Into the Mix
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
War on Woke: Where We Hold Out Hope
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Antonio and other business owners in Florida sued the state after the Stop WOKE Act was signed, and won. What does that mean for the future of the act...
War on Woke: The Real Heart of the Problem
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is on a mission to curb conversations about race, diversity, and inequity of all shades. He’s banned books, trainings,...
War on Woke: Not Just About The Ice Cream
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to Antonio McBroom, a day without dessert is a disaster. So it makes sense that he’s now an ice cream entrepreneur, slinging scoops of Ben...
Final Mini-Series Coming Soon!
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We'll be back in November with our final mini-series of this season which delves into Florida's War on Woke and the ongoing fight to protect diversity...
Crooked Coffee: Let Us Shine
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ms. Livvy’s heroic efforts to protect voting rights have come at a cost. Her health has suffered, and she’s tired. But she knows there’s more wo...
Crooked Coffee: The Fight Against Voter Suppression
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ms. Livvy has watched as Georgia has become ground zero for voter suppression efforts. Laws that wipe people from the polls are popping up left and ri...
Crooked Coffee: Ms. Livvy Against The Machine
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Voters in Coffee County, Georgia have another name for this place: Crooked Coffee, where elections officials have waged war on voters of color for dec...
Cancer Alley: Victory is Mine
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ms. Sharon never thought she’d be the one to take down the industry harming her community. But as her fight gains momentum, she’s scoring wins tha...
Cancer Alley: This is OUR Briar Patch
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The violent history of Cancer Alley began long before the petrochemical industry arrived in the 1960s. Prior to being dominated by plastics plants, th...
Cancer Alley: Plan A is the Only Plan
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The beautiful stretch of Louisiana where Ms. Sharon Lavigne lives goes by many names: the River Parishes, The Great River Road, The Mississippi River ...
The Workhouse: How to Close a Jail
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you close a jail that’s as old as your city? Step one: gather your people. In the final episode of this series from St. Louis, we’re talkin...
The Workhouse: The Court's ATM
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More than half a million Americans are sitting in jail awaiting trial. And 60% of them are there because they can’t afford not to be. That’s why t...
The Workhouse: A Scorpio Walks Into a Jail
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Inez Bordeaux needs you to know three things: she’s a mom of four, a Scorpio, and she always gets her lick back. So when a court error sent her life...
Season 3 Trailer: Let's get into it!
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Into the Mix is all about joy and justice in action, and this season, Ben & Jerry’s is bringing you four multi-part stories that take you beyond the...
34 Cents an Hour: Prison Labor & the Exception in the 13th Amendment
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Perez worked hard throughout his 13 year prison sentence. He sewed sheets and facilitated classes, met demanding quotas and helped other men pr...
The Price of Freedom: Cash Bail and Pretrial Detention
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Flo was arrested in 2016, he did not expect to be wrapped into the predatory bail industry. $7,500: that was the amount the judge set for his pre...
“This is My City”: The Promise of Reparations and the Legacy of Urban Renewal
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Priscilla Robinson says the Southside neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina was once a thriving, tight-knit community. She describes fruit trees a...
New Front Lines: How Med Students are Adapting to a Post Roe Future
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When 3rd year med student Megh Kumar told a mentor she’d decided to go into OB GYN, she got an unexpected piece of advice: don’t. It’s been mo...
I Am the Water: Grassy Narrows’ Land Back Story
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On a cold night in 2002, Chrissy Isaacs watched yet another logging truck loaded with old growth trees hurtle past her home in the Grassy Narrows Firs...
Libraries Off-limits: Examining Florida’s book bans
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Phillips loves her job. She works at an elementary school as a reading interventionist, teaching struggling readers to love books. When she was...
Police Free Schools: What does school safety really mean?
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most kids in the U.S. go to a school that’s patrolled by police officers. They’re supposed to keep students safe, but after decades of increased s...
Be Back Soon!
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Safe Routes for Refugees: One Woman’s Unlikely Journey from Afghanistan to the UK
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2021, Zahra Shaheer had to get out of Afghanistan… fast. So when she had the rare opportunity to secure safe passage for herself and her ...
Gender Euphoria: What Happens When We Support Trans Kids?
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As lawmakers consider more than 500 anti-trans bills nationwide, experts warn that these efforts will increase already-high rates of depression and su...
"The Cows Don't Milk Themselves!": Migrant Farmworkers Fight for Dignity
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that without migrant farm workers, the price of dairy would be twice as expensive? Dairy farming is one of the most challenging jobs in a...
Green Cotton: Cannabis Justice in America
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the day, Michael Thompson was a local legend in Flint, Michigan. He brought acts like Aretha Franklin to town, and did incredible work to ease...
Let My People Vote: Ensuring Voting Rights to Returning Citizens
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, over 4.5 million people can't vote in the United States because of a mistake they made in the past. Desmond Meade is one of them. He's a "retu...
Into the Mix is Back!
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ben & Jerry’s is back with another season of Into the Mix, a podcast about joy and justice. Hosted by Ashley C. Ford and produced with Vox Creative,...
Episode 12: Ava DuVernay
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ava DuVernay was a total film nerd growing up in Compton, CA; now she’s a bonafide Hollywood icon. Before making it big with films like Selma, 13th,...
Episode 11: Erika Alexander
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Erika Alexander started out as a child actor in Philadelphia before landing the iconic role of Maxine Shaw, Attorney at Law on the hit sitcom Living S...
Episode 10: Laci Jordan
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Laci Jordan was always a very serious student. When the time came to choose a career path, she decided to study criminal justice. But she soon found t...
Episode 9: Ben and Jerry
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the beginning, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield wanted their company to be about more than just ice cream; they knew they could leverage their popu...
Episode 8: Phil Agnew
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Agnew first became an activist in 2006, after learning about a Black teenager who had been killed by guards in a Florida youth detention center. ...
Episode 7: Patti Smith and Bill McKibben
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tackling climate change can feel so overwhelming, but the featured guests in this episode approach their climate justice work one event at a time. Pun...
Episode 6: Rashad Robinson
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The online civil rights organization, Color of Change, has used many different tools to push for change: ads targeted to corporate leadership, fax mac...
Episode 5: Jeffery Robinson
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Into the Mix, Ashley C. Ford talks to Jeffery Robinson, who has spent the last decade trying to correct the history books. Jeffery ...
Episode 4: Big Freedia
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Into the Mix, Ashley C. Ford talks to Big Freedia, the performer who brought bounce music from the streets of New Orleans to the wo...
Episode 3: Andrew Aydin
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join host Ashley C. Ford in conversation with political aide Andrew Aydin, whose idea for a thrilling new retelling of Congressman John Lewis' life an...
Episode 2: Favianna Rodriguez
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Into the Mix, host Ashley C. Ford talks with artist Favianna Rodriguez — maker of bold, energetic murals, prints, and sculptures ...
Episode 1: John Legend
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the debut episode of Into the Mix, join host Ashley C. Ford for a deep discussion with John Legend on his art, his activism, and how he’s blendin...
Introducing Into the Mix
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Into the Mix — a Ben & Jerry’s podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative. Join host Ashley C. Ford as she talks with t...