Podcast appearances and mentions of cornell brooks

This week on America Changed Forever, National Security expert Joe Cirincione analyzes Putin's attempt to regain his advantage in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And Cirincione examines Iranian President Raisi's recent statements in an exclusive 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl. Civil rights leader Cornell Brooks on his fight to clear the name of Mrs. Callie G. House, an African American woman who built a grassroots reparations organization of 300,000 people, many of whom were formerly enslaved. She also led advocacy for an early reparations bill in Congress and the first federal lawsuit seeking national reparations. For this she was unjustly prosecuted and convicted by the federal government. And Dahlia Lithwick discusses her new book Lady Justice.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When it comes to social justice issues “the church can show up as moral first responders or as funeral directors,” says Cornell Brooks. Professor Brooks joins “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” with an impressive pedigree as the former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights attorney, a professor of public leadership and social justice at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episocopal church. Gloria and Professor Brooks discuss several issues that threaten Black lives, most notably racial profiling, police violence and voter suppression. “You are more likely to see the Easter bunny standing next to Santa Claus at the voting booth than to encounter an actual instance of voter fraud,” Professor Brooks says. In reality, it is politicians who are committing the overwhelming amount of voter fraud, not the citizens whose voting rights are being suppressed. Abortion-related episodes: What would a post-Roe world look like? Pro-choice advocates often appeal to reproductive freedom. But freedom without real choice is coercion. Texas' abortion ban and systemic sexism against women For women to be free, they must be free to be women. Lastly, if you've been enjoying the Gloria Purvis Podcast please consider sharing some feedback in this brief Listener Survey! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three charges stemming from the killing of the unarmed Black man, George Floyd, last year. Former NAACP President and CEO Cornell Brooks says the Chauvin verdict is progress but the fight is not over. Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey also spoke after the verdict and says while the verdict is a progressive step, racial discrimination continues to persist. Plus, Frank Holland reports on the situation in the city of Minneapolis.

Power & Politics for Tuesday, April 30th with former Dallas Police Department member Roy Alston, Harvard Kennedy School Professor & former NAACP head Cornell Brooks, and former federal prosecutor Glenn Ivey.

First there was the shock of realizing that the COVID-19 pandemic would be widespread and lengthy. Now issues of race, equity, and the coronavirus are quickly coming to the fore, as data pours in showing how the virus is hitting minority communities the hardest.Harvard Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks says historic systemic discrimination, lack of access to healthcare and healthy food, housing and employment disparities, and other issues have left communities of color uniquely vulnerable.Discrimination means people in communities of color can’t follow many recommended individual actions for the pandemic including staying at home, working from home, stocking up on groceries, drive-through testing, and social distancing. Low-income “essential” workers, he says, have effectively become human buffers against the coronavirus for people with higher incomes.There are also moral implications to unequal distribution of risk, including the spread of COVID-19 in prisons and in jails where people accused of crimes are waiting to be tried. A pandemic spreading in these “petri dish” situations means exposing potentially-innocent people to what amounts to a death sentence,  he says, not to mention the exposure facing correctional officers and staff.Brooks also says the pandemic is also causing widespread disruption in the current election season, and that it has the potential to exacerbate the current trend toward minority disenfranchisement, both purposeful and unanticipated. He says the recent election debacle in Wisconsin, where more than 90% of polling places in some cities were closed and voters were forced to break social distancing in order to participate in the democratic process, was a warning to the country about how the pandemic endangers both democracy and lives.“We are ill-prepared for November,” he says. “It's not enough for us to say we are in the midst of a pandemic and we can only concern ourselves with face masks and ventilators. We also have to be concerned about ballot boxes and polling places.”After the pandemic is over and life starts returning to normal, Brooks says American will need to learn from the experience and make long-overdue societal shifts to keep the impact of events like this from being so severe and unevenly distributed the next time.Cornell Brooks is the Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and  Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice.  is also Director of the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at the School’s Center for Public LeadershipPolicyCast is hosted by Harvard Kennedy School Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs Thoko Moyo. It is produced by Ralph Ranalli and Susan Hughes.

Gather with the Black Student Alliance and Multicultural Student Services for a special Monday morning Black History Month convocation featuring Rev. Dr. Cornell Brooks from the Harvard Kennedy School. There will be a talk-back with Rev. Dr. Brooks from 11-11:30 a.m. Cornell William Brooks is Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at the Harvard Kennedy....

Two conversations from the Off-Kilter archives: Cornell Brooks & Patrick Cokley on race in the Trump era and Zahra Noorbaksh on breaking through bigotry with comedy.

For Cornell William Brooks, former president of the NAACP and current professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, democracy is not an ethereal concept from Greece; it is about his family lineage. For centuries, the story of democracy in the United States has been about an expanding definition of citizenship and what an American looks like. Brooks encourages us to remember the art of conversation in an increasingly digital world and promotes removing obstacles to voting, even making voting a requirement. 

The Guys Like Us Podcast is joined with Cornell Brooks who is a Professor and Director of the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative at Harvard University, former President of the NAACP, attorney, minister, husband, and dad. We dive into the importance of knowing biblical texts, constitutional documents, and notable historical figures. Cornell elaborates on the Old Testament and the books of the prophetic and its influence on his career. He speaks on modeling ministry, walking the walk, practicing what you preach. His successes at the NAACP were numerous in the tumultuous times with police brutality, the Flint, Michigan water crisis, among others. Cornell details what prophetic ministry looks like on the ground and rallying the numbers in response to the cry for justice across the nation.

New York Times best-selling author Carol Anderson speaks with Cornell Brooks about her new book on racist voter suppression and the fight against it. Anderson focuses in particular on the drive to weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, and argues that voter suppression ultimately aims to make its targets lose faith in democracy itself. Ensuring that doesn't happen could hardly be a more urgent task. Brennan Center Live is a weekly series of podcasts created from Brennan Center events, featuring fascinating conversations with well-known thinkers on issues like democracy, justice, race, and the Constitution.

New York Times best-selling author Carol Anderson speaks with Cornell Brooks about her new book on racist voter suppression and the fight against it. Anderson focuses in particular on the drive to weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, and argues that voter suppression ultimately aims to make its targets lose faith in democracy itself. Ensuring that doesn’t happen could hardly be a more urgent task.   Brennan Center Live is a weekly series of podcasts created from Brennan Center events, featuring fascinating conversations with well-known thinkers on issues like democracy, justice, race, and the Constitution.

Skip and Kate sit down with Cornell Brooks, President and CEO of the NAACP, to discuss his beginnings as a social justice advocate, racial progress made in the Obama years, and how to channel energy from the Women's March into a sustained political movement.