Podcast appearances and mentions of christen smith

Get to know doctor, sustainability author, and real-life rocket scientist Anita Vandyke. From embracing zero waste living, to dreaming up the ideal planet, Anita shows us that we have the power to make big things happen with small changes. This podcast is a production of Rebel Girls. It's based on the book series Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. This story was produced and directed by Haley Dapkus with sound design and mixing by Christen Smith. Our executive producers were Joy Smith, Anjelika Temple, and Jes Wolfe. Original theme music was composed and performed by Elettra Bargiacchi. A big thanks to Anita Vandyke and the whole Rebel Girls team who made this podcast possible. Until next time, stay rebel!

CHRISTEN BREAKS DOWN THE LATEST COLUMNS IN THE CENTER SQUARE INCLUDING - SHAPIRO CALLS SCHOOL VOUCHERS "UNFINISHED BUSINESS"  ANTISEMETIC ALLEGATIONS HIT PHILA SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUMP PRAISES GUN FREEDOMS IN PA SPEECH PA CARBON TAX REPEAL REPORTS...  Christen is Pennsylvania editor for The Center Square newswire service and co-host of Pennsylvania in Focus, a weekly podcast on America's Talking Network. Recognized by Editor and Publisher Magazine as one of the media industry's "Top 25 Under 35" in 2024.Tune in weekdays 10 AM - 12 PM EST weekdays on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT; or on the Audacy app!

Christen Smith of The Center Square joins Dawn to speak on her latest article focused on the current trends as bi-partisan support for school choice in PA seems to be emerging. Read more from Christen on the topic here.  Tune in 10 AM - 12 PM EST weekdays on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT; YouTube.com/@1210WPHT; or on the Audacy app!

Dr. Jenn M. Jackson (who uses the pronouns they/them) is a queer genderflux, androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science. Jackson's primary research is on Black Politics with a focus on group threat, gender and sexuality, political behavior, and social movements. Jackson also holds affiliate positions in African American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and LGBT Studies. Jackson is the author of the forthcoming book Black Women Taught Us (Random House Press 2022). The book is an intellectual and political history of Black women's activism, movement organizing, and philosophical work. It explores how women from Harriet Jacobs to Audre Lorde and the members of the Combahee River Collective (among others) have taught us how to fight for justice and radically reimagine a more just world for us all. In this episode, Christen Smith and Jackson dive into what it means to be queer and Black. We police our bodies and genders in ways that hinder our goals of dismantling systems of gender/sexuality/race oppression. In this podcast, dr. Jackson articulates the ways in which blackness is inherently queer and how queerness gives us the vocabulary to speak our truth. Genderflux embodies what it means to love the people who are deviant, wayward, and criminal. Jackson's articulation of abolition is intertwined with their definition of genderflux. As they articulate, “how we move in our bodies and how we choose to show up, matters just as much as how we fight for folk in our communities.” Black people's sensation of threat and fear is a deeply rooted lived experience. Jackson is currently completing two book projects: Black Women Taught Us, (Random House, 2022) and Policing Blackness: How Intersectional Threat Shapes Politics ( 2023).

Our guest on the Sales Code Leadership Podcast this week is, Christen Smith.Christen is Chief Revenue Officer at Flock, a UK insurtech using data to transform insurance into something that proactively prevents accidents rather than simply paying out when claims occur. Prior to Flock, Christen gained experience working at leading insurance companies, brokerages and MGAs such as Zurich, Cross Insurance and Hagerty with a focus on growing and retaining commercial insurance customers, both big and small.Thank you, Christen for an enjoyable and insightful conversation about sales, teams and leadership.

Christen Smith, RDN, spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and registered dietitian for Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare says that apples are high in fiber but low in calories and good for those looking to lose weight. In addition, fiber also helps slow digestion and makes you feel full for a longer time. In order to get a better feeling of fullness and optimal fiber intake, you can also eat the skin, reported by the Everyday Health page.

Self reflection is a powerful tool that any of us can implement. And when done effectively, it can help you create that change that you wish to see across your own life. This topic (and more) is exactly what Christen Smith joins me to chat about in this episode. Christen is the Vice President of Federal Health and Civilian Market for LMI, a mission-oriented consultancy that provides management and advisory services, logistics strategy and support, and digital and analytic solutions to federal government agencies. Listen in to hear her story, and her own personal transformation through self reflection. 

Heather Christensen Smith is the founder of Art at Work and a curator creating gallery spaces within corporate settings. She designs dynamic exhibitions and installations to bring business spaces to life and reflect the ethos and energy of the company for employees, clients and visitors.

In this episode Cite Black Women podcast host Christen Smith sits down with theoretical physicist and feminist theorist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to discuss Black feminist physics, the intersections between the matrix of violence against Black women and science, her radical Black feminist upbringing and her forthcoming book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred (March 2021, Bold Type Books). Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Core Faculty Member in Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is also a columnist for New Scientist and Physics World. Her research in theoretical physics focuses on cosmology, neutron stars, and dark matter. Using ideas from both physics and astronomy, she responds to deep questions about how everything in the universe got to the be the way it is. She also does research in Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. Essence magazine recognized her as one of “15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers.” She has been profiled in several venues, including TechCrunch, Ms. Magazine, Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Nylon, and the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives. A cofounder of the Particles for Justice movement, she has received the 2017 LGBT+ Physicists Acknowledgement of Excellence Award for her contributions to improving conditions for marginalized people in physics, as well as the 2021 American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award for her contributions to particle cosmology. She divides her time between the New Hampshire Seacoast, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can find Dr. Prescod-Weinstein's full bio can be here: https://www.cprescodweinstein.com Follow Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI To order The Disordered Cosmos: https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/chanda-prescod-weinstein/the-disordered-cosmos/9781541724709/

Host Yndia is in deep conversation with Dr. Christen Smith, professor, Black feminist anthropologist, author and founder of #CiteBlackWomen, a global social movement network, podcast and blog. Listen in as they discuss the significance of Black liberation when it comes to anti-Black state-sanctioned police violence throughout the Americas and the politics of race and gender...

Race is coded into every aspect of our technological lives, from automatic soap dispensers to Zoom calls. In this episode, host Christen Smith sits down with Prof. Ruha Benjamin of Princeton University to her work on racial coding, how racism and technology work hand in hand, and what we can do to create abolitionist futures despite this racism. Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), and founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, which brings together students, activists, artists, and educators to develop a critical and creative approach to data justice. Ruha is also the author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) and editor of Captivating Technology: Race, Technology, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (2019), among numerous other publications. Ruha Benjamin's website: https://www.ruhabenjamin.com Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab: https://www.thejustdatalab.com/about-the-lab

It’s been three months since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota. The movement prompted an outpouring from lawmakers in Canada and Australia, and protests started in countries that share the United States’ colonial history. Now that the protests have started to slow down, how do we enact effective policies? The Black Lives Matter movement is calling to redirect police funding toward education and public services. Ideas that once seemed radical are now being discussed by politicians both on the local and federal levels. Historian Nell Irvin Painter and anthropologist Christen Smith join Ray Suarez to talk about the global Black Lives Matter movement, policing in the Western Hemisphere and why it’s important to understand the role white supremacy has played in building our institutions.    Nell Irvin Painter, American historian, artist, author of numerous books including The History of White People and Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University Christen Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, founder of Cite Black Women and author of Afro Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil   If you appreciate this episode and want to support the work we do, please consider making a donation to World Affairs. We cannot do this work without your help. Thank you.

In this milestone 100th episode of Into the Fold, we dive into the topic of racism and historical trauma with a panel of experts. We are joined by three former podcast guests: Dr. Christen Smith, an associate professor of African and Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Ryan Sutton, director of the Heman Sweatt Center for Black Males at The University of Texas at Austin; and Latasha Taylor, a mental health organizer and former Hogg Foundation Policy Fellow. Together, we discuss the impact of police brutality on African American mental health and ways non-Black allies can best support their friends and the Black Lives Matter movement. Deborah "D.E.E.P." Mouton poetry: https://www.livelifedeep.com/ Oddisee: https://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/oddisee-collection Related links: Episode 65: The Past Does Matter: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-the-past-does-matter Episode 56: Police Violence and Black Women’s Health https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-police-violence-black-women-health-part1 Episode 53: From Advocacy to Mobilization: the Role of the Marginalized https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-activism-mental-health Episode 34: Mental Health and the Black Student Athlete https://hogg.utexas.edu/black-student-athlete-mental-health Young Minds Matter: Historical and Cultural Trauma https://hogg.utexas.edu/historical-and-cultural-trauma

In this episode of the Cite Black Women podcast, Dr. Christen Smith sits down with Dr. Melissa Stuckey to discuss the history of Black emancipation days in the United States, Juneteenth, and the special tone this year's commemoration takes in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. Dr. Stuckey discuss the special connections between George Floyd and Juneteenth in Emancipation Park in Houston, the tradition of Emancipation Days across the country, and why the history of our freedom celebrations has everything to do with our current moment. *Erratum! Please note In the podcast Dr. Stuckey mistakenly states that Watchnight Emancipation observation was 1863/1864. It should say 1862/1863. Dr. Melissa N. Stuckey is assistant professor of African American history at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) in North Carolina. She is a specialist in early twentieth century black activism and is committed to engaging the public in important conversations about black freedom struggles in the United States. Dr. Stuckey is the author of several book chapters, journal, and magazine articles including “Boley, Indian Territory: Exercising Freedom in the All Black Town,” published in 2017 in the Journal of African American History and "Freedom on Her Own Terms: California M. Taylor and Black Womanhood in Boley, Oklahoma" (forthcoming in This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870s to 2010s, edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, University of Oklahoma Press, 2020). Stuckey is currently completing her first book, entitled “All Men Up”: Seeking Freedom in the All-Black Town of Boley, Oklahoma, which interrogates the black freedom struggle in Oklahoma as it took shape in the state’s largest all-black town. Stuckey is also working on several public history projects. She has been awarded grants from the National Parks Service and the Institute for Museum and Library Services to rehabilitate a historic Rosenwald school on ECSU's campus and to preserve the history and legacy of these important African American institutions. In addition, she is a contributing historian on the NEH-funded “Free and Equal Project” in Beaufort, South Carolina, which is interpreting the story of Reconstruction for national and international audiences and is senior historical consultant to the Coltrane Group, a non-profit organization in Oklahoma committed to economic development and historic rehabilitation in the thirteen remaining historically black towns in that state. Melissa Stuckey earned her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from Yale University

The outrage of the last two weeks has made it clear that we are at a moment of national reckoning. The Black Lives Matter movement is calling to abolish the police and redirect police funding toward education and public services. Ideas that once seemed radical are now being discussed by politicians both on the local and federal level. On this week’s episode, historian Nell Irvin Painter and anthropologist Christen Smith join Ray Suarez to talk about the global Black Lives Matter movement, policing in the Western Hemisphere and why it’s important to understand the role white supremacy has played in building our institutions.  If you appreciate this episode and want to support the work we do, please consider making a donation to World Affairs. We cannot do this work without your help. Thank you.

In this special episode of the Cite Black Women Podcast—our first in Portuguese— host Christen Smith talks with poet and activist Elizandra Souza of São Paulo, Brazil. Elizandra Souza é uma das referências em literatura negra produzida nas periferias de São Paulo, com uma trajetória de 18 anos de ativismo cultural. é escritora, poeta, jornalista formada em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie e técnica em Comunicação Visual pela Etec Carlos de Campos. É ativista cultural há 18 anos com ênfase na difusão do jornalismo cultural da Periferia e da Literatura Negra Feminina. Integrante fundadora do Sarau das Pretas desde 2016. Autora dos livros de poesias: Águas da Cabaça (2012) e Punga co-autoria Akins Kintê, Edicões Toró (2007). Editora do Coletivo Mjiba dos livros: Águas da Cabaça (2012), Pretextos de Mulheres Negras (2013) e Terra Fértil (2014). Participa de diversas antologias literárias. Atuou como editora e jornalista responsável na Agenda Cultural da Periferia na Ação Educativa (2007- 2017) Participou do Festival Internacional de Poesia em Havana (Cuba), 2016 e do Congresso LASA / Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion em Boston (EUA), 2019.

How does identity shape the way people's citizenship is viewed by both the general and reading public? What are the different groups one can be a citizen of? How does one tell a story about moving between different groups? What issues are posed by translation and the ways that stories and poems include multiple languages? How do artists approach stories that disrupt a group's sanctioned or "official" narratives? Join Dr. Kathleen Brown, Christen Smith, Irwin Tang, and Liliana Valenzuela as they discuss these questions and more to really discover what citizenship means, and how it can affect the craft of writing.

This episode features the recorded audio from the panel Cite Black Women: Centering and Celebrating Black Women in Sociology, that took place at the American Sociological Association Meeting in 2019: What started out as a small idea on twitter turned out to be a mini-movement in Philly. On the Saturday of 2018 ASA conference, scores of sociologists were seen donning t-shirts adorned only with simple writing #CITEBLACKWOMEN and the message was clear. It was a call out to cite black women as a tool to fight the intellectual and positional erasure of black women and their merits in the academy. This panel seeks to ensure that the 2018 moment might transition to a larger movement that centers and celebrates black women sociologists. Questions the panelist will address include: Who belongs in the cannon of black women sociologists and who are the contemporary innovators? Who is even included (or who is excluded) when we say, black women? What guides our gatekeeping practices in publishing and how can we make them more inclusive and equitable? What might we lose if we don’t listen to black women today? How might we make this symbolic gesture of #citeblackwomen into something more praxis oriented? Beyond citing black women, how can we further support black women in our discipline and the academy? Panelists (in speaking order): (Organizer) Dr. Whitney N L Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. https://whitneylpirtle.com Dr. Christen Smith, founder of Cite Black Women. and Associate Profesor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.afro-paradise.com Dr. Crystal Marie Fleming, Associate Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. http://www.crystalfleming.com Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is digital sociologist, professor, writer and columnist. She is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. https://tressiemc.com Dr. Zakiya Luna is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of California Santa Bárbara. http://www.zakiyaluna.com

What began trending among Black women scholars on Twitter is now a movement that has seized the imaginations -- the validated the experiences -- of women in every field. Why? What happened to Dr. Christen Smith PhD at a professional conference could happen to anyone -- especially to African American women, people of color, and women worldwide. Whether a university professor, a grocery store clerk, a corporate executive up against that 'glass ceiling,' or a presidential candidate: all can relate. It's time to #CiteBlackWomen's accomplishments. Time for a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. (With thanks and remembrance due Aretha Franklin!)

What began trending among Black women scholars on Twitter is now a movement that has seized the imaginations -- the validated the experiences -- of women in every field. Why? What happened to Dr. Christen Smith PhD at a professional conference could happen to anyone -- especially to African American women, people of color, and women worldwide. Whether a university professor, a grocery store clerk, a corporate executive up against that 'glass ceiling,' or a presidential candidate: all can relate. It's time to #CiteBlackWomen's accomplishments. Time for a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. (With thanks and remembrance due Aretha Franklin!)

In this last episode for Black History Month 2019, Cite Black Women founder Christen Smith interviews historian Daina Ramey Berry, the author of five books on gender and slavery in the United States. In this conversation we talk about the powerful and reflective work of writing about our collective past, the relationship between the commodification of Black women during slavery and the politics of citational erasure and the importance of reading our history and mentoring for Black women. Dr. Daina Ramey Berry is a specialist on the history of gender and slavery in the United States and Black women’s history. She is the award winning author and editor of five books and several scholarly articles. Her recent book, The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to the Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Beacon, 2017) has been awarded three book awards including the 2018 Hamilton Book Prize from the University Coop for the best book among UT Austin faculty; the 2018 Best Book Prize from the Society for the History of the Early American Republic (SHEAR); and the Phyllis Wheatley Award for Scholarly Research from the Sons and Daughters of the US Middle Passage. Berry’s book was also a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. In addition to her written work, Dr. Berry has received teaching awards from every university she’s taught. Recently she received the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award at UT Austin, an honor reserved for 8 faculty members across campus. Prof. Berry has received prestigious fellowships for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the American Council of Learned Societies; the American Association of University Women and the Ford Foundation. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and has been featured by major news outlets from around the country. She is currently finishing a co-authored book with historian Kali Gross, A Black Women's History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2020), creating an online resource on slavery for K-12 educators.

In this Martin Luther King Day special podcast, we honor the legacy of Ella baker with a discussion of Black women’s radical activism, citational politics and transnationalism. The conversation begins with a brief introduction on Ella Baker and the visionary leadership of the Black women who surrounded Dr. King. We then move into an interview that host Christen Smith conducted with Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry (Brown University) in November 2018. Keisha Khan Perry is a feminist anthropologist and political activist whose research focuses on urban social movements against the violence of forced displacement. She is the author of the prize-winning book, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil, an ethnographic study of black women’s activism for housing and land rights in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador. With an emphasis on the United States, Jamaica, and Brazil, she continues to write on issues of black land ownership and loss and the related gendered racial logics of black dispossession in the African diaspora. She recently served on the Latin American Studies Association delegation to investigate the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

*Please note that there is an error in Dr. McClaurin's bio in the recording! Our apologies. We are working to fix this problem and will get a new, edited version up promptly. In the meantime, please refer to her bio here for the most up to date information: http://irmamcclaurin.com In this​ episode, Dr. Irma McClaurin talks with Christen Smith about the importance of Black feminist archiving for the project of citation. Through the story of the, "Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive", Dr. McClaurin discusses her work to preserve Black women's intellectual contributions through the years, including the work of Zora Neale Hurston. This episode explores Dr. Irma McClaurin's politics of citation and her passion for archiving (Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive) Black women's intellectual contributions. The conversation situates the Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive, its contributions, it's treasures and the passion of understanding and documenting Black women's histories. Irma McClaurin, PhD/MFA (http://irmamcclaurin.com), is an award-winning writer, activist anthropologist, consultant and founder of the “Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the Editor of BLACK FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY: THEORY, POLITICS, PRAXIS AND POETICS, a past president of Shaw University, and in 2015 was named “Best Columnist in the Nation” by the Black Press of America. Please consider donating to her archive here: bit.ly/blackfemarchive. This donation goes directly to UMass Amherst and is tax deductible. The goal is to reach $25k so it can be endowed. For inquiries or to donate materials. please email blackfeministarchive@gmail.com.

In this inaugural episode, CBW founder, Christen Smith and CBW Collective member and producer Michaela Machicote introduce Cite Black Women's podcast initiative, the history of the CBW project, and the radical Black feminist legacy of Audre Lorde that has been one of its primary inspirations. This is the launch episode of the Cite Black Women Collective's podcast. Please stay tuned for episodes that will coincide with #CiteBlackWomenSundays where we will feature interviews with Black women scholars on the importance of their work and citation as a praxis.

Dr. Christen Smith researches engendered anti-Black state violence and Black community responses to it in Brazil and the Americas. Her work primarily focuses on transnational anti-Black police violence, Black liberation struggles, the paradox of Black citizenship in the Americas, and the dialectic between the enjoyment of Black culture and the killing of Black people. Her book, Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in […]

For Enrique Dussel: “Modernity dawned in 1492 and with it the myth of a special kind of sacrificial violence which eventually eclipsed whatever was non-European.” For Walter Mignolo, 1492 is the moment at which “there is a bifurcation of history”. For Sylvia Wynter: “(T)he 1492 event would set in motion the bringing together of separated branches of our human species within the framework of a single history that we all now live, and while it led to incredible techno-scientific and other such dazzling achievements, as well as to the material well-being of one restricted portion of humanity, it also led to the systemic large-scale degradation and devalorization, even the extinction, of a large majority of the peoples of the earth.” Taking this idea further, Wynter argues that the struggle of our new millennium will be one between the ongoing imperative of securing the well-being of our present ethnoclass (i.e., Western bourgeois) conception of the human, Man, which overrepresents itself as if it were the human itself, and that of securing the well-being, and therefore the full cognitive and behavioral autonomy of the human species itself/ourselves. Because of this overrepresentation, which is defined in the first part of the title as the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom, any attempt to unsettle the coloniality of power will call for the unsettling of this overrepresentation as the second and now purely secular form of what Aníbal Quijano identifies as the “Racism/Ethnicism complex,” on whose basis the world of modernity was brought into existence from the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries onwards (Quijano 1999, 2000). And of what Walter Mignolo identifies as the foundational “colonial difference” on which the world of modernity was to institute itself, thus institutionalizing the the human vs. man dialectic. The historical legacy and violent structures that are a vestige of racial mixing (albeit out of clear survival and necessity from the perspective of the Portuguese settler colonialist) and a lack of explicit apartheid laws, have allowed Brazilian elites to advance the myth of Brazil's racial democracy. Conversely, these same elites lament that the affirmative action and anti-discrimination policies, despite being held up by the Brazilian Supreme Court, are US imports bent on inciting racial distrust and violence. Brazilian and US police have much in common. Both are waging an intensified militarized war on black, brown, and the poor that results in a reinscripton the power relations that are in a large part based on 14th century ideas of race; 18th-19th century colonialism/chattel slavery…but all are frankly rooted in the false notion of white supremacy. What we will hear next is Africa World Now Project's collective associate producer, Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry and myself in conversation with Dr. Christen Smith. Dr. Christen Smith is a Black feminist anthropologist, social justice advocate and Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where work focuses on the gendered dimensions of anti-Black state violence and resistance in the Americas, particularly Brazil. Based on her long-term collaborations with black organizers in Brazil, Christen Smith's, Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil (University of Illinois Press, 2016). Today's program was executive produced by Keisha-Khan Perry. And as always in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy the program.

This is the second part of our conversation with Dr. Christen Smith about the effects of police violence and other forms of inequality on the health of blacks in the U.S. and beyond. Here, we put the Hogg Foundation's own home city, Austin, Texas, under the microscope for a conversation about the relationship between inequality and health. You are highly encouraged to listen to Part 1. Thanks for listening!

“Health” is not something that exists in a vacuum. The Hogg Foundation is driven by our conviction that a more just world is also a healthier one. That’s one of the reasons why we talk so often about the “social determinants of health.” The World Health Organization defines social determinants as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.” For blacks in the U.S., a key social determinant is the community impact of unequal policing. In this episode, Dr. Christen Smith, an associate professor of African and Diaspora Studies and anthropology at The University of Texas, and the host, Ike Evans, sit down for a wide-ranging conversation about the impact of inequality on the health and well-being of blacks in the U.S. and beyond, using recent events such as the tragic death of Erica Garner in December 2017 as a backdrop. The episode is broken into Parts 1 and 2. We hope you listen to both!

Den gløymde helten frå Drammen Han hadde store vitskaplege bragder bak seg då han drog på ekspedisjon til Kongo for to hundre år sidan. Christen Smith var Noregs første professor i botanikk, og hadde truleg stått for fleire bragder om han ikkje hadde blitt sjuk og døydd berre 30 år gammal.