Event
Covering the Battle over Race and History in America’s Schools
Join us for a live conversation with the co-hosts of the podcast Southlake.
September 13, 2022
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Online event
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Join us for a live conversation with the co-hosts of the podcast Southlake. The Peabody-award winning program chronicles the push for a more inclusive curriculum in a Texas school district and the backlash that followed as white conservative parents in the community joined with others around the country and mobilized against critical race theory. This event is part of the Big Read/Big Listen program sponsored by NYU Journalism’s Diversity Committee. The event will be hosted online.
Speakers
Antonia Hylton is an NBC News correspondent and a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist reporting at the intersection of politics, civil rights, and immigration across all NBC News platforms.
Mike Hixenbaugh is an award-winning senior investigative reporter for NBC News. Hixenbaugh is a Pulitzer Prize Award finalist, Peabody Award winner, Scripps Howard Award winner and a Deadline Club Award winner for the podcast, among other honors.
Prof. Rachel L. Swarns is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at NYU, who writes about race and race relations as a contributing writer for The New York Times.