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One of the biggest questions of every election is: What's going on with young voters? There is endless speculation on the news about what young people care about, but very little good research examining their views on the candidates and the issues that matter most to them. The first-of-its-kind GenForward Survey changed that when it was created in 2016 at the University of Chicago.Led by renowned University of Chicago political scientist Cathy Cohen, the survey digs into what is animating young voters—especially young voters of color who are millennials and in Generation Z—and what they think of the candidates. With tight races in key swing states, young people might just hold the keys to the White House—and Cohen says that understanding what how they may vote in November is crucial to understanding the 2024 election.

We call this episode, lovingly, the auntie auntie auntie episode (or the niece niece nibling episode) shouted at the top of our lungs. We scream their names in the key of care, of reclaiming our bodies, lives, and pleasure(s) for ourselves (and our time). In this episode we talk with Anna Almore and Erica or ET, two friends and educators, about their moments of what Anna calls deviant caretaking, the act of choosing pleasure, accountability to one's deepest self over what work as teachers, teacher-educators, and students demands of one's self. Anna and Erica share about lessons learned one night at a strip club and releasing themselves from the disciplining of settler colonialism's projects of school, capitalism, misogynoir, and respectability—led by a long inheritance of aunties who showed them how to do thee things. And as nieces and aunties themselves, they reflect on what they now teach another generation, finding that the lessons and blessings their nieces and relatives give them to be the most urgent ones of all. Share your thoughts with us at us@dancingondesks.org, leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks. Cover art by Anna Almore  Transcript Finalized May 3 Intellectual Inheritance - bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress - Cathy Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ (1997) - Cathy Cohen, “Deviance As Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race (2004) - Hoodrat to Headwrap podcast with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnley, "Resting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More than Naps" -Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power” -Kimberly C. Ransom, “A Conceptual Falsetto: Re-Imagining Black Childhood via One Girl's Exploration of Prince” Journal of African American Studies (2017)  - Keffrelyn D. Brown - Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes  Music - “Godspeed” prod Jovian  - “Warm Brandy” prod kitxnx - "5AM In Ibiza" prod ossy - “Stagnant” prod rémdolla - “Levitate” prod Bailey Daniel - “Another Day” prod Jovian - “Marigold” prod by Qué Soul - “Island Girl” prod by JayRewind/@RMLUR - “Wham” prod by Slappy Boy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dancingondesks/message

By 1986, almost 40 percent of people diagnosed with AIDS in the United States were either Black or Latino. As the full contours of the crisis became apparent, a group of Black gay men began to organize in cities across the country, demanding attention and support for the people dying in their midst. This effort required them to confront big, important institutions in both the medical establishment and the government — and it meant they had to stare down racism in the broader LGBTQ+ community. But perhaps their most pressing and consequential challenge was the most difficult to name: the rejection of their own community.As men, women and children within the Black community began falling ill, essential institutions — the family, the church, civil rights groups — which had long stood powerfully against the most brutal injustices, remained silent or, worse, turned away. Why? What made so many shrink back at such a powerful moment of need? And what would it take to get them to step up?In this episode, we meet some of the people who pushed their families, ministers and politicians to reckon with the crisis in their midst. We hear the words of a writer and poet, still echoing powerfully through the decades, demanding that he and his dying friends be both seen and heard; and we spend time with a woman who picked up their call, ultimately founding one of the country's first AIDS ministries. And we meet a legendary figure, Dr. Beny Primm, who, in spite of some of his own biases and blindspots, transformed into one of the era's leading medical advocates for Black people with HIV and AIDs. Along the way, we learn how one community was able to change — and we ask, what might have been different if that change had come sooner?Voices in the episode:• George Bellinger grew up in Queens, New York. He's been involved in activism since he was a teenager. He was an original board member of Gay Men of African Descent and also worked at GMHC and other HIV and AIDS organizations. He says his work is to “champion those who don't always have a champion.”• Gil Gerald is a Black HIV and AIDS activist and writer, who co-founded the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays.• Cathy Cohen is the author of “The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics,” which is considered a definitive history of the epidemic in Black communities.• Governor David Paterson is the former governor of New York State and a former state senator. He is the son of Basil Paterson, who served as state senator from Harlem in the late 1960s, secretary of New York State in the 1980s, and was a longtime member of Harlem's political establishment.• Pernessa Seele is an immunologist and interfaith public health activist. She founded the Harlem Week of Prayer to End Aids and the Balm in Gilead.• Maxine Frere is a retired nurse who spent the entirety of her 40-year career at Harlem Hospital. A lifelong Harlem resident, she's been a member of First AME Church: Bethel since she was a kid.• Dr. Beny Primm was a nationally recognized expert on drug addiction and substance abuse treatment. His work on addiction led him to becoming one of the world's foremost experts on HIV and AIDS.• Lawrence Brown was Dr. Beny Primm's protégé who worked as an internist at Harlem Hospital and at Dr. Primm's Addiction Recovery and Treatment Center in Brooklyn. Brown served on the National Black Commission on AIDS, American Society of Addiction Medicine and took over for Dr. Primm as Director of ARTC (now START) when he retired.• Jeanine Primm-Jones is the daughter of Dr. Beny Primm, a pioneer of addiction treatment and recovery. Primm is a clinical social worker, abuse recovery specialist and wellness coach, who worked with her father for decades before his death in 2015.• Phill Wilson is the founder of the Black AIDS Institute, AIDS policy director for the city of Los Angeles at the height of the epidemic and a celebrated AIDS activist in both the LGBTQ+ and Black communities since the early 1980s.Audio from the 1986 American Public Health Association annual conference comes from APHA.Dr. Beny Primm archival audio comes from History Makers.This episode contains a brief mention of suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, there's help available. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is open 24 hours a day by calling or texting 988. There's also a live chat option on their website.Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes coverage of social inequality and economic justice.

On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya talks with Shannon-Janean Currie, vice president at Benenson Strategy Group, which conducted our inaugural survey for our Living Data series. Farai then speaks with Cathy Cohen, the founder and director of GenForward Survey about the importance of polling. Then, Farai, Cathy Cohen and Shannon-Janean Currie, discuss the main GenZ survey takeaways. We round out the show with Farai in conversation with Former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant, Aquilino Gonell about his new book, “American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy.”

There are two words that sound pretty similar, but they're not synonyms: equality and equity. While equality means that everybody should be given the same resources or opportunities, equity recognizes that we live in an unequal system, so we need to allocate more resources and opportunities to people without equal access. So, what does it really mean to live in an equitable society? In this episode of Entitled, Claudia and Tom zoom out on what equity practices look like around the globe, and zoom in, to see if they're working in the US. They speak with Dian Shah, a constitutional law professor at the National University of Singapore; Cathy Cohen, a renowned political scientist at the University of Chicago; and South African anti-apartheid hero Albie Sachs.

This week on the podcast chapters 4 & 5 from Andre Brock Jr.'s "Distributed Blackness", all about ratchetry and respectability. Link to Cathy Cohen's Ryerson lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqd5zDAHcp0 Link to Shaq calling himself the Black Steph Curry (not exact link I mentioned in the episode but close enough): https://www.thescore.com/news/1320228 Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-most-dangerous-thing-in-america/id1551126578 https://open.spotify.com/show/5xky9xGXgdh0bTcUx1yNEf?si=c1b3769405b64615 https://soundcloud.com/bobby-wilson-588095918 Music from TheKeepRunning: https://soundcloud.com/user-861419594 To read my writings: https://bobbywwilsonjr.com/publications Also, follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chewingbones

As another class of Gen-Z graduates, they are taking one more step into adulthood. But still, our nation is divided by racial violence, economic inequality and disappearing reproductive rights. For this reason, The Takeaway takes a Deep Dive into Gen-Z: Who are they and what do they want? To give us a better idea we talked to Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Philip N. Cohen, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Sociology at The University of Maryland. Cathy Cohen is the principal investigator and founder of the GenForward Survey. One of the biggest concerns for Gen-Z is economic security. As the older part of this cohort enters the workforce we discussed what work they want to do as well as what work should do for them. We speak with 20-year-old Parker Lacewell who's facing these questions as well as Terry Nguyen, a reporter for The Goods at Vox who covers consumer and internet trends, and technology.  We also looked into how Gen-Z utilizes technology to do everything from organizing to quitting their jobs. We spoke with Pamela Aronson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn about what their use of technology tells us about their hopes for the future. WNYC's Radio Rookies Rainier Harris and Folashade Olatunde joined to discuss their concerns for their generation. Activist, strategist, influencer and founder of the Gen Z Girl Gang, Deja Foxx told us how her cohort uses the power of social media to affect change in the world. And, we had the privilege of listening in on a conversation between Marley Dias, founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks and her Mom, Janice Johnson Dias, author of Parent Like It Matters. They discussed everything from college, to the massacre in Buffalo to the future of reproductive rights.     

As another class of Gen-Z graduates, they are taking one more step into adulthood. But still, our nation is divided by racial violence, economic inequality and disappearing reproductive rights. For this reason, The Takeaway takes a Deep Dive into Gen-Z: Who are they and what do they want? To give us a better idea we talked to Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Philip N. Cohen, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Sociology at The University of Maryland. Cathy Cohen is the principal investigator and founder of the GenForward Survey. One of the biggest concerns for Gen-Z is economic security. As the older part of this cohort enters the workforce we discussed what work they want to do as well as what work should do for them. We speak with 20-year-old Parker Lacewell who's facing these questions as well as Terry Nguyen, a reporter for The Goods at Vox who covers consumer and internet trends, and technology.  We also looked into how Gen-Z utilizes technology to do everything from organizing to quitting their jobs. We spoke with Pamela Aronson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn about what their use of technology tells us about their hopes for the future. WNYC's Radio Rookies Rainier Harris and Folashade Olatunde joined to discuss their concerns for their generation. Activist, strategist, influencer and founder of the Gen Z Girl Gang, Deja Foxx told us how her cohort uses the power of social media to affect change in the world. And, we had the privilege of listening in on a conversation between Marley Dias, founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks and her Mom, Janice Johnson Dias, author of Parent Like It Matters. They discussed everything from college, to the massacre in Buffalo to the future of reproductive rights.     

This week Henry and Colin are joined by Cathy Cohen, a distinguished professor at the University of Chicago and Jen Humke, a senior program officer at the MacArthur Foundation to discuss Participatory Civic Media. Cohen discusses her work with The Black Youth Project and GenForward, projects that are focused on building independent institutions and influencing media institutions, respectively. These projects are supported by Humke through the MacArthur Foundation. We discuss the work introduced by the guests as they focus on engaging youth of color, predominantly Black youth in how they are represented and the way they represent themselves within digital media. Participatory civic media allow marginalized groups who have not had a voice in media, particularly in the political sphere, to now have one. We then consider the danger in focusing on voice more than power. More and more people may find their voice through a growing democratic digital media landscape, but that does not mean they are sharing in the power. How do we enact a power shift to give an equal playing field to all voices?A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Cathy Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is also the creator of The Black Youth Project and the GenForward Survey.Cohen is the author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics and The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. She is also a co-editor of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader.Jen Humke is the Senior Program Officer for the Journalism and Media program at the MacArthur Foundation. Her grantmaking work focuses on participatory civic media. Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Henry Jenkins, What Is Civic Media?Black Youth ProjectgenForward SurveyCivic Imagination ProjectAtlas of the Civic ImaginationCivic Media FellowshipDanielle Allen on ReconciliationFrom Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital AgeRobin Kelly, Freedom DreamsAlissa Richardson: Bearing Witness While Black: African-Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest JournalismMegan StielstraColor of ChangeDefine AmericanDarnell MooreNicholas Negroponte – Being DigitalCrystal Echo HawkReservation DogsIlluminative Podcast  Illuminative Netflix programConnie Yowelldanah boydMimi ItoDigital Media and LearningYouth and Participatory PoliticsJoe KahneMarch for Our LivesQ-AnonConfronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture (Fifteen Years Later) Podcasting  Origin StoriesBBC's Noise: A Human History, “Radio Everywhere” (14:37)FDR fireside chat 1 (12:57)Norman Corwin (56:28)Edward R. MurrowPodcast and DiscordRadio Free GeorgiaEar HustleNancyHow to Be a Girl; Peabody AwardPlus, check out these earlier earlier episodes:Episode 73: Increasing Visibility is Existential for Native Communities, with Crystal Echo HawkEpisode 22: Benjamen Walker and Wu MingEpisode 81: Warren Hedges on the Fantasy Roots of the Capital InsurrectionEpisode 48: Digital Diversity with Craig Watkins, Mimi Ito and Katie SalenEpisode 82: Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke on the Intersection of Art and ActivismEpisode 69: The Power of Fan activism with Janae Phillips and Shawn TaylorMusic:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

We did it yall! 100 Episodes of insurgent biweekly audio community! We celebrate WNBA legend Teresa Weatherspoon as QueerWOC of the week, Money talks blocks to happiness, and Nikeeta shares her current read of Cathy Cohen's Iconic piece. 100th Episode Giveaway Winners: @kemigisha ; @kutiekiya; @Strangefruit_1 Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts, Apple Podcast, and Spotify Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerWOC of the Week 00:12:40 WNBA Legend Teresa Weatherspoon Read More: https://www.cenlanow.com/sports/nba/pelicans-teresa-weatherspoon-trailblazing-a-path-for-women-in-nba-the-coaching-profession/ Community Contributors 00:25:45 New patrons: Keisha & Odette became new patrons Borders are fake shoutouts: Birmingham, AL / Dubuque, IA / Upper Marlboro, MD / Ajax, Ontario Canada Mental Moment with Money 00:35:00 Is FEAR blocking your happiness? Inspired by Image activist and artist @Jervae and OCD Specialist Maythal Eshaghian, LMFT F - Fusion E - Excessive Goals A - Avoidance of discomfort R - Remoteness from your values The Happiness Trap: https://www.alibris.com/The-Happiness-Trap-How-to-Stop-Struggling-and-Start-Living-A-Guide-to-ACT-Russ-Harris/book/39342246?matches=32 Word 01:01:00 Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens - by Cathy Cohen https://985queer.queergeektheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cohen-Punks-Bulldaggers-and-Welfare-Queens.pdf Topic 01:25:20 Curved Chronicles 01:28:25

This week we talk about race and representation with Cathy Cohen of the GenForward Survey project based in Chicago. What do young Americans want from democratic politics? How do their priorities vary according to race and ethnicity? And can a Biden presidency deliver on the desire for real change? Plus we catch up with Jeevun Sandher and Michael Bankole of the Politics Jam podcast to explore a UK perspective on why young and minority voices find it so hard to be heard.Talking Points:We are seeing more racial and ethnic diversity in generations than ever before.Young people break for Biden, but for young white men, it was about 50-50.In 2012, a plurality of young whites voted for Romney. If we look only at generation we miss part of the story.The story about ‘young people’ is being driven by young people of colour.Does Biden have a problem with young people?Many young people voted against Trump rather than for Biden.They decided to vote against Trump and organize against Biden.What is the best method for achieving racial progress in the US? Young African Americans are pointing to the need for structural change.Young people are rejecting the idea that change comes from national-level voting. They are redefining what democratic practice might be.Young people broadly favor a more expansive state.The Biden agenda is more about tweaking at the edges.There is going to be a real tension. Will there be the infrastructure to mobilize young people? Can they pressure the administration?This generation is highly educated, but they are also precarious. There is an increasing mismatch between the promise of higher education and what it delivers.The younger generation is highly indebted because of higher education.In both the UK and the US, young people haven’t been represented well by the political system.There are specific issues that young people want to see addressed, including systemic racism.Ethnic differences among young people need to be taken into account in the UK too.The political class in the House of Commons is unrepresentative in many ways. It skews old and it skews white.Conservatives tend to represent white seats. The First-Past-the-Post system doesn’t incentivize serious engagement with ethnically diverse constituencies.Mentioned in this episode:The GenForward SurveyThe Black Youth ProjectPolitics JaMJeevun’s academic profileMichael’s academic profileAnne Phillips, The Politics of PresenceThomas Saalfeld on substantive representationAnd as ever, recommended reading curated by our friends at the LRB can be found here: lrb.co.uk/talking See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan talks to @loggins__ and @MuseWendi about why people are reading White Fragility and ten books about racism, capitalism, and Black radicalism that you should read instead. Check out Left POCket Project @LeftPOC Blacks In and Out of the Left by Michael C Dawson Dig interview with Michael Dawson Democracy Remixed by Cathy Cohen Dig interview with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil by Patricia de Santana Pinho Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields Dig interview with the Fields sisters Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing Californiaby Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Dan talks to @loggins__ and @MuseWendi about why people are reading White Fragility and ten books about racism, capitalism, and Black radicalism that you should read instead. Check out Left POCket Project @LeftPOC Blacks In and Out of the Left by Michael C Dawson Dig interview with Michael Dawson Democracy Remixed by Cathy Cohen Dig interview with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil by Patricia de Santana Pinho Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields Dig interview with the Fields sisters Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

In the last few weeks, our country has been rocked by nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd, and many other black people, at the hands of police. To be true to the mission of our show, we’re using our platform to address the underlying and historical racial injustices that have driven the protests in the only way we know how: by talking to UChicago scholars. On this episode, we brought together a panel of experts— Prof. Cathy Cohen, Asst. Prof. Reuben Jonathan Miller and Asst. Prof. John Rappaport—to tackle this conversation from different viewpoints. Our conversation examined the role of formerly incarcerated people in the protests, police reform and calls to “defund the police,” and how young people are making them hopeful about the future.

Dan interviews Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, and Malaika Jabali on this uprising, the conditions that made it possible, and where it might be headed. Support Black Visions Collective at blackvisionsmn.org Check out Malaika's short film Left Out.

Dan interviews Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, and Malaika Jabali on this uprising, the conditions that made it possible, and where it might be headed. Support Black Visions Collective at blackvisionsmn.org Check out Malaika's short film Left Out.

Every election year, poll after poll tries to predict where millennials stand politically. As we head into 2020, we'd like to replay this episode with Prof. Cathy Cohen who says some of our assumptions about what issues matter to young people are all wrong. Cohen’s innovative survey of millennials, GenForward, is a first of its kind. By oversampling young people of color, they investigate differences in responses by race and ethnicity. The data she’s collected gives us a unique window into what millennials are thinking and what they might do in the 2020 election. Subscribe to Big Brains on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and Soundcloud.

Produced and Edited by Kyra Sturgill and Steve Crano University of Chicago Political Science professor, Cathy Cohen, and her doctoral student, David Knight, discuss their recent survey project “Race and Place: Young Adults and the Future of Chicago.”

April 26, 2019 Race & Place: Young Adults and the Future of Chicago – Co-Hosted with The University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement – Cathy Cohen, Jahmal Cole & Michelle Morales- moderated by Natalie Moore Cathy Cohen Cathy J. Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor at the University of Chicago. She […]

Cathy Cohen brings the pieces together beautifully. She is a professor at UChicago, a long-time organizer, a founding board member and former co-chair of the board of the Audre Lorde Project in NY, on the board of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press as well as the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY, and the founder of Black Youth Project, a website devoted to Black youth from which BYP-100 emerged. She is also truly the big homie. We learned so much in this one – come learn with us. Music from this week's show: Spilled Beans - Gurty Beats

Qu'est-ce que le plurilinguisme ? Comment enseigne-t-on plusieurs langues à la fois ? Quels effets cela produit sur le développement l’enfant ? Discussion avec Nathalie Blanc et Cathy Cohen.

Every election year, poll after poll tries to predict where millennials stand politically. But Prof. Cathy Cohen of the University of Chicago says some of our assumptions about what issues matter to young people are all wrong. Cohen’s innovative survey of millennials, GenForward, is a first of its kind. By oversampling young people of color, they investigate differences in responses by race and ethnicity. The data she’s collected gives us a unique window into what millennials are thinking and what they might do in the 2020 election. Subscribe to Big Brains on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and Soundcloud. (Music used in this episode: Baltiby Blue Dot Sessions.)

A recent survey shows Chicago’s young adults don’t plan to stick around. Plus, combating fake news. And, Netflix recs for the polar vortex.GUESTS: Cathy Cohen, professor of political science at the University of ChicagoDave Knight, Ph.D candidate at U of C’s Department of Political ScienceMargaret Brower, Ph.D student at U of C’s Department of Political Science Jim Warren, executive editor of NewsGuard, former managing editor of the Chicago TribuneJohn Gregory, staff analyst for NewsGuard based in Chicago

In this episode, we have great discussion with Aly Thomas about black feminism and intersectionality by digging into the Combahee River Collective Statement and Cathy Cohen's "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Wellfare Queens." Next week... Aaron Simmons!

Why, when faced with a disease that was threatening significant numbers of Black people, did Black leaders and dominant institutions fail to take action? In her book, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics, Cathy Cohen systematically examines the roles that politics, racism, and marginalization played in limiting the resources allocated to fighting AIDS in Black communities. Page got the chance to talk directly with Cathy about her research for this book.

Why does police accountability matter in this context? How does the knowledge that severe abuses—brutality, sexual assault, false arrest, even death—have gone unpunished inform and shape encounters between youth and police? What are the costs and harms of the absence of accountability? How does the lack of accountability affect the relationships between youth and police? How does it impact our effectiveness in addressing crime and violence? How could improved transparency and accountability affect youth/police relations? Cathy Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago Craig Futterman, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School Delores Jones-Brown, Professor of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Chris King, Managing Editor, The St. Louis American Moderator: Jamie Kalven, Invisible Institute This panel discussion was recorded at the Youth/Police Conference at the University of Chicago Law School in April 2015.

Why does police accountability matter in this context? How does the knowledge that severe abuses—brutality, sexual assault, false arrest, even death—have gone unpunished inform and shape encounters between youth and police? What are the costs and harms of the absence of accountability? How does the lack of accountability affect the relationships between youth and police? How does it impact our effectiveness in addressing crime and violence? How could improved transparency and accountability affect youth/police relations? Cathy Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago Craig Futterman, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School Delores Jones-Brown, Professor of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Chris King, Managing Editor, The St. Louis American Moderator: Jamie Kalven, Invisible Institute This panel discussion was recorded at the Youth/Police Conference at the University of Chicago Law School in April 2015.

Cathy Cohen, political science professor at The University of Chicago, feminist and social activist describes her personal life, introduction to politics and her work in black politics in this captivating interview.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The issues raised by deaths at the hands of police of unarmed men and boys of color in Ferguson, Cleveland, New York City and elsewhere as well as the assassination of two police officers in New York City are complicated and expose many, many shortcomings in our society. This panel will explore a range of questions around policing and police training but also look at the role race, poverty, access to guns and the failure of other public sector institutions and policies play in these tragic events. The panel will focus on identifying policies and strategies that can help bridge the real and perceived divide that persists between too many communities and the police that are supposed to serve and protect them. Cathy Cohen, professor of political science at UChicago and chair of the department; Cap. Ronald Johnson, Missouri State Highway Patrol, appointed by Gov. Jay Nixon to the Lead Protest Security following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown Jr.; Andrew Papachristos, Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University; Charlene Carruthers, national coordinator of the Black Youth Project; and writer and activist Jamie Kalven joined the Institute of Politics to discuss these most important and timely issues. The conversation was moderated Steve Edwards, Executive Director of the Institute of Politics. This event was co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Environmental advocate and former Obama administration advisor Van Jones and performance artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph discuss environment, race, social ecology and collective responsibility. This lecture is titled “At Your Own Risk: What Is To Be Done?”. Cathy Cohen, professor of Political Science at the University, joins Jones and Bamuthi's conversation after the performance.

Tonight we talk "Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics" with author Cathy J. Cohen. Cathy Cohen is a professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. "In Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics, Cathy J. Cohen, principal investigator for the Black Youth Project, gives readers an in-debth analysis of the state of black youth in America today." We'll discuss the views of black youth regarding politics, morality, and economics. Join in with your calls and chat room comments. Peace!!

Tonight we talk "Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics" with author Cathy J. Cohen. Cathy Cohen is a professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. "In Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics, Cathy J. Cohen, principal investigator for the Black Youth Project, gives readers an in-debth analysis of the state of black youth in America today." We'll discuss the views of black youth regarding politics, morality, and economics. Join in with your calls and chat room comments. Peace!!

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Many of the assumptions people have about black youth-that they are politically detached and negatively influenced by rap music and videos-are false stereotypes, according to a new University of Chicago study by Prof. Cathy Cohen, based on surveys and conversations with the youth themselves.