Episode 5: Probation Services

02/27/21 • 49 min

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Dewhitt interviews two of his best friends and colleagues from the McLean County Probation Department, Suzanne Montoya, and Robert Banks. Educational pathways, race relations, offender rights, politics, the military, and the Trump and Biden Administrations are discussed. Mrs. Montoya who birth her first child at the age of 17, had Bingham as a college professor, is his current boss, and serves as a Deputy Director for McLean County Probation and Interim Director for the Ford County Probation Department. Mr. Banks served in a distinguished airborne military unit and saw the world before going to college and becoming a probation officer.
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Episode 4: Cultural Diversity

Bingham defines cultural diversity, including diversity in the workplace. In his presentation he praises HBCUs, Caucasian and African Americans involved in the Douglass Cooperative High School and Festus Senior High School integration, and local greats such as Adam McCollough, Bernice Thompson, Margaret Gill, Ralph B. Tynes, and Willa McCollough. He too mentions greats such as Thurgood Marshall who has ties to the City of Festus.
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Episode 6: The American Educational System

Dewhitt sits down with Adam Heenan, former Chicago Public School teacher, education expert, social activist, and community role model. He says teaching conditions are student’s learning condition. The school to prison pipeline, teacher compensation and administrative comportment’s direct relationship to student learning, free community college, student loan forgiveness, private prisons, Mariame Kaba’s piece, We Do This Til We Free Us, the need for more black teachers, a curriculum incorporating blackness and more are discussed.
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