Episode 07: Unchained Memory

“How would things have been different if we’d been able to talk about all this sooner?”
-Maya Wanner

During a discussion with Erica, Maya Wanner, a documentary film graduate student at Northwestern University, emphasized the significance of having conversations about complicated topics sooner rather than later. Maya played an audio documentary that she produced, which detailed a field trip she took with her grammar school classmates to learn about the underground railroad through a simulation. Following the documentary, Erica and educator Ayesha Al-Shabazz talked about practical methods for teaching "hard history."