The Long Way Around Podcast
When a young woman’s world is torn apart, can she help her family become whole again? Will a father marked by years behind bars find a way to reconnect with his daughter and build a home where they can thrive?
We Imagine…Us: The Long Way Around is an enthralling fiction podcast about society’s challenges of racial inequality and a family’s heartfelt search for healing.
The Long Way Around debuts Fall 2021
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Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa Podcast
Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa is 6-part informative and uplifting bonus podcast designed to spark conversations outside the box. It’s about individuals taking charge of their destinies, stories of communities coming together to solve problems and courageous examples of what of racial equality could look like, today and tomorrow. Excerpts from this factual series also appear inside The Long Way Around fiction podcast. As a companion series, it offers real-world history and context to the themes explored in The Long Way Around audio drama.
Animation Episodes
Walk into a soon-could-be future that’s both fantastic and imminently attainable. We Imagine…Us: The Animated Series is set in the world of our fiction podcast series The Long Way Around. Each episode follows a character from the podcast into an America where their particular focus of racial justice has been largely solved for. It’s a place where the fight for justice continues but where victories have won us all better ways of living together. The Animated Series gives viewers an inspiring hope-filled depiction of what an equitable community can look like as envisioned by the activists and thinkers profiled in the podcast series including John Legend, Michelle Alexander, Heather McGhee, Manuel Pastor and others.
The Long Way Around debuts Fall 2021
Episode One. Anahi's Story
Launching Fall 2021
Guatemalan-born union organizer Anahí Barrios crisscrosses Texas rallying to elevate the rights of workers. She steps into a future where borders hold less power to divide, witnessing joyous reunions and deepening connections among families and communities. *Featuring narration from Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award-winning musician and activist, John Legend.
Episode Two. Claressa's Story
Launching Fall 2021
Claressa Robinson, an African-American environmental activist from Flint, Michigan, sees a future where civic engagement and innovative technologies create healthier neighborhoods and bring new life to cultures and ecosystems. *Featuring narration from Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us and Board Chair of the racial justice organization, Color of Change.
Episode Three. Mercy's Story
Launching Fall 2021
It’s 2037. Mercy looks back on her and father’s search to find a new home 15 years earlier and the incredible changes that have followed. *Featuring narration from author and activist Saru Jayaraman, poet and professor Mayra Santos-Febres, award-winning musician and activist John Legend, author and legal scholar Michelle Alexander, and author and professor Manuel Pastor.
The We Imagine…Us Project is produced by Futuro Media and supported by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation