The Sound of Phillips: Recent Episodes
KRSM Radio
A collection of audio journals, youth-produced short recordings, and community conversations. The topics will be universal, but the stories come from the Phillips community in South Minneapolis.
Irna Landrum reacts to the news the a Black man has been shot and killed by the police in South Minneapolis. Again.
Irna Landrum takes a moment to appreciate Minnesota's winters from the perspective of a New Orleans transplant.
Irna Landrum revisits Octavia Butler's classic, as she processes the local government response to homelessness in Minneapolis.
At a time when parents everywhere are struggling to balance work with setting their kids up to succeed at school-from-home, Irna Landrum talks with Nicolette Williams about the kids that are thriving in these conditions.
Irna Landrum sits down with Susan Raffo and Marie Michael, two Minneapolis-based healing practitioners, to talk about processing stress, grief, and fear from a somatic perspective.
Irna Landrum interviews Ricardo Levins Morales about the history of policing, reform versus abolition, and alternative ways to approach community safety. This is part 2 of 2.
Irna Landrum interviews Ricardo Levins Morales about the history of policing, reform versus abolition, and alternative ways to approach community safety. This is part 1 of 2.
Irna Landrum speaks to a few South Minneapolis neighbors about how they see the community rising to the very specific challenges of this moment. Ruby Levine walks us through the mutual aid network she helped to build, its challenges, and its successes. Erin Sharkey discusses need for the coalition that formed the Black Minnesota COVID-19 Response. And Julie Graves shares how Waite House Community Center has adapted their space, personnel, and programming to meet the moment.