Democracy & Me

"HS seniors, you got this. Know that someone is rooting for you. You're going to change the world." Check out this 🔥 pep talk from @XavierU student Alanee Wright, then share your own #graduation2022 wisdom via the @917wvxu app Talk2Us. #WVXUCongrats22 democracyandme.org/congrats-to-yo…

Our Student Voices Competition is officially here! Click below for your chance to win a $1,000 prize for the best essay & more! Open to area high school students and supported by The Charles H. Dater Foundation. Deadline to sumit- 3/24/23 11:59pm EST: democracyandme.org/student-voices…

@nkuedu hosted a public event to commemorate Black History month, led by NKU’s African American Student Initiatives & Dr. David Childs, with special guest @Karyn_Parsons. Yoshie Vinton has more: democracyandme.org/student-voices… @DemocracyAndMe is funded by the Charles H. Dater Foundation

Our Student Voices Competition is officially here! Click below for your chance to win a $1,000 prize for the best essay & more! Open to area high school students and supported by The Charles H. Dater Foundation. Deadline to sumit- 3/24/23 11:59pm EST: democracyandme.org/student-voices…

Our Student Voices Competition is officially here! Click below for your chance to win a $1,000 prize for the best essay & more! Open to area high school students and supported by The Charles H. Dater Foundation. Deadline to sumit- 3/24/23 11:59pm EST: democracyandme.org/student-voices…

“Uh Oh, They’re Following Us” The Fear of Driving While Black in America @DrDavidChilds, D.D., Ph.D. has more: democracyandme.org/uh-oh-theyre-f…

“Uh Oh, They’re Following Us” The Fear of Driving While Black in America @DrDavidChilds, D.D., Ph.D. has more: democracyandme.org/uh-oh-theyre-f…

Our Student Voices Competition is officially here! Click below for your chance to win a $1,000 prize for the best essay & more! Open to area high school students and supported by The Charles H. Dater Foundation. Deadline to sumit- 3/24/23 11:59pm EST: democracyandme.org/student-voices…

Congratulations to Kamea Hollandsworth from Elevated Excellence Sports Academy! She is the winner of our @DemocracyAndMe MLK Day Speech Competition. Tune in this evening to hear her speech. democracyandme.org/democracy-me-e…

Such a great time was had at Elevated Excellence Sports Academy Wednesday! Students presented their speeches for our Democracy & Me MLK Day Speech Competition. The winner, Kamea Hollandsworth, won $200 and will share her speech on air, Monday evening.

Hypothetical: You've been Tweeting for your job--say, running social accounts for an educational public media program--and you're now leaving that role. You love/hate being on Twitter, want to stay informed and engaged, but know it's a reason you're burned out. Do you...?

"We are here to show them we support diversity in our school district. We are here to show them we won't just sit down and let them cancel events that matter to us. We are here to show them diversity isn't political, it's human." @sharbertweet has more: bit.ly/3MqBLHl

@TanaWeingartner @becca_costello #Legend

Aww yeah... look at @becca_costello right up top on WVXU.org today! You should make a pledge in her honor for her reporting out on Cincinnati and Hamilton County government.

We had a blast seeing SCHOOL GIRLS @CincyPlay with @TanaWeingartner, @katiequery, students and friends from @Elementzhiphop—and now we want to revisit our podcast episode dealing with #colorism. Beneath the laughs, these beauty themes run deep. democracyandme.org/episode-51-how…

@Podchaser Centering youth voices.

Podcasters, what are you most proud of?

@bullhorn_fm democracyandme.org/episode-61-let…

Post the latest episode from your podcast 🎙️ 👇

@maddiemitch_ FOIYAAAAAAY!

nothing makes me happier than waking up on a Monday morning to a fulfilled records request 😍🥹🥳

“How can I argue with someone about rocket science when I don’t even know basic physics? Admit you don’t know. Have some intellectual humility.” - @DrDavidChilds, explaining what #CriticalRaceTheory is not

“In order for us to have a conversation in a democratic society, we have to come to the table with certain knowledge,” @DrDavidChilds says. “There’s no substitute for doing the homework and doing the readings.” #crt

Ready to hear some good sense about #CriticalRaceTheory from our good friend @DrDavidChilds.

Recording some of this year’s Student Voices Competition honorees today at @917wvxu studios—you’ll be hearing these powerful essays, poems and more on a future episode of Democracy & Z.