Raleigh's Trailblazers

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Seventy years after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment: How far have we truly come? While our schools today are more diverse than ever, recent studies reveal a harsh reality—they're still deeply segregated.

Educational equity is not just an ideal; it's both an outcome and an action that we've made real progress on before. And today, as in the past, those victories are never foregone conclusions; it takes ordinary people who take extraordinary measures to see that all of us live up to the values we say we’re about.

In this episode, we sit down with some of Raleigh's Trailblazers whose stories of resilience and advocacy offer both inspiration and direction for our ongoing efforts to dismantle the predictability of racialized outcomes in our schools.

Special thanks to Joe Holt Jr, Gloria Hunter, Deborah Holt Noel, Larry Manuel, Sarah Thuesen, Paul Pope, Briana Pelton, Ainsley Powell, Cheryl Crooms Williams, The City of Raleigh Museum, The Historic Turner House Foundation, and The Friends of Oberlin Village. Music is provided by Blue Dot Sessions. The theme song, "Mirrors," is by Joseph McDade.