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DESCRIPTION:Join Akilah Hughes and Josie Duffy Rice in conversation about H
 ughes’ new podcast\, how history affects the present\, and how real chan
 ge happens.\n\nRebel Spirit is a limited-run podcast about Hughes’ retur
 n to her small town of Florence\, Kentucky with a mission to change her hi
 gh school’s mascot from a Confederate general to an inclusive symbol of 
 Southern pride: the biscuit. The show features in-depth interviews with do
 zens of people including historians on race in America\, the artist behind
  Gritty\, the Philadelphia Flyers’ viral mascot\, sports journalist Jeme
 le Hill\, and people at schools across the country who have made the move 
 away from problematic mascots. In its own unique vibe and sense of humor\,
  Rebel Spirit makes the process of correcting historic wrongs less of a bu
 mmer.\n\nHughes is a true multi-hyphenate. The founding\, award-winning ho
 st of Crooked Media’s What a Day daily news podcast\, a WGA Award-nomina
 ted writer of a climate-conscious web series for Steven Soderbergh\, and t
 he author of Obviously: Stories from my Timeline for Penguin Random House\
 , this Sundance Episodic Story Lab Fellow and USC Civic Media Fellow does 
 just about everything in her own unique\, comedic style.\n\nRice is a jour
 nalist\, writer\, law school graduate\, and podcast host whose work is pri
 marily focused on prosecutors\, prisons\, and other criminal justice issue
 s. She is the host of the Peabody-nominated podcast UnReformed: The Story 
 of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children and co-hosts What a Da
 y\, Crooked Media’s daily news podcast\, two days a week. She was also t
 he president of The Appeal\, a news publication that publishes original jo
 urnalism about the criminal justice system\, and was a USC Civic Media Fel
 low. RSVP here.
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SUMMARY:Akilah Hughes: ‘Rebel Spirit’
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