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Listen, Organize, Act! Organizing & Democratic PoliticsS2.E4.1: Bayard Rustin - Part 1This episode discusses the remarkable figure of Bayard Rustin who pioneered many of the tactics and strategies still used in large scale organizing work. A lifelong and committed Quaker, Rustin is in many ways a paradoxical figure. A utopian realist or pragmatic radical he was criticized for many of the positions he took yet his commitment to people power manifested through nonviolent, democratic means of change and his holistic vision of social, economic, and political transformation was deeply revolutionary. From the 1940s onwards he was at the forefront of struggles for peace, racial equality, economic justice, and the dignity...
2022-08-291h 16
The Wabash Center's Dialogue On TeachingEpisode 130 - Preparing for the Harm: Sarah AzaranskyWhat conditions prepare schools and classrooms for racist and other harmful events? What knowledges are needed to create spaces of compassion, confrontation, and moral accountability? What do students know and what do they need to know when issues of injustice, inequity and transformation must be faced?
2021-04-2741 minThe Wabash Center's Dialogue On TeachingEpisode 124 - Teacher as Seismograph: Sarah AzaranskyAll of us are experiencing the pandemics differently; the shifting and changing varies. Yet, gaging the classroom and the learning by our students is integral. The losses, responses, and disruptions of COVID 19 has dulled skills and left many teachers feeling as if we are simply muddling through. What does it mean to learn to recalibrate? How do we respond when there is no one right way? Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Sarah Azaransky (Union Theological Seminary).
2021-04-0136 min
Episcopal Divinity SchoolThe Life and Theology of Pauli MurrayDean Kelly Brown Douglas speaks with Sarah Azaransky, Assistant Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and the author of "The Dream Is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith".
They discuss the life and theology of Pauli Murray, the activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest. They dive into the pivotal role Murray played in the American civil rights movement, and explore her legal career where she was an outspoken champion for protesting discrimination based on race and sex.
2019-12-2038 min