Kica's Corner

Host Kica Matos has a conversation with Artist & Photographer Joe Standart about how he's blending photography with the immigration movement.

Host Kica Matos speaks with Sergio Ramirez, Junta For Progressive Action. They talk about the current political environment under Trump, and the safeguards being put in place to help the undocumented immigrants.

Host Kica Matos speaks with an DACA immigration advocate.

Host Kica Matos speaks with Leaders of the Immigration movement.

Today on " Kica's Corner" host Kica Matos talks with James Forman about his book "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America". James Forman Jr. is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is a graduate of Atlanta’s Roosevelt High School, Brown University, and Yale Law School, and was a law clerk for Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme Court. He teaches Constitutional Law, a seminar on Race and the Criminal Justice System, and a clinic called the Educational Opportunity and Juvenile Justice Clinic.

On today's episode of "Kica's Corner" Kika Matos speaks with Camelle Scott-Mujahid, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Jesus Morales Sanchez, New Haven advocates for social justice.

On “Kica’s Corner,” host Kica Matos welcomes community activist Barbara Fair and lawyer Patricia Kane, who supported Corey Menafee earlier this year, to speak about two events happening on Friday, October 26 a rally at 3pm hosted by the Change the Name Coalition demanding that Yale rename Calhoun College, and a protest against police brutality outside of the New Haven Police Department at 5pm. During the show, the reasons for renaming Calhoun College are discussed, as is the case of Fair’s daughter Holly Tucker, who was stopped and allegedly assaulted by the police on September 10 of this year.

On this episode, legal powerhouse Patricia Kane, attorney for Yale cafeteria worker Corey Menafee, speaks to host Kica Matos about the Menafee case, the debate over renaming Yale's Calhoun College, and the gag order involved in Menafee's rehiring.

On this episode, host Kica Matos speaks to Ana Maria Rivera-Forastieri, director of Advocacy and Program Development at JUNTA for Progressive Action, and Alejandra Corona Ortega, a student at Yale and intern with JUNTA, about difficulties that undocumented immigrants will face following the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA).

On this hour-long special, host Kica Matos welcomes Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and the Associate Master for Ezra Stiles College, Tracey L. Meares, the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale University and Vesla Weaver, professor in the African American Studies Department and the founding director of the ISPS Center for the Study of Inequality. The three weigh in on a number of topics including the recent student unrest at Yale University; the University's decision to continue to name a dormitory after noted white supremacist John C. Calhoun, diversity at Yale and town-gown relations.

Host Kica Matos interviews Sebi Medina-Tayac, a Native American student activist, about identity, Yale's student uprising, and liberation versus liberal arts education.