A special edition of Building Better Stories including 30 minutes with Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, author of Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade, and more thoughts about James, by Percival Everett.

Should we teach Huck Finn in schools? This and so much more about the stories we tell and how they help us grapple with the real past, talk about real present challenges, and build a better future together.

Let's move our conversations into public libraries, schools, and college campuses!

Solidarity - an essential aspect of freedom - and what we are to do about it.

Factuality - truth as an essential aspect of freedom.

Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich explore mobility in all its forms and how we are free and hindered because of our access to mobility.
Thanks to Timothy Snyder’s work, “On Freedom” for inspiring this series.
Supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the generosity of the Buffalo History Museum.

Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich discuss where we go on issues of DEI and Affirmative Action, remembering Roy Ayers, and more.

Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.