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  • Aiken New Tech High School Students Discuss Justice

    Aiken New Tech High School Students Discuss Justice
    2024/09/12
    Mr. Aaron Parker Listen below to hear Aiken high school students discuss justice and their jobs in environmental justice from this part summer. When we consider what “Democracy and Me” can mean, we must consider the idea of justice. Over the next few weeks, the Agriculture Career Tech Pathway Students and Community Partners of Aiken New Tech High School in the Cincinnati Public Schools will be contributing their perspective and voice on how they are taking action on issues of social justice, environmental justice, heath justice, financial justice, and food justice (sovereignty). Aiken New Tech High School is a grades 7-12 college and career preparatory high school. The Agriculture Career Tech Pathway is a vocational series of classes focusing on Agribusiness and Production that includes: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources; Animal and Plant Science; Greenhouse and Nursery Management; and Global Economics and Food Markets. Students
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  • Pilgrimage: An American Religious Experience?

    Pilgrimage: An American Religious Experience?
    2024/06/26
    Dr. Nathan S. French A school field trip to Washington, D.C. is a formative rite of passage shared by many U.S. school students across the nation. Often, these are framed as “field trips.” Students may visit the White House, the U.S. Capitol Building, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, Declaration of Independence (housed in the National Archive), the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Jefferson Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, or the Smithsonian Museum – among others. For many students, this is the first time they will connect the histories of their textbooks to items, artifacts, and buildings that they can see and feel. For those arriving to Washington, D.C. by airplane or bus, the field trip might also seem like a road trip. Road trips, often involving movement across the U.S. from city-to-city and state-to-state are often framed as quintessential American experiences. Americans have take
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  • Episode 62: Women’s History Month Part 1

    Episode 62: Women’s History Month Part 1
    2023/03/27
    The return of Democracy & Z! Democracy and Me intern, Yoshie, was joined by Clark Montessori Senior, Nevaeh in a discussion on Women's History Month, Black History Month, and women of color who made a difference. Be sure to catch the 2nd half of the conversation next week!
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  • Episode 60: Digging Into Earth Day

    Episode 60: Digging Into Earth Day
    2022/04/13
    With Earth Day on the horizon (April 22), we go deep into our own connections with nature, health and the environment. We consider the past—Earth Day itself goes all the way back to 1970—and the present, with the Biden Administration’s once-ambitious ecology agenda currently on ice*, while scientists’ climate-change projections only heating up. For many of us in Gen Z, the future is scary: “It’s like a time limit on our lives,” says Walnut Hills High Schooler Nola Stowe. But by learning more about the hows and whys of the climate crisis, environmental injustice, endangered species, pollution, drought and other problems, local and global, we plant seeds of solutions. And that helps us stay hopeful. The podcasters: Harnoor Mann (host), University of Cincinnati Nola Stowe, Walnut Hills H.S. A.J. Jones, recent graduate, University of Cincinnati *The New York Times Daily podcast just had a good episode about this. Click here for NPR’s climate coverage. Click here for
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  • Episode 59: Do We See Ourselves in the Oscars?

    Episode 59: Do We See Ourselves in the Oscars?
    2022/03/24
    The producers of the 94th Academy Awards—airing at 8 p.m. this Sunday on ABC—hope a new “Fan Favorite” award, celebrating popular hits like Cinderella and Spider-Man: No Way Home, will entice Gen Z to tune into the three-hour trophy show. Maybe? Can you give Encanto some love while you’re at it? But we really wish Hollywood took teens, especially Black and Brown teens, more seriously: we’re smart, we’re globally aware, we carry our entertainment with us wherever we go, and we’re not satisfied with most of what you’re marketing to us. Do better, and we might keep watching. Joining us for this special movie-themed episode is our good friend TT Stern-Enzi, film critic for Fox 19 and artistic director of the Over-the-Rhine Film Festival. The podcasters: Robert Thikkurissy (host), University of Cincinnati, Transition & Access Program Pawan Rai, Aiken New Tech H.S. Joyeuse Muhorakeye, Aiken H.S. Lael Ingram, Walnut Hills H.S. with guest film critic TT Stern-Enzi
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  • Episode 58: Two Years on the COVID Roller-Coaster

    Episode 58: Two Years on the COVID Roller-Coaster
    2022/03/11
    One star, would not recommend this particular thrill ride—but pandemic extremes have been our daily reality for the last two years, which, we’d like to point out, is a huge chunk of your life when you’re a teenager. So what have we learned? What have we lost? And what the heck now: Are we safely back at the station, or is it time to brace ourselves for the next loop-de-loop? Buckle up, keep your hands and feet inside the car, and ride along with us as we talk all things COVID-19, now chugging into year three. First, though, you’ll hear some students from Diamond Oaks Career Campus in Cincinnati, sharing their own pandemic ups and downs. The podcasters: Robert Thikkurissy (host), University of Cincinnati, Transition & Access ProgramAJ Jones, UC graduateNico Luginbill, Walnut Hills H.S.Pawan Rai, Aiken H.S.Syriene Djakata, Aiken H.S.Tasnim Saad, Aiken H.S.Antonia R. Willis, Taft IT H.S.Bryan Aguilera, Virtual H.S. Conversation recorded on Zoom March 6, 2022
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  • Episode 57: Is This the Start of World War 3?

    Episode 57: Is This the Start of World War 3?
    2022/02/25
    The news started coming in overnight Wednesday: after weeks of military buildup on the Ukrainian border, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on the former Soviet Republic, now an independent democracy and home to more than 40 million people. On Thursday, those citizens of Ukraine—and most of the rest of the world—were in shock and terror, many fleeing for safety and all wondering how far this unprovoked attack might go. Regina Appatova is an ESL educator at Aiken New Tech High School in Cincinnati, who grew up in Ukraine and lived in Russia. We asked her to help us understand the conflict, the enduring bonds between the two countries, and what it’s been like this week for Americans like her with roots and loved ones in Eastern Europe. “It’s a nightmare,” she says—and no one knows how much worse the situation might get, before Putin gets what he wants. The podcasters: Nico Luginbill, Walnut Hills H.S.Joyeuse Muhorakeye, Aiken New Tech H.S.Pawan Rai, Aiken H.S
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  • Episode 56: Deflated: Are Big-Time Sports Losing Gen Z?

    Episode 56: Deflated: Are Big-Time Sports Losing Gen Z?
    2022/02/13
    Major-league sports and premier events like the Olympics have long been an American obsession, but so far, Gen Z seems to be sitting out—unless, say, our hometown Cincinnati Bengals happen to make it to the Super Bowl, but even then we’ll probably be scrolling something else on the side, because football takes forever. Other than turning their entire product into a video game—one youth-outreach strategy described in a recent New York Times article—what can the NFL, the NBA, and other legacy leagues do to win us over? For starters: try being less racist*, less sexist, less exploitative, and more diverse, inclusive, and sustainable. More than a better game, we want a better world, and we think sports can help us get there. But the industry needs a new game plan. The podcasters: Alberto C. Jones (host)Nico Luginbill, Walnut Hills H.S.Joyeuse Muhorakeye, Aiken New Tech H.S.Pawan Rai, Aiken New Tech H.S. Conversation recorded on Zoom Feb. 13, 2022 (Super Bowl Sunday)
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    28 分