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Why Young Protesters Are Fighting For Racial Justice In New England

From suburban Connecticut to rural Maine, demonstrators occupied highways and town greens over the summer with banners and calls for racial justice. In a special project for the New England News Collaborative, Connecticut Public heard from young activists and protesters throughout New England about their experiences with racism, the changes they want to see and what needs to happen to make the racial justice movement sustainable. Video by Ryan Caron King

NEXT: A Weekly Podcast from the New England News Collaborative

THIS WEEK'S EPISODE: The pandemic has been a balancing act for first-gen college students like Mikayla, who attends Brown University while worrying about her family back home. This week on NEXT, Mikayla’s audio diaries on navigating 2020 as an Ivy Leaguer and the daughter of undocumented immigrants. Plus, when a student gets COVID — what’s it like in the “isolation dorms”? And actor Luis Guzman on making Vermont his home.

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Steve Harris, a longtime resident of Hartford, Conn., said the city’s North End used to be an integrated neighborhood. Then came white flight. Now, Harris says, he doesn't see any generational wealth in his neighborhood. Just generational poverty. (Joe Amon/Connecticut Public/NENC)

NENC/America Amplified Special: How Segregation Persists In ‘Progressive’ New England

By Morgan Springer | September 24, 2020

Despite progress in civil rights, segregated communities still exist throughout New England. This week on NEXT, we look at how housing laws and discrimination influence where we live. It’s the second show in a special series on racism in New England — produced by the New England News Collaborative and America Amplified.

ASHFORD, CT - SEPTEMBER 11, 2020: Portrait of Pat Wilson Pheanious, state representative whose distant relatives are among the first enslaved people to be memorialized in the Witness Stone Project, which highlights enslaved people that lived in Guilford, CT on September 11, 2020 in ASHFORD, Connecticut. (Joe Amon/Connecticut Public/NENC)

NENC/America Amplified Special: New England’s Abolitionist History at Odds With Racist Realities

By Morgan Springer | September 17, 2020

Here’s the story that New England tells itself: Racism is a Southern problem. But our region’s abolitionist past hides a darker history of racism, slavery and white supremacy. It’s a legacy that lives with us today. This week on “Episode 216” of NEXT, we premiere a special series on racism in New England — produced by the New England News Collaborative and America Amplified.

Mosaic Host Ana González and Mikayla outside Mikayla's off-campus apartment in Rhode Island. (Cheryl Adams/The Public's Radio)

Episode 215: First-Gen Ivy Leaguer Straddles Two Worlds; Actor Luis Guzmán On Living In Vermont

By Morgan Springer | September 10, 2020

The pandemic has been a balancing act for first-gen college students like Mikayla, who attends Brown University while worrying about her family back home. This week on NEXT, Mikayla’s audio diaries on navigating 2020 as an Ivy Leaguer and the daughter of undocumented immigrants. Plus, when a student gets COVID — what’s it like in the “isolation dorms”? And actor Luis Guzman on making Vermont his home.