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Title: How to Use Storytelling To Address the (In)Equity in Education    Max Freedman is a reporter, producer, and co-host of School Colors. He created School Colors with Mark Winston Griffith, a veteran community organizer and the editor of Brooklyn Deep. After four years of research and reporting, the first season premiered in 2019 to critical acclaim. He is thrilled to publish Season 2 through NPR's Code Switch.Freedman is also one of the creators of Unsettled, a long-running independent podcast about Israel-Palestine and the Jewish diaspora. For Unsettled, he most recently reported and produced "The Birthday Party," an immersive narrative series about Palestinian-Jewish solidarity work in the occupied West Bank. In the early weeks of COVID-19, he produced Making the Call, a weekly show about medical ethics and the pandemic for Endeavor Content.    Before becoming a journalist, Freedman was a facilitator with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, adjunct faculty at Pratt Institute and a senior educator at the New-York Historical Society, where he created an enrichment program for grades 4-8 using musicals to teach American history.He holds a B.A. in theater from Northwestern University, and an M.S. in design and urban ecologies from Parsons School of Design. His work on School Colors Season 2 was supported by the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University.   Mark Winston Griffith is the creator, host and writer of School Colors along with Max Freedman. Griffith is a third-generation resident of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Until April 2022, he was the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, a Black-led community organizing group based in Central Brooklyn that he co-founded in 2011. His parents' organizing in Central Brooklyn and authorship of a report on Community School District 16 inspired him to co-create School Colors.   While at Brooklyn Movement Center, Griffith created Brooklyn Deep, a citizen journalism initiative that chronicles neighborhood change in Central Brooklyn. He has served as an adjunct professor of urban reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and has been a board member of The City news site, City Limits Magazine and Free Speech TV.   Griffith is an enthusiastic parent of two teenage boys and has navigated the public, private and charter school systems.   Show Highlights The power of storytelling as a vehicle for making change happen. Looking through a leadership lens of equity and inequity that exists in our educational system.  Gain a keen sense of how race and gentrification impacts the conversation about education. Be a curious leader by engaging in “real conversations” to avoid ill-conceived assumptions. Examples of how the schools are conditioned by external forces. Stories of principal development and the benefit of community resources. The dangers of perception, zone preference and how it impacts families. “We spend so much time in School Colors thinking about the problems, looking at what's going wrong and the barriers. To be quite frank, we don't spend enough time with kids and the very subject of the things that we're talking about. In spending that little time with those kids, it brought home to me what this was all about in the first place. These are not subjects or like broken people. These are vibrant human beings.” -Mark Winston Griffith Max Freedman & Mark Winston Griffith's Resources & Contact Info: School Colors - Home | Facebook school colors | Brooklyn Deep Twitter/max Twitter/Mark LinkedIn/Max LinkedIn/Mark Instagram/Max  Instagram/Mark NPR's Code Switch/Twitter Leave a voicemail at 929-483-6387 Read my latest book! Learn why the ABCs of powerful professional development™ work – Grow your skills by integrating more Authenticity, Belonging, and Challenge into your life and leadership.   Read Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader today! Join the “Back to School Boot Camp” The one thing you need to start next year off with energy momentum is a solid 90-day plan.   In the “Back to School Bootcamp” I will teach you how to create your 90-day plan in just 5-days.   Join the challenge today! 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Anthonine Pierre, executive director of The Brooklyn Movement Center and fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talks about what she sees as the root causes of gun violence, and shares some ideas on how to combat it.

A week after assigning listeners to read Mayor Adams's new public safety agenda, Anthonine Pierre, leader of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) and the executive director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City and a former Manhattan prosecutor and Elise White, deputy research director at the Center for Court Innovation join to discuss the city's Blueprint to End Gun Violence, and take your calls.

Mark Winston Griffith, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC), and Board member of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City, discusses the history of BMC, and the relationship of the principles of Kwanzaa and those of the cooperative business model. Mark Winston Griffith is is a nationally recognized thought leader, community organizer and journalist. He's also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC), a membership-based, community organizing group serving Bedford-Stuyvesant and North Crown Heights. BMC is a multi-issue organization currently building campaigns around public education, food sovereignty, sexualized street harassment and police accountability. In the early nineties, Mark co-founded the Central Brooklyn Partnership, a community organizing group that focused on economic justice issues, and was co-founder of Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, which at the time was the nation's largest black-run, community-based, financial cooperative.

This episode bridges the wisdom of an ecosystem innovator and a journalist to discuss the resilience of urban communities in their fight for food access. The Innovator, Erika Allen, is the Co-founder and CEO of the Urban Growers Collective. The Journalist, Mark Winston Griffith, is the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center. What does it mean to be a community organizer? How have communities been exploited because of food? Learn how innovating democratic food systems and intergenerational organizing in black neighborhoods creates a path toward a resilient & equitable local food system. More about this episode: Erika Allen @urbangrowerscollective urbangrowerscollective.org/ Mark Winston Griffith @bkmovement brooklynmovementcenter.org/ A Castanea Fellowship Podcast @castaneafellowship / castaneafellowship.org/rooted-wisdom/ Conversation Guide: Aileen Suzara @aileensuzara @sariwakitchen Voice Talent: Mark Winston Griffith @mwgriffith @bkmovement Produced by: EmpathyHaus empathyhaus.com Support this podcast

We're back and I've got something special for you...In this week's episode, Omari Soulfinger (Comedian, Advocate, and Clown) and I discuss how cringe comedy is an invitation to love ourselves, the magic of Mr. Bean, Marx Brothers, and Charlie Chaplin, and the magical silliness of being a new parent. We also share stories of being a mischievousness clown and how clown names can quickly turn dirty. Remember to rate, review and share Let's Get Silly to anyone who needs more silliness in their life. Got an embarrassing story to share that inspires your silliness? Email us any time at letsgetsillypodcast@gmail.com. More About Omari: Omari Soulfinger, MSW (he/they) is a comedian- advocate, from Brooklyn NY. They serve as the Director of Creative Advocacy with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC; and an educator with Brooklyn Movement Center, and Ramapo for Children. Omari is committed to making his art (storytelling, physical comedy, psychodrama, invisible theatre, multimedia, burlesque and dance) activism, and ritual art indistinguishable. www.omarisoulfinger.com @omarisoulfinger (IG) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letsgetsilly/support

Brooklyn Deep is the media arm of The Brooklyn Movement Center, a Black-led, membership-based organization of primarily low-to-moderate income Central Brooklyn residents. They work to build power and pursue self-determination in Bedford-Stuyvesant & Crown Heights by nurturing local leadership, waging campaigns and winning concrete improvements in people’s lives.In 2019, Brooklyn Deep released an 8-part podcast documentary called School Colors.  Spanning 150 years of history, it looks at race, class and power through the schools of Bedford-Stuyvesant.  It features well researched history, compelling story telling, and provides a nuanced look at many of the educational debates happening in cities today (particular credit to Ep 6, Mo' Charters, Mo' Problems, for tackling one of the most heated topics with a nuance that is often lacking).  Hosts Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman join us to discuss the project, and share an edit of Ep 7, New Kids on the Block.  We talk about gentrification, colonization, rallying, and impact versus intent.  If you've been listening to Nice White Parents, you'll recognize many of the same themes.   LINKS:School Colors PodcastBrooklyn DeepThe Brooklyn Movement CenterJoin our Patreon to support this work, and connect with us and other listeners to discuss these issues even further.Let us know what you think of this episode, suggest future topics, or share your story with us - @integratedschls on twitter, IntegratedSchools on Facebook, or email us hello@integratedschools.org.The Integrated Schools Podcast was created by Courtney Mykytyn and Andrew Lefkowits.This episode was produced, edited, and mixed by Andrew Lefkowits.Music by Kevin Casey.

Jessica Gould, WNYC education reporter, comes on for another week of evolving school reopening plans. We're also joined by Mark Winston Griffith, executive director of the Brooklyn Movement Center and co-host of the podcast School Colors and Dr. Uché Blackstock, emergency medicine physician, founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equities and a Yahoo News medical contributor as we consider the latest plans through the lens of racial equity here in the country's most segregated school system. 

In 2019, New York’s MTA announced a plan to hire 500 additional police officers, citing the need to reduce fare evasion. Transit advocates, community organizers, and police reformers quickly pointed out the racially discriminatory patterns of fare enforcement, and that the additional police presence would lead to more discriminatory enforcement within the system. Analysis of NYPD data by the Community Service Society demonstrates that fare summonses and arrests are disproportionately issued in high-poverty Black neighborhoods. In this episode, Brooklyn Movement Center Deputy Director Anthonine Pierre discusses how over-policing limits the movement of Black and brown New Yorkers, particularly on public transit. BMC is a community organizing group based in Central Brooklyn, and a member of Communities United for Police Reform, which recently led the #NYCBudgetJustice campaign to reallocate funding from NYPD to social services and public infrastructure. “We really want to zero into the kinds of policing that people don't often see but feel... That means Black and brown folks being harassed for standing on a sidewalk and being told that they're loitering... We find that rules about how people can move freely in public spaces are often enforced more harshly on people of color.”TransitCenter’s TransitTool on Policing + Transit can be accessed hereFor more on Brooklyn Movement Center's “Defund the NYPD” campaign, click hereDisclaimer: Political views raised by guests on the podcast do not reflect the views of TransitCenter.Music: “Comma” - Blue Dot SessionsHosted and edited by Kapish SinglaProduced by TransitCenter

I like to think that I choose my words carefully on Power Station. I use terms like community organizing and movement building to reflect a theory of change and a process some organizations view as foundational to making policy and social change possible. But I realize that language that speaks to my own experience may ring hollow for others. Enter Mark Winston Griffith, who embraces the language and the hard, nuanced and unrelenting work of organizing and movement building in Central Brooklyn. He formed the Brooklyn Movement Center 10 years ago to reinvigorate what had become a calcified environment for change-making. And he committed to engaging a talented staff and community members in the work needed to dismantle systemic inequities, including policing, housing, food and the environment, and influencing the creation of new and more just systems. This is what community organizing and movement building really means. It is not easy to generate, sustain or fund but it is essential to the world we say we want to live in.      

Quarantine not gon' stop us! This week, Shayna and J.J. try their damndest to talk about something other than that doggone corona + our guest, Erika Lindsey, a service designer with a focus on advocacy and social change initiatives, brings us out of our hopeless slump with a whole list of ways we can help—right from our couches. She also dropped some knowledge on the importance of filling out that 2020 Census.Yo Business:Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the New York Times' 1619 Project, Awarded 2020 Pulitzer PrizeAfter 274 Years, Princeton Will Have Its First Black Valedictorian10 Financial Moves to Make If You Have Lost Your Job—or Fear You WillFrom Erika:Quick things you can do now:Complete the Census: https://2020census.gov/Register to Vote: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/NYC Based:Volunteer with a Mutual Aid Group: https://mutualaid.nyc/resources-groups/Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/Brooklyn Movement Center: brooklynmovementcenter.orgJustice Committee: https://www.justicecommittee.org/Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/Brooklyn Bailout Fund: https://brooklynbailfund.org/Make the Road NY: https://maketheroadny.org/Shayna Learned: Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus HeroesJ.J. Loved: Jaida Essence Hall's lip-sync (and her tweet balm to J.J.)Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yobusinesspodTake Our Listener Survey: https://iter.ly/5vt4fFollow Us!Instagram: @yobusinesspodTwitter: @yobusinesspod--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yo-business/support

Quarantine not gon’ stop us! This week, Shayna and J.J. try their damndest to talk about something other than that doggone corona + our guest, Erika Lindsey, a service designer with a focus on advocacy and social change initiatives, brings us out of our hopeless slump with a whole list of ways we can help—right from our couches. She also dropped some knowledge on the importance of filling out that 2020 Census. Yo Business: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the New York Times' 1619 Project, Awarded 2020 Pulitzer Prize After 274 Years, Princeton Will Have Its First Black Valedictorian 10 Financial Moves to Make If You Have Lost Your Job—or Fear You Will From Erika: Quick things you can do now: Complete the Census: https://2020census.gov/ Register to Vote: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/ NYC Based: Volunteer with a Mutual Aid Group: https://mutualaid.nyc/resources-groups/ Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/ Brooklyn Movement Center: brooklynmovementcenter.org Justice Committee: https://www.justicecommittee.org/ Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/ Brooklyn Bailout Fund: https://brooklynbailfund.org/ Make the Road NY: https://maketheroadny.org/ Shayna Learned: Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus Heroes J.J. Loved: Jaida Essence Hall’s lip-sync (and her tweet balm to J.J.) Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yobusinesspod Take Our Listener Survey: https://iter.ly/5vt4f Follow Us! Instagram: @yobusinesspod Twitter: @yobusinesspod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yo-business/support

Quarantine not gon’ stop us! This week, Shayna and J.J. try their damndest to talk about something other than that doggone corona + our guest, Erika Lindsey, a service designer with a focus on advocacy and social change initiatives, brings us out of our hopeless slump with a whole list of ways we can help—right from our couches. She also dropped some knowledge on the importance of filling out that 2020 Census.Yo Business:Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the New York Times' 1619 Project, Awarded 2020 Pulitzer PrizeAfter 274 Years, Princeton Will Have Its First Black Valedictorian10 Financial Moves to Make If You Have Lost Your Job—or Fear You WillFrom Erika:Quick things you can do now:Complete the Census: https://2020census.gov/Register to Vote: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/NYC Based:Volunteer with a Mutual Aid Group: https://mutualaid.nyc/resources-groups/Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/Brooklyn Movement Center: brooklynmovementcenter.orgJustice Committee: https://www.justicecommittee.org/Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/Brooklyn Bailout Fund: https://brooklynbailfund.org/Make the Road NY: https://maketheroadny.org/Shayna Learned: Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus HeroesJ.J. Loved: Jaida Essence Hall’s lip-sync (and her tweet balm to J.J.)Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yobusinesspodTake Our Listener Survey: https://iter.ly/5vt4fFollow Us!Instagram: @yobusinesspodTwitter: @yobusinesspod--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yo-business/support

Anthonine Pierre, Deputy Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, and Clyanna Lightbourn,Statewide Civil Rights Organizer of Citizen Action New York, discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting incarcerated New Yorkers.

Every month on the Third Rail podcast, Brooklyn Deep deconstructs hot topics and social justice issues that impact the lives of Central Brooklynites. In November, Third Rail featured a special behind-the-scenes look at the making of School Colors, Brooklyn Deep's most ambitious project to date. Producers Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman sat down with Anthonine Pierre, deputy director of the Brooklyn Movement Center. Together, they dive into the origin story of School Colors, how identity and interpersonal dynamics shaped they way they told this story, and their favorite moments from the podcast, on and off the air. Satisfy your inner School Colors geek with this episode, then subscribe to Third Rail for more hard-hitting conversations about important issues in this community.

On Episode 21 of "The Activist Files," Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney speaks with Anthonine Pierre of the Brooklyn Movement Center and Marielle Shavonne Smith of Black Love Resists in the Rust, two leaders of Black-led grassroots organizations doing critical racial justice work on opposite ends of New York State. They discuss the strong similarities in police abuses happening in New York City and in Buffalo, their work to divest from harmful institutions and instead invest funds into their communities, the need for further transparency about and accountability for police misconduct, and how action from New York's legislators and Attorney General could address these issues.

Emily Scott, Matthew Schneeman, Zoe Abedon, and Jasmin Smith discuss the arrest of Jazmine Headley for sitting down and the large settlement she has now received, and Medicaid work requirements in South Carolina; a border wall update, and an impeachment update; Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party in the winning a majority vote in Britain, and the UN Climate Change Summit in Madrid; and a little bit of good news. Also, a clip from the Brooklyn documentary podcast School Colors, produced by Brooklyn Deep, a project from the Brooklyn Movement Center, is presented. And Matt talks pigeon hunting and his podcast At Night I Fly. Check it out here: http://hyperurl.co/4496m1

Despite New York City's progressive self-image, our dirty secret is that we have one of the most deeply segregated school systems in the country. But with gentrification forcing the issue, school integration is back on the table for the first time in decades. How do we not totally screw it up? And what does this mean for the long struggle for Black self-determination in Central Brooklyn?  We’ve spent a lot of time on the past. In this episode, we look to the future. CREDITSProducers / Hosts: Mark Winston Griffith and Max FreedmanEditing & Sound Design: Elyse BlennerhassettProduction Support: Jaya SundareshMusic: avery r. young and de deacon board, Chris Zabriskie, Blue Dot SessionsFeatured in this episode: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Felicia Alexander, NeQuan McLean, Mica Vanterpool, Virginia Poundstone, Al Vann, Cleaster Cotton, Matt Gonzales, Jitu Weusi, Fela Barclift, Fabayo McIntosh, Shana Cooper-Silas, Dr. Adelaide Sanford, Dr. Lester Young, Chancellor Richard Carranza.School Colors is a production of Brooklyn Deep, the citizen journalism project of the Brooklyn Movement Center. Made possible by support from the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Since 2002, the number of students in Bed-Stuy’s District 16 has dropped by more than half. There’s no single reason why this is happening, but the year 2002 is a clue: that’s when Michael Bloomberg became the Mayor, abolished local school boards, and took over the New York City school system.In this episode, we’ll meet parents trying to reassert collective power and local accountability in District 16 after years of neglect from the Department of Education; parents trying to save their school from being closed for persistently low enrollment; and parents trying to do what they believe is best for their children by leaving the district altogether.In a Black community that has struggled for self-determination through education for nearly 200 years, what does self-determination look like today? CREDITSProducers / Hosts: Mark Winston Griffith and Max FreedmanEditing & Sound Design: Elyse BlennerhassettProduction Support: Jaya Sundaresh, Ilana LevinsonMusic: avery r. young and de deacon board, Chris Zabriskie, Blue Dot SessionsFeatured in this episode: Kamality Guzman, NeQuan McLean, Natasha Capers, Felicia Alexander, Clara Hemphill, Dr. Lester Young, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Faraji Hannah-Jones, Andre Farrell, Kayann Stephens, Dascy Griffin, Crystal Williams, Leonie Haimson.School Colors is a production of Brooklyn Deep, the citizen journalism project of the Brooklyn Movement Center. Made possible by support from the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

In the wake of the 1968 teachers’ strikes, Black people in Central Brooklyn continued to fight for self-determination in education -- both inside and outside of the public school system.Some veterans of the community control movement started an independent school called Uhuru Sasa Shule, or "Freedom Now School," part of a pan-African cultural center called The East. Other Black educators tried to work within the new system of local school boards, despite serious flaws baked into the design.Both of these experiments in self-government struggled to thrive in a city that was literally crumbling all around them. But they have left a lasting mark on this community.CREDITSProducers / Hosts: Mark Winston Griffith and Max FreedmanEditing & Sound Design: Elyse BlennerhassettProduction Associate: Jaya SundareshOriginal Music: avery r. young and de deacon boardAdditional Music: Pharaoh Sanders, Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation, Brother D with Collective Effort, the Black Eagles, Chris Zabriskie, Tynus, Blue Dot SessionsFeatured in this episode: Beth Fertig, Jitu Weusi, Fela Barclift, Lumumba Bandele, Cleaster Cotton, Dr. Lester Young, Al Vann, Annette Robinson, Dr. Adelaide Sanford, Heather Lewis, Dr. Segun Shabaka, Michael Bloomberg.School Colors is a production of Brooklyn Deep, the citizen journalism project of the Brooklyn Movement Center. Made possible by support from the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn is one of the most iconic historically Black neighborhoods in the United States. But Bed-Stuy is changing. Fifty years ago, schools in Bed-Stuy's District 16 were so overcrowded that students went to school in shifts. Today, they're half-empty. Why?In trying to answer that question, we discovered that the biggest, oldest questions we have as a country about race, class, and power have been tested in the schools of Central Brooklyn for as long as there have been Black children here. And that's a long, long time.In this episode, we visit the site of a free Black settlement in Brooklyn founded in 1838; speak to one of the first Black principals in New York City; and find out why half a million students mobilized in support of school integration couldn’t force the Board of Education to produce a citywide plan. CREDITSProducers / Hosts: Mark Winston Griffith and Max FreedmanEditing & Sound Design: Elyse BlennerhassettOriginal Music: avery r. youngProduction Associate: Jaya SundareshFeatured in this episode: Kamality Guzman, Sarah Johansen, Cieanne Everett, Alphonse Fabien, Julia Keiser, Dr. Adelaide Sanford, Rev. Milton Galamison, Monifa Edwards.School Colors is a production of Brooklyn Deep, the citizen journalism project of the Brooklyn Movement Center. Made possible by support from the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of the most iconic historically Black neighborhoods in the United States. Community School District 16 covers about half of Bed-Stuy. And almost every school in District 16 is hemorrhaging kids. Something is wrong. But today’s crisis is just the latest chapter in a story that goes back 200 years. Black people have been fighting for self-determination through their schools for as long as there have been Black children here in Central Brooklyn. This is School Colors: a new podcast from Brooklyn Deep about how race, class, and power shape American cities and schools. CREDITS Producers / Hosts: Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman Editing & Sound Design: Elyse Blennerhassett Original Music: avery r. young Production Associate: Jaya Sundaresh School Colors is a production of Brooklyn Deep, a citizen journalism project of the Brooklyn Movement Center. Made possible by support from the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. More information at our website: www.schoolcolorspodcast.com.

In this episode of Third Rail we focus on those in Central Brooklyn who are on the front line of gentrification: tenants and renters.  This past June, Governor Cuomo signed into law a sweeping new collection of rent regulations which re-set the bar for tenant protections and curtailed the power of landlords to dictate rates on rent stabilized units.  This will no doubt have a profound impact on the ways in which landlords are able to set the pace of housing displacement.  Today, we’re joined by two members/allies of the Brooklyn Movement Center family who in their own ways have been enforcing the rights of tenants and fighting against harassment from landlords.   Rae Gomes is a pioneering member-leader of the Brooklyn Movement Center and the emerging Central Brooklyn Food Coop. She most recently co-founded a tenants association in her building and has since become a crusader for renter rights in Black Brooklyn.    Accompanying her is Addrana Montgomery, a staff attorney at TakeRoot Justice, formerly known as the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center. Addrana has been leading the effort to establish a monthly pop-up tenants’ rights legal clinic here at the Brooklyn Movement Center.   Host Mark Winston Griffith uses the top of the show to facilitate a discussion on the experiences of tenants, specifically those in small unit buildings in Central Brooklyn.  Next, we get into the brave new housing regulatory world in New York and how it will effect Central Brooklynites.   And then of course, we close with that on-going call to anger, "Tell em why you’re mad." Engineer & Editor-Siad "Gypsy" Reid Intro and Outro theme Music: “City Survival” by MC K-Swift featuring TreZure Empire.                   Episode Music: "Fallout",  Yung Kartz

As historically “Black” districts in Central Brooklyn evolve, encompass various neighborhoods, and/or gentrify, Black candidates for elected office use tactics, voter targeting and coded messaging to appeal to different sub constituencies that cut across race, class and a variety of identity lines.    This week in Third Rail we examine electoral politics in a gentrifiying Central Brooklyn with guests, Anthonine Pierre of The Brooklyn Movement Center and Theo Moore.   Segment One: Together we review the Central Brooklyn races to watch in this political season.  Segment Two: We use the recent near-upset of new comer Adem Bunkeddeko over veteran Congress person Yvette Clarke as a jump-off point to explore how Black candidates increasingly use divisions within gentrification, white progressivism and Black identity to build their base of voters. Segment Three: "Tell 'Em Why You Mad" Intro and Outro theme Music: “City Survival” by MC K-Swift featuring TreZure Empire.                   Episode Music: "Wide Eyes" by Chad Crouch.With additional editing and production by Siad "Gypsy" Reid.

In honor of Street Harassment week, MASKulinity podcast is pleased to present an encore of our conversation with the brilliant Anthonine Pierre, Deputy Director at Brooklyn Movement! Today is the last day of Street Harassment Week, and last night Brooklyn Movement Center was awarded the 2018 Frederick Douglass award at the North Star Fund Community Gala for their excellent work, so we say congratulations and this is a nod to them! Listen for some tips on how to handle street harassment no matter who you are!

This is week on MASKulinity, Remoy and Samantha are joined by Anthonine Pierre, Deputy Director at Brooklyn Movement Center. Anthonine shares about fighting street harassment through the collective No Disrespect, underlining how important it has been to have men involved in this effort. Samantha shares her own recent instances of street harassment and Remoy and Anthonine ponder what it looks like for people, men especially, to intervene when witnessing it. They talk about the causes of harassment, and discuss the importance of people who are directly impacted by issues to be leading those movements.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Queen is creating space for Black joy and J. is crying during her cosplay wrap up of Black Comic Book Festival. Are white folks whiting at you? We discuss Leah McSweeney and the modern day delusions of whiteness that used to get innocent Black folks killed. Also, Bishop Eddie Long is a dead rapist. Drink up! TRIGGER WARNING* We discuss child rape during the “Pit” segment of this episode. This week’s hot list: Black joy, ordering groceries in the hood, cosplay, Black Comic Book Festival, #FreeBresha, vision board parties, the pathology of whiteness/white fragility/white delusion/white-splaining all up and through Hollywood and our everyday lives, how we talk to children about sexual abuse, micro-aggressions, Queen matches with Michael Che on tinder, Steve Harvey gets racist, and all kids of cool shit in between. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj EVENTS On Thursday, January 19th, 2017 we’ll be at The Free Black Woman’s Library/January #FreeBresha day of action at the Brooklyn Movement Center 5pm-9pm. Please check here for event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/242505522856201/249048138868606/?notif_t=admin_plan_mall_activity¬if_id=1484747387520881 or follow The Free Black Woman’s Library on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FreeBlackWomansLibrary/?fref=nf WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA For more on white delusion and Michael Che’s text exchange with an angry white woman check out Damon Young’s piece here: http://verysmartbrothas.com/why-white-women-like-leah-mcsweeney-are-a-menace-to-society-explained/ Read Angry Asian Man’s article on Steve Harvey’s racist jokes: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2017/01/steve-harvey-cannot-believe-anyone.html We reference Son of Baldwin’s article “Bishop Eddie Long Is Not The Only One Who’s Dead”. Read it *TW child rape, graphic language*: https://medium.com/@SonofBaldwin/bishop-eddie-long-is-dead-c6021e55ac9b#.yg4sjrj3l Do you identify as LGBTQ, love scifi, and wanna learn more about our friend Casey’s Gay Scifi Book Crew in NYC? Link here! https://www.meetup.com/Gay-Sci-Fi-Book-Crew/member/210610466/ This week’s closing clip in all of it’s youtube glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMKayaqMGY Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him

To mark the occasion of the launch of Season 2 of Audio Interference, we hosted a panel discussion on the use of podcasts as propaganda and community building tools. The event was held at Interference Archive on October 4, 2016. Panelists included: -Julie Golia, Director of Public History at Brooklyn Historical Society and co-host and producer of Flatbush + Main -Zaheer Ali, Oral Historian at Brooklyn Historical Society and co-host and producer of Flatbush + Main -Aaron Lakoff, curator and host of Rebel Beat -Kaitlin Prest, creative director and host of The Heart, a podcast and art project exploring love, bodies, gender and sexuality distributed by Radiotopia by PRX -Tennessee Jane Watson, a reporter, artist and educator, who produces audio documentaries, oral histories, sound installations and youth media projects -Mark Winston Griffith, Executive Director at Brooklyn Movement Center and co-host and co-producer of The Third Rail. The panel was moderated by Louise Barry, one of the creators of Audio Interference. Music: “Picture Book” by Dave Depper, courtesy of the Free Music Archive. Produced by Interference Archive.

To mark the occasion of the launch of Season 2 of Audio Interference, we  hosted a panel discussion on the use of podcasts as propaganda and community building tools.  The event was held at Interference Archive on October 4, 2016.  Panelists included:   -Julie Golia, Director of Public History at Brooklyn Historical Society and co-host and producer of Flatbush + Main -Zaheer Ali, Oral Historian at Brooklyn Historical Society and co-host and producer of Flatbush + Main -Aaron Lakoff, curator and host of Rebel Beat -Kaitlin Prest, creative director and host of The Heart, a podcast and art project exploring love, bodies, gender and sexuality distributed by Radiotopia by PRX -Tennessee Jane Watson, a reporter, artist and educator, who produces audio documentaries, oral histories, sound installations and youth media projects -Mark Winston Griffith, Executive Director at Brooklyn Movement Center and co-host and co-producer of The Third Rail.   The panel was moderated by Louise Barry, one of the creators of Audio Interference.     Produced by Interference Archive.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We're getting our Black joy on with Queen of Katwe, free books, and an old lady named Opal. Drink up! This week's hot list: the film Queen of Katwe, Juneteenth, #opalswalktoDC, old ladies, Black joy, Marc Jacob's stankin' ass, The Free Black Woman's Library, The Brooklyn Movement, Alicia Key's personal mission to ruin everything, and general good times. Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com NOTES & EXTRA TEA Please check out friend to the show, photographer Dom Sindayiganza's amazing work at www.sindayiganza.com (@sindayiganza) Ruddy Roye's (@ruddyroye) "When Living Is A Protest" exhibit is on view at the Steven Kasher Gallery alongside "Power to the People: The Black Panthers" both on display until October 29, 2016: http://www.stevenkasher.com/exhibitions Queen of Katwe is currently showing in selected theaters and will be available nationwide September 30, 2016 Check out The Free Black Woman's Library on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FreeBlackWomansLibrary/ and the hashtag #FreeBlackWomansLibrary, For more info on The Brooklyn Movement Center's mission and programs, check out http://brooklynmovementcenter.org Activist Opal Lee turns 90 this year and is walking to make Juneteenth a nationally recognized holiday. Please add your name to the petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/juneteenth-designated-national-day-observance Donate to her gofund me: https://www.gofundme.com/opalswalk2dc And use the hashtag #opalswalk2DC Please check out this incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneDavidPaul for more information on Ramsey Orta and how you can support him and his family. #SupportRamsey twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/sta…/752200478918840320 You can make a donations via PayPal through the email address ortaramsey@gmail.com where Ramsey and (once incarcerated) his wife Bella, manage the account directly. J.'s sister is documenting her journey with breast cancer. Follow her on at jasmineses.tumblr.com and on twitter & instagram @jasmineses to offer words of support or to gain some of for your own journey. And if you'd like, please donate and/or share her go fund me page: www.gofundme.com/t6e5wew Check out www.capitalizetheB.com to join the movement and sign the petition for the AP Stylebook to capitalize the letter B when referring to individuals of African descent as Black. Petition: www.change.org/p/the-new-york-ti…m_medium=copylink Help insure that undocumented immigrants have access to clean water in Flint, Michigan through the Latino Collaborative: www.crowdrise.com/watercrisisinfli…inocollaborative We won't forget about Monique and Larissa. To learn more about the Free Monique and Larissa from Kuwait campaign click here: www.change.org/p/free-monique-an…risoned-in-kuwait Last year activists, protestors, and researchers across the nation launched Campaign Zero, a comprehensive plan to end police violence. Check out www.joincampaignzero.org to get more information on the plan and see where the 2016 presidential candidates and your local politicians stand. Pinkies up to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Pinkies up to T. Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

The Brooklyn Movement Center, a community based organization, identifies issues, and works to improve the quality of life of the central Brooklyn community. Mark Winston Griffith, BMC's executive director admits to being a "serial social entrepreneur."