Because of the covid-19 pandemic, 2020 became the first year ever that high-school students across the United States had to take — and prepare for — the AP exam online from their homes rather than in a classroom setting. This posed unique challenges for schools like Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco, where more than two-thirds of the students come from low-income families. Eirik Nielsen, an AP history teacher there, let Washington Post education reporter Laura Meckler...
Jul 22, 2020•30 min
This is the 11th and last episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week has brought listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergencyroom worker, NBA player, blues guitarist, rancher, minister, librarian, high school graduate and dentist. For this final episode, we turn not just to someone whose life has been affected by the pandemic, but to someone whose work will help determine its future c...
Jun 12, 2020•22 min
This is the tenth episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week brings listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergency room worker, an NBA player, a blues guitarist, a rancher, a minister, a librarian, a city council member and a recent college graduate. In this episode, we peer inside the life of Dr. Yetunde Patrick, a 35-year-old dentist who runs her own practice in Washington, DC. After ...
Jun 05, 2020•24 min
This is the ninth episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week brings listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergency room worker, an NBA player, a blues guitarist, a rancher, a minister, a librarian, a city council member and a recent college graduate. In this episode, we peer inside the life of Jacob May, a 17-year-old from Midland, Mich., as he finishes his last days of high school. Bec...
May 29, 2020•31 min
This is the eighth episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week brings listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergency-room worker, an NBA player, a blues guitarist, a rancher, a minister, a librarian and a city council member. In this episode, we peer inside the life of Rachel Leach, a 21-year-old student. The week that she recorded voice memos for The Post was supposed to be the week she...
May 22, 2020•18 min
This is the seventh episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week brings listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergency-room worker, an NBA player, a blues guitarist, a minister, a librarian and a city council member. In this episode, we peer inside the life of Terry Swanson, a 71-year-old farmer and cattle rancher in Colorado. On his ranch, he raises calves until they’re ready to be sold ...
May 15, 2020•20 min
This is the sixth episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week brings listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergency room worker, an NBA player, a blues guitarist, a minister and a librarian. Gabe Albornoz is a Democratic council member in Montgomery County, Md., where roughly a quarter of all of the state's covid-19 cases have occurred. As chair of the Health and Human Services Committee...
May 08, 2020•20 min
This is the fifth episode in The Post’s coronavirus podcast series, which each week brings listeners inside a different person’s experience of the pandemic. Previous episodes have chronicled a week in the life of an emergency-room worker, a blues guitarist, a minister and a librarian. This newest episode features a professional athlete — Washington Wizards point guard Ish Smith. The basketball star agreed to record audio diaries over the course of a week in April, while isolated at home. In any ...
May 01, 2020•20 min
Marquise Knox, a blues musician in St. Louis, was set to release a new album and tour with ZZ Top this spring. Now, he’s self-isolated, playing music on Facebook Live, and feeling the blues hit home. He shared recordings with The Post April 6-19. Here’s a week in Knox’s life during the coronavirus pandemic, in his own words. Share your storyTell us how your life has changed due to the coronavirus outbreak, and help us share first person accounts of life during the pandemic. Submit a voice record...
Apr 24, 2020•17 min
Share your story:Tell us how your life has changed due to the coronavirus outbreak, and help us share first person accounts of life during the pandemic. Submit a voice recording(desktop only) Email us a voice memo(from your mobile device) Previous episodes: 'Good luck, everybody' 'You never signed up for this ' Get vital coronavirus news from The Post for free: Sign up for the newsletter: washingtonpost.com/virusnewsletter Read the latest coverage: washingtonpost.com/coronavirus Subscribe to our...
Apr 17, 2020•24 min
Share your storyTell us how your life has changed due to the coronavirus outbreak, and help us share first person accounts of life during the pandemic. Submit a voice recording (desktop only) Email us a voice memo (from your mobile device) Previous episodes: 'Good luck, everybody': https://link.chtbl.com/good-luck-everybody Get vital coronavirus news from The Post for free: Sign up for the newsletter: washingtonpost.com/virusnewsletter Read full coverage: washingtonpost.com/coronavirus Subscribe...
Apr 10, 2020•22 min
Share your storyTell us how your life has changed due to the coronavirus outbreak, and help us share first person accounts of life during the pandemic. Submit a voice recording (desktop only) Email us a voice memo (from your mobile device) Get vital coronavirus news from The Post for free: Sign up for the newsletter: washingtonpost.com/virusnewsletter Read full coverage: washingtonpost.com/coronavirus Subscribe to our daily news podcasts: washingtonpost.com/podcasts...
Apr 03, 2020•22 min
Recordings from the 1969 concert and interviews with those who were there reveal how the festival became a scene of chaos, violence and death. Episode 2 brings you inside the concert and a day many don't want to remember.
Nov 21, 2019•39 min
50 years ago the Rolling Stones headlined a free concert that ended in chaos, with a young man killed feet from the stage as the Stones played. Episode 1 (of 2) explores the decisions that led up to this festival and asks, "Why didn't anyone stop it?"
Nov 21, 2019•25 min
4 years ago, Germany kept its borders open to a surge of refugees. Many of them settled in Frankfurt Oder, a city in eastern Germany. Now, longtime residents and new arrivals are grappling on an intimate level with changes that have polarized Europe.
Nov 08, 2019•26 min
In Jackson, Miss., 20 low-income women are a part of one of the first universal basic income pilot programs in the country, assessing a seemingly simple solution to end poverty: give people money — no strings attached.
Nov 06, 2019•23 min
In 2015, Prichard Colon suffered a major brain injury after a boxing match gone wrong. Specialists predicted he’d spend the rest of his life in a vegetative state. He can’t walk or talk, but he survived; now Colon is slowly trying to rebuild his life.
Nov 04, 2019•22 min
In Guatemala the U.S.-funded Centro Quédate — the Stay Here Center — teaches young people job skills in hopes of dissuading them from migrating to the United States. Whether it helps students make the decision — to stay or to go — is uncertain.
Jun 17, 2019•21 min
In the two decades since the shooting at Columbine High School, the school district has led the way in finding threats before they go too far. Much of that has come down to one man.
May 04, 2019•21 min
A new podcast from The Washington Post exploring stories of what it means to be human in today’s world.
May 02, 2019•59 sec
