The recorder often inflicts squeaky torture on parents. Music teacher Valerie DePriest explains why it became a staple in music education.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Reset’s Friday News Roundup For Nov. 8, 2019
Our weekly roundtable featuring some of the best journalists in Chicago breaking down the biggest stories of the last 7 days.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago’s Top Cop Announces Retirement
Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced he’ll be stepping down at the end of the year. How did he do in the job? And what does it mean for Chicago's policing future? Reset brings you analysis and reaction from a variety of sources.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Women’s History Comes To Life In New Graphic Book
How CPS is making up the strike-related lost school days. Plus Chicago historian Mikki Kendall tells amazing stories from women’s history via the new graphic novel “Amazons, Abolitionists and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight For Their Rights”
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Pulling Out Of Paris, And Overburdened Nurses
Action on climate change being taken on local level as Trump gives 2020 date to pull U.S. out of Paris Accord. And Hospital understaffing and lack of safety guidelines forcing nurses to quit and putting patients at risk.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - George R.R. Martin, And The Pressures Of College Debt On Middle Class Families
Indebted, the new book by NYU professor Caitlin Zaloom looks at the crushing pressures the college loan system puts on middle class families. And WBEZ’s Nerdette nerds out with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Ibram X. Kendi Explains How To Be An Antiracist
Author, Historian, and the director of American University’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center Ibram X. Kendi talks about his personal story and how it ties into his new book “How To Be An Antiracist”.
Curious City - Ida B. Wells’ Lasting Impact On Chicago Politics And Power
She’s best known for her anti-lynching work in the South, but Wells spent nearly four decades advancing black equality in Chicago.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Reset’s Friday News Roundup For Nov. 11, 2019
Our panel of journalists take a deep dive into the biggest news stories of the week, including winners and losers in the teacher’s strike, and more elected officials busted by the feds.
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Where Have Chicago’s Manufacturing Jobs Gone? And This Week’s What’s That Building
Manufacturing on Chicago’s South and West Sides kept whole communities squarely in the middle class. But when those jobs left in the 1960’s and 70’s, there was no plan to re-invigorate the neighborhoods or retrain the people. Those areas of the city are still feeling the effects of the economic shift. We take a deep dive with 4 WBEZ reporters who’ve been telling the story of Chicago’s manufacturing losses.
Plus Dennis Rodkin brings us the history of the ornate Murphy Auditorium just off the Magnificent Mile on E. Erie.