Moral Courage Radio

About Moral Courage Radio

The Moral Courage Project is a collaboration between the University of Dayton Human Rights Center and PROOF: Media for Social Justice that strives to shift debate and shape narrative by centering the accounts of individuals and communities with first-hand experiences of divisive issues. Moral Courage Radio is the podcast platform that accompanies our work in other media, which includes traveling exhibits, interactive websites, and print materials. Season One of Moral Courage Radio launched in 2017 as "Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame" and chronicles the first-hand experiences of those who witnessed and shaped the 2014 Ferguson Uprising that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson. Season Two, "America the Borderland," documents frontline defenders on the US-Mexico border, in El Paso, Texas, and was released in Spring 2018. Our third season featured Water Warriors, fighting for access to clean and affordable water in Flint, Detroit, Appalachia. "UnHousing: Claiming the Human Right to Home" is the fourth season of the show focuses on adequate housing in Oakland and rolled out in March 2023. The newest season, "At the Root: Policing and the Right to Protest," covers the movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta.

Publisher

Moral Courage Project

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Jul 2017

Latest episode

21 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 34 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Protest and Repression - At the Root (Episode 5)

   Host Marlon Kautz and guest Adele MacLean discuss their experiences with protest and repression, sharing insights into the fight for justice and community support.

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   23 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   This is What Democracy Looks Like - At the Root (Episode 4)

   The movement to Stop Cop City is what democracy looks like in motion. The version of democracy embodied by the Stop Cop City movement calls into existence a robust, deep, and profound system that centers on agency, participation, and self-determination. If it’s going to work, democracy must be responsive to the people’s needs, rather than elite interests. But, instead of creating channels to hear and implement the people’s concerns, the government and the police narrowed avenues for democracy and punished anyone who dared to test the boundaries.

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   4 Feb 2026

   Public Safety - At the Root (Episode 3)

   The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. It’s right there in the name: Public Safety. The facility known to its opponents as “Cop City” is pitched as an essential investment to train officers to better protect the public from harm. However, marginalized communities often experience policing as a threat to their safety and a source of harm. Which raises the question, whose safety do police officers protect?

Inside a recent episode

Protest and Repression - At the Root (Episode 5)

Published 21 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But the other portion of the people who maybe don't have connections and don't have money have a much worse experience, or even to the point that they have to sit in jail. that just like that breaks down the solidarity in our movements that breaks down the trust. That's like, how can we, um, have a collective movement if, if the experiences are so different. And of course, authorities are going to exploit, you know, any kind of like resentment or differences. That's just, that's just how repression works. To me, anti-repression infrastructure goes beyond particular, like the particulars of a social movement. […]

Who has been a guest on Moral Courage Radio

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Marlon Kautz
• Adele MacLean
• Noni Session
• Shekinah Samaya-Thomas
• Chris Thomas

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 17 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

14

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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