Rebel Spirit
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Subscribers: 62
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Episodes: 28
Ka-Win
Oct 29, 2025
myellenbee
Sep 18, 2024
A fascinating report on the journey of Akilah Hughes to get the racist mascot of her former high-school changed. It's told with compassion and humor. A very good mirror on our county's troubled racial history and current status
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In Season Two of Rebel Spirit, Akilah Hughes picks up where her battle to change her high school’s Confederate mascot left off and quickly realizes the problem was never just a mascot. Shifting from her high school still clinging to the “Rebels” name to the long fight over a Jefferson Davis statue in the Kentucky State Capitol, Season Two expands into a sharp, funny, and deeply reported investigation into how America decides what, and who, it chooses to honor. Along the way, Akilah speaks with politicians from both sides of the aisle about their support for change, historians who help contextualize the fight to remove Confederate monuments, and artists who are part of building monuments their whole community can be proud of. All in an effort to answer this season's big question, if we’re willing to tear down racist monuments, why is it so hard to replace them with something better?
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Episode 10: The Flags We Plant
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Episode 9: You Can't Hide History
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Episode 8: Son of A Mitch
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Episode 7: The Daughters
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Episode 6: Killing Dead Confederates
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Episode 5: Oh, Shenandoah
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Episode 4: Erasing History
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Episode 3: Making Monuments
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Episode 2: The Rotunda
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May 26, 2026 |
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Episode 1: Back To Work
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May 19, 2026 |
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Coming Soon... Rebel Spirit Season 2
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May 12, 2026 |
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Episode 12: Erasures
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Episode 11: Open Records
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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New Year Update
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Expanded Interviews
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Episode 10: Stay Free
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Looking Back
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Episode 9: So Disappointing
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Episode 8: Shaun
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Episode 7: Denver South
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Episode 6: Other Rebels
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Episode 5: Mascots
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Episode 4: Y'All or Nothing
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Episode 3: Half Measures
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Episode 2: History Lessons
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Episode 1: A Homecoming
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Coming Soon... Rebel Spirit
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Introducing: Rebel Spirit
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Jun 17, 2024 |