together.

Let's move our conversations into public libraries, schools, and college campuses!

Solidarity - an essential aspect of freedom - and what we are to do about it.

Factuality - truth as an essential aspect of freedom.

Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich explore mobility in all its forms and how we are free and hindered because of our access to mobility.Thanks to Timothy Snyder’s work, “On Freedom” for inspiring this series.Supported by ...

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Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American ...

Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American ...

Inspired by Mary Anne Franks' "Fearless Speech" Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes, Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, and guests, discuss how free speech and justice form a center in our struggles to make things better for everyone.

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.This week, we look at Adam Gopnik's, "A T...

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.This episode, we look at John McWhorter's, "W...

Minority rule in America - its awful and long history, from the Constitutional Convention, to its harrowing present in State Houses and the Supreme Court - and what to do about it.Talking about Ari Berman's excellent book: Minority Rule...

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.This week, we look at VP Kamala Harris' no...

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice and against the structures of predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.This week, we look at the environmental ra...

Live and in person from the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, talking about housing inequity, the need for honest history, and so much more.

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.This week, we look at the history of the rac...

Happy Juneteenth! History of the holiday and what it means today.How we celebrate and observe it and the challenges of inclusion and solidarity and retelling a better history all with the company of Kermit Roosevelt III's "The Nati...

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversation about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.This week, we consider the complexities an...

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversation about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.This week, joined by Dr. Gabrie'l Atchison...

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversation about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.This week, we reflect on the conversation bet...

Honest, bold, and value-driven conversation about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy - with Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freir...