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Black at Mizzou

Confronting race on campus

Confronting race on campus
Illustration by Rachel Sender for APM Reports

An audio documentary from APM Reports.

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Black at Mizzou: Confronting race on campus
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August 14, 2020 | by Lauren Brown, Alex Baumhardt, Chris Julin, and Sabby Robinson

Lauren Brown says college was "culture shock." Most of the students at her high school were Black, but most of the students at the University of Missouri were white. And she got to the university in the fall of 2015, when Black students led protests in response to a string of racist incidents. The protests put Mizzou in the national news.

But the news stories didn't match what Lauren saw. They made it seem like racism on campus was an aberration. And they made it seem like Black student organizing was new at Mizzou. What Lauren saw was "Black Mizzou," a thriving campus-within-a-campus that Black students have built over decades to make the university a more welcoming place.

"Black at Mizzou" is one of three audio documentaries this season from the Educate podcast — stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn.

HOST
Lauren Brown
PRODUCERS
Lauren Brown
Alex Baumhardt
Sabby Robinson
Chris Julin
EDITOR
Catherine Winter
ADDITIONAL REPORTING
John Hernandez
AUDIO MIX
Craig Thorson
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Chris Worthington
DIGITAL EDITOR
Andy Kruse
FACT CHECKER
Betsy Towner Levine
PROJECT COORDINATORS
Shelly Langford
Lauren Humpert
SPECIAL THANKS
Stephen Smith
Sasha Aslanian
Emily Hanford
Phyllis Fletcher
Britta Greene
Rehman Tungekar
Erianna Jiles
Sydney Robinson
Stanley Kalu
Fiona Boler
Ryan Famuliner

Support for this program comes from the Spencer Foundation and Lumina Foundation.


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