The Crim's Class Podcast

What happens when the teacher becomes the student? In this episode of Crim's Class Podcast , I sit down with my former student, Griselda Chavez , who has grown into a leading environmental justice advocate. Over the past several months, she's taught me more about air pollution, warehouse expansion, truck traffic, and data centers than I learned in years of school. And truthfully, it has completely...

In this special Father's Day edition of the Crim's Class Podcast, the teachers become the students and the students become the teachers. For the first installment of "Ask Daddy Anything, Ask Daughters Anything," my daughters, Chloe and Caylee, take over the show and interview me about everything from what I was like as a kid to whether I got into fights growing up. Their questions lead to a surpri...

In this powerful and heartbreaking episode, we sit down with Nicole and Dale Sims to discuss what their Black child allegedly endured after starting school in Minooka in 2023. According to the family, their child was called racial slurs, accused of theft without evidence, bullied, physically targeted, and repeatedly dehumanized by classmates, while they say the school district failed to respond wi...

Episode 3 of the Crim's Class Podcast is rooted in a hard truth. We demand accountability from a system that was never built to deliver us freedom, while sometimes avoiding accountability to ourselves and our community.  As Malcolm X once said (paraphrased), a chicken cannot produce a duck egg, no matter how badly we want it to, and neither can this political, economic, and social system suddenly...

“A day of thanksgiving kept in all the churches for our victories against the Pequots.” — John Winthrop In this powerful second episode, we breathe, check in, and then peel back one of America’s most enduring myths: Thanksgiving. Far from the grade-school story of friendship and feasting, the 1621 harvest gathering was a political alliance born out of crisis, a survival strategy for both the Engli...

Welcome to my new show, The Crim's Class Podcast. For my first episode, we dive into what you can expect and some of the most thought-provoking quotes from our recent ancestor, Assata Shakur.