We’re at the end of another year. One that’s seen continuing struggles against the injustices in our systems as well as so many reminders of the strength, joy and healing that happens when we come together in solidarity with beloved family, friends and community.
On behalf of the We Imagine…. Us Project, Futuro Media’s founder, Maria Hinojosa, offers a few words and wishes everyone a prosperous New Year!
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In episode 3 of the “We Imagine…. Us” animated series, Mercy, now 31 years old, reminisces about the fateful journey she took as a 16-year-old with her father, Bumpy. After traveling from their old home in Galveston, Texas to their new home in Willmar, Minnesota, their lives took a shocking turn 15 years earlier and Mercy takes stock of the sorrows and the joys they’ve experienced.
This episode stars Emmy Award-winning actress Karrueche Tran and features the Emmy, GRAMMY, Oscar and Tony Award-winning musician and activist John Legend, and Michelle Alexander, civil rights attorney, legal scholar and author of “The New Jim Crow.”
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📌 The We Imagine…. Us podcasts are presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
In episode 2 of the “We Imagine…. Us” animated series, we meet Claressa Brown, a Black environmental justice activist and college student who appears in the fictional and companion podcast series, “The Long Way Around.”
After studying the levels of contaminants that she collected in the Gulf of Mexico, Claressa travels to Lake Charles, Louisiana listening to a podcast interview with Heather McGhee, author of “The Sum of Us” and board chair of the racial justice organization, Color of Change.
Claressa’s imagined world represents the kind of society we can build when we look at adversity as an opportunity rather than a barrier. Creating equitable societies means that everyone can benefit on a level playing field; it’s not a zero-sum outcome with winners and losers.
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Welcome to the “We Imagine…. Us” animated series, where we’ll visualize how societies can build a more equitable world based on the principles of social and racial justice and solidarity.
Guided by the ideas of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Solidarity Council on Racial Equity (SCoRE), the animation episodes highlight the aspirational visions of a transformed world from three characters featured in the fictional and companion podcast series, “The Long Way Around.”
First up, Anahí Echevarría Gutiérrez Barrios, a Guatemalan-American union organizer. As she travels to Houston, Texas to buy an engagement ring for her beloved Lucille, Anahí listens to an interview between the Emmy, GRAMMY, Oscar and Tony-Award winning musician and activist, John Legend, and Futuro Media founder Maria Hinojosa, on the “Re-Imagination Nation” podcast.
Find the We Imagine…. Us Podcast Series on PRX or at https://www.futuromediagroup.org/weimagineus/
📌 The We Imagine... Us podcasts are presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
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🔊 "Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa" EP. 6 OUT NOW
In our sixth episode, we consider the role and funding of police. We speak with two members of W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Solidarity Council on Racial Equity (SCoRE) who have inspired millions of people all over the globe — musician and activist John Legend and Michelle Alexander, civil rights attorney, legal scholar and author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
Each describes their reimagined worlds free of toxic policing, jails or prisons and a future rooted in mutual care.
From the start, John Legend lays down his guiding principles: “We've got to reimagine what it means to love our neighbors and have public policy that reflects that kind of love. We can't value property over human life.”
🎧 For more, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa” is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
🔊 "Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa" EP. 6 OUT NOW
In our sixth episode, we consider the role and funding of police. We speak with two members of W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Solidarity Council on Racial Equity (SCoRE) who have inspired millions of people all over the globe — musician and activist John Legend and Michelle Alexander, civil rights attorney, legal scholar and author of the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
Each describes their reimagined worlds free of toxic policing, jails or prisons and a future rooted in mutual care.
As a preview, Michelle Alexander sets forward a vision of a future that’s well within our grasp:
“It's a world where not just everyone has an equal opportunity to an education or access to a good job, but where those things are guaranteed.”
🎧 For more, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa” is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
🔊 In #TheLongWayAround’s final episode, Bumpy and Mercy have made it to their destination: Minnesota.
Surrounded by Quincy and Chip and their families, Bumpy recognizes what “a rare treasure” it is for them to be supported by their community every step of the way of their journey.
“Y’all know I pretty much don’t have any family anymore. Y’all are pretty much it. Even when we’re thousands of miles apart. Even when I was locked away, I knew that I had a community that loved me and would help pick me up after I’d fallen,” Bumpy says.
Bumpy and Mercy will lean into their support more than they ever expected as one late-night event challenges the fragile future they have built.
Tune in to episode 6 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or at bit.ly/weimagineus.
“Y’all know I pretty much don’t have any family anymore. Y’all are pretty much it. Even when we’re thousands of miles apart. Even when I was locked away, I knew that I had a community that loved me and would help pick me up after I’d fallen,” Bumpy says.
🔊 "Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa" EP. 5 OUT NOW
In this episode, law professor john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, insists that our racial future isn’t set in stone and explains how our choices will determine the kind of society we’ll share.
“Bridging actually means you come together. And you sort of hear each other, you see each other, you listen to each other, you sort of understand each other's pain, that something can happen. And when that something happens, you realize your lives are interconnected.”
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🔊 "Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa" EP. 5 OUT NOW
In this episode, members of W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s SCoRE (Solidarity Council on Racial Equity) discuss ways communities can tackle inequality and repair from racial harm.
First up, public health scholar David Williams has measured how racism makes people physically sick and details how access to opportunity can lead to thriving individuals and neighborhoods.
“The opportunities are there. How can we remove the barriers, how can we dismantle those structures of racism that are holding our children back so that they can experience what is potentially available to them through this country?”
🎧 For more, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa” is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
🔊 In #TheLongWayAround episode 5, Bumpy and Mercy experience a bump in their journey that strands them in Illinois momentarily. As those around them reach out to their loved ones, Mercy feels a deep ache of missing the one person she cannot call: her mother.
“Sometimes I like to tell myself she swam to Mexico,” an adult Mercy later says, reflecting on the way her mother died.
Tune in to episode 5 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or at bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “The Long Way Around” stars Emmy Award-winning actress Karrueche Tran and is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
🔊 "Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa" EP. 4 OUT NOW
This episode shines a light on the work of transformational healing members of W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s SCoRE (Solidarity Council on Racial Equity) are accomplishing in their communities.
Puerto Rican writer and activist Mayra Santos-Febres discusses how courageous forms of Black and Indigenous resistance are reshaping our world and shares her own vision of a life-affirming future.
“We have to create the content. We have to create the narrative, we have to be sitting in the places where the narrative is being created so that reality can change. It's not the other way around.”
🎧 For more, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa” is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
🔊 "Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa" EP. 4 OUT NOW
This episode shines a light on the work of transformational healing that members of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's SCoRE (Solidarity Council on Racial Equity) are accomplishing in their communities.
First up, National Compadres Network co-founder Jerry Tello puts a focus on culturally based wisdom in addressing mental and emotional health.
“The solidarity really comes recognizing everyone has a sacred purpose, committing to include everyone's medicine and stories, and that we all need a place to heal and to grow and to develop.”
🎧 For more, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa” is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
🔊 In #TheLongWayAround episode 4, a meddling train passenger brings trouble to Bumpy and Mercy. Their interaction with Amtrak police spurs immediate anger in Mercy. For Bumpy, it's an all-too-familiar situation.
"Who was actually in control of the situation that kept you safe and me alive? That’s a skill I have been refining my entire damn life," Bumpy tells Mercy.
Episode 4 is out now. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or at bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “The Long Way Around” stars Emmy Award-winning actress Karrueche Tran and is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX .
🔊 "Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa" EP. 3 OUT NOW
In this episode, we take a close look at restaurant work — essential but undervalued.
As a preview, Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, sets the stage: “We want $15 an hour minimum for everybody in this country, including tipped workers, workers with disabilities, incarcerated workers who currently get a subminimum wage based on the exception to the 13th Amendment that allows for slavery.”
🎧 For more, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa” is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
🔊 "Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa" EP. 3 OUT NOW
In this episode, we hear insights from the frontlines of labor reform with two members of W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Solidarity Council on Racial Equity (SCoRE).
First up, a close look at restaurant work—essential but undervalued. Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, details efforts to bring the dignity of recognition and fair wages to all workers.
Then, Kent Wong of UCLA Labor Center reveals how an empowered generation of documented and undocumented youth are reimagining an entirely new immigration system.
"We have extraordinary leaders in this emerging immigrant youth movement. And I am convinced that they are the ones that are going to finally be able to secure a victory for immigration reform and to provide legal status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are treated as if they live in an apartheid regime."
🎧 For more, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or bit.ly/weimagineus.
📌 “Re-Imagination Nation with Maria Hinojosa” is presented by Futuro Media and its new Futuro Unidad Hinojosa unit and PRX.
