Teach the Babies w/ Dr. David J. Johns

By: Dr. David J. Johns & Thomas Cunningham IV
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  • On Teach the Babies with Dr. David J. Johns, we’re examining the intersection of education, access, race, and how government impacts the teaching of our babies.

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Episodes
  • Learning To Love (through Grief)

    Learning To Love (through Grief)
    Feb 25 2025
    Too often, we celebrate moments like holidays without holding space for the grief that comes for many of us. Advocate, attorney, and herstory making Florida State Representative Michel Rayner stops by the class to talk about how love shows up in her work, learning to live without your parents as anchors in the physical form, and the importance of having chosen family–folks who create space for you like attorney Ben Crump who wrote a check for Michele’s future and post-dated it for when she was brave enough to bet on herself.

    E-mail info@nbjc.org “GTN: Good Trouble Network” for more.

    Michel Rayner For Florida https://micheleforflorida.com/

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    39 mins
  • Permit Yourself To Love

    Permit Yourself To Love
    Feb 18 2025
    If James Baldwin and Toni Morrison had a literary baby, it would be Robert Jones Jr. He stops by the class to discuss what he learned about love from writing his debut novel, The Prophets. The New York Times Bestselling book shares the romance and love between two enslaved same-gender loving men on a plantation in the American South and a parallel story of Kosii and Elewa, who live and love in a place farther than the past on the African continent.

    Robert discusses the importance of permitting yourself to love and interrogating the pleasure in bigotry. He also discusses the importance of witnessing, writing, and harnessing our superpowers. The episode celebrates caring and compassionate adults who invest in us, open windows, and expose us to mirrors so that we can explore who we are in this world we didn’t ask to be born into.

    Witness Substack: https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/ Jordan Neely

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jordan_Neely

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    50 mins
  • Legislating Love with Representative Venton Jones (D-TX)

    Legislating Love with Representative Venton Jones (D-TX)
    Feb 11 2025
    In case you missed it, as the new Texas state legislative session commenced on Tuesday, Jan. 14, Jones, one of the first Black same-gender loving men to serve in the state house, got down on one knee and proposed to his longtime partner, Gregory Scott Jr., moments after being sworn in at the State Capitol in Austin. Rep. Jones stops by the class to talk about the responsibility of elected office,, the importance of going back home to lea,d, the importance of love, afrofuturistic dreams that include family, and finding and creating safe and soft places. There’s some School House Rock revisiting how a bill becomes a law and the importance of sustained legislative and civic engagement. This episode is bound up on knowing love–love of yourself, love of community, and love of family. We pray you know love.

    E-mail info@nbjc.org “GTN: Good Trouble Network” for more.

    Rep. Jones, Venton - District 100 https://house.texas.gov/members/4275

    Venton Jones: https://www.ventonfor100.com/

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    38 mins

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