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Podcast: Arroe Collins Pod-Crashing
Episode: Pod Crashing Episode 359 With Akilah Hughes From The Podcast Rebel Spirit
Description: Pod Crashing episode 359 with Akilah Hughes from the podcast Rebel Spirit. Rebel Spirit is a brand new podcast series from Akilah Hughes (Crooked Media's "What a Day") about her return to her small town of Florence, Kentucky with a mission to change her high school's mascot from a Confederate General into a Biscuit. The show features moving interviews with everyone from the artist behind "Gritty," The Philadelphia Flyers' viral mascot, to principals at schools across the nation who have made this change. In speaking to people at every inflection point of the issue of problematic mascots, Rebel Spirit endeavors to mak...