The Young and the Woke
The Young and the Woke is a podcast that gives the mic to high school students in Oakland, California to tell their stories. Step into the shoes of these students as they eat school lunch, ride the city bus, vote at the polls, and generally speak their minds. On this audio journey, keep your ears open for how students awaken to their sense of purpose and what helps them find their way. Contact us at theyoungandthewoke@gmail.com.
Episodes
14 episodes
The Curious Mind of Manuel Martin
If you are a teacher, do you ever wonder about life in other schools? Or when you were a student, did you ever have that feeling like some students had it better or worse than you did? These are the seeds of curiosity that too often get squashe...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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12:48
Cross Racial Solidarity (Creating Space to Talk About Race, Episode 3)
You are tuning into "Creating Space to Talk About Race," a special series where we hear from a racially diverse group of Oakland Technical High School students reflecting on their experiences in the Race, Policy, and Law academy known as RPL. I...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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10:55
Racial Affinity Groups (Creating Space to Talk about Race, Episode 2)
For over a year now, conservative politicians and pundits have weaponized "critical race theory" in attempts to turn out voters. Enraged parents have been protesting at school board meetings about what they fear is the indoctrination of their c...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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10:20
Creating Space to Talk about Race
For over a year now, conservative politicians and pundits have weaponized "critical race theory" in attempts to turn out voters. Enraged parents have been protesting at school board meetings about what they fear is the indoctrination of their c...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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10:15
Indigenous Ways of Knowing
This is a special episode on indigenous ways of knowing and how we can awaken to the wisdom of indigenous communities. I was lucky to catch up with my friend and colleague Shane Safir as she interviewed Den...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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11:27
Ethnic Studies: Being Filled with Love
This episode features Ozzy Johnson, a student in the ninth grade in OUSD. He is one of more than 1500 ninth graders taking Ethnic Studies this year. As someone who has spent close to a decade organizing for Ethnic Studies, developing curriculum...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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9:41
Teachers and Students: We Are Not Empty Vessels
In recognition of Labor Day and all of our teachers, I caught up with Jah-Yee Woo — long time Oakland teacher and Oakland teacher of the year in 2018-19. We’ve worked together over the years on vari...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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11:25
Class of 2020: Graduating During COVID
In this episode, I catch up with two students who were featured on this podcast before. Don't worry, we recorded the interviews online, so no social distancing guidelines were broken. Given all the changes that are happening in our world during...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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12:37
The Elements of Powerful Learning
There’s no shortage of advice out there for how teachers should teach, but little of it comes directly from students. And that’s why in this first episode of our second season, I travel to Castlemont High School to talk to two students in the <...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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11:53
High School Students in Oakland Take College Classes--For Free
Students, especially low-income students, don’t have the luxury of taking expensive college classes and building up debt while they “figure things out.” What if we could expose students in high school to more college, career, and community expe...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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13:24
Special Episode: Youth Vs. Apocalypse Climate March
On September 20th, more than a thousand youth from Oakland Unified School District participated in the largest climate protest in human history. This was a response to the international consensus that we have to cut our carbon emissions in half...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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9:47
Home is Where My Heart Is: An East Oakland Story
In today’s episode, we meet Tayland Sou a senior in the Community Health Equity Academy at Castlemont High School. He cherishes East Oakland. It’s as if his home, his block, his school, and his comm...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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10:27
