Jessica Partnow

Posted on May 27, 2026 In this special guest episode from the podcast In the Meanwhile, co-hosts Marcus Harrison Green and Nora Kenworthy sit down with author and activist Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race; Mediocre: the Dangerous Legacy of White Male America; Be a Revolution) for a searching conversation about movement work, harm, belonging, and the radical choice to stay.

Posted on May 6, 2026 Claudia Morales, a Columbian woman with long black hair and a yellow tank top superimposed over a lush valley in Colombia, tinted with the Colombian flag. (Photo edit by Lissa Deonarain) In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you a story at the intersection of therapy, healing and social justice. We’ll hear about one therapist’s work to bring the lens of radical therapy and community care into her practice.

Posted on Jun 10, 2026 Old sepia photo of a house in Indianapolis. Credit: Urbanist Media Today we head back to Indianapolis with the podcast Urban Roots. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ms. Jean Spears was a young mother and burgeoning preservationist. She saved antiques from houses about to be demolished; she bought a home in a white slum and renovated it; later on, she did the same with a historic home in the black neighborhood near Indiana Avenue.