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S7 EP8: Autonomous Schooling and Honest Discussions with MK Asante

37m · The Webby Podcast · 01 Dec 11:00

MK Asante is a filmmaker, scholar, professor, and author of his memoir Buck. He’s also the host of two Snap Originals docuseries “Free Tuition with MK Asante” and “While Black with MK Asante.”

We talk about how current schooling models limit black students’ self expression, to how students thrive when given autonomy and true intellectual freedom, to how recordings of racist incidents have sparked honest discussions about race in the U.S., but ultimately cannot be the solution to racism. As well as the work he is doing with his Snap Originals shows. 

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