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Bonus: Dr Aisha White on the Imagine Equity Series. Mar 30, 2021

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Bonus Episode. Dr Aisha White from the University of Pittsburgh's P.R.I.D.E. program joins us to talk about different ways to discuss racial identity with kids.

She mentions some great resources in the interview which can be found below.

Raising Race Conscious Children

Embrace Race

PBS Kids: Talking About Race

This episode supports our series of new adventures called Imagine Equity: Six New Stories About Race, Identity, and Making Things Right. Imagine Equity is supported by a generous grant from the Allstate Foundation; working to empower youth to reach their full potential and build the just, equitable, and healthy world we all deserve. To learn more, visit allstatefoundation.org.

Bonus Grown-ups Episode: Behind the Scenes of Imagine Equity Mar 28, 2021

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Have you ever wondered who comes up with a dinosaur princess, Cardboard Boxing Day, pirate food fights, or Big Bot Burgers? Well, here’s your chance to find out! We gathered the Imagine Neighborhood team members who helped create our latest series, Imagine Equity: Six New Stories About Race, Identity, and Making Things Right, for a candid conversation about what happens behind the scenes.

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Re-run: The Very Best Robot Mar 22, 2021

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A COUNT VACULA™ episode.

Today Scotty and Count Vacula are having a great time at a robot wrestling championship, until Count Vacula decides that he needs to look exactly like his hero, intergalactic robot wrestling champion Destructivir! It takes a visit from Destructivir to show Count Vacula that the way you look is only one little part of who you are, and that being kind—and being yourself—is what matters most! So rev up your engines and hit the mat for another awesome COUNT VACULA™ adventure!

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Raising the Steaks: Doc Apoc Has a Beef Part Two Mar 08, 2021

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When we last left our heroes, Scotty and Doc were on a mission to stop discrimination at Big Bot Burger. But it turns out the injustice isn’t just at one location—it’s at ALL the Big Bot Burger locations. This week, they’re enlisting the help of everyone in the Neighborhood to get some justice!

The robots at Big Bot still won’t let anyone from the Wasteland into their restaurants. Even the intervention of Macho Supreme, Princess Donnasaurus, and Alakazambra Tyesha Morganis isn’t helping. In fact, the injustice is growing: when customers don’t pay attention to the discrimination at Big Bot, it grows more and more burger restaurants. It’s going to take the whole Neighborhood team using their voices, their friendships, their art, and their wisdom to make things right.

This episode is part of our series of new adventures called Imagine Equity: Six New Stories About Race, Identity, and Making Things Right. Imagine Equity is supported by a generous grant from the Allstate Foundation; working to empower youth to reach their full potential and build the just, equitable, and healthy world we all deserve. To learn more, visit allstatefoundation.org.

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Doc Apoc Has a Beef Feb 28, 2021

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This week, a new restaurant called Big Bot Burger is coming to The Imagine Neighborhood™. Doc and Scotty are super excited to try it . . . until they find out that Big Bot won’t take Doc’s order. It turns out that Big Bot Burger has a company rule to not serve people from the Wasteland.

Doc and Scotty set out to make things right and get some justice. Doc uses her music and her voice to get people’s attention and start a peaceful protest. When the neighborhood learns that Big Bot discriminates against Wastelanders, they decide to leave and patronize Justice Burgers instead. But that doesn’t put an end to the injustice. Big Bot has locations everywhere, and it’s up to our heroes to stop them!

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Anyone Can Play Feb 22, 2021

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A MACHO SUPREME™ episode.

Macho Supreme and Count Vacula are playing their favorite movie, Nebula Trek! But every time Count Vacula tries to help Macho Supreme save the galaxy, Macho Supreme won’t let him play—because in the movie, the Nebula Trek actors are white, and Count Vacula is Asian. Scotty explains to Macho Supreme that excluding Count Vacula is not right, and that the kind thing to do is to make it okay for everyone to play!

So, grab your photon phaser and get ready to save the cosmos in today's MACHO SUPREME™ chronicle!

This episode is part of the 'Imagine Equity' project. Imagine Equity is supported by a generous grant from The Allstate Foundation; working to empower youth to reach their full potential and build the just, equitable, and healthy world we all deserve.To learn more, visit AllstateFoundation.org.

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Blizzards and Wizards Feb 14, 2021

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An ALAKAZAMBRA™ episode.

Preston Changeo (guest star Tom Lenk) doesn’t think that wizards and monsters should be friends, and when he learns that Alakazambra and Count Vacula are buddies he gets so upset he accidentally summons a rainbow-sherbet monster! Everyone has to work together to solve the problem, and Alakazambra helps Preston learn that being pals with folks who have all kinds of different identities is not only fun, it helps you learn new skills and be a better friend.

So seize your spellbook for this sociable ALAKAZAMBRA™ story!

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The Princess Quest Feb 07, 2021

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Today, Princess Donnasaurus stumbles out of The Imagine Neighborhood™ and into the neighborhood of Princess Tia from the Stoopkid Stories podcast! At first, neither princess thinks the other looks the way a princess should, but they talk it out and team up. Together, they embark on a quest to open an enchanted backpack and defeat the evil identity-stealing Erazor because anyone can be a princess, as long as they are kind, brave, proud of who they are—and takes care of their neighborhood.

This episode is a collaboration with the Stoopkid Stories podcast. It’s the second episode in our new series Imagine Equity: Six New Stories About Race, Identity, and Making Things Right.

Imagine Equity is supported by a generous grant from The Allstate Foundation. The Allstate Foundation works to empower youth to reach their full potential and build the just, equitable, and healthy world we all deserve. To learn more, visit AllstateFoundation.org.

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Food Fight! Jan 31, 2021

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Today, Scotty and Vac are pirate-sitting the Fire Pirates while Captain Marion is off at the dentist. Everything is shipshape . . . until Burn Voyage is taken over by Captain Deen! She thinks that pirates should only eat gross asparagus dumplings, not the food they brought from home. But the pirates’ foods are important to their ethnicities, which is a part of who they are. Vac decides to make things right, and mutiny turns into a food fight! It takes a giant, delicious mess to teach Captain Deen that everyone’s ethnicity is special—and that the strongest pirate crew is a diverse one!

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Imagine Equity Trailer Jan 25, 2021

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The Imagine Neighborhood returns next week with a special seriescalled Imagine Equity: Six New Stories About Race, Identity, and Making Things Right. Imagine Equity is supported by a generous grant from the Allstate Foundation. The Allstate Foundation works to empower youth to reach their full potential and build the just, equitable, and healthy world we all deserve. To learn more, visit allstatefoundation.org.

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