Rebel Spirit
5.0/5
Critic Rating
Rebel Spirit is a brand new podcast series from Akilah Hughes (Crooked Media’s “What a Day”) about her return to her small town of Florence, Kentucky with a mission to change her high school’s mascot from a Confederate General into a Biscuit. The show features moving interviews with everyone from the artist behind “Gritty,” The Philadelphia Flyers’ viral mascot, to principals at schools across the nation who have made this change. In speaking to people at every inflection point of the issue of problematic mascots, Rebel Spirit endeavors to make the process of correcting historic wrongs less of a bummer.
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Lauren Passell • Podcast The Newsletter • Sep 9, 2024
"It’s got a real mission, it’s journalism but it’s funny but it’s making a real point. And then I started thinking about the biscuit as a mascot, and that checks a lot of boxes, too. As Akilah points out, everyone loves biscuits, and they are harmless and vegetarian. They’re southern."
