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8.1.2024 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Trump Fallout From NABJ Q&A, Sheila Jackson Lee Laid To Rest, Combating Anti-DEI The fallout after Donald Trump's deplorable interview at the NABJ conference in Chicago continues; as Trump doubles down on his comments about Vice President Kamala Harris, we'll break that down for you. DEI has become a buzzword for Conservatives. We'll chat with two women working to dismantle that flawed narrative regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. In Georgia, a legal battle over a senate bill that threatens to disenfranchise thousands of Georgia voters is ensuing. We'll talk to the Deputy Executive Director of The Advancement Project about the case. The service for Texas congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee took place today; we'll show you what happened, including Vice President Kamala Harris's remarks. Arthur "Silky Slim" Reed will join us to discuss his new documentary, "Life or Death: the Silky Slim Story." Lastly, we'll discuss a new initiative to empower black-owned early-stage businesses. #BlackStarNetwork partners:Fanbase

Hozell Frances is a children's, youth and young adult minister at ST. Stephen's Missionary Baptist Church. He is also a reparations activist with the organization Lineage, Equity and Advancement Project. On this Freedmen Fridays podcast we debunk common arguments against reparations, look at the progress in California's legislature, and review the historical origins of the modern movement. X: @LEAPOfficialOrg @diprimaradio @KBLA1580

Brent Swinton brings more than 20 years of fundraising experience in higher education and the non-profit sector to his position as Vice President of Advancement at Bowie State College. Swinton has a variety of first-hand experience in major gift fundraising, development operations and strategic communications, gathered from a career that has been dedicated to helping mission-based organizations achieve their strategic goals.Prior to joining Bowie State, Swinton led fundraising at the national headquarters of Advancement Project and the Children's Defense Fund. Previously, he was assistant vice president for institutional advancement at Notre Dame of Maryland University and senior director of advancement services at Howard University. Swinton is credited with training hundreds of grassroots organizations to sustain themselves financially through the Compassion Capital Fund, the cornerstone grant program of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. At Notre Dame of Maryland, Swinton provided leadership and oversight of all campaign and alumni relations activities. Earlier, he worked for a fundraising software provider, guiding colleges across the nation on campaign planning and implementing donor databases.

9.25.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Only Black Female N.C. Justice Targeted, Kroger-Albertsons Merger, NJ eatery's NYT columnist special The only Black woman on the North Carolina Supreme Court, Anita Earls, says she is being targeted for criticizing the court's lack of diversity.  She's filed a lawsuit saying the investigation is to silence her. The NAACP and Advancement Project are among some leaders showing her support.  Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of Advancement Project, is here to explain why this sister is being targeted.  It's being called one of the largest retail takeovers in history.  We'll break down the Kroger-Albertsons merger. That conservative columnist who claimed he spent about 80 bucks on a burger and fries helped the New Jersey eater launch a new special.  The owner of 1911 Smoke House BBQ restaurant will be here to discuss how this all happened.  And we'll talk about that viral video of the young black gymnast who got snubbed during the medal ceremony in Ireland. Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox  http://www.blackstarnetwork.com #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the #BlackStarNetwork are news reporting platforms covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most kids in the U.S. go to a school that's patrolled by police officers. They're supposed to keep students safe, but after decades of increased surveillance, in-school arrests have skyrocketed for kids of all ages. And most of the kids arrested at school are students of color. A group of students in Des Moines, Iowa didn't need data to know that police in their school district were harmful, so they set out to do something about it. Here's how they worked with their community to build a greater movement to protect students, and especially students of color.  Learn more about the Advancement Project's Opportunity to Learn campaign here, the effectiveness of restorative justice in schools (5:09), how Des Moines Public Schools have updated their policies (16:53), and how Endi, Lyric and Kai made change in Des Moines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Attorney Judith Browne-Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project, Adrianne Shropshire, Executive Director of the Black PAC, and Attorney Donald Temple join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Michael Steel, in for Ali Velshi, is joined by Judith Browne-Dianis, Executive Director at Advancement Project, Jeannie Suk Gersen, Contributing Writer at the New Yorker, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at NYU, Fmr. Rep. Joe Walsh, Fmr. Republican Congressman, Fmr. Rep. Charles Dent, Executive Director & Vice President for the Congressional Program at the Aspen Institute, Adam Harris, Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Imani Perry, Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University, Alyse Adamson, Fmr. Asst. U.S. Attorney, Joshua Kaplan, Reporter at ProPublica, and Michael Waldman, President & CEO at Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law.

Educators can legally hit students at school in 19 states, but school-based violence is forcing young people with marginalized identities out of school everywhere. Ashley Sawyer joins us to discuss the legacy of racial discrimination in education policy and systems of school-based violence. She lays out how the school-to-prison pipeline, pushout, sexual harassment, and corporal punishment force young people with marginalized identities out of school, and she calls attention to the demands of Black and Latina girls who are organizing to create safe, healing, and supportive schools. Finally, Ashley urges policymakers to make radical investments in young people, schools, families, and communities to address the root causes of violence and harm. Trigger Warning: Ashley shares graphic stories about what's happening to young people in schools. This conversation also includes topics that may not be appropriate for young children.Guest: Ashley Sawyer (@ACSawyerJustice) is a Senior Staff Attorney on the Opportunity to Lead (Education) team at Advancement Project. Ashley's life work is situated where education and the criminal justice system collide, and she has previously served at Girls for Gender Equity, Youth Represent, and the Education Law Center. If you enjoy this show and want to help fight poverty and injustice, consider making a donation to Community Legal Services today! You can also follow us on Twitter @CLSphila to stay connected.How Is That Legal is a podcast from Community Legal Services of Philadelphia and Rowhome Productions. Jake Nussbaum is our Producer and Editor. Executive Producers are Alex Lewis and John Myers. Special thanks to Caitlin Nagel, Zakya Hall, and Farwa Zaidi. Music provided by Blue Dot Sessions.Support the show

Today's History Story: The Five Terrible Ways Schools Are Preparing Our Children For Prisons Hundreds of thousands of Black students are trapped in schools where officers and authority figures unfairly police their behavior. These biased practices and policies rob many students of their futures and feed them into the school-to-prison pipeline. You may be familiar with this term, but it goes deeper than you might know. In this episode, we talk with Judith Browne Dianis, the “Godmother” of this phenomenon, to comprehensively understand the school-to-prison pipeline. She is a movement lawyer, professor, and executive director of Advancement Project, a civil rights organization committed to actualizing “America's promise of a caring, inclusive, and just democracy.” As a pioneer in deconstructing this insidious structural institution, Judith has published transformative reports like Derailed: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track. She's been doing this work for 20-plus years and isn't stopping anytime soon. Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people who are leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. The BHY production team includes Tareq Alani, Brooke Brown, Tasha Taylor, and Lilly Workneh. Our producers are Cydney Smith, Len Webb for PushBlack, and Ronald Younger, who also edits the show. Black History Year's executive producers are Mikel Elcessor for Limina House and Julian Walker for PushBlack. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John talks about stochastic terrorism, speaks with Judith Browne-Dianis of the Advancement Project, and invites callers to discuss Scary Movies……and Scarier Politicians.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Two years ago in the summer of 2020, the largest racial justice demonstrations in history swept across the globe after Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd. In the aftermath, it seemed that Americans were reckoning with whether or not the police are a necessary entity in maintaining public safety, but the issue of police abolition remains contentious for many. In March of this year, President Biden earned a bi-partisan standing ovation for saying: We should all agree, the answer's not to defund the police. It's to fund the police. Fund them. In late August, the President traveled to Pennsylvania, where he gave a speech on crime and offered specifics of his Safer America Plan. The plan includes $13 billion dollars to hire 100,000 officers over the next five years and grants to states and cities to recruit, train, and support police in  “effective, accountable community policing.” Hiring more police and sending more policing dollars to states and localities is certainly reminiscent of the 1994 Crime Bill which Biden championed during his Senate years. According to FactCheck.org®, a Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in 2005 that the 1994 crime bill added an additional 88,000 police officers and only contributed to a "modest" drop in crime. The GAO reported that from 1993 to 2000, funds apportioned to hire more police in the crime bill contributed to a "1.3 percent decrease in overall crime" and a "2.5 percent decrease in violent crime rates" from 1993. The report also found that factors other than funds to increase the number of police were much more significant to lower crime rates. Increased employment, better policing methods, an aging of the population, growth in income and inflation are just a few factors the report offers.  With the news of Biden's recent announcement, Deep Dive cohosts Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren take a look into the proposal to abolish American police, working together to build a syllabus for their exploration of the issue as "students of abolition." Guests: Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project National Office Professor Treva B. Lindsey, author of "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice" Andrea Ritchie, co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, author of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color” and “No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba" Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum offers a defense of police Philip Atiba Goff, co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity and a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University

Two years ago in the summer of 2020, the largest racial justice demonstrations in history swept across the globe after Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd. In the aftermath, it seemed that Americans were reckoning with whether or not the police are a necessary entity in maintaining public safety, but the issue of police abolition remains contentious for many. In March of this year, President Biden earned a bi-partisan standing ovation for saying: We should all agree, the answer's not to defund the police. It's to fund the police. Fund them. In late August, the President traveled to Pennsylvania, where he gave a speech on crime and offered specifics of his Safer America Plan. The plan includes $13 billion dollars to hire 100,000 officers over the next five years and grants to states and cities to recruit, train, and support police in  “effective, accountable community policing.” Hiring more police and sending more policing dollars to states and localities is certainly reminiscent of the 1994 Crime Bill which Biden championed during his Senate years. According to FactCheck.org®, a Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in 2005 that the 1994 crime bill added an additional 88,000 police officers and only contributed to a "modest" drop in crime. The GAO reported that from 1993 to 2000, funds apportioned to hire more police in the crime bill contributed to a "1.3 percent decrease in overall crime" and a "2.5 percent decrease in violent crime rates" from 1993. The report also found that factors other than funds to increase the number of police were much more significant to lower crime rates. Increased employment, better policing methods, an aging of the population, growth in income and inflation are just a few factors the report offers.  With the news of Biden's recent announcement, Deep Dive cohosts Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren take a look into the proposal to abolish American police, working together to build a syllabus for their exploration of the issue as "students of abolition." Guests: Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project National Office Professor Treva B. Lindsey, author of "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice" Andrea Ritchie, co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, author of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color” and “No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba" Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum offers a defense of police Philip Atiba Goff, co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity and a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University

This week, judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced questions about her judicial record and views on race, gender and other key issues. Reset recaps the Supreme Court nomination hearings on the fourth and final day of the confirmation process. GUESTS: Steven Schwinn, professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Law School; co-editor of the Constitutional Law Prof Blog Judith Browne Dianis, civil rights attorney and executive director of the Advancement Project

#12 - Special guest, Morgan, Craven,  National Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement at Intercultural Development Research Association (or IDRA), joins Dr. Terrance L. Green (he/him) on the podcast. Professor Green and Morgan discuss  what exactly is the school to prison pipeline and nexus, what we know from research about what happens when police are in schools. They also discuss how important it is to confront racial myths about Black and other racially minoritized youth in the context of punitive discipline and what schools might do to start to undo the school to prison pipeline, and we discussed so much more. You can learn more about Morgan Craven's work and follow her on Twitter at @morganlcraven. To learn more about the history of police in schools from the Advancement Project.  I hope you enjoy this episode and join our community at: www.raciallyjustschools.com. When you join the community, I will send you a FREE video on 3 Tips to Make Your Racial Justice Work Better. 

On this latest episode of On the Job With PORAC, PORAC President Brian Marvel and Vice President Damon Kurtz host a Zoom discussion with Paul Mitchell and Evan McLaughlin of Redistricting Partners to examine California's redistricting process and what the future of the state's lines look like.   ABOUT REDISTRICTING PARTNERS Redistricting Partners has been working for the last 10+ years on redistricting, racially polarized voting analysis, California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) implementation, and mid-decade redistricting work, primarily in California, for the past decade, with GIS and political experience that goes back more than 20 years. Redistricting Partners was formed with a focus on engaging in the statewide redistricting process under the new California Redistricting Commission in 2011. This work quickly moved into local municipal redistricting, advising and implementing transitions from at-large election systems to districted election systems for dozens of community college districts throughout the state. For the last decade, much of our work has been with cities, community college districts, school boards and other kinds of agencies, such as hospital districts, water boards and other special districts. Our work has also extended to outside organizations working to ensure a fair redistricting process, and protect communities.  This includes groups like Equality California, who have sought to preserve the power of LGBTQ communities within redistricting. Redistricting Partners is headed by Paul Mitchell, a data consultant based in Sacramento. Mitchell has conducted the redistricting for more than 75 states, cities, school boards and community college districts, including the State of New York Independent Redistricting Commission, the Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission, the Long Beach Independent Redistricting Commission, commissions in Oakland, Berkeley and Mesa Az.  His firm's work on racially polarized voting analysis and demographics has aided dozens of agencies as they navigate the California and Federal Voting Rights Acts. Mitchell also works with nonprofit organizations, such as the Irvine Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, the Advancement Project, Common Cause and others in building community engagement and working throughout California and Nationally on elections and voting issues, including advising in the State of New Mexico's inaugural redistricting commission, working with the State Ethics Committee on guidelines for commissioners and evaluating the final maps.  In total, Mitchell and his firm has worked in more than 15 states around the country advising on statewide redistricting. Mitchell has been regularly cited in the media as an expert on elections and redistricting, including as the subject of a CNN Presents special on the decennial redistricting process, being interviewed on the PBS News Hour election coverage in 2020, participating in the 538 Podcast series on redistricting reform, and as a regular analyst on California-based network TV election coverage. For the past 10 years, Mitchell has also served as Vice President of the bi-partisan Political Data Inc where he works with both political parties, campaigns, nonprofits and universities, with a specialty in polling and survey data. Mitchell earned his associate degree from Orange Coast College, an undergraduate from American University, and a Master's in Public Policy from USC. Vice President of Redistricting Partners, Evan McLaughlin most recently served as Chief of Staff to California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, where he managed legislative efforts to expand voting rights and empower underrepresented communities. Before his work in the State Capitol, McLaughlin was Political and Legislative Director at the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, where he advised a coalition of community organizations in the region on the statewide, county and city redistricting processes that took place in 2011. In 2020 he led a project of analyzing potential districting plans under a California Voting Rights Act conversion and working with a coalition of agencies to help them understand the impacts of potential scenarios. CLICK HERE to learn more about Redistricting Partners.

QUESTION PRESENTED:Whether a state violates the religion clauses or equal protection clause of the United States Constitution by prohibiting students participating in an otherwise generally available student-aid program from choosing to use their aid to attend schools that provide religious, or “sectarian,” instruction.Date                   Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)Feb 04 2021 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 11, 2021)Feb 26 2021 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, David Carson, et al.Mar 09 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Americans for Prosperity Foundation and yes. every kid. filed.Mar 09 2021 | Waiver of right of respondent A. Pender Makin to respond filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition of Religious Liberty filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Council of Islamic Schools in North America, Partnership for Inner-City Education, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Innovative Schools filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National Legal Foundation, et al. filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of EdChoice filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Liberty Justice Center,et al. filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Christian Legal Society filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of States of Arkansas, et al. filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed. (Distributed)Mar 16 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2021.Mar 22 2021 | Response Requested. (Due April 21, 2021)Mar 26 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 21, 2021 to May 21, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.Mar 29 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 21, 2021.Apr 07 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of American Center for Law and Justice filed.May 21 2021 | Brief of respondent A. Pender Makin in opposition filed.Jun 03 2021 | Reply of petitioners David Carson, et al. filed.Jun 07 2021 | Supplemental brief of petitioners David Carson, et al. filed. (Distributed)Jun 08 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/24/2021.Jul 01 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2021.Jul 02 2021 | Petition GRANTED.Jul 09 2021 | Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed.Jul 09 2021 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, David Carson, et al.Jul 12 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including September 3, 2021. The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including October 22, 2021.Jul 14 2021 | Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, A. Pender MakinSep 03 2021 | Brief of petitioners David Carson, et al. filed.Sep 03 2021 | Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)Sep 07 2021 | Brief amici curiae of World Faith Foundation, et al. filed.Sep 08 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of American Center for Law and Justice filed.Sep 08 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Michael W. McConnell filed.Sep 09 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Liberty Justice Center, et al. filed.Sep 09 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Americans for Prosperity Foundation, et al. filed.Sep 09 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition of Religious Liberty filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Charles L. Glenn filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Members of the United States Senate filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Buckeye Institute filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Ashley R. Berner filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Christian Legal Society, et al., filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Protect the First Foundation filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Freedom X filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Advancing American Freedom filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Partnership for Inner-City Education, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Pioneer Institute filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Independent Women's Law Center and Independent Women's Forum filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Concerned Women for America, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Innovative Schools filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of EdChoice, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Memphis Chapter, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Arkansas, et al.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, Inc. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Hillsdale College filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA), et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Cato Institute filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Stanley M. Herzog Charitable Foundation filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Georgia Goal Scholarship Program, Inc. filed.Sep 20 2021 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, December 8, 2021.Sep 27 2021 | Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit.Oct 04 2021 | The record from the U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer also received is one envelope with the Joint Appendix.Oct 08 2021 | The record from the U.S.D.C. District Court of Maine is electronic and located on Pacer.Oct 22 2021 | Brief of respondent A. Pender Makin filed.Oct 28 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of State of Vermont filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | CIRCULATEDOct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National School Boards Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National Education Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Virginia, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Washington, and the District of Columbia filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Education and Constitutional Law Scholars filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Public Funds Public Schools filed.Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Freedom From Religion Foundation and Center for Inquiry filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of American Atheists, Inc. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Advancement Project, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Religious and Civil-Rights Organizations, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Maine School Management Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for enlargement of time for oral argument filed.Nov 08 2021 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for enlargement of time for oral argument GRANTED.Nov 22 2021 | Reply of petitioners David Carson, et al. filed. (Distributed)DateProceedings and Orders (key to color coding)Feb 04 2021 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 11, 2021)Feb 26 2021 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, David Carson, et al.Mar 09 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Americans for Prosperity Foundation and yes. every kid. filed.Mar 09 2021 | Waiver of right of respondent A. Pender Makin to respond filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition of Religious Liberty filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Council of Islamic Schools in North America, Partnership for Inner-City Education, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Innovative Schools filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National Legal Foundation, et al. filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of EdChoice filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Liberty Justice Center,et al. filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Christian Legal Society filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amici curiae of States of Arkansas, et al. filed.Mar 11 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed. (Distributed)Mar 16 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2021.Mar 22 2021 | Response Requested. (Due April 21, 2021)Mar 26 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 21, 2021 to May 21, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.Mar 29 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 21, 2021.Apr 07 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of American Center for Law and Justice filed.May 21 2021 | Brief of respondent A. Pender Makin in opposition filed.Jun 03 2021 | Reply of petitioners David Carson, et al. filed.Jun 07 2021 | Supplemental brief of petitioners David Carson, et al. filed. (Distributed)Jun 08 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/24/2021.Jul 01 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2021.Jul 02 2021 | Petition GRANTED.Jul 09 2021 | Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed.Jul 09 2021 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, David Carson, et al.Jul 12 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including September 3, 2021. The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including October 22, 2021.Jul 14 2021 | Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, A. Pender MakinSep 03 2021 | Brief of petitioners David Carson, et al. filed.Sep 03 2021 | Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)Sep 07 2021 | Brief amici curiae of World Faith Foundation, et al. filed.Sep 08 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of American Center for Law and Justice filed.Sep 08 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Michael W. McConnell filed.Sep 09 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Liberty Justice Center, et al. filed.Sep 09 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Americans for Prosperity Foundation, et al. filed.Sep 09 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition of Religious Liberty filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Charles L. Glenn filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Members of the United States Senate filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Buckeye Institute filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Ashley R. Berner filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Christian Legal Society, et al., filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Protect the First Foundation filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Freedom X filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Advancing American Freedom filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Partnership for Inner-City Education, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Pioneer Institute filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Independent Women's Law Center and Independent Women's Forum filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Concerned Women for America, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Innovative Schools filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of EdChoice, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Memphis Chapter, et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Arkansas, et al.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, Inc. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Hillsdale College filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA), et al. filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Cato Institute filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Stanley M. Herzog Charitable Foundation filed.Sep 10 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Georgia Goal Scholarship Program, Inc. filed.Sep 20 2021 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, December 8, 2021.Sep 27 2021 | Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit.Oct 04 2021 | The record from the U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer also received is one envelope with the Joint Appendix.Oct 08 2021 | The record from the U.S.D.C. District Court of Maine is electronic and located on Pacer.Oct 22 2021 | Brief of respondent A. Pender Makin filed.Oct 28 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of State of Vermont filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | CIRCULATEDOct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National School Boards Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National Education Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Virginia, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Washington, and the District of Columbia filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Education and Constitutional Law Scholars filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Public Funds Public Schools filed.Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Freedom From Religion Foundation and Center for Inquiry filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of American Atheists, Inc. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Advancement Project, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Religious and Civil-Rights Organizations, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Maine School Management Association, et al. filed. (Distributed)Oct 29 2021 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for enlargement of time for oral argument filed.Nov 08 2021 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae, for divided argument, and for enlargement of time for oral argument GRANTED.Nov 22 2021 | Reply of petitioners David Carson, et al. filed. (Distributed)★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Author Jim Freeman discusses his book "Rich Thanks To Racism: How The Ultra-Wealthy Profit From Racial Injustice." Jim looks at three issue areas, education, policing, and immigration, and how in each, the ultra-wealthy have found ways to make vast fortunes off the suffering of Black and Brown people. Jim directs the Social Movement Support Lab, which provides multidisciplinary assistance to communities fighting for racial justice. He was formerly a Senior Attorney at Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization, where he directed the Ending the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track project. He served under President Obama as a Commissioner on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. His book is available here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501755132/rich-thanks-to-racism/ Nathan's audio quality is crap because he accidentally used his computer microphone instead of his podcasting mic. He will try to avoid doing this again. Edited by Tim Gray.

Led by the League of Women Voters and People for the American Way, Mark joined forces with protestors in Washington D.C. to demand President Biden FIX OR NIX THE FILIBUSTER. You'll hear one-on-one conversations with: April Albright, Legal Director and Chief of Staff at Black Voters Matter Fund; Judith Brown Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project; Rev. Tim McDonald, Chair of the Board for People for the American Way; Senator Lena Taylor of Wisconsin; Cliff Albright, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter, and Wes Bellamy, Co-Chair of Our Black Party; and a closing word from Rev. Dr. WIlliam Barber II. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the pandemic started, courts that were slower in adopting technology had to undergo a two-week revolution to move their operations to a remote setting. Under normal circumstances, that would have taken them twenty years to achieve.  Existing research shows that while remote technologies can be helpful in court proceedings, they can also harm individuals if not used carefully. Several issues have been coming up around the effects that remote court proceedings have had on our communities. Today's guest is Douglas Keith, counsel in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, where he works primarily on promoting fair, diverse, and impartial courts. He will walk us through the various concerns. Douglas Keith was the George A. Katz Fellow at the Brennan Center, where he worked on issues around money in politics, voting rights, and redistricting. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Atlantic, Guardian, New York Daily News, and Huffington Post. Before that, Keith worked as a Ford Foundation public interest law fellow at Advancement Project. He directed voting rights advocates in New York, served as an international election observer for the National Democratic Institute and OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, and educated poll workers for the New York City Board of Elections. Keith is a graduate of NYU School of Law and Duke University. What should we be concerned about? All existing research suggests a real reason exists for courts to be cautious about doing video hearings. Studies have shown that video court cases have not always worked out as well as those cases when people have appeared in person. Higher bail amounts charged for video court cases in Chicago In Chicago, in the early 2000s, courts began using video for most of their felony bail hearings. A study that looked at 600,000 of those hearings found that judges imposed much higher bail amounts for those required to have video hearings rather than appearing in person. On average, the video cases paid 50% more bail, and in some instances, they paid up to 90% more. People detained in deportation proceedings People detained in deportation proceedings stood a much higher chance of being removed if they were required to appear by video rather than appearing in person. A quiet place to appear and access to broadband When people get detained, questions tend to arise about the quality of the broadband and them having access to a quiet place to appear. Also, when someone has to appear in court remotely from a jail or prison setting, the background could influence, impact, or change how a judge might view them as an individual.  The digital divide When someone not detained has to appear remotely, many different issues related to the digital divide could arise. They might not have the quality of internet that a judge might expect, and there are also massive differences in terms of the devices people are using to access the proceedings. Those issues need to be taken into account if the proceedings are to be fair. What has changed? Since Douglas has been advocating for the communities that have been affected by doing court proceedings remotely, there have been technological improvements that might make a difference.  Remote proceedings are here to stay Over the last year, courts have become very enthusiastic about how remote proceedings have been working out. Court leaders across the country have said that remote proceedings are here to stay because they have been efficient, speedy, and time-saving. The problem Most jurisdictions have not been talking to the people going through remote court proceedings or their attorneys to learn what is and is not working. A common concern A common concern with remote hearings is the ability for the client to communicate with their attorney during the proceedings. That ability gets hampered because remote tools do not allow the client and attorney to make eye contact and quietly confer about any information that might be relevant to the case during the proceedings. Eviction proceedings Douglas spoke to many individuals from legal aid organizations, representing people earning below certain income thresholds and going through eviction proceedings.  What you can do, on a local level, when someone's rights are violated Pay closer attention to what the courts in your jurisdiction are doing. Courts often allow for public comment or testimony when going through the process of proposing rule changes to allow for more remote proceedings. Engage with the courts and get involved. Watch your local courts to see the types of rule changes they are proposing, in terms of remote proceedings. If you disapprove and they do not require consent to move forward remotely, write to the court to tell them about your concerns and why you think consent should be required. Resolving the issues Advocates from all over the country are busy working on resolving these issues. They range from academics studying the impact of remote tools during the pandemic to practitioners in various spaces, guiding attorneys. Research More research is needed because we do not know enough about how people are being affected by remote tools. At the Brennan Center, they advocate for more resources towards that research to prevent the courts from inadvertently doing any harm. Some other issues that Douglas is working on that are happening where tech intersects with the judicial system Douglas is working on allowing the public access to court proceedings. During the pandemic, many courts started live streaming. That allows court watch groups to remotely observe the court proceedings and report to the public what is and is not working in the courthouses. That raised questions about the point of allowing public access to the courts.  The watchdog effect Public access makes the court aware that it is being watched and reminds them of their responsibility. Live streaming might result in a loss of some of that watchdog effect. So although technology has improved public access to the courts in some ways, we could also lose something along the way. Remote tools The use of remote tools in the courts is nuanced. They can lessen the burden that the courts place on people, but there are also times when those tools could be a cause for concern. That is why the courts need to work with their communities to find the right answers.  Resources: The Brennan Center for Justice Washingtech.org

As negotiations continued over President Biden's infrastructure and social spending plans, a stalemate in the Senate blocked a Democrat-backed voting protection bill this past week. This comes as several states are changing laws to limit access to polls, reduce mail-in voting and redraw congressional maps. Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of civil rights organization Advancement Project, joins. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Derecka Purnell is a lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of forthcoming Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and trainings in community based organizations through an abolitionist framework.  As a Skadden Fellow, she helped to build the Justice Project at Advancement Project's National Office which focused on consent decrees, police and prosecutor accountability, and jail closures, providing community training, political education and legal representation to organizers. Her advocacy efforts led to the dismissal of over 3,000 cases based on unconstitutional policing practices. Additionally, she supports several campaigns and grassroots organizations around the criminal legal system, electoral justice, and community investment, including Action St. Louis, Dream Defenders, Communities Against Police Crimes and Repression, the Ferguson Collaborative, and the Movement for Black Lives. Derecka also organized the founding steering committee for Law for Black Lives, a growing network of 5,000 law students, lawyers, and legal workers to support social movements.  In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Derecka co-created the COVID19 Policing Project at the Community Resource Hub for Safety Accountability. The project tracks police arrests, harassment, citations and other enforcement through public health orders related to the pandemic. Derecka received her JD from Harvard Law School, her BA from the University of Missouri- Kansas City, and studied public policy and economics at the University of California- Berkeley as a Public Policy and International Affairs Law Fellow. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue, The Appeal, Truthout, Slate, Boston Review, Huffington Post, Vox, and In These Times. She's been  on NPR, Democracy Now!, Slate's What Next, and MSNBC, and is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. Derecka has lectured, studied, and strategized around social movements across the United States, The Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She is from St. Louis and lives in D.C.

QUESTION PRESENTED:Whether Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, which holds that public school officials may regulate speech that would materially and substantially disrupt the work and discipline of the school, applies to student speech that occurs off campus. DateProceedings and Orders (key to color coding)Aug 28 2020 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 1, 2020)Sep 21 2020 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 1, 2020 to November 30, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.Sep 28 2020 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 30, 2020.Oct 01 2020 | Brief amici curiae of Pennsylvania School Boards Association and Pennsylvania Principals Association filed.Oct 01 2020 | Brief amici curiae of National School Boards Association, et al. filed.Nov 30 2020 | Brief of respondents B.L., a minor, by and through her father Lawrence Levy and her mother Betty Lou Levy in opposition filed.Dec 14 2020 | Reply of petitioner Mahanoy Area School District filed.Dec 16 2020 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.Jan 08 2021 | Petition GRANTED.Feb 22 2021 | Brief of petitioner Mahanoy Area School District filed.Feb 22 2021 | Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)Feb 24 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Cyberbullying Research Center, et al. filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National School Boards Association, et al. filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Massachusetts, et al. in support of neither party filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Nation Education Association in support of neither party filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amici curiae of National Association of Pupil Services Administrators and Pennsylvania Association of Pupil Services Administrators filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Pennsylvania School Boards Association and Pennsylvania Principals Association filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amici curiae of First Amendment and Education Law Scholars filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Huntsville, Alabama City Board of Education, et al. filed.Mar 01 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of American Center for Law and Justice in support of neither party filed.Mar 12 2021 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.Mar 15 2021 | Record requested.Mar 24 2021 | Brief of respondent B.L., a minor, by and through her father Lawrence Levy and her mother Betty Lou Levy filed.Mar 26 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation, et al. filed. (Distributed)Mar 29 2021 | Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.Mar 30 2021 | CIRCULATEDMar 30 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Parents Defending Education filed. (Distributed)Mar 30 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Liberty Justice Center, et al. filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Life Legal Defense Foundation filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Alliance Defending Freedom and Christian Legal Society filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Independent Women's Law Center filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of College Athlete Advocates filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Law and Education Professors filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Americans for Prosperity Foundation and The Rutherford Institute filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The National Women's Law Center, et al. filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Jane Bambauer, Ashutosh Bhagwat, and Eugene Volokh filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of School Discipline Professors filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of States of Louisiana, et al. filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of First Liberty Institute filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Current and Former Student School Board Members filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Advancement Project, Juvenile Law Center, et al. filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Student Press Law Center, et al. filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of VanHo Law filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Mary Beth Tinker & John Tinker filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of HISD Student Congress, et al. filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, et al. filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Teachers, School Administrators, and the National Council of Teachers of English filed. (Distributed)Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, et al. filed. (Distributed)Apr 05 2021 | Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED.Apr 16 2021 | Reply of petitioner Mahanoy Area School District filed. (Distributed)Apr 28 2021 | Argued. For petitioner: Lisa S. Blatt, Washington, D. C.; and Malcolm L. Stewart, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondent: David D. Cole, of Washington, D. C.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

  Please consider a paid subscription to this daily podcast. Everyday I will interview 2 or more expert guests on a wide range of issues. I will continue to be transparent about my life, issues and vulnerabilities in hopes we can relate, connect and grow together. Join the Stand Up Community Christian Finnegan  is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in New York City. Finnegan is perhaps best known as one of the original panelists on VH1's Best Week Ever and as Chad, the only white roommate in the “Mad Real World” sketch on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included “Conan”, “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, "Would You Rather...with Graham Norton", “Good Afternoon America” and multiple times on  The Today Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and on History's I Love the 1880s. He hosted TV Land's game show "Game Time". As an actor, Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of "Carl" in the film Eden Court, a ticket agent in "Knight and Day" and several guest roles including a talk show host on "The Good Wife". In October 2006, Finnegan's debut stand up comedy CD titled Two For Flinching was released by Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007. “Au Contraire!” was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third special "The Fun Part" was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014. Jim Freeman is a civil rights lawyer and author who works with communities of color across the US to address issues of systemic racism and create positive social change. He has supported dozens of grassroots-led efforts to end mass criminalization and incarceration, achieve education equity, dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, protect immigrants’ rights, and create a more inclusive and participatory democracy. Freeman directs the Social Movement Support Lab at IRISE, an initiative at the University of Denver that provides multidisciplinary assistance to communities fighting for racial justice. He was formerly a Senior Attorney at Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization, where he directed the Ending the Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track project. He served under President Obama as a Commissioner on the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Freeman is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School, and was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. He is a former Skadden Fellow, clerked for Judge James R. Browning on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page

In this latest episode, Professor Deepak Bhargava speaks to Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project, and Dorian Warren, President of Community Change, about progressive priorities for the first 100 days of the Biden administration. They discuss top legislative priorities and movement organizing strategies necessary to achieve consequential legislation and executive action.

This conversation amongst friends is a peek into the deep complexities of keeping Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other marginalized folks safe while they activate and organize for liberation. Black Movement Law Project is about the intentional and deliberate work of first protecting (physically and legally) the people in movement spaces. At the same time, the work of BMLP is supporting local communities to develop sustainable infrastructure so that the people within movement spaces are empowered and cared for. BMLP’s origins thread back to Ferguson and with nash, even further back into the Occupy Movement.  Their work has been fundamental across the country as people protest police brutality and the terrorizing of Black and other mariginalized people by police. What surfaces in this conversation is the strategy and forward-thinking necessary to liberate marginalized folks when working within systems that are designed to subjugate them. Every move must be carefully turned over, anticipating the fall-out way down the road. Historically, as Abi asserts, the very institutions that cause the crises usually come out twice as strong in the end. Thus, with loud calls for accountability for the crimes of the white supremacist insurrectionists, movement people must be mindful of the unintended consequences. During this conversation, for example, Tanay, Nicole, Abi, nash, and Marques carefully turn over how policies regulating hate speech can eventually be used to clamp down on marginalized people trying to organize around systems of oppression. It was fascinating to listen to this “think tank” do its thinking. and see their understanding of the current state of anti-oppression work evolve. Their strategizing and BMLP operations are rooted in their lived experiences as People of Color on the ground during uprisings and their desire to support movement spaces from a place of relationship. No one gets thrown away. As nash says, “Liberation is collective or it’s non-existent.”   In this episode, we talked about: The origin story of the Black Movement Law Project, with its intention to create a proactive space for Black leadership in jail and legal support for the Black Lives Matter activists The priority and focus of  BMLP: to help build up the capacities and infrastructure in local Black-led communities to make movement work sustainable The work now in movement work: to create opportunities for entry The glaring differences in policing white supremacists v. Black activists fighting for their lives and Constitutional rights Monitoring hate speech on social media platforms The level of organization amongst white supremacists during the insurrection and the likelihood of support from the inside How white supremacist mobs in DC highlight Washingtonian’s need for statehood, a community that is mostly Black and without representation in the federal government The very complex difficulties in demanding accountability for the traitors while not putting Black and other marginalized folks at greater risk long term. The systems of accountability are built to oppress marginalized people. The way discernment and intuition guides each of their decision making in dangerous, critical moments What it means to live an inclusive life   Bio:   Tanay Lynn Harris Tanay Lynn Harris is the Founder and Principal Strategist of Tenacity Consulting. As a facilitator, organizer, and abolitionist, she advises and supports organizations to achieve equitable and transformative change through learning journeys and critical social consciousness. She is committed to holistic approaches to cultivating change-makers and ushering in liberation and transformation through the building and cultivation of relationships and reimagining a world anew. Tanay worked for the Center for African American Research and Public Policy at Temple University as a co-coordinator and was an educator in Philadelphia. Her time as a grassroots organizer in Philadelphia learning from leading activists, scholars, and building in the community, she learned more deeply Tanay has worked on some of the nation's leading high-profiled legal cases and pressing issues of our time. She is a former national organizer at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) in New York City. Tanay worked with leaders and community members in various cities across the country to help build capacity and momentum, based on their collective needs and wants. She worked on several Supreme Court cases and was a member of the legal team for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Her work at LDF was at the intersection of death penalty abolition, criminal justice, juvenile justice, educational equity, and voter suppression. After her time at LDF, she worked with global ecumenical faith leaders around social justice and human rights issues through a liberation theology lens. Tanay leveraged legal support in Ferguson and Baltimore during the Uprising, to protect the rights of protestors and the community through holistic legal and technical support. She works with Black Movement Law Project where she continues to support as a community coordinator. Building the power of and with impacted people and communities is critical to creating meaningful and lasting change. Additionally, Tanay is dedicated to maternal and birthing persons' health and reproductive justice as a birth worker, researcher, and care worker. She is a Kindred Partner with the Black Mamas Matter Alliance and a member of the Maryland Maternal Health Taskforce. She is on the Advisory Board of CLLCTIVLY in Baltimore, which provides an ecosystem of support for Black-led businesses and organizations. Tanay is a graduate of Africana Studies/African American studies at Temple University and the Center for Social Impact Strategies from the University of Pennsylvania.   Nathan “nash” Sheard Nathan "nash" Sheard is a cofounder and legal organizer with Black Movement Law Project (BMLP). nash's work is informed by lived experience with aggressive and militarized policing, including racial profiling, the effects of biased broken windows policing tactics, and police brutality.  nash has worked extensively to help mitigate the damage of harmful interactions with law enforcement online and in over-policed communities. In addition to organizing with BMLP, nash is a founding member of the Mutant Legal activist collective and Associate Director of Community Organizing at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).  nash has spent close to a decade training communities in crisis on how to document police conduct, exercise their legal rights, counteract state repression, and actively participate in their own legal defense.   Marques Banks Marques Banks Works as a Justice Project Staff Attorney at the National Office of Advancement Project, a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization. Prior to joining, Advancement Project in 2020, Marques worked at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs as an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by Covington & Burling, LLP.  During his fellowship, Marques challenged the criminalization of poverty, through direct representation and policy advocacy for individuals subject to overly onerous fines, fees and jail time for minor offenses. After his fellowship ended, Marques continued to work at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee challenging policing practices in the D.C. area. During law school, Marques interned at NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He worked as a research assistant for Professor Justin Hansford, Saint Louis University School of Law. He also participated in Columbus Community Legal Services’ Advocacy for the Elderly Clinic, representing individuals denied social security benefits. Marques helped create Black Movement-Law Project, an organization providing legal support to the activists and organizations of the Movement for Black Lives. He provided legal support in Ferguson, MO, Baltimore, MD, and other cities across the U.S. During the 2015 uprising in Baltimore, Marques trained hundreds of legal observers. Marques is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. He is a member of Law 4 Black Lives DC and Black Lives Matter DC.   Abi Hassen Abi Hassen is a political philosophy student, attorney, technologist, and co-founder of Black Movement Law Project, a legal support rapid response group that grew out of the uprisings in Ferguson, Baltimore and elsewhere.  Abi is currently a partner at O’Neill and Hassen LLP, a law practice focused on indigent criminal defense.  Prior to this current work, Abi was the Mass Defense Coordinator at the National Lawyers Guild. He has also worked as a political campaign manager and strategist, union organizer, and community organizer.  Abi is particularly interested in exploring the dynamic nature of institutions, political movements, and their interactions from the perspective of Complex Systems studies.   Resources: Bios for Tanay, nash, Marques and Abi Mumia Abul Jamal is an internationally celebrated black writer and radio journalist, a former member of the Black Panther Party who has spent the last 30 years in prison, almost all of it in solitary confinement on Pennsylvania’s Death Row. Dr. Ashon Crawley is a teacher, writer, and artist who engages a wide range of critical paradigms to theorize the ways in which “otherwise” modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and as possibilities for flourishing. Section 230: “The most important law protecting internet speech.” Kettling: is a controversial police tactic for controlling large crowds during demonstrations or protests where police officers form large cordons which move to corral a crowd within a smaller, contained area. This tactic has resulted in the detention of  bystanders as well as protesters. — Thank you so much for joining us! Our conversation continues on Facebook in our Inclusive Life Community. You can also follow us on Instagram and learn more at www.inclusivelife.co. Please click here to leave a review for The Inclusive Life Podcast. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out! Instagram @inclusivelife Facebook @inclusivelife Facebook Group @Inclusive Life Website www.inclusivelife.co Subscribe to The Inclusive Life Podcast Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts

Sirius XM radio host, Joe Madison joins Thom to discuss civil rights, MLK and the consequences of "block busting" before the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Judith Browne Dianis of the Advancement Project reflects on the black women who paved the way for future generations.

ONR producer host, Julia Dudley Najieb, comments and reviews on the latest insurrection at the nation's capitol in Washington, D.C. Dudley Najieb looks at the history of other elections in our U.S. history compared to the 2020 Presidential Election; more similarities than differences are surprisingly revealed.Finally Dudley Najieb reviews the three experts who break down the safety or lack their of concerning the right to vote: Judith A. Browne Dianis, Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus and Myrna Perez, Director. In this episode, featured expert, Browne Dianis, a civil rights attorney and co-director of the Advancement Project talks about how the recent insurrection was not because of fear, but due to the idea of having to share power; white supremacist are watching the rise in power among people of color who are becoming the majority.

This series began in the past, to better understand the origin and history of our ongoing fight for voting rights. And as Turnout comes to a close, we consider its future. Where do we go from here? What lessons can we take with us, and what impact might this election have on our ongoing push for a more inclusive democracy and a more perfect union. In this last episode of Turnout with Katie Couric, we hear from some of our previous guests — including Wendy Weiser, Gilda Daniels, and Tyler Okeke — about the biggest takeaways from the 2020 election and their impact on our democracy. But first, an interview with someone whose job it is to lay a civics foundation for the next generation of voters. Greg Cruey is a middle school social studies teacher in War, West Virginia — a one-time coal mining center that is now one of the poorest areas in the country. Because Mr. Cruey explains our voting system, our elections, and our democracy to his 6th, 7th, and 8th graders each year, we wanted to hear how he might put our 2020 experience into context. Read more about the people and organizations mentioned in this episode: What it’s like to teach children about the election, and its results, in deep-red Trump country, by Hanna Natanson (Washington Post) Wendy Weiser is the Vice President for Democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School Gilda Daniels is an associate professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, as well as litigation director at Advancement Project national office and author of ‘Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America.’ Tyler Okeke is a Vote at 16 Youth Organizer with Power California and a second-year student at the University of Chicago.

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, Zócalo and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County present When Women Vote, a three-event series that concluded with “What Are Today’s L.A. Women Fighting For?” Women have made Los Angeles one of the nation’s most progressive cities, fighting for their own rights as well as those of children, laborers, immigrants, and other underrepresented groups since well before they gained the right to vote over 100 years ago. The city, which has the lowest gender pay gap of any American metropolis, has been a leader in creating policies designed to create wealth for working-class women in particular, from passing legislation to create the country’s first public bank to raising the minimum wage. But women in Los Angeles—particularly lower-income and Black and brown women—still face a number of challenges, including health disparities, housing struggles, and human trafficking. What battles are the women of Los Angeles fighting today, and what are the plans to win them? California State Senator Maria Elena Durazo, artist and Social and Public Art Resource Center co-founder Judy Baca, Social Venture Partners Los Angeles executive director Christine Margiotta, and civil rights activist and lawyer Connie Rice, co-director of the Advancement Project, visited Zócalo to discuss what all the women of Los Angeles need to truly thrive. This panel discussion was moderated by Angel Jennings, assistant managing editor of Culture and Talent at the Los Angeles Times. Read more about our panelists here: https://zps.la/3cjL6OA For a full report on the live discussion, check out the Takeaway: https://zps.la/3qosLId Visit https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ to read our articles and learn about upcoming events. Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepublicsquare Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepublicsquare/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zocalopublicsquare LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/z-calo-public-square

University of California (Hastings College Of Law) Professor of Law Dorit Reiss talks to Omar Moore about potential vaccines in this coronavirus pandemic, and legal, racial and public policy efficacy of vaccine administering and distribution in the United States. November 30, 2020. Prof Dorit Reiss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/doritmi Editorial by Prof. Dorit Reiss: The law and vaccine resistance (written February 2019; pre-coronavirus pandemic) - http://bit.ly/2VgFn5T Some of the additional writings on legal rights, health, vaccines and governance, by Prof. Reiss: https://bit.ly/33tZphN IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com VOTE EARLY! Voting by mail is going on now in Georgia. Voter registration deadline in Georgia: Dec. 7 Early in-person voting starts: December 14. Plus— FULL VIDEO (Nov. 18) THE POLITICRAT podcast episode—a conversation with Attorney Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of Advancement Project: https://bit.ly/36925De NOTE: You can now listen to THE POLITICRAT daily podcast free on Audible: https://adbl.co/35MvRNL Latest post at Medium: VICTORY. https://bit.ly/2UkcWU5 MOORE THOUGHTS —The Day After Tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3l5CZdl Omar's film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

If you want to see a stimulus bill passed that helps people all over the US get back on their feet economically then help Georgia out and get Georgians to vote for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock for the U.S. senate. Omar Moore on the importance of the two Georgia U.S. senate runoffs happening on January 5, 2021. And: Remembering Dave Prowse, who played the Green Cross Code Man in U.K. road and crossing safety ads and Darth Vader in the first Star Wars film trilogy. November 29, 2020. IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com Voter registration deadline in Georgia: Dec. 7 Early voting starts: December 14. Plus— NEW: FULL VIDEO (Nov. 18) THE POLITICRAT podcast episode—a conversation with Attorney Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of Advancement Project: https://bit.ly/36925De NOTE: You can now listen to THE POLITICRAT daily podcast free on Audible: https://adbl.co/35MvRNL Latest post at Medium: VICTORY. https://bit.ly/2UkcWU5 MOORE THOUGHTS —The Day After Tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3l5CZdl Omar's film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

What is U.S. President Barack Obama's legacy? His defining achievements? His hits and his misses? Omar Moore explores these questions, including on foreign policy, racism, domestic policy and the “deification” of Obama that happens in some of the U.S. corporate news media. November 28, 2020. Featured in this episode: President Obama's farewell address, January 10, 2017: https://bit.ly/3fWHJQZ President Obama signs the Affordable Healthcare Act into law, March 23, 2010: https://bit.ly/2JsdbtO NOTE: You can now listen to THE POLITICRAT daily podcast free on Audible: https://adbl.co/35MvRNL IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com Voter registration deadline in Georgia: Dec. 7 Plus— NEW: FULL VIDEO (Nov. 18) THE POLITICRAT podcast episode—a conversation with Attorney Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of Advancement Project: https://bit.ly/36925De Latest post at Medium: VICTORY. https://bit.ly/2UkcWU5 MOORE THOUGHTS —The Day After Tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3l5CZdl Omar's film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

Miscarriage. Or, more precisely and jarringly put: losing a child. Meghan Markle, Duchess Of Sussex, wrote this week about losing her child in July 2020. Chrissy Teigen has also spoken about losing her child. Both have been unfairly criticized for their courage and sharing their stories, which have been empowering and inspiring to women in the same situation. Omar Moore on miscarriage, Markle, Teigen and the many millons of women who have experienced this deeply painful event in their lives. November 27, 2020. WARNING: This episode features graphic descriptions that may be disturbing, triggering and distressing for some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. Featured in this episode: The Losses We Share (Nov 25, 2020): https://nyti.ms/2HHPywZ You know someone who had a miscarriage (Oct 10, 2019): https://nyti.ms/2V7wtr5 NOTE: You can now listen to THE POLITICRAT daily podcast free on Audible: https://adbl.co/35MvRNL IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com Voter registration deadline in Georgia: Dec. 7 Plus— NEW: FULL VIDEO (Nov. 18) THE POLITICRAT podcast episode—a conversation with Attorney Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of Advancement Project: https://bit.ly/36925De Latest post at Medium: VICTORY. https://bit.ly/2UkcWU5 MOORE THOUGHTS —The Day After Tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3l5CZdl Omar's film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

Omar Moore on the 1991 film GRAND CANYON: what the film said about people and what the film meant then—and what it means now, 29 years later, in 2020. November 26, 2020. NOTE: You can now listen to THE POLITICRAT daily podcast free on Audible: https://adbl.co/35MvRNL IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://votewarnock.com Voter registration deadline in Georgia: Dec. 7 Plus— NEW: FULL VIDEO (Nov. 18) THE POLITICRAT podcast episode—a conversation with Attorney Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of Advancement Project: https://bit.ly/36925De Latest post at Medium: VICTORY. https://bit.ly/2UkcWU5 MOORE THOUGHTS —The Day After Tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3l5CZdl Omar's film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

Omar Moore and racial justice attorney Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of The Advancement Project, converse about Republican attacks on Black people voting. The most recent example of Republican Party attacks on democracy and the democratic process were evident on Tuesday with the racist shenanigans of two white GOP officials in predominantly Black cities (Detroit) of Wayne County, Michigan. After four hours of protest and uproar against the GOP officials, who refused to certify the results of a fraud-free vote, the two officials reversed their vote and the four-member Wayne County elections board re-voted unanimously to certify the results in Detroit and in turn the county overall. Also: Conversation about The Advancement Project and the work the organization does, and the importance of staying engaged in the political process and activism now that the 2020 U.S. general election is over. November 18, 2020. Judith Browne Dianis on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jbrownedianis We Came To Learn (A Call To Action For Police-Free Schools): https://wecametolearn.com The Advancement Project: https://advancementproject.org IMPORTANT— Please phonebank *now* for: Jon Ossoff for Georgia US Senate: https://electjon.com AND Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia US Senate: https://www.warnockforgeorgia.com Voter registration deadline in Georgia: Dec. 7 Plus— FULL VIDEO of Friday's THE POLITICRAT podcast episode—a conversation with U.K. Conservative Councillor Claire Pearsall about Boris Johnson, Brexit and disarray at No. 10 Downing Street: https://bit.ly/3puHnFm Latest post at Medium: VICTORY. https://bit.ly/2UkcWU5 MOORE THOUGHTS —The Day After Tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3l5CZdl Omar's film review of “Da 5 Bloods” (bit.ly/37nliju). MOORE THOUGHTS: moore.substack.com. Moore On Medium: medium.com/@omooresf The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when she first met Martin Luther King, Jr. It was late 1964 and Dr. King was in Selma, Alabama, to organize a voter registration campaign to draw attention to the need for legislation that would ensure Black Americans could safely and freely vote, because in the 1960s, particularly in Southern states like Alabama, that was certainly not the case. “Black folks couldn’t vote,” Sheyann’s father said when asked if he had ever cast a ballot. On this episode of Turnout with Katie Couric, Katie explores the historic struggle of Black enfranchisement — from the moments of brief political prosperity during Reconstruction, to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the election of President Barack Obama, and the ongoing fight to restore voting rights to people with past convictions. Woven throughout the episode is Sheyann’s story of being Martin Luther King’s smallest Freedom Fighter and what she witnessed on that Bloody Sunday in Selma in 1965. Katie also interviews Desmond Meade, President and Executive Director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, about his inspiring life story as a formerly homeless returned citizen who in 2018 helped restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians. More about the guests and organizations featured in this episode: Sheyann Webb-Christburg, civil rights activist, youth advocate and co-author of the book and movie “Selma, Lord, Selma.” Gilda Daniels, law professor at the University of Baltimore law school, litigation director at the Advancement Project, and author of “Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America.” Dr. Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University, author of several books including, “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.” Desmond Meade, president and executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and author of “Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returned Citizens.” Annette Scott, a volunteer with The League of Women Voters, working primarily with the New Jersey Reentry Corporation leading voter registration education. *Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence that some listeners might find disturbing.*

NOTE: First Mondays is a special discussion program about current business and political events through a legal lens. This program is an opportunity to meet Albany Law School faculty and to participate in a stimulating discussion on world events. As America prepares for the 2020 Election, we present a First Mondays program around voting rights. We will discuss the history of the struggle for voting rights including the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with our special guest, Professor Gilda R. Daniels. Professor Daniels is a voting rights expert and former Deputy Chief in the U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, where she served in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. She is currently a professor of law at the University of Baltimore Law School and the Director of Litigation for Advancement Project's National Office, a multi-racial civil rights organization. She is also the author of UNCOUNTED: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America, her first book. Published in January by New York University Press, it has already been called “required reading” by Ms. Magazine. Hosts Prof. Patricia Reyhan - Distinguished Professor of Law Prof. Ted De Barbieri - Associate Professor of Law; Director, Community Economic Development Clinic Special Guest Prof. Gilda R. Daniels - Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law; Author: UNCOUNTED: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

The right to vote can sometimes be described as a “struggle,” a “fight,” even a “war.” But how did this come to be and who has been fighting to make every generation’s path to the ballot a little less arduous? On this episode of Turnout, Katie Couric goes back to the beginning, to find out what our founding can tell us about the continuing war on voting rights. Katie speaks with historian and biographer Jon Meacham about the framers’ hopes and dreams and who was left out of the more perfect union they designed. Then, Wendy Weiser, of the Brennan Center for Justice, and voting and Civil Rights expert Gilda Daniels help define voter suppression — and the many names it goes by. Finally, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown shares the ways she is helping to modernize her state’s election system — and the ways the rest of the country can and should follow suit. Guests: Jon Meacham, author “His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope” Wendy R. Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law Gilda Daniels, law professor at the University of Baltimore law school, litigation director at the Advancement Project, and author of “Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America.” Charles Stewart III, MIT professor of political science and founder and director of the MIT Election Lab Oregon Gov. Kate Brown

David talks to Gilda Daniels about her book, Uncounted The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America.​Gilda Daniels serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law.  She is a nationally recognized voting rights and election law expert.  She served as a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section under the Clinton and Bush administrations.  Professor Daniels has two decades of litigation, negotiation and consulting experience in the substantive voting rights area.  She has investigated, negotiated and litigated cases involving the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the National Voter Registration Act and other voting statutes.  While a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section,  she supervised, inter alia, the Tennessee NVRA case that continues to serve as a model for other NVRA actions and United States v. Berks County, PA, that was brought pursuant to Sections 2, 4(e), and 208 of the VRA.     She is also the Director of Litigation for Advancement Project’s National Office, which is a multi-racial civil rights organization.  She supervises attorneys in four program areas:  Power & Democracy (voting rights), Opportunity to Learn (education), Justice (policing and criminalization) and Immigrant Justice (immigration).  She has drafted and participated in amicus briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court, frequently consults on voting rights issues, and is well published. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of race law and democracy.   Her law review articles have appeared in Cardozo Law Review, Indiana University Law Review (Indianapolis), Denver Law Review, New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy.  Her writings have also been published in the Huffington Post and various other publications.  She has been quoted in the Washington Post and interviewed for NPR’s All things Considered.  Her book , UNCOUNTED:  Voter Suppression in the United States (NYU Press) will be released in January 2020.    Links to Gilda R. Daniels: https://twitter.com/gilda_daniels http://www.gildadaniels.com/ https://nyupress.org/9781479862351/uncounted/  https://nyupress.org/author/gilda-r-daniels/    

Day one of The Tight Rope @DemConvention watch party. Cornel West and Tricia Rose are joined by guest commentator Connie Rice from the Advancement Project. They unpack the keynote speeches of Bernie Sanders and Michelle Obama as well as speeches by Jim Clyburn, Doug Jones, and Amy Klobuchar. Watch our #DemConvention watch party live between 9-11pm ET during Joe Biden’s speech Thursday August 20 and Donald Trump’s speech Thursday August 27. Click here to receive reminders about our live watch parties on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VcNiCjNwSHs.

On today's podcast we present an interview between Amanda Knox and Connie Rice, one of her generation's most innovative and effective grass roots civil rights attorneys, activists and reformers.

Trigger Warnings: White supremacy, cops in schools, defunding the police, Black women and girls, arresting small children, slave catchers, the school-to-prison pipeline, Tamla Horsford, Breonna Taylor, Toyin Salau, restorative justice, students with disabilities, prioritizing mental health, taking action for racial justice, friendship, female travel potties, Irish goodbyes   This episode brought to you by DEFUND THE POLICE. We’re drinking kombucha. Call our complaint line!  818-533-8938 @erinandaliee @erintherye @alieechan erinandaliee@gmail.com     Make a Difference: White People for Black Lives, Showing Up For Racial Justice National Webinar, Dignity in Schools Campaign, The Advancement Project, NEA Ed Justice, RespectAbility

Episode Notes This is episode 150 and The Saga of Vampire Adam does take a hairy turn. If you can, Battle Of The Atom is raising funds for The Advancement Project. If you can, please consider donating. Ranked This Episode: Captain America #170-175 (Secret Empire) A+X #13-18 (Captain America + Cyclops) Captain America #402-408 (Man And Wolf) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto. Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

THIS EPISODE: Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed African-American man, was fatally shot by an Atlanta police officer in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, leading to the firing of one officer, and another being placed on administrative leave. Justin Miller, attorney representing the family of Rayshard Brooks, joins MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin in for Joy Reid stating, “We don't understand why they had to effectuate the arrest in that manner.” THEN: “Defund the police” calls grow as George Floyd protests continue. Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project, joins MSNBC to share what “reimagining public safety” could look like. NEXT: Transgender protections for civil rights and equality have been reduced by the Donald Trump administration, the very same week that the people of Wheeling, West Virginia elected Rosemary Ketchum to their city council, making her the first openly transgender elected official in the state. Ayman Mohyeldin and his panel discuss the Trump administration erasing Obama-era civil rights healthcare protections for transgender people. AND: The police killing of Rayshard Brooks--an unarmed black man--in Atlanta is analyzed by attorney Paul Butler, who shares, “At the end of the day this is about culture.” PLUS: Karens--the internet nickname for white women who call the police on people of color for no reason--and black fears of police encounters, no matter how seemingly innocuous they begin, are discussed by MSNBC analyst Jonathan Capehart. He gives an explainer, “For all those who are trying to understand whether this is a real thing, or if African-Americans are overreacting in terms of the impact of watching all these videos, and seeing the news about black people being killed by police.” ADDITIONALLY: The attorney for the family of an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a white New Jersey state trooper during a traffic stop last month says the state’s attorney general’s office is not being fully transparent with the family. William O. Wagstaff, III, attorney for the family of Maurice Gordon, joins AM JOY with his questions about how the case is being handled. ALSO: Systemic racism, its role in policing, and potential paths to necessary societal reform throughout America are explored by Phillip Atiba Goff, CEO of The Center for Policing Equity. FINALLY: George Floyd’s killing in police custody is called a ‘sacrifice’ in the equality fight in America, but there is still a lot more racial parity to be developed, politics pundit and author Tiffany D. Cross tells us. All this and more in this Sunday edition of AM JOY on MSNBC.

This week I recap my first ever century with my good friend Shop Colin. We talk through what I experienced on my ride, what I saw, and how I felt.We also talk a very short bit about the current state of the world, after the murder of George Floyd, and countless other Black Americans. Next week, I will delve into this even more after 2 weeks of researching and trying to get interviews.If you would like to donate to a cycling challenge raising money for two DC Non-profits, One DC and the Advancement Project. Please donate if you can, we are collectively riding one mile per dollar donated and are already over $1200!Here is the link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pr3zdf-riding-for-racial-justice?sharetype=teams&member=4574710&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet

Judith Brown Dianis, CEO of The Advancement Project and Wharton alumna, talks to Dan Loney as part of Wharton Business Daily's Special Report, "Inequality in America." They discuss specifically how corporate America can effect change and why we need to stay engaged in fighting inequality long after the protests have died down. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode Notes We talk Cable & X-Force and enter the digital multiverse today. If you can, Battle Of The Atom is raising funds for The Advancement Project. If you can, please consider donating. Ranked This Episode: X-Fore #44 (Enter The Purple Era) Cable #22 (The Sad Airport Issue) X-Force #75 (Burning Man) Check out the Battle of the Atom Master Ranking List! New content every week on XavierFiles.com Follow Zack and Adam on Twitter @Xavier Files and @arthurstacy! Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto. Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee If you want to support the show make sure you rate and review the show or check out our Patreon!

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Judith Browne Dianis is the Executive Director of the Advancement Project. Judith joined host Josie Duffy Rice to talk about her reading recommendations. For show notes and more information please check out theappeal.org.

What is the school to prison pipeline, and how is it affecting children across America? On this episode of Justice in America, Josie and her co-host, Derecka Purnell, talk to Judith Browne Dianis, the Executive Director of the Advancement Project. They’ll discuss the forms that the school to prison pipeline takes, and the effects it has on poor, black, and brown kids in particular. For more information please visit theappeal.org

Speaking with Zach Arter regarding this program that helps any individual that needs additional help or training when reentering the workforce or changing careers due to a disability. A special funded project through the Nebraska Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. For more ingformation on this program go to http://www.vr.nebraska.gov/pathways/ Also discussions of other programs through the Heartland Workforce Solutions. Website is www.hws-ne.org.

Research has shown zero tolerance policies in schools contribute to high rates of suspension, especially for minority populations.1 Restorative justice is a conflict management approach that focuses on healing rather than punishment. In this episode, we talk with the Michigan Department of Education's Deputy Superintendent of Finance and Operations Kyle Guerrant to further unpack these philosophies, principles and practices.   1American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, 2009, p. 23; Advancement Project, 2010; US DOE, Office of Civil Rights, 2014

ArchCity Defenders and Action St. Louis present the premiere collaborative podcast, "Under The Arch." Your hosts Blake Strode, Executive Director of ArchCity Defenders, and Kayla Reed, Director of Action St. Louis, explore the issues facing our community and the people working to transform them.This week's episode brings together voices from partnering organizations ArchCity Defenders, Inc., Action St. Louis, The Bail Project St. Louis, and The Advancement Project to talk about the cash bail system and the movement to close the Workhouse. In June of 2019, the Close The Workhouse campaign gained a corporate advocate in Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, with co-founder Ben Cohen joining a press conference and public call to action at St. Louis City Hall to voice his support for the movement.Follow the Close the Workhouse campaign on social media @CloseTheWorkhouse, and support the cause by attending monthly strategy meetings at Deaconness Center for Child Well-Being every first Thursday at 6pm.

Join host, Keina Zontel, and Jeralyn Cave and Denise Lieberman of the Advancement Project, as we discuss our unique opportunity to create political power, the long game of voter disenfranchisement and Democracy Rising- a study that focused on felony voter disenfranchisement and the issues that motivate millennial voters of color. If your interested in reading Democracy Rising, click the link https://advancementproject.org/resources/democracyrising/. Citizens we need your support. We need to ensure that New York State and any state that decides to legalize cannabis, passes legislation that will benefit communities of color in the following ways: address the disparities in the criminal justice system, invest in the communities most impacted by the war on drugs and make sure the process to enter the market legally does not shut POCs out, so go to www.smart-ny.com to spread the message. Join the movement and subscribe to Citizen the Pod on all of your podcast platforms and follow Keina Zontel on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram & Twitter. Special thanks to Crews Control Media for production and Danny Switchblade for the music.

Ann, Becky, and Dan have a discussion about the Advancement Project’s recent report titled We Came to Learn. A Call to Action for Police Free Schools. It’s an excellent read and we encourage everyone to check it out here: https://advancementproject.org/wecametolearn (0:00) Hey, I’m Back! We’ve all pretty much recovered from being sick! We also took a few shots at Paul for one of his outtakes from last week's episode. (2:54) The Advancement Project’s report. Last week the Advancement Project released a report suggesting that Police in schools are detrimental to the education of students of color. (16:41) We Came to Learn. (25:58) Ann tries to sneak a knife into the courtroom. (30:08) Quotes from Students of Color. (44:17) Dan’s Monologue MFer! (52:07) Do we need School Resource Officers? (68:35) SRO Job Description (72:15) The Broken Windows Theory. This is the theory that harsh punishments for minor infractions will discourage serious crimes. (78:11) Super Predators. (80:33) We Came to Learn: The Conclusion. (82:17) Ask an Attorney. Remember if you enjoy the show, subscribe, rate, and review! You can also find us on Social Media at: Twitter: @BlackLawPodcast Facebook: @BlackLawPodcast IG: @BlackLawPodcast Email: BlackLawPodcast@gmail.com Dan Twitter: @iamdanondrugs IG: @iamdanondrugs Ann Twitter: @itelllegallies --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blacklawpodcast/support

If you're in the midst of a long job search, it can feel like you've exhausted every possible avenue to find a new job. Consider taking a closer look at your LinkedIn profile and connections, and revising your cover letter to find more success in your job search. On this bonus episode of the Find Your Dream Job podcast, I chat with Zerline Hughes Spruill, who is the Managing Director of Communications at the Advancement Project in Washington, DC about she used LinkedIn as a platform to grow her professional brand and attract attention from potential employers, and how she used her cover letter to refine her job search. Learn more about Zerline's career history below, in a Q&A featured as a part of our Success Stories series.   What do you do for a career? Who do you work for? I am Managing Director of Communications for Advancement Project. I manage the strategic communications and outreach for a mid-size nonprofit that is dedicated to racial justice, particularly as it relates to voting rights, immigration and education. How long did it take you to find this job? Though I wasn’t actively looking for full-time employment, the process from start to finish took two months during the summer. How did you find your job? What resources did you use? What tool or tactic helped the most? LinkedIn really works! I wasn’t looking for a job, but heard with regular updates to LinkedIn, including weekly posts, comments and keeping your profile updated, that other users will notice you. This was the case with a headhunter who apparently found me on LinkedIn. What was the most difficult part of your job search? How did you overcome this challenge? Because I wasn’t actively searching, there was no difficulty in the hunt. However, being patient over the two-month period with the one employer was difficult. As a contractor, I was squeamish about taking on new contracts in the event I was, in fact hired. But I understood that the process was going to take time because the organization wanted the right person for this leadership role; it was summer and staff wasn’t readily available for panel interviews and they didn’t want to rush into such a big decision. What is the single best piece of advice you would offer other job-seekers? When working with a search firm, ask them questions. Let them truly guide you by asking for their input on your resume, cover letter, interview input. They want you to succeed as much as you do yourself. Why do you love your job? I love my job because after only two weeks, I feel valued, appreciated and needed. I also love my job because I know what I’m doing – what we’re doing – makes a difference. Finally, I love my job because they hosted a staff retreat where staff really got to “retreat,” and relax, and team-build.

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to Miami’s Power U. Center for Social Change and Advancement Project about their new report, The Hidden Truth, which reveals the educational inequities for Black and Brown Miami students.

EDUCATION ,JUSTICE & SOCIAL ACTION IN MIAMI DADE SCHOOLS ...Students and activists are concerned that there is a 'school to prison" pipeline and we have a group of students and researchers who recently put out a report on this. A group called  "The Advancement Project" offers alternatives

EDUCATION ,JUSTICE & SOCIAL ACTION IN MIAMI DADE SCHOOLS ...Students and activists are concerned that there is a 'school to prison" pipeline and we have a group of students and researchers who recently put out a report on this. A group called  "The Advancement Project" offers alternatives

ENCORE PRESENTATION.... NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!!! Lamont Banks, Cliff Stewart, and Lisa Stewart of the Colorado exoneration firm A Just Cause discuss what happens when the wheels of justice trample unbridled over the rights of innocent Americans.   Our Special Guest for tonight's show is Thena Robinson-Mock, Esq., who serves as Director of Advancement Project’s Opportunity to Learn Program. She is a civil rights and community lawyer with over a decade of experience in racial and social justice advocacy.  A Just Cause is currently campaigning for "FreeTheIRP6," who's been wrongly imprisoned in Florence, CO for a crime they didn't commit. Read full story: www.freetheirp6.org.  For more information, about A Just Cause and to Donate to the IRP6 legal defense fund, visit www.a-justcause.com. Follow us on Twitter: @AJCRadio, @A_JustCause, @FreeTheeIRP6,  @FreeeTheIRP6 and Like our Facebook Pages: https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCoast2Coast, and https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCO, https://www.facebook.com/FreetheIRP6 Thank you for your support!

ENCORE PRESENTATION... NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!!! Lamont Banks, Cliff Stewart, and Lisa Stewart of the Colorado exoneration firm A Just Cause, discuss what happens when the wheels of justice trample unbridled over the rights of innocent Americans.   Our Special Guest for tonight's show is Thena Robinson Mock, Esq., who serves as Director of Advancement Project’s Opportunity to Learn Program.  A Just Cause is currently campaigning for "FreeTheIRP6," who's been wrongly imprisoned in Florence, CO for a crime they didn't commit. Read full story: www.freetheirp6.org.  For more information, about A Just Cause and to Donate to the IRP6 legal defense fund, visit www.a-justcause.com. Follow us on Twitter: @AJCRadio, @A_JustCause, @FreeTheeIRP6,  @FreeeTheIRP6 and Like our Facebook Pages: https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCoast2Coast, and https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCO, https://www.facebook.com/FreetheIRP6

Show #155 | Guests: Sheila Thomas has experience litigating both class and individual gender and race employment discrimination cases. She is adjunct faculty member at Golden Gate University School of Law, and serves on The Advancement Project’s board of directors. Dr. Clayborne Carson is the founder and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. | Show Summary: What’s the real goal of protests – and what’s the chance of those goals being achieved? What protest techniques and tactics have been effective historically?

The Dangers of Trumped Up News, Political Party Realignments, Critical of the Media and Critical Thinking, How to move forward and get involved, Spotlight on Advancement Project, and Dan wins his election! Hosts: Carlos Foglia and Dan Gordon Panel: Heather Anne Campell, Adam Epstein and Alex Fernie Special Guest: Katie Smith, Director of Communications for Advancement Project @schmoliticsshow schmoliticsshow.com

In the middle of all the muck and chaos that is the Trump vs Clinton showdown it seems that we have forgotten some very important ballot measures that will result in real progress should they be passed. One of those is Prop 64 - the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. Lynne Lyman who is the State Director of California for the Drug Policy Alliance stopped by the kitchen table to discuss this historical effort in great detail. Lynne is a wonderfully articulate and brilliant legal mind who can not only speak to Prop 64 but also to the entire history of our complicated relationship with the War on Drugs. Listening to her to speak was truly a joy as I learned so much and was fully enthralled. Ironically, the very next day after we did this podcast the DEA, once again, did not move Marijuana from being a Schedule 1 drug. The horror. Enjoy this episode. INTRO RANT - TL reading, the DEA and their schedule one baffoon-ness Lynne Lyman is the California state director for the Drug Policy Alliance. Based in Los Angeles, Lyman leads DPA’s criminal justice reform work in California and oversees all other aspects of the organization’s policy and advocacy work in the state. A native of Los Angeles, Lyman joined the Drug Policy Alliance in 2012 after working with the civil rights organization, Advancement Project, on violence reduction, community policing and criminal justice reform. VOTE YES: http://www.yeson64.org GET INVOLVED: http://www.drugpolicy.org

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, producer Michael O'Connell talks to Rinku Sen, president and executive director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice, and Juhu Thukral, director of law and advocacy for The Opportunity Agenda, about series of guidelines and suggestions for reporters their organizations and the Advancement Project recently released. They discussed the responsibilities journalists face in covering acts of violence involving the police and people of color.

IN MISSOURI, THE RIGHT TO VOTE IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT. AMENDMENT 6 STANDS TO WEAKEN THE MISSOURI CONSTITUTION’S PROTECTION FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE.   Denise Lieberman a nationally recognized expert on voting rights, Senior Attorney with Advancement Project, a racial justice organization based in Washington DC that works to eliminate barriers to full participation in democracy.  Advancement Project is leading the fight against voter suppression in Missouri. Lieberman, a seasoned constitutional and civil rights lawyer with 20 years of experience,has been at the forefront of voting rights debates in her home state of Missouri and across the country. She is one of the lead attorneys on behalf of the North Carolina NAACP litigating a federal court challenge to the nation’s first new restrictive voting law passed after the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby v Holder ruling that gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. Before joining Advancement Project in 2006, Denise was the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri. So grab a cup and listen to this important discussion. Longtime Activist, Journalist, Coffee Party Director & Radio Host, Bobby Rodrigo brings you "I Take LIBERTY With My Coffee" on Coffee Party Radio every Sunday Morning at 10:00 AM. Advocating engagement Bobby points out the Constitution is the Rule of Law and why it should remain so. Money in Politics, the Political Party Machine, Cannabis Prohibition and partisan blind allegiance is on full display as he advocates against the erosion of Constitutional Protections in the name of corruption & tyranny. "If we focused on following the Constitution we would solve many of the ills of our society. Offering guests from Political Organizations, Activism, Media & Artists Bobby invites you to join him Sunday Morning at 10:00 AM on Coffee Party Radio

Edition #966 Today we take a look at the structural systems in place that work to funnel many children, disproportionately children of color, out of the school system and directly into the (in)justice system Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Show Notes Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill Ch. 2: Act 1: The School to Prison Pipeline - Advancement Project (@adv_project) - Air Date: 7-3-13 Ch. 3: Song 1: N/A Ch. 4: Act 2: Spring Valley High - Backtalk from @BitchMedia - Air Date 10-29-15 Ch. 5: Song 2: N/A Ch. 6: Act 3: Stuck In The School-To-Prison Pipeline - @ajplus -Air Date: 5-20-15 Ch. 7: Song 3: N/A Ch. 8: Act 4: Criminalizing the Classroom: Inside the School-to-Prison Pipeline - @democracynow - Air Date: 10-28-15 Ch. 9: Song 4: Hipozebra - Selva de Mar Ch. 10: Act 5:  Spring Valley High and the school-to-prison pipeline - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 10-30-15 Ch. 11: Song 5: Rivers - Plusplus Ch. 12: Act 6: School to prison pipeline locks kids into the system early - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBnation) - Air Date: 2-19-15 Ch. 13: Song 6: A Farewell To Trends - dustmotes Ch. 14: Act 7: Policing Schools - Why Are There Cops In Schools? - @ajplus - Air Date: 10-30-15 Ch. 15: Song 7: N/A Ch. 16: Act 8: SafeQualitySchools.org- Ending the #School2Prison Pipeline via @adv_project - Best of the Left Activism Ch. 17: Song 8: The Poet - Shihan Ch. 18: Act 9: When School Cops Go Bad: South Carolina Incident Highlights Growing Police Presence in Classrooms - @democracynow - Air Date: 10-28-15 Voicemails Ch. 19: Jefferson fought to end slavery - Simon from San Diego Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics Ch. 20: Final comments on my untestable hypothesis Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone Activism: SafeQualitySchools.org: Ending the #School2Prison Pipeline via @adv_project Take Action: Students, parents, educators, law enforcement, and activists! VISIT The Advancement Project’s SafeQualitySchools.org to get involved. FOLLOW the #School2Prison thread. SHARE the "School to Prison Pipeline by Advancement Project” video CONTRIBUTE your stories: #School2Pipeline Stories Additional Activism/Resources: SIGN to demand #BlackLivesMatter issues be addressed in primary debates: #RaiseTheDebate via Black Lives Matter at ”ColorOfChange Sources/further reading: ”What You Need to Know About #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh” — Infographic via The Advancement Project "Where Are Black Children Safe?" Roxane Gay at The New York Times "America Doesn’t Care About Black Women And Girls” by Ijeoma Oluo at The Establishment "Black Girl Down… and Up” by PrisonCulture "Take cops out of schools: More officers mean more arrests, even for offenses like talking back.” via The Washington Post ”A Short History of Cops Terrorizing Students” via The Nation Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!

The right to vote is the foundation of any democracy, yet the Supreme Court has just struck down a central provision of the Voting Rights Act. Unlike the citizens of all but 11 nations, Americans do not have an explicit right to vote in their constitution. Congressman Mark Pocan is a lead sponsor of HJ Res. 44 in the U.S. House of Representatives to strengthen the claims of all citizens to exercise their suffrage rights. American cities have also begun to consider resolutions to support a constitutional right to vote and changes designed to promote, protect and expand voting. What would a right to vote in the Constitution mean for particular voting rights struggles? How would it affect the future of the Voting Rights Act and voting rights for the people of Washington, D.C.? Congressman Pocan will make the case for an explicit right to vote in the Constitution. Discussing what the amendment may mean for enhancing a voting rights movement are Washington Correspondent for The Nation John Nichols, Advancement Project co-director Judith Browne Dianis and Color of Change executive director Rashad Robinson. Takoma Park city councilor Tim Male and FairVote's PromoteOurVote.com director Patricia Hart will outline one strategy launched at a local level that holds promise for a realistic roadmap for reform. Mark Schmitt, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute moderated the discussion. Held at NYU DC

The right to vote is the foundation of any democracy, yet the Supreme Court has just struck down a central provision of the Voting Rights Act. Unlike the citizens of all but 11 nations, Americans do not have an explicit right to vote in their constitution. Congressman Mark Pocan is a lead sponsor of HJ Res. 44 in the U.S. House of Representatives to strengthen the claims of all citizens to exercise their suffrage rights. American cities have also begun to consider resolutions to support a constitutional right to vote and changes designed to promote, protect and expand voting. What would a right to vote in the Constitution mean for particular voting rights struggles? How would it affect the future of the Voting Rights Act and voting rights for the people of Washington, D.C.? Congressman Pocan will make the case for an explicit right to vote in the Constitution. Discussing what the amendment may mean for enhancing a voting rights movement are Washington Correspondent for The Nation John Nichols, Advancement Project co-director Judith Browne Dianis and Color of Change executive director Rashad Robinson. Takoma Park city councilor Tim Male and FairVote's PromoteOurVote.com director Patricia Hart will outline one strategy launched at a local level that holds promise for a realistic roadmap for reform. Mark Schmitt, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute moderated the discussion. Held at NYU DC

How can we keep our children safe? Schools are still the safest places to be, but since the Newtown, Connecticut tragedy, debate about whether to put more police and guns in schools continues to rage. Even pop culture has grabbed hold - from HBO's Vice to Fox's Glee, guns in school is a hot topic. Jim Eichner is Managing Director of Programs for Advancement Project, which recently released A Real Fix: The Gun-Free Way to School Safety. Jim will talk to us about how we can keep students safe by, among other things, asking them what they want. Host, Allison R. Brown, is a civil rights attorney and owner of Allison Brown Consulting (ABC).

Advancement Project’s Urban Peace Program uses a comprehensive approach to reducing and ultimately ending gang violence in communities ravaged by gangs and crime.

Hi all,This week Adam and I talked with two guests. First, Denise Lieberman, the Senior Attorney for the Advancement Project, about voter intimidation and protection, as well as what Missouri citizens need to know about their right to vote. And second, congressman Russ Carnahan, of Missouri's 3rd congressional district, about Tuesday's midterm election and his efforts on the economy, protecting the environment, and students loans.