Milton Alan Turner: Worldviews

Milton Alan Turner
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This podcast is about exploring the world and our place in it. Milton Alan Turner will discuss various topics such as language, society, politics, education, race, and culture. While he never shies away from offering his own unique point of view, his goal is not to impose a single or specific opinion, but rather to celebrate the possibilities and wonders of new and multiple world views.

  1. 12/19/2025

    “Calibri” Can a Font Be “Woke”?

    This year, Snow White and Superman have come under attack as being rewritten to be “woke.” But last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a directive that the U.S. State Department would no longer use the Calibri font to “abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program.” This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses whether or not a font can actually be “woke” and why some stories are changed to conform with modern sensitivities.

  2. Season 4, Episode 1 Trailer

    “Calibri" Can a Font Be "Woke"?

    This year, Snow White and Superman have come under attack as being rewritten to be “woke.” But last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a directive that the U.S. State Department would no longer use the Calibri font to “abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program.” This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses whether or not a font can actually be “woke” and why some stories are changed to conform with modern sensitivities.

  3. 10/02/2023

    “Keep Us Connected” DEI in the World Languages Classroom

    Anti-woke and anti-DEI movements and legislation around the country have some teachers wondering what they can and cannot teach in their classrooms. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses why diversity equity in inclusion topics are not only appropriate in world languages instruction, but that they are in fact a fundamental part of world language and culture education. Watch "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Keep Us Connected (Full Performance)" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/V9dP6KBFmQU?si=Yt5U0VgrN3aMITlL "Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose-Gooding) sings her way through a complicated mystery, saving the Enterprise in the process."

  4. Season 3, Episode 4 Trailer

    “Keep Us Connected” DEI in the World Languages Classroom Trailer

    Anti-woke and anti-DEI movements and legislation around the country have some teachers wondering what they can and cannot teach in their classrooms. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses why diversity equity in inclusion topics are not only appropriate in world languages instruction, but that they are in fact a fundamental part of world language and culture education.

  5. 04/11/2023

    Jack, Not “Jackie,” Robinson

    Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates the life, values, and accomplishments of Jack Roosevelt Robinson. However, most people refer to the baseball and civil rights legend as “Jackie” and not by his given name “Jack.” This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses how “Jackie” was a persona Robinson adopted to be more palatable to white America and why instead, as the title of Yohuru Williams’s and Michael G. Long’s book suggests, we should “Call Him Jack.”

  6. Season 3, Episode 3 Trailer

    "Jack, Not ‘Jackie,’ Robinson” Trailer

    Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates the life, values, and accomplishments of Jack Roosevelt Robinson. However, most people refer to the baseball and civil rights legend as “Jackie” and not by his given name “Jack.” This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses how “Jackie” was a persona Robinson adopted to be more palatable to white America and why instead, as the title of Yohuru Williams’s and Michael G. Long’s book suggests, we should Call Him Jack.

  7. 01/25/2023

    “Free Your Mind…” Afrofuturism and Why Black People Only Want to Time Travel to the Future

    Afrofuturism can mean many things to many people. It has been used to describe a myriad of literary, artistic, musical, cultural, and technological contributions by African Americans. This week, Milton Alan Turner gives his take on afrofuturism and explain why Black time travelers always want to go forward, and never backwards, in time.

  8. Season 3, Episode 2 Trailer

    “Free Your Mind…” Afrofuturism and Why Black People Only Want to Time Travel to the Future Trailer

    Afrofuturism can mean many things to many people. It has been used to describe a myriad of literary, artistic, musical, cultural, and technological contributions by African Americans. This week, Milton Alan Turner gives his take on afrofuturism and explain why Black time travelers always want to go forward, and never backwards, in time.

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This podcast is about exploring the world and our place in it. Milton Alan Turner will discuss various topics such as language, society, politics, education, race, and culture. While he never shies away from offering his own unique point of view, his goal is not to impose a single or specific opinion, but rather to celebrate the possibilities and wonders of new and multiple world views.

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