About the Show
Backlash unpacks six different backlashes in American history – and uses these stories to come to new understandings of what progress actually is. Over the course of six episodes, you’ll hear from people who experienced these backlashes firsthand – and still fought to make progress happen. There’s the Black Panthers who were targeted by Ronald Regan’s gun control bill and forced to stop carrying arms. The activists who are still fighting school segregation in Boston – fifty years after the city was overwhelmed by riots against integration. And many more.
Host
Adesuwa Agbonile
Adesuwa Agbonile is a writer and journalist based out of Brooklyn, NY. She’s worked on a slate of podcasts that includes Teaching Texas, As She Rises, and I Was Never There. She loves stories that bend her perception of reality, and make her reconsider old histories in new lights.
Credits
Season 1
Host & Creator: Adesuwa Agbonile
Executive Producer: Jenny Kaplan
Head of Development: Emily Rudder
Audible Executive Producer: Aysha Choudhary
Producers: Grace Lynch, Taylor Williamson, Abbey Delk, Adesuwa Agbonile
Editor: Lindsey Kratochwill
Production Assistant: Ana De Almeida Amaral
Fact Checked by: Asia Ewart
Original Music: Chelsea Daniel
Special thanks to Matthew F. Delmont, Jean McGuire, Zachary Crow, Kaleem Nazeem, Ruth Jensen-Forbell, Josh Lauer, Rohan Jaffrey, Randall Hansen, Adam Winkler, Steve McCuchen, and Jawno Okhiulu
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