Military executions. Police snipers. Environmental racism. On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Claudia O’Brien Moscoso and Arturo Ramirez, a professor of public policy at the Catholic University of Santiago, Guayaquil in Ecuador, on the challenges faced by Afro-Ecuadorians under the authoritarian presidency of Daniel Noboa.
Tag Archives: #Education
April 25th, 2025: The Future of History
James Early, the former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, joins the LMC to discuss the Trump administration’s attempts to rewrite history by taking over the Smithsonian Institute, the Kennedy Center, and the defunding of public libraries.
January 31st, 2025: Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Ban Revisited
As a new Trump administration sets its sights on ending DEI and CRT, the LMC spends the hour with Nolan Cabrera, a professor of Educational Policy Studies and Practice @ the University of Arizona in Tucson, to revisit Arizona’s ethnic studies ban of the mid-2000s and how it remains relevant today.
Nolan Cabrera is also the author of, “Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts.”