Southlake

By: NBC News
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  • Southlake, Texas, seems to have it all: stately homes, intense civic pride, and above all, terrific schools. So when a video surfaced in 2018 showing Southlake high school students chanting the N-word—and when Black residents came forward to share stories of racist harassment and bullying—the school board vowed to make changes. But the unveiling of the Cultural Competence Action Plan set off a backlash that’s consumed Southlake, fueled by a growing national crusade against critical race theory. Hosted by NBC News national reporter Mike Hixenbaugh (host of the hit podcast Do No Harm) and NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton, Southlake tells the story of how one idyllic city became the test case for a new political strategy with national repercussions.
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    Aug 20 2021

    Beautiful Southlake, Texas, seemed too good to be true—until a video emerged of white high school students chanting the N-word. But it was the school district’s plan to confront racism that really sent residents on the warpath. Hosted by reporter Mike Hixenbaugh and correspondent Antonia Hylton, Southlake is a six-part series about belonging—and backlash—in an American suburb.
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  • Home of the Dragons

    Home of the Dragons
    Aug 30 2021

    Southlake, Texas, is an immaculate, largely white suburb 30 minutes from Dallas. It’s a magnet for well-off parents looking for public schools that will get their kids into top-tier universities — and it doesn’t hurt that the town’s Carroll High School Dragons routinely compete for the state football championship. Frank and Robin Cornish, a Black couple, moved to Southlake in the 1990s after Frank fell in love with the place, and he soon recruited fellow Dallas Cowboys to join them. But then the Cornish family suffered a tragedy, and gradually they began to see a different side of their town. In 2018, a viral video of students yelling the N-word brought their concerns to the surface — and exposed racism in Southlake's schools. The whole town seemed to get behind a plan to confront it...at first.
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  • Just a Word

    Just a Word
    Aug 30 2021

    Southlake’s leaders try to bring the community together in the weeks after the viral N-word video. But inside the halls of Carroll High, Black students aren't feeling heard. In the midst of the turmoil, 17-year-old Raven Rolle secretly records her emotional showdown in the principal’s office with a white student who insists that anyone should be able to say the N-word. Meanwhile, the school district is forging ahead with a plan to address racist bullying, but before officials can release it, a pandemic and a national racial reckoning throws everything off track. A friend of Raven’s, Nikki Olaleye, organizes a Black Lives Matter rally in town square—and fear takes hold in Southlake.

    CORRECTION (Sept. 2, 2021, 04:30 p.m. ET): A previous version of this episode misstated the hotel where the 2018 homecoming dance was held. It was a Hilton hotel, not a Westin.
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If you want to know, ask the kids...

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A Milestone Pocast

Unfortunately southlake is a suburb of Fort Worth not Dallas, and in one of the most conservative counties in the State. I hope many in this area will listen and think about the role each of us play, not only in building strong communities, in impacting other Individuals every day. Very moving podcast. WWJD?

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It’s the world we live in :(

This is a very good podcast to put a light on what’s really going on. This is a must hear podcast to get a better understand.

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need to know

I'm glad to be informed about south lake. there needs to be more stories like this. we need to know what's going on. and alot if these little towns hold many secrets. Andrews, TX should be next. they JUST started accepting MLK DAY

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Informative of todays American Culture

Very well narrated and informative. The first hand interviews and points of views provides genuine reporting.

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Critical Race Fact would be a better phrase

I think that in a country as great in accomplishment as the US we cannot find it within ourselves to face the unpleasant truths of how we came to be. We will not be able to sit down and have civil discussions until we do. The US was built on racism and a belief of racial superiority. We are not quite 250yrs old. We have had many more years of legal and institutional and systemic genocide, slavery, black codes, jim crow, lynchings and oppression than the 57 years since the now abolished civil rights act was past. It is absolutely naive to argue that the group that had sole power in this country somehow just gave it up and said okay things are equal now. Those same people accuse those who speak up for justice by labeling them as woke should stop sleepwalking and WAKE UP! It is time to teach the truth so the children will have the empathy and understanding that our current leaders don't. Only then can we hold the truths as described in the Declaration of Independence self evident, that ALL men (mankind) are created equal.

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Outstanding

while this is only a peak at the Podcast, it shows the emotion expressed in this podcast.

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This podcast is amazing. As evidenced by the recent election results around the country, including Youngkin's win in Virginia, we are entering a new Chapter in the unraveling of the democratic pact in our country. Listen, and hear the frightening future that is coming back to us from the past. The people who are arrayed against Critical Race Theory in local school districts, even though it doesn't exist, are the very ones who will reelect Donald Trump in 2024. Don't say you weren't warned.

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Southlake podcast

I'm so glad you brought to light the issues in Southlake. The Diversity Plan is important and I'm glad Robin Cornish and her family is speaking up about the racists comments her children experienced in school and how the school handled racism.

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THIS IS AMERICA! RACE promotes POLITICal action!!

This exact same story is playing out/unfolding in Findlay, Ohio 45840. In fact...happening in every predominantly white suburb in America.

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