Episode 2: The Editor
Episode 2 focuses on the Boston Globe’s coverage of bussing during then-editor Tom Winship’s tenure, inquiring into how news organizations see their responsibility to provide fair media coverage. Following the audioplay, we will bring you a panel moderated by scholar and Facing History-affiliated teacher Neema Avashia featuring Garry Armstrong and Phillip Martin.
Adapted from J. Anthony Lukas’ Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by Kirsten Greenidge
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Sound Design & Composition: Owen Meadows
Sound Engineering: Matthew Freije
Line producer: Carla Mirabal Rodríguez and Rosalind Bevan
Dramaturg: Charles Haugland
Meet the Artists & Panelists
Cast
Kadahj Bennett
Kadahj Bennett
Kadahj Bennett Huntington: Common Ground Revisited, Dream Boston, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Recent local credits include People, Places & Things, Pass Over (SpeakEasy Stage), Hype Man (Company One/ART), The Charles Lennox Experience (New Rep), Isolated Incidents (Broadway Podcast Network), and This Place Displaced (Actors Theater Boston). He is an Elliot Norton Award winner and a WBUR ARTery 25 Changemaker.
Elle Borders
Elle Borders
Elle Borders is a Boston based Actress, Voiceover Artist, Writer and Educator. Recent credits: Genesis in The Light (WAM Theatre-Special Presentation), Mr. Joy (Kitchen Theatre CompanySpecial Presentation); We All Fall Down (Huntington Theatre Company).
Shanaé Burch
Shanaé Burch
Shanaé Burch, she/her, previously worked with the Huntington Education Department on A View from Here as a part of an antibullying initiative, and as Keera in Milk Like Sugar.
Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Maurice Emmanuel Parent Huntington: A Raisin in the Sun, Merrily We Roll Along, Skeleton Crew, Romeo and Juliet, Sweat, Common Ground Revisited, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
Panel
Neema Avashia
Panel Moderator
Neema Avashia
Neema Avashia, she/her, is a Civics teacher in Boston Public Schools, where she has worked since 2003. She was recognized as the city-wide Educator of the Year in 2013. As an Asian American teacher and writer, Neema has published several pieces focused on race, class, and inequities in education.
Garry Armstrong
Garry Armstrong
From 1970 to 2001, Garry Armstrong was among New England’s most easily recognized and respected television journalists. He covered breaking news, features and politics. He knew and was known by the players in Boston and throughout New England, in politics, education, the religious establishment and more. His extensive coverage of minority and ethnic issues and his reputation for fair-mindedness earned him a welcome in every community.
Phillip Martin
Phillip Martin
Phillip Martin, senior investigative reporter for The GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting, is a multi-award winning journalist. Honors include the 2019 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, the National Society of Professional Journalists 2017 Sigma Delta Chi award for Best Investigative Reporting and the 2014 national Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Investigative Reporting.
Photo: Stan Grossfeld, Courtesy of The Boston Globe