Rachel Cohen
Rachel Cohen joined Boise State Public Radio in 2019 as a Report for America corps member. She is the station s Twin Falls-based reporter, covering the Magic Valley and the Wood River Valley.
Rachel began her journalism career working at a local newspaper in Vermont. She interned on NPR s Science Desk in Washington, D.C., where she reported on food and health, and has most recently work at New Hampshire Public Radio as a producer for All Things Considered. In New Hampshire, Rachel also contributed to coverage of state politics and the early days of the 2020 presidential primary.
She is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, and enjoys spending her weekends in the mountains.
After a 25-year run, New Hampshire Public Radio’s morning talk show The Exchange will go off the air when host Laura Knoy departs Thursday, the most visible in a number of changes the station is making as it faces a tighter post-pandemic financial.
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May 18: The first episode delves into the 1857 Supreme Court Case
Dred Scott v. Sanford, in which an enslaved man and his family sued for their freedom. The court denied the legality of citizenship for Black Americans, a decision that many scholars now consider the worst in the court’s history.
June 1: The second episode details the decision behind the phrase “separate but equal.” In the
Plessy v. Ferguson case
, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were “equal in quality.”
June 15: The third episode explores
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in which the Court overturned Plessy, ruling that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.