Show notes
Being a Black girl in a mostly white space can bring stress, frustration, anger, and all kinds of mixed emotions. In Finding Her Voice, Faye and Ivy Belgrave, along with co-author Angela Patton (Girls for A Change), have created a guidebook for Black girls navigating predominantly white spaces. And: Two years on, the covid-19 pandemic is still affecting us in new ways. Although many schools have returned to in-person learning, parents are still struggling to support their teens. Development expert Nancy Deutsch shares how grownups can help teens create positive identities during these unprecedented times.Later in the show: Seventy years ago, Barbara Rose Johns led a student walkout at all-Black Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville to protest overcrowding and substandard conditions. Today, a statue celebrating the then 16-year-old activist is set to be erected in the U.S. Capitol building. Moton Museum director Cameron Patterson and historian Larissa Smith share the story of how Johns – who was hardly known beyond Farmville less than a decade ago – has ascended to become a nationally known figure.



