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5.16.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: MAGA Marva elected FAMU prez, Diddy trial drama, SCOTUS police use of force case, Trump tariff impact Controversy on the yard: Florida A&M named its 13th president, but not everyone's throwing up that Rattler strike. Outrage is boiling over. We've got the reaction and what's next for the FAMU family. Drama in the Diddy trial--inside the courtroom as Cassie Ventura wraps up emotional testimony. What happened, and where does the case go from here? A major Supreme Court ruling could change the way "Police Use of Force" is judged in America. Samuel Sinyangwe, founder of Mapping Police Violence, joins us to discuss what this means for justice and reform. #BlackStarNetwork partner: Fanbasehttps://www.startengine.com/offering/fanbase This Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. You should read the Offering Circular (https://bit.ly/3VDPKjD) and Risks (https://bit.ly/3ZQzHl0) related to this offering before investing. Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
4.4.2024 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: MLK Killed 56 Years Ago Today, Non-Shooting Police-Involved Deaths, Fla. Cop Plants Empty Bottle Fifty-six years ago, a shot rang out and struck Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as he stood on the second floor of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Tonight, we'll show you how the nation is remembering one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement. #BlackStarNetwork partners:Fanbase
As the Black Lives Matter movement brought sustained national attention to police shootings of unarmed Black people, there have been many efforts made around the country to reform policing. The movement also became associated with police abolition and the controversial call for defunding. Kai Wright, the host of WNYC's “Notes from America,” convenes a panel to look at the effects of the movement on policing, talking to the policy analyst Samuel Sinyangwe, of Mapping Police Violence; the attorney Anya Bidwell, of the Institute for Justice; and Michael White, a professor at Arizona State University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Assessing the results of reform efforts remains difficult, because obstacles exist even to the collecting of data. “We have a system of eighteen thousand different law-enforcement agencies, each with their own set of policies and practices, their own department culture,” Sinyangwe says, and yet certain patterns are repeated year after year: Black people, he says, “are about three times more likely to be killed than white people” by the police. The group explores the widespread adoption of body cameras, and the push to change legal landscape around qualified immunity, which make it difficult to prosecute police officers even in egregious cases of the use of force. Bidwell argues that, “as long as we have a system of checks and balances that operates properly,” it is possible to reduce crime, while keeping the public and officers safe. “If everybody does what they're supposed to do, then we can actually have a win-win-win situation.” And although there have been reductions in arrests for low-level, non-violent offenses, many systemic, deeply troubling trends in police departments have continued unabated, including a relatively stable number of a thousand and fifty to twelve hundred people killed by police annually.
It's been 10 years since the Black Lives Matter was founded in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Kai Wright speaks with organizer Chelsea Miller about the impact the movement has had on a generation of young people. She makes the case for why we must keep telling the story of Black life and death in America and saying the names of those killed as a result of police violence. Plus, in partnership with New Yorker Radio Hour, Kai discusses the impact of the movement with Samuel Sinyangwe, a policy analyst with Mapping Police Violence & Police Scorecard, Anya Bidwell, an attorney for the Institute of Justice and the Federalist Society, and Mike White, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University. They look back on some of the policy changes that have been implemented to reduce use of force by police and whether they've been successful. Tell us what you think. Instagram and X (Twitter): @noteswithkai. Email us at notes@wnyc.org. Send us a voice message by recording yourself on your phone and emailing us, or going to Instagram and clicking on the link in our bio. “Notes from America” airs live on Sunday evenings at 6pm ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts. Tune into the show on Sunday nights via the stream on notesfromamerica.org.
According to the non-profit Mapping Police Violence, since 2013 when experts first starting tracking police shootings, last year was the deadliest year on record with 1,176 law enforcement gun deaths, or more than three people per day and nearly 100 per month. In 2022 Blacks were three three times more likely to be killed by police than Whites. However in, for example, MPLS and Chicago, Black shooting deaths were respectively 28 and 25 times more likely than White. In her recently published book by Viking Press, Prof. Schwartz explains how the corruption of the 4th amendment and Civil Rights law, the creation of the legal fiction “qualified immunity” and other reasons make it nearly impossible to police the police. During this 38-minute interview, Prof. Schwartz begins by discussing the case of Ornee Norris. She in turn explains the courts' undermining of 4th amendment's protection from unreasonable searches, civil rights protections, specifically section 1983 of the 1871 Civil Rights Act, and the Supreme Courts 1967 creation of, in Pierson v. Ray, of qualified immunity, discusses the case of systematic violence by Vellejo, CA, police, the failure by governments to learn from these cases, efforts by states to pass laws ending qualified immunity, notes the value of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and finally comments on the issue of the militarization of the police. Joanna Schwartz is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and the Faculty Director of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She was a recipient of UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015 and served as Vice Dean for Faculty Development from 2017-2019. Beyond Shielded, her recent scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and elsewhere. She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, The Boston Review, and Politico, and has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, and elsewhere. Professor Schwartz is also co-author with Stephen Yeazell and Maureen Carroll of a leading casebook, Civil Procedure (11th Edition). Professor Schwartz was graduated from Brown University and Yale Law School. She clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York and Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
Kent McGowen became a police officer with the Houston Police Department in the 1980's. While his career wasn't perfect, it didn't come under scrutiny until he was employed with the Harris County Sheriff's Office. While serving a warrant, Deputy Kent McGowen shot and killed Susan White. While Kent fought to argue his innocence due to self-defense, many others claimed otherwise.Part one unpacks the tangled story surrounding the controversial case of Deputy Kent McGowen and the tragic death of Susan White. This episode examines their backgrounds, shedding light on Kent's extensive law enforcement career, and unraveling the sequence of events that culminated into the fateful night of August 25th, 1992.Don't forget to checkout the new website!www.fthatpod.comIf you liked what you heard today, give the podcast a like, review, and subscribe.Follow F**k That on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter @fthatpodInstagram @fthat_podThank you to this week's sources: American JusticeSeason 28: E2 Conversation with Todd Morong – shared with permissionApril 8th, 2023 Conversations with Kent McGowen – shared with permission Documentary – Abuse of Police Power Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.)Joseph Kenton McGOWEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee. No. 14-94-00246-CR. Decided: July 20, 2000 Harris County Sheriff's Department Identification Division Crime Laboratory Submission Report Deposition of Captain C.J. HarperNovember 3rd, 1992 Deposition of Major George Franklin SturgisAugust 13th, 1996 Voluntary Statement Jeannie Jaques (Michael Shaffer's mother)September 3rd, 1992 Susan White's Arrest Warrant Supplemental Report: Case number 92-0825-0041Offense ReportDefendant InformationWitness Statement - Todd MorongUnits on Scene, Scene SummaryDetails of Offense Details of Wounds (prior to autopsy)Toxicology Results _________________________________________________ City of Houston Police DepartmentOffice of Internal Affairs Report (name redacted)*This is the report regarding the woman Kent had a brief relationship with in HPD. I am redacting her name to maintain her privacy Kent's Polygraph Exam regarding the above matter Kent's Resignation Letter to Houston Police DepartmentDecember 20th, 1988 Psychological Evaluation August 15th, 1989 ______________________________________________________________ A Warrant to Kill A True Story of Obsession, Lies, and a Killer CopBy: Kathryn Casey Susan White's Phone Records Tomball Police Department Letter of RecommendationWritten by Chief Michna Kent's ResignationMarch 29th, 1990 StatistaNumber of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to May 2023, by month www.statista.com/statistics/585159/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-month/#:~:text=As%20of%20May%201%2C%20the,police%20in%20the%20United%20States. Mapping Police Violence https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ Michna retires early, interim chief appointedhttps://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Michna-retires-early-interim-chief-appointed-9916473.php Kessler, R. C., Demler, O., Frank, R. G., Olfson, M., Pincus, H. A., Walters, E. E., Wang, P., Wells, K. B., & Zaslavsky, A. M. (2005). Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders, 1990 to 2003. The New England journal of medicine, 352(24), 2515–2523. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa043266This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5741034/advertisement
Tyre Nichols' murder has prompted conversations about internalized racism because the main police officers who killed Tyre are also Black. Let's unpack. For data on how often police kill, see Mapping Police Violence. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/natasha-t-baker/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/natasha-t-baker/support
Projects like Mapping Police Violence, which track individuals killed by police, concluded that at least 1,176 people were killed at the hands of police last year.
8.2.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Monkeypox Cases Soar, LA Shreveport mayor disqualified, Black-owned bandaid company 'Browndages' A spike in Monkeypox cases is forcing the state of California into a state of Emergency,I'll talk to an Infectious disease specialist about what you can do to stay safe. More stories of racial discrimination at entertainment parks are popping up after news of the sesame place incident in Philadelphia went viral. You'll meet a family who had a similar encounter at a New York Lego-land. We are now eight months into the year, and a new report finds that there have been more police killings in 2022 than ever. We'll speak with Samuel Sinyangwe of Mapping Police Violence about these alarming numbers. And the current Mayor of Shreveport says he's disqualified from the upcoming mayoral election. I'll talk to Mayor Adrian Perkins about a court ruling that left his name off the ballot. And in tonight's marketplace segment, a black-owned bandaid company. Support RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ roland@rolandsmartin.com Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox
On this bonus episode, we hear a conversation recorded live at the Chicago Transformation Collab on June 26th, 2022. The Collab brought together a select community of leaders to get aligned in the current moment, have transformative conversations, and build stronger collaborative visions in the fight against fearmongering, carceral policies, and attempts to rollback modest reforms. This conversation, entitled "What We're Up Against," discusses the tension between the messages we want to share, and the messages people are ready to hear. In a conversation that centers the importance of this moment for narrative alignment in Chicago, panelists will discuss tactics that have succeeded or faltered in the past and what lessons we can glean from such outcomes. Participants include: Insha Rahman, Vice President of Advocacy and Partnerships, Vera Institute of Justice Sam Sinynagwe, Founder, Mapping Police Violence & Police Scorecard Sharone Mitchell, Public Defender, Cook County Lacy Wright, Executive Director, Hillman Grad Foundation SHOW NOTES Learn about the Chicago Transformation Summit: http://chicagotransformation.org/summit/
According to Stacker, The American Police killed 1,144 people killed by police in 2021, according to Mapping Police Violence, up from 1,132 people in 2020. Despite making up only 13% of the American population, Black people represent 23% of those killed by law enforcement in 2021. Police brutality, micro-aggression, racism, and excessive use of force in law enforcement some would argue is more prevalent among African Americans. In today's episode, we compare the tale of African Immigrants to that of African Americans. How do Africans perceive their black counterparts who have been in America or Europe but are descendants of slaves forcefully and in most cases, brutally removed from Africa? Can we seek to understand the dichotomy of the two black African tale?
White House phone logs reveal a 7-hour gap in Trump's January 6 calls. AOC warns Democrats are “in trouble” if they do not act quickly. Data from Mapping Police Violence shows US police have killed 249 people in 2022. New reporting reveals Facebook paid a GOP consulting firm to malign Tiktok.Co-Host: Jordan Uhl (@JordanUhl)Become a TDR YouTube Member: http://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport/join Follow The Damage Report on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/Help build the Home of the Progressives http://tyt.com/JOINSubscribe to The Damage Report YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1Follow The Damage Report on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=enFollow The Damage Report on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ Follow The Damage Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport Trump DESPERATE To Distract Nation With Bizarre Bread Theory - https://youtu.be/pRThQ-NgVtUViral TikTok Catches Amazon HR Stealing Union Papers - https://youtu.be/mQxjXKB94T0Oklahoma Republicans Pass UNBELIEVABLE Abortion Ban - https://youtu.be/BmLopSUzgVAFacebook Paid GOP To Destroy TikTok?! - https://youtu.be/TReA0dsgsScKetanji Brown Jackson Gains SHOCKING Supporters - https://youtu.be/ufM0G4NGx_o See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In a vital follow up to our police bias episodes, today we break down a new study that shows police killings were undercounted by MORE THAN HALF. This confirms what many of us have suspected about the "official data" on police violence, and it's only the tip of the iceberg. Links: Lancet article, Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, The Counted
This finale episode brings a window view into how POC have suffered from encounters with police and some have lost their lives. D99 Juniors Elijah Reed and Quentin Mills discuss the disparities of racial profiling, mental health within law enforcement and the importance of police vs community relationships. Data resource: Mapping Police Violence https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
Many people weren't expecting a guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial this week, because there’s almost no precedent of white police officers being convicted for killing Black people in the U.S.Since George Floyd was killed less than a year ago, over 960 people have been killed by police, according to the research group Mapping Police Violence. So, what are we doing to make sure the police stop killing people?Reporters N'dea Yancey Bragg and Grace Hauck explain where reform efforts have failed and where reform measures have been left unenforced in Minneapolis, Chicago, and across the country.Activists who celebrated the guilty Chauvin verdict as a measure of accountability say there's not much else to celebrate right now regarding the future of police reform.Additional reading:What if there isn't a video? For families of people killed by police, it's 'not a fair fight'Columbus police release bodycam footage, identify officer in fatal shooting of Ma'Khia BryantWhite cops have been convicted of killing a Black person before, but it's rareThis Is America: Lessons I learned from covering the Derek Chauvin trial
The facts about unarmed and armed people of color are overwhelming. The fact is; there is no Police accountability being held for Officers that do such overkill. Dive in with me to learn the statistical facts of armed and unarmed people killed by Police by nationality and age. #racismisreal #policeaccountability #thefacts #peopleofcolor #openmindness References: Belli, B. (2021, April 12). Racial disparity in police shootings unchanged over 5 years. YaleNews. https://news.yale.edu/2020/10/27/racial-disparity-police-shootings-unchanged-over-5-years. Sinyangwe, S., McKesson, D. R., & Elzie, J. (2021, April 18). Mapping Police Violence. https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/darren-watts/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/darren-watts/support
181 Black people have been killed by the police in the US since George Floyd's murder in May 2020, according to data by Mapping Police Violence.
Ben and Angela talk about the recent police killings and brutality on African Americans. Don't worry, it's not graphic. Here a few link on the subject: Chicago Police Torture: Explainedhttps://theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/chicago-police-torture-explained/Speaking of trauma: the race talk, the gun violence talk, and the racialization of gun traumahttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0320-zCrime, Corruption and Cover-upsin the Chicago Police Departmenthttps://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/273/2018/10/ac_policecorruptionb6e6.pdfMapping Police Violencehttps://mappingpoliceviolence.org/Behind the Police Podcasthttps://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-behind-the-police-63877803/Headlong: Running from COPS Podcasthttps://www.stitcher.com/show/running-from-cops-headlong-season-3
Balanço foi divulgado com base em dados do Instituto em Segurança Pública do Rio de Janeiro e do site Mapping Police Violence.
Hey everybody, First things first, do a quick check-in with yourselves. I've been watching the news, doing my best to stay informed from trusted sources, keeping safe distance from social media. The pandemic isn't getting better, and you might not be able to smell it yet, but there's hope in the air. It'll be a spell before we get any relief from this thing and we're going to have to endure much on this road, care for ourselves and one another with grace and compassion. And after that, we get the hugs back. So, hold steady. Be a light in the darkness. Acknowledge the hard, and do your best to be the easy for others. We have a light on the show today. And he happens to be a trusted source, too. His area of expertise is the other pandemic, the one that comes in and out of focus in striking competition with the disease state we're living through. For our guest, it started with a big question: how many people have been killed by police? If you visit the ultimate fruit of his labor, MappingPoliceViolence.org, you'll find that in 2020, our police have killed 986 people in our country. It's shocking, then, to hear that prior to Mapping Police Violence and the team's efforts to collect this data, there was no effort on behalf of our national leaders to collect or report it themselves. The man behind the project is Sam Sinyangwe. He's a data scientist and policy analyst and in addition to Mapping Police Violence, he also founded Campaign Zero and the Police Scorecard. He's a PolicyLink vet where, according to his official bio, “he worked to connect 61 federally-funded communities to research-based strategies to build cradle-to-career systems of support for low-income families. He has also helped city leaders, youth activists and community organizations develop citywide agendas to achieve quality education, health, and justice for young black men. Why his pivot to policing, and presenting municipalities with data that serves to change behavior? “If we can't live, we can't learn,” he says. Our deep thanks to Sam for his time to sit down with Dodge and present the data. And thanks to you, as always, for your commitment to the work. — Pete
Tom Baker is getting his PhD in criminology, and as part of his research he's spent hours watching and studying police shootings. "The goal is to identify...things that police are doing that could be changed in some fundamental way, or maybe just tweaked in a slight way, so that you reduce the number of officer-involved shootings and police related deaths," he told me. This research is personal for Tom. In 2009, while he was working as a police officer in Phoenix, he shot and killed a man while on an off-duty security shift. The killing was determined to be legally justified, but Tom has struggled with it more and more. "You live in a culture where taking a life is the worst thing you can do," Tom told me. "I was trying to do what I thought was the right thing....But then when I didn't feel guilty about it and I didn't feel bad about it, I think the initial thing was feeling, feeling wrong for feeling that way. So feeling guilty for not feeling guilty." Tom left the police force in 2014. But he remains connected to that community, while also forging new relationships within the academic world. "I feel like I'm sort of like straddling the fault line in our country right now," he said. "I don't know if I'm going to just fall into the chasm." Police killings are not tracked federally, but are tracked by several organizations, including Mapping Police Violence, Fatal Encounters and The Washington Post. A recent study using data from Fatal Encounters examined the risk of being killed by police use of force by age, race-ethnicity and sex, and found that black men are 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police. And while police killings nationally have remained somewhat steady since 2013, the number of deaths in cities have dipped, while the number of deaths in suburban and rural areas has risen. In 98% of cases since 2013, police faced no charges after killing someone. To read Tom Baker's article in The Guardian, click here.
After George Floyd’s death, Americans grappled with 8 minutes and 46 seconds of police brutality caught on tape. Protests erupted across the country as Americans took to the streets to declare “Black Lives Matter.” As a country, we had to reckon, again, with the idea that not all law enforcement believes this slogan to be true. Policy analyst and Campaign Zero co-founder Sam Sinyangwe talks to us about the microaggressions of his childhood that inspired his data collection on policing in America. We talk to Sam about why our system of policing is broken, and what organizations like his are doing to reimagine public safety. Learn more about Campaign Zero, Mapping Police Violence, and #NixThe6 Follow Sam Sinyangwe on Twitter Keep up with Julián on twitter @JulianCastro and Instagram @JulianCastroTX Support the show by checking out our sponsors You can digitally purchase life insurance from Haven Life Insurance Agency at havenlife.com/ouramerica. Haven Term is a Term Life Insurance Policy (ICC17DTC) issued by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), Springfield, MA 01111 and offered exclusively through Haven Life Insurance Agency, LLC. Policy and rider form numbers and features may vary by state and not be available in all states. Our Agency license number in California is 0K71922 and in Arkansas, 100139527. The Marguerite Casey Foundation, creating greater freedom for changemakers to create a truly representative economy. Learn more at caseygrants.org, and connect with the Foundation on Twitter and Facebook. To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/our-america shortly after the air date. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In our season two premiere, we welcome new co-host Sarah Tyson and discuss John Murillo's book 'Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry.' Murillo joins us for an interview on his timely new collection of poetry that puts on display the visceral truth of the lived experiences of Black and Latino communities facing police brutality. We also hear from CU Denver students, who offer a rich and introspective response to the poems that speak to the history of police brutality in our country. Further reading: Grigsby Bates, Karen and Anjuli Sastry. “When LA Erupted In Anger: A Look Back At The Rodney King Riots.” NPR. https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots Nodjimbadem, Katie. “The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.” Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-painful-history-police-brutality-in-the-us-180964098/ Mapping Police Violence. https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ The songs you hear on the show are "Belle et Triste" and “Roza Vertov” by Kariatida: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kariatida
BlackEnterprise.com & CBS own the content. CBS news used "Mapping Police Violence," a comprehensive database of killings by police officers & "The Washington Post" in their analysis which showed atleast one Black person was killed by police every week from January 1, thru August 31, 2020.
Today, we bring you a special on Black and Palestinian solidarity in the face of global systemic racism. In 2019, U.S. police killed 1,099 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, which reports that 24 percent of those murdered (259 people) were Black. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Other people of color, including Indigenous and Latinx people, are also killed at a much higher percentage. Meanwhile, the United States currently has the largest incarcerated population in the world, with about 2.3 million people in jails and prisons across the country, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. In Occupied Palestine, thousands have been killed or injured resisting Israeli occupation. Also, as a result of poverty and destitution. Israeli police have been arresting and jailing Palestinian activists who resist state-sponsored violence and land grabs. During todays show, you will hear a in-depth discussion from a recent webinar titled Abolition and Liberation on the connections between demands from the Movement for Black Lives to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down Israels apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference, which she co-organized in 1998. She is joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestines First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestine National BDS Committee, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network, Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. Kristian Davis Bailey, who moderates their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth Project 100 and Students for Justice in Palestine. Kristian currently works at Palestine Legal and is a member of LeftRoots.
Today, we bring you a special on Black and Palestinian solidarity in the face of global systemic racism. In 2019, U.S. police killed 1,099 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, which reports that 24 percent of those murdered (259 people) were Black. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Other people of color, including Indigenous and Latinx people, are also killed at a much higher percentage. Meanwhile, the United States currently has the largest incarcerated population in the world, with about 2.3 million people in jails and prisons across the country, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. In Occupied Palestine, thousands have been killed or injured resisting Israeli occupation. Also, as a result of poverty and destitution. Israeli police have been arresting and jailing Palestinian activists who resist state-sponsored violence and land grabs. During todays show, you will hear a in-depth discussion from a recent webinar titled Abolition and Liberation on the connections between demands from the Movement for Black Lives to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down Israels apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference, which she co-organized in 1998. She is joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestines First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestine National BDS Committee, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network, Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. Kristian Davis Bailey, who moderates their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth Project 100 and Students for Justice in Palestine. Kristian currently works at Palestine Legal and is a member of LeftRoots.
Today, we bring you a special on Black and Palestinian solidarity in the face of global systemic racism. In 2019, U.S. police killed 1,099 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, which reports that 24 percent of those murdered (259 people) were Black. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Other people of color, including Indigenous and Latinx people, are also killed at a much higher percentage. Meanwhile, the United States currently has the largest incarcerated population in the world, with about 2.3 million people in jails and prisons across the country, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. In Occupied Palestine, thousands have been killed or injured resisting Israeli occupation. Also, as a result of poverty and destitution. Israeli police have been arresting and jailing Palestinian activists who resist state-sponsored violence and land grabs. During todays show, you will hear a in-depth discussion from a recent webinar titled Abolition and Liberation on the connections between demands from the Movement for Black Lives to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down Israels apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference, which she co-organized in 1998. She is joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestines First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestine National BDS Committee, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network, Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. Kristian Davis Bailey, who moderates their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth Project 100 and Students for Justice in Palestine. Kristian currently works at Palestine Legal and is a member of LeftRoots.
Today, we bring you a special on Black and Palestinian solidarity in the face of global systemic racism. In 2019, U.S. police killed 1,099 people, according to Mapping Police Violence, which reports that 24 percent of those murdered (259 people) were Black. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Other people of color, including Indigenous and Latinx people, are also killed at a much higher percentage. Meanwhile, the United States currently has the largest incarcerated population in the world, with about 2.3 million people in jails and prisons across the country, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. In Occupied Palestine, thousands have been killed or injured resisting Israeli occupation. Also, as a result of poverty and destitution. Israeli police have been arresting and jailing Palestinian activists who resist state-sponsored violence and land grabs. During todays show, you will hear a in-depth discussion from a recent webinar titled Abolition and Liberation on the connections between demands from the Movement for Black Lives to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down Israels apartheid walls and free Palestine. These speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete? laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement, as did the first Critical Resistance Conference, which she co-organized in 1998. She is joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestines First Intifada in 1987. A founding member of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, Palestine National BDS Committee, Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, and Palestinian Environmental NGO Network, Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall. Kristian Davis Bailey, who moderates their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. He was a member of Black Youth Project 100 and Students for Justice in Palestine. Kristian currently works at Palestine Legal and is a member of LeftRoots.
This week we check out Netflix’s one hundred and seventh film the 2018 Italian drama ‘On My Skin (Sulla mia pelle)’ directed by Alessio Cremonini starring Alessandra Borghi and Jasmine Trinca. Please follow us at Flix Forum on Facebook or @flixforum on Twitter and Instagram and answer our question of the week, 'No question this week. Take five minutes to check out the Mapping Police Violence website https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ ' You can listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Podbean so please subscribe and drop us a review or 5 star rating. If you're interested in what else we are watching, head on over to our Letterboxd profiles; MJ Jesse We also have our own Flix Forum Letterboxd page! Links to all our past episodes and episode ratings can be found there by clicking here. Next week we have 'The Angel', so check out the film before then. You can see the trailer here.
In this episode, we go to the city of Utrecht in the central part of the Netherlands to talk to Elliot Lyons, a writer and photographer who left the United States in 2008 and has lived in the Netherlands since then. We chatted in the beginning of June 2020. By then, massive protests against racism and police brutality have swept the United States. I wanted to hear what Elliot had to say about watching the United States from abroad. What does one do with hope immediately after a wave of hopelessness which the COVID-19 pandemic intensified? Why should we be critical of project America and its legacy? What do we make of black squares and #blackouttuesday at a time when overcommunication about black organizing is vital? These are some of the topics discussed in this episode. Additional resources: Elliot Lyons can be found on Instagram as @elliot_lyons. Elliot Lyons, "Veganism's Race Problem," Vegan Magazine, https://www.blackvegansrock.com/blog/2016/7/4/feature-elliot-lyons. "Mobilize for Black Lives Guide," https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q53GNj-kwhfWNzM7HK2CVpDBqNOTflnsWI-Ga2AUZN0/mobilebasic. “Mapping Police Violence,” https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/?fbclid=IwAR28RM79XWUtKzCO0xEqGOsyB7mCTnTPwMPg4mKNUa_MIHg2tY1BilsPeVc. "Slave Patrols: An Early Form of American Policing," https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/2019/07/10/slave-patrols-an-early-form-of-american-policing/. “Officer’s tattoo causes chief to ‘question his ability to function effectively,’ ” https://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article217573000.html. #sayhername project, https://aapf.org/sayhernamereport/. Da'Shaun Harrison, "Instead of Posting Black Boxes to Your Instagram, Abolish Whiteness," https://wearyourvoicemag.com/instead-of-black-boxes-abolish-whiteness/ Kimberly Springer, "The Tricky Allure of Becoming a Black American Expatriate," The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/10/being-black-american-expatriate-its-complicated/573211/. Photographs from march for Black Lives Matter from Vilnius, Lithuania, can be found on the webside of Vilnius-based podcast Nyla, https://nanook.lt/podcast/tukstantis-ne-rasizmui/ This episode included news clips from Al Jazeera English, C-Span, and Democracy Now. Music in this episode was by Chris Zabriskie from the Free Music Archive and the piece is called “Another Version of You.” Image of Elliot Lyons courtesy of Elliot Lyons. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lzigelyte/message
Key Findings: 26% of U.S. police killings between January 2013 - December 2019 were committed by police departments of the 100 largest U.S. cities. Black people were 38% of people killed by these 100 police departments despite being only 21% of the population in their jurisdictions. Only 1 of the 100 largest city police departments did not kill anyone from Jan 2013 - Dec 2019 (Irvine, CA). 47% of unarmed people killed by the 100 largest city police departments were black. These police departments killed unarmed black people at a rate 4 times higher than unarmed white people. Information above found - “Police Accountability Tool.” Mapping Police Violence, mappingpoliceviolence.org/cities. Stay connected with LOTUS X here: + Subscribe now! Instagram: www.instagram.com/watchlotusx/ Twitter: twitter.com/watchlotusx Facebook: www.facebook.com/watchlotusx About LOTUS X : Launched by Bennie “Poeticlee” Williams III, LOTUS X is a destination in cultural content for re-birthing your purpose to live. Focused on creatively curating content that is educational in life essentials, insightful towards relationship building, guidance through spiritual awakenings, and many expressions of various art. Topics LOTUS X covers include: Spirituality, marriage, climate change, civics, manhood, brotherhood, and many more.
We've been on hiatus for a while, and we'll be back to regular episodes soon, but there are more important things going on in the world right now. People are gathering worldwide to protest the murder of George Floyd, and the ingrained, systemic racism that led to it. In response, these protesters have been met with police brutality on an unprecedented scale. We're here to offer our support and solidarity to people protesting the virulent racism, and disgusting acts of police brutality, that our BIPOC citizens are met with on a daily basis. We also recognize there are more important voices in this fight than a couple of cishet white doofusses from the midwest. Here are some places to educate yourself on the issues: Account of Floyd's murder: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52861726 More about the Black Lives Matter foundation: https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/ Mapping Police Violence, non-profit with useful stats: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
Today on Sojourner Truth: In 2019, U.S. police killed 259 Black people. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people, according to Mapping Police Violence. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Within recent weeks, there has been a spate of police killings of Black people across the United States. On March 13, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was murdered by police in Louisville, Kentucky. On May 25, 46-year-old George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Countless others have also impacted, including in Brunswick, Georgia, the case of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed by vigilantes. While police killings of Black people in the United States are certainly not a new phenomenon, a nationwide and multi-racial movement calling for the defunding and abolition of police is now quickly gaining traction. In New York City, for example, Mayor Bill de Blasio has somewhat conceded to protesters demands to shift funds away from the NYPD toward youth and social services. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has said that he has tasked the city with identifying $150 million in cuts to invest more money into the Black community, communities of color, women and "people who have been left behind." And in Minneapolis, where the latest uprising against police terror began, nine members of the Minneapolis City Council said that they supported defunding the citys police department and replacing it with a community-based public safety model. Across the U.S., calls for defunding and abolishing police are getting louder by the day. What is the history of policing in the U.S.? How did it start? What impact did its history have on what is happening in policing today? What is the inter-relationship between the legacy of slavery and genocide against Indigenous people, policing and mass incarceration practices of today? Will reforming policing in the U.S. bring an end to racism in the U.S.? What will it take to end racism? Our guests are Dr. Gerald Horne and Joseph Williams.
Today on Sojourner Truth: In 2019, U.S. police killed 259 Black people. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people, according to Mapping Police Violence. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Within recent weeks, there has been a spate of police killings of Black people across the United States. On March 13, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was murdered by police in Louisville, Kentucky. On May 25, 46-year-old George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Countless others have also impacted, including in Brunswick, Georgia, the case of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed by vigilantes. While police killings of Black people in the United States are certainly not a new phenomenon, a nationwide and multi-racial movement calling for the defunding and abolition of police is now quickly gaining traction. In New York City, for example, Mayor Bill de Blasio has somewhat conceded to protesters demands to shift funds away from the NYPD toward youth and social services. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has said that he has tasked the city with identifying $150 million in cuts to invest more money into the Black community, communities of color, women and "people who have been left behind." And in Minneapolis, where the latest uprising against police terror began, nine members of the Minneapolis City Council said that they supported defunding the citys police department and replacing it with a community-based public safety model. Across the U.S., calls for defunding and abolishing police are getting louder by the day. What is the history of policing in the U.S.? How did it start? What impact did its history have on what is happening in policing today? What is the inter-relationship between the legacy of slavery and genocide against Indigenous people, policing and mass incarceration practices of today? Will reforming policing in the U.S. bring an end to racism in the U.S.? What will it take to end racism? Our guests are Dr. Gerald Horne and Joseph Williams.
Today on Sojourner Truth: In 2019, U.S. police killed 259 Black people. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people, according to Mapping Police Violence. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Within recent weeks, there has been a spate of police killings of Black people across the United States. On March 13, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was murdered by police in Louisville, Kentucky. On May 25, 46-year-old George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Countless others have also impacted, including in Brunswick, Georgia, the case of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed by vigilantes. While police killings of Black people in the United States are certainly not a new phenomenon, a nationwide and multi-racial movement calling for the defunding and abolition of police is now quickly gaining traction. In New York City, for example, Mayor Bill de Blasio has somewhat conceded to protesters demands to shift funds away from the NYPD toward youth and social services. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has said that he has tasked the city with identifying $150 million in cuts to invest more money into the Black community, communities of color, women and "people who have been left behind." And in Minneapolis, where the latest uprising against police terror began, nine members of the Minneapolis City Council said that they supported defunding the citys police department and replacing it with a community-based public safety model. Across the U.S., calls for defunding and abolishing police are getting louder by the day. What is the history of policing in the U.S.? How did it start? What impact did its history have on what is happening in policing today? What is the inter-relationship between the legacy of slavery and genocide against Indigenous people, policing and mass incarceration practices of today? Will reforming policing in the U.S. bring an end to racism in the U.S.? What will it take to end racism? Our guests are Dr. Gerald Horne and Joseph Williams.
Today on Sojourner Truth: In 2019, U.S. police killed 259 Black people. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people, according to Mapping Police Violence. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Within recent weeks, there has been a spate of police killings of Black people across the United States. On March 13, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was murdered by police in Louisville, Kentucky. On May 25, 46-year-old George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Countless others have also impacted, including in Brunswick, Georgia, the case of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed by vigilantes. While police killings of Black people in the United States are certainly not a new phenomenon, a nationwide and multi-racial movement calling for the defunding and abolition of police is now quickly gaining traction. In New York City, for example, Mayor Bill de Blasio has somewhat conceded to protesters demands to shift funds away from the NYPD toward youth and social services. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has said that he has tasked the city with identifying $150 million in cuts to invest more money into the Black community, communities of color, women and "people who have been left behind." And in Minneapolis, where the latest uprising against police terror began, nine members of the Minneapolis City Council said that they supported defunding the citys police department and replacing it with a community-based public safety model. Across the U.S., calls for defunding and abolishing police are getting louder by the day. What is the history of policing in the U.S.? How did it start? What impact did its history have on what is happening in policing today? What is the inter-relationship between the legacy of slavery and genocide against Indigenous people, policing and mass incarceration practices of today? Will reforming policing in the U.S. bring an end to racism in the U.S.? What will it take to end racism? Our guests are Dr. Gerald Horne and Joseph Williams.
Today on Sojourner Truth: In 2019, U.S. police killed 259 Black people. Between 2013 and 2019, police killed a total of 7,666 people, according to Mapping Police Violence. Overall, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Within recent weeks, there has been a spate of police killings of Black people across the United States. On March 13, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor was murdered by police in Louisville, Kentucky. On May 25, 46-year-old George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Countless others have also impacted, including in Brunswick, Georgia, the case of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed by vigilantes. While police killings of Black people in the United States are certainly not a new phenomenon, a nationwide and multi-racial movement calling for the defunding and abolition of police is now quickly gaining traction. In New York City, for example, Mayor Bill de Blasio has somewhat conceded to protesters demands to shift funds away from the NYPD toward youth and social services. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has said that he has tasked the city with identifying $150 million in cuts to invest more money into the Black community, communities of color, women and "people who have been left behind." And in Minneapolis, where the latest uprising against police terror began, nine members of the Minneapolis City Council said that they supported defunding the citys police department and replacing it with a community-based public safety model. Across the U.S., calls for defunding and abolishing police are getting louder by the day. What is the history of policing in the U.S.? How did it start? What impact did its history have on what is happening in policing today? What is the inter-relationship between the legacy of slavery and genocide against Indigenous people, policing and mass incarceration practices of today? Will reforming policing in the U.S. bring an end to racism in the U.S.? What will it take to end racism? Our guests are Dr. Gerald Horne and Joseph Williams.
The recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others have brought violence and racism against black Americans to the forefront of political and social conversation . Data from the advocacy group Mapping Police Violence shows that black Americans are at an increased risk of being killed by police, accounting for 24% of all people killed by police in 2019, despite making up only 13% of the nation’s population. The U.S. Department of Justice also reports that the victims of almost half of all homicides and 15% of all nonfatal violent crimes in 2005 were black.
For this episode, C + D pause their regular programming to talk about the #BlackLivesMatter movement and how important it is to fight systemic racism and police brutality—today and beyond. “Racism is not getting worse, it's getting filmed.”—Will Smith Watch “Selma” for a fresh take on the 1960s civil rights movement Learn from the devastatingly real 1973 psychological and social experiment of a simulated prison in The Stanford Prison Experiment Watch the full interview between the beloved actor and Stephen Colbert from the “Late Show” Visit this post to learn the harsh reality of Qualified Immunity and text “SIGN SEUDKP” to 50409 to sign the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act” and have it delivered to your representative(s) Check out “A little comic to explain why all lives matter is a stupid protest” on Reddit Look into the following list of organization and fundraisers to determine how you can support the #BlackLivesMatter movement For donating bail funds to help protestors get back home: The Bail Project and National Bail Fund Network For petitions to sign on behalf of George and Breonna: “Justice for George Floyd” Petition and “Justice for Breonna Taylor” Petition For nonprofits aiming to make change across the nation: Campaign Zero, American Civil Liberties Union, Mapping Police Violence, and Resistbot Pick up a book from this recommendation list to educate yourself and spread the truth A special message from your hosts: We stand with the Black members of our community and our nation. The police brutality, racial injustice, and all forms of racism poisoning our humanity must come to an end. We hope this movement sparks real change, and we are committed to doing and living better. If you have your own experiences and resources you’d like to share—or you simply need an avenue to express your own feelings and opinions in this difficult time—please feel free to email us at currentlyobsessedclub@gmail.com with anything and everything.
Hey listeners, welcome back to the Whole View, episode 407. (0:27) Stacy knows that this might sound a little unusual, but this is one of the reasons that we do weekly recordings so that we can address things that are happening in the real world. With everything that is going on right now, it didn't seem right to record the podcast as planned. However, Stacy and Sarah wanted to instead open up a conversation with listeners. We have been having conversations amongst ourselves, and feel passionate that it is important to talk about the racial disparities that cause things we talk about on this podcast all the time. To dive into that a little bit deeper is important, and to discuss what all of us can do to support the Black Lives Matter movement. If you are listening to this podcast at a later time, this is being recorded during the first week of June. This is a week where we as a nation are examining how we treat the black community. Stacy noted that we will not be perfect in this show, but both she and Sarah are going to give it their best effort to bring these topics to the table. Sarah feels it is important to preface this show that they are going to do what they always do and discuss health, wellness, and safety, driven by science, and intersect that with the real-life emotional and physical experience. And that is what we are going to do in this week's episode, and dive into how all of these things are disproportionally affecting the black community. We are going to discuss how this has been a major contributor to this moment in history. It is also really important to preface this entire conversation by expressing our solidarity with the black community against racism, against injustice, and against senseless violence. Stacy's Reflection Stacy wants to also note that both Sarah and Stacy are college-educated, white women who live in the suburbs. (2:36) They cannot possibly understand the black experience. However, we stand with the ideals of quality, safety, and wellness for all, as we talk about on this show all the time. Stacy personally felt like her beliefs aligned with that, but she had this moment of realization when a reader called Stacy out and held her accountable. She is so grateful for this. At first, she felt defensive of this, but the more that she thought about it the more she realized how it was important to not just personally not be a racist but to instead be anti-racist. The thing that really clicked for Stacy was when this reader said, "but being gluten-free and using non-toxic skincare won't matter if I am dead in the street." Stacy was also reading another resource on the principles of the hierarchy of your psychological state of well-being. At the very core, at the lowest rung, is safety. If you don't feel safe, you can't get to anything else. There is no ability in your cognitive thought process to handle more complicated mattes. Putting those things together and realizing that gluten doesn't matter if you are worried about your safety when you go out having done nothing wrong. Stacy didn't at first talk about this because she didn't feel like she had the right words or she didn't know where to start. However, she wants to put it out there that as all of us start to have these conversations it is going to be hard. And it will be uncomfortable, but doing that hard work (including putting ourselves out there right now) creates a sense of fear from backlash. But Stacy wants to say that choosing not to speak is part of that privilege that most of us are born into. When Stacy imagines that fear of discomfort as being something you have your whole life because of the color of your skin, that is the black experience all the time. Stacy just can't sit by and say that is ok. We can do something. We can help people try to understand, and that is our goal today. Stacy appreciates your patience with us as we tackle something new but very important. Sarah's Reflection For Sarah, her experience has been similar in the sense of starting with a sense of discomfort around finding the right words to express herself. (6:44) Trying to find the right way to express solidarity with the black community. The feelings of nervousness and awkwardness have been compounded with being an immigrant. This part of the immigration experience where Sarah feels she is not supposed to criticize her adopted home. However, she has come around to really viewing the data that we will share in this episode, as something more important. It is about building awareness of a systemic problem that needs to be fixed so that our country can be better for everyone in it. The Start of a Political Uprising We are talking about centuries of systemic racism. (8:19) And now, we are talking about a situation where the global pandemic has really drawn the curtain back and revealed the extent of how systemic racism is impacting people of color. How covid has so disproportionally affected those communities and how the economic depression that has been caused by covid has centralized within those communities. It has created distinct energy within this climate. In fairly rapid succession, we had Amy Cooper in Central Park who called the police on Christian Cooper. We had the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Then we had the Breonna Taylor shooting, where she was killed by police in her home. And then most recently we had the homicide of George Floyd by a police officer while three other officers watched. This is not the first tragic example of police violence against a person of color. However, it is the spark on this that has lit this powder keg that is the frustration of all of these events coming together. It is this unique period of time where the depth of systemic racism is so visible in the covid-19 data and then ignited by these recent examples of racism. For a deeper look at this, please refer to this link. What we are going to do is get into the actual science and the data behind these events that have led to the current events. There are 140 different cities and towns, at least, in the country where there are protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. All of those of us who are in the periphery need to be able to support this community. Stacy reflected a bit more on Sarah's perspective as an American immigrant. She feels passionate that immigrants and people of color make America what it is today. Stacy hopes that this information they are going to share can help highlight how things are pulling us apart instead of pulling us together. Here is an opportunity to change. There is nothing we can do about the past. This is an opportunity to take in the information and ask, now that I know better, how can I do better. Racial Disparities in Covid-19 What has really been problematic is that there isn't comprehensive data on race and ethnicity in the covid-19 data. (15:18) There are isolated places that are keeping data and there are a variety of organizations that are trying to gather and analyze that data. The CDC does have an entire page dedicated to the racial disparities in covid-19. There are only looking at data from about 580 patients. The APM Research Lab has found that Black Americans have mortality rates that are more than twice as high as other races. There are more covid cases amongst the African American community because they are much more likely to work in the service industry and much more likely to not have paid sick leave. And there is a higher mortality rate because of pre-existing racial disparities in both chronic illness and access to health care. So what is happening right now, looking at the data, is that the disparities are different in different regions. On average, the disparity is that African Americans are dying at a little over twice the rate as white Americans. However, there are places where the disparity is closer to five times higher (ex, Louisiana). In Michigan, it is 10 times higher. We can see a greater disparity in different regions of the country where this data is being collected, we can see a greater disparity. And In North Carolina, the difference is 50%, which is still not ok. What this is showing us is this collection of different factors that are contributing to this. For example, nearly a quarter of employed African American workers work in the service industry, compared to only 16% of non-Hispanic whites. They are far more likely to be considered an essential employee. For example, even though Black Americans only make up 12% of all employed workers, they make up 30% of practical and licensed vocational nurses. They are caring for people with covid-19, so they are high-risk by the sheer nature of the work they are doing. Here are three articles to refer to for more information: one, two, and three. Racial Disparities in Chronic Disease We are compounding that onto a pre-existing problem where there are huge racial disparities in chronic disease. (19:19) There are a variety of reasons for this. Sarah has seen this referred to as being a “complex disparity ecosystem”. This basically means that there are a lot of factors that are all contributors to this disparity. It includes things like lower levels of economic resources, lower levels of access to health care, delays in treatment, lower health literacy rates. This also includes environmental factors. Black Americans are more likely to have contaminated water or being exposed to environmental pollutants, and less likely to have access to a grocery store that has fresh produce. All of these are contributing to a much higher prevalence of all of the risk factors for a severe case of covid-19. African Americans have a 70% higher rate of diabetes than white Americans. There are higher rates of cardiovascular disease, especially stroke. And there is nearly double the rate of hypertension, high blood pressure, which is one of the strongest risk factors for a severe course of covid-19. There are also higher rates of cancer. For example, the cancer rate in African Americans is 35% higher than for whites. Digging Deeper into the Statistics This is one of the big challenges for the Black community. It is not just the increased exposure to covid, it is not just that they make up a larger proportion of the people who are getting it. However, it is that they are far more likely to have these pre-existing conditions that make them more likely to have a severe course of the disease. And on top of all that, compared to white Americans, African Americans are about twice as likely to uninsured. If you look at various surveys, Black Americans are much more likely to report not being able to see a doctor because of the cost. They are far less likely to have employer-based health insurance. So there is increased exposure because of economics. Then there is the more likely to have a pre-existing condition that increases the likelihood of a severe course of the disease. And then there is the less likely to see a doctor get the appropriate levels of healthcare. All of that together has led to these disparities as to how covid-19 is impacting the Black community. Economic Disparities The other thing that we have seen is an economic depression. (22:47) We haven't seen rates of unemployment like this ever, and this has disproportionally impacted people of color. A Pew Research Center survey shows that Latinx and Black households are being hit with more job losses than White ones. Sixty-six percent of Latinx households and 44 percent of Black households have had a job or wage loss due to the pandemic, compared to 38 percent of White households. There’s also a wealth gap, so these are people who are much less likely to have savings, own a home, etc. According to our Racial Wealth Divide report, the median Black family, with just over $3,500, owns just 2 percent of the wealth of the nearly $147,000 the median White family owns. One of the things that Stacy has come around to understand more is the different ways to represent economic disparities. When we say something like a Black family has less wealth than a white family, let Stacy give some tangible numbers in an article she read based on where she lives. The average median household income for a black family is $84,000. Matt and Stacy live in one of the most expensive costs of living areas in the country. However, if you look at the white median income, it is $118,000. So it is not just the difference between whether someone is college-educated or not, this goes back so long into things that have built systemic racism into our country. Oftentimes we don't even realize our culture is making racial assumptions for. Stacy feels that this goes into a lot of bias in the healthcare world as well. Because it is more likely that these conditions exist in Black Americans, it is also assumed, or bias is given, and lack of care. You are seeing not just an impact from the fact that they have an increased risk of health conditions. But you are also seeing they are not getting proper medical care because of bias and assumptions that are being made by healthcare professionals. We Can Do Better We, as white people, are never going to understand the Black experience. (27:30) But we can try to put ourselves in a situation where we can know that things are happening are not ok. We can use our voice to speak on behalf of those that are being marginalized or being oppressed. Stacy tries to do this for all communities who affect health, and realizing now is not something she has been doing for people of color who find themselves in these situations regularly. We as a country can do better, and there is so much that we need to learn to do that. Where to Start One resource, a podcast episode that Sarah listened to a few days ago, that she would like to point listeners to is Hidden Brain, The People Like Us. (28:21) This podcast episode broke down how covid-19 disproportionally impacts people of color and then looked at ways healthcare could be improved to address these inequalities. One of the things we want to do in this episode beyond bringing the data into this conversation is to help our listeners with at least some starting places of resources that both Stacy and Sarah have found helpful. Stacy and Sarah are being very intentional in trying to reflect and learn and educate themselves in this time. The more that we listen, the more that we learn, the more that we read, the more we support the communities that need us to understand and speak on behalf of. One of the things that Stacy is doing is having an activity to teach her children about racism, privilege, and how we as privileged white people can use our voice on behalf of those who are not as unfortunate. There are videos she has been showing them, and then asking questions afterward. They have also been watching a movie at night to learn about Black culture, racism, or civil rights every single night as well. Stacy feels that her kids do not need to consume the negativity of the news, but they do need to be aware of what is happening in the world. These children will inherit this earth and can continue to make changes. Learning not just why it is important to vote, but how to also participate in local elections and that it is our responsibility to do so. Stacy is realizing how grateful she is for quarantine because of the opportunity we have to control the narrative on what our kids are seeing and hearing. We can shape how kids reflect and learn about this. Statistics on Police Brutality This is one of the problems is that there is no comprehensive federal database on violent incidents with police. (34:44) After Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, there were a variety of independent third parties that took up the mantle of tracking this data. There are now a few that do this called Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and the Washington Post's Fatal Force Project. They collect data in different ways, tracking slightly different, and also counting different things. Over the last six years, they have revealed some statistical trends. On average there has not been much change in the past six years in terms of police violence and lethal force being used. There is some shift where it is decreasing in some of the big cities that have had initiatives to not use lethal force and have really worked on really changing the police culture. In big cities, the rate of people being killed by police has gone down, but it has gone up in suburban and rural communities. On average, it is about the same. Last year, there were a little over 1,000 people killed by police as found by Mapping Police Violence. Black people are about 2.5x more likely to be killed. They are disproportionally represented in that group. In addition, they are more likely to be unarmed than a white person when they are killed. There are people who are looking at this data trying to tease out and understand ways to address it. Some ways have been shown to be completely ineffective. For instance, body cams have been shown to not impact the police brutality rates at all. Bias training, on the whole, has been shown to be relatively inaffective as well, which may have to do with the variety in which bias training is conducted. There was a study published last fall in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that estimated that a black man in America had approximately one in one-thousand chance in being killed by police in his lifetime. The chance is of course much higher in that twenty-five to thirty-five age range. That statistic is really eye-opening. Sarah pointed out that the mortality rate is not much different from covid-19. For more information on this topic, see here, here and here. Stacy noted that whatever bias or assumption you have on these statistics, those have already been corrected for. Ways to Support the Black Lives Matter Movement This is what we mean by learn and seek out this information for yourself. (39:44) Knowledge is power. The more knowledgeable we become on this, the more we can have those conversations that say something contrary to support Black Lives Matter. If you have the education and information you can help do the hard work. Black lives matter, and these conversations need in order to protect those lives that we have talked about. We can stand up, and get comfortable being uncomfortable speaking up for the marginalized group and people of color, and Black Americans specifically. One of the things that Sarah has been learning about in particular is learning about the language used to describe the Black Lives Matter protests right now. This has also led Sarah to examine her own language and unconscious bias. A Black Lives Matter protest is much more likely to have the words violent used to describe it, or to be called a riot. Examine the language being used. The current protests are standing up to injustice, and they are very important. They are demanding change that should have already happened. The other thing that Stacy wants to say is that this is not to say that there are not numerous people across all walks of life who are not wonderful allies. One of the things that we can do is be an ally in the future. The more we acknowledge and apologize for what is happening and openly come out and be an ally going forward, the more we lend to that positive protest. This is our way of being able to support change. Another thing that Stacy has been trying to do is share content from Black voices to help amplify them. The example she brought up was following Charlotte on Instagram. Add people to your network and community - seek them out and engage. When we only see our own type of people (whether it is gender, age, the color of skin, etc.) we are all better served when we have diversity in our life. Being able to find Black voices who are talking about this, or going forward you want to make sure you are supporting the work and shops of Black people, this will help their ability to get past those economic disparities. There are a lot of people outside of our communities who will bring joy and depth and knowledge and interest and comedy to our lives. Stacy knows she is better when she is bringing diversity into her life. Additional Ideas Sarah read an article in the Independent that really spoke to her in terms of giving her an action list for ways that she can support the Black community at this time. Here was an expert Sarah wanted to share from “Not Racist” to Antiracist, article by Michael Crawford: “Make a commitment to fighting for racial equity and move to action by challenging racist words and actions from people you know, donating money to civil rights organizations like Color of Change, Minnesota Freedom Fund Inc. and Fair Fight; signing petitions by groups like MoveOn; giving your children books featuring diverse characters; posting antiracist articles on Facebook; writing letters to the editor of your local newspaper urging justice; calling your city council members and demanding better oversight of the police department; calling the offices of progressive candidates to volunteer; and making sure you're registered to vote.” Danielle Coke is another Instagram account Stacy noted. This YouTube video is another great resource to reference. And here is a list of books to reference for additional education surrounding this discussion. Laslty, here is a list of organizations you can volunteer for or donate to. Closing Thoughts If you are feeling some kind of way right now, like Stacy, and are realizing that you want to do more and that you are struggling with having not done those things previously, remember what we always say. (49:33) Looking behind with shame and guilt does not help you move forward. However, being of service, making a difference, and focusing on what you can do going forward is going to help effect change for this community. Wallowing in guilt or shame or feeling confused and not doing anything will not help to bring change. We are putting all these references in the show notes for you and we hope that it serves as an opportunity for you to continue the discussion. Stacy has heard and read from Black voices over and over again that the best we can do is apologize for what has happened in the past. It is not ok. We can acknowledge that we are an ally and want to affect change going forward. Then we can listen and learn so we can do just that. These are Stacy's principles going forward. Listeners, Stacy hopes that this is helpful for you to go forward. Take a deep breath and think about what can you do. There are little things that we can all do, that will lead to big change. Sarah wants to again acknowledge that both Stacy and Sarah are trying to use their platform to acknowledge where they know they can do better. They are not trying to just express their solidarity with the Black community, but also bring awareness to the social injustices and racial disparities that have built this moment. We encourage our listeners, please remember that this isn't about being perfect, it is about taking those first steps down the road. Stacy and Sarah are hoping to use their platforms to build awareness so that they can encourage all of our listeners and the people in your lives to advocate for equality. That is what this is about. Know better, do better. We can apply that to every facet of our life. We hope that this can help you find a way to do that in your own life. Thank you for your patience as we worked through this, we hope that this inspires you to do your best. Huge thank you for listening and we will be back again next week! (54:05)
On this edition of Your Call, we continue our series on the uprisings over the death of George Floyd and police brutality. According to Mapping Police Violence , from 2013 to 2019, 99 percent of killings by police did not result in officers being charged with a crime.
50 years have passed since Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War. Four students were killed and nine wounded. On this week's program, Mickey and his guests review the event and reflect on its impact, then and now. Notes: Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University in Washington, DC, and coauthor of The Untold History of the United States. In 1970, he was a Rutgers University student and an antiwar organizer. Joseph Lewis was a Kent State student in 1970, and one of the nine students wounded by National Guard gunfire. Laurel Krause is the younger sister of Allison Krause, one of the four Kent State students shot to death in 1970. She has been part of the Krause family's campaign for official accountability for the death of Allison. DeRay McKesson, born in 1985, is a Black Lives Matter organizer, an author, and one of the founders of the Mapping Police Violence project. His web site is www.deray.com. The entire four hours of Mickey's interviews can be found at www.truthtribunal.org. Music-break info:"Ohio" by Neil Young.
For the last several years, police violence in America has come tothe forefront of public consciousness. It is an issue that can polarize the country but for years, there lacked a data-driven analysis of police violence on a national level, and concrete policy recommendations on the issue were hard to come by. On this episode of Root of Conflict,Pearson Fellows Sonnet Frisbie and Mwangi Thuita speak with Sam Sinyangwe - activist, data scientist, and co-founder of Mapping Police Violence, the most comprehensive database of people killed by police. Sam discusses the evidence-based approaches to measuring police violence in America, and the importance of conveying the data, to the public and to policymakers, in a way that can affect real policy change.
This week, guest host and Heinz alum Rondell Jordan teams up with Jason to interview Sam Sinyangwe. Sam is a policy analyst and activist who founded Campaign Zero - a platform of 10 policy interventions aimed at reducing police violence across the country. He also produced Mapping Police Violence, a database of police killings in the U.S. Rondell and Jason talk to Sam about how data and people interact to both amplify and reduce biases, and his approach to better processes for collecting, interpreting, and using that data. This turned into a deep conversation about the various issues around how police violence is measured and reported, and how he's trying to use data and a new organizing model to transform the institutions in the country.
If you don’t know Samuel Sinyangwe’s name, you definitely know his work. He is one of the creators of Mapping Police Violence, the most comprehensive database of people killed by police in the US since 2013. In this live conversation with Urban Institute staff, Sinyangwe discusses his approach to activism and research.
Activist Deray Mckesson has been creating the digital blueprint on how to end police violence in the U.S. since 2014, from live-documenting Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, to launching the Mapping Police Violence database, to creating his Webby-Nominated podcast on social justice and politics—Pod Save The People, and beyond. He joins host David-Michel Davies for a download on the early days of using the Internet for activist work, his team's Campaign Zero initiative, and more. Follow DeRay @deray. Listen to Pod Save the People at crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people. And be sure to check out Mapping Police Violence at mappingpoliceviolence.org.Follow us on social @TheWebbyAwardsKeep up with David-Michel @dmdlikesOur Producer is Sebastian AdeOur Editorial Director is Nicole FerraroResearch and writing by Jordana Jarrett Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On The Gist, Mike calls foul on the mashup terms used to describe big weather events, such as the latest: bombogenesis. In the interview, police shootings regularly make headlines, but what does the big picture look like? Sam Sinyangwe is a data analyst at Mapping Police Violence, an organization that recently looked at all 1,129 cases in which a person died at the hands of the police in 2017. And yes, there is a racial disparity. In the Spiel, the barbs traded between President Trump and Steve Bannon truly are the stuff of Shakespeare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On The Gist, Mike calls foul on the mashup terms used to describe big weather events, such as the latest: bombogenesis. In the interview, police shootings regularly make headlines, but what does the big picture look like? Sam Sinyangwe is a data analyst at Mapping Police Violence, an organization that recently looked at all 1,129 cases in which a person died at the hands of the police in 2017. And yes, there is a racial disparity. In the Spiel, the barbs traded between President Trump and Steve Bannon truly are the stuff of Shakespeare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On today's episode I talk to policy analyst and data scientist Sam Sinyangwe. Sam grew up in Orlando, FL, and has been involved in organizing and advocacy since he was in high school. He's worked at PolicyLink helping to support a national network of 61 "Promise Neighborhoods" with the goal of building cradle-to-career systems of support for low-income families. He created the "Mapping Police Violence" project, which collects and uses data as a tool for fighting police violence. And most recently, he founded Campaign Zero with DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett. Campaign Zero is a comprehensive organization dedicated to ending police violence by limiting police interventions, improving community interactions, and ensuring accountability. He's also the co-founder of two other activist organizations StayWoke and OurStates, the latter which is dedicated to connecting communities in order to combat the Trump/GOP agenda. This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on iTunes, follow me on Twitter.
A monologue about a Latina woman who is confronted by the police in her home starts a conversation about community policing and law enforcement. Featuring conversations with a young Afro-Latina woman who channels her Puerto Rican father's stories about law enforcement into her writing and activism, Michael J. Chitwood, a police chief with a 53-year career in law enforcement, and Vashti Dubois and Dubois Stewart, a mother and son in the wake of a stop and frisk. Click here to read a transcript of this episode. You come into this neighborhood and police it when you feel like it. And because you’re at the top, and we’re at the bottom you think you got us all figured out: we’re all just thugs. But you don’t know me... — from "Neighborhood Blue" by Autumn Angelettie  * * * When Autumn Angelettie was given an assignment in her creative writing class to write a monologue about something that has been on her mind recently, she chose to write about community policing. “I think when I was a kid the way I was taught to think about police officers was respect them, keep your distance,” Autumn, a young Afro-Latina woman, said when asked about how she feels about police. “Don’t really interact because things can go wrong really quickly.” For Dubois Stewart, a young African American man, the latter sentiment flashed through his mind when he was stopped and frisked by the police for the first time recently. “I was terrified” he said. “I seriously thought I wouldn’t go away unharmed.” Dubois’ mother, Vashti, knew this day would come. “We practiced,” she said, in order to avoid what could have happened. “It could’ve gone badly. It could’ve gone really badly. For no reason.” For communities of color, relationships with police are precarious, to say the least. Because this keeps happening. Again and again and again. The ongoing trauma has negative effects for communities and families on both sides of the badge. For law enforcement officers, like Michael J. Chitwood, Superintendent of the Upper Darby Police, the pursuit of public safety is about working in the community to build relationships, trust, and familiarity. So when something goes fatally wrong, it’s a setback. “Everybody deserves the opportunity to educate their children to sit down on their step to walk their dog and to enjoy life,” Chitwood says. “And that’s what our goal is. And I think sometimes we do it. But it’s a constant, continual being out there, being present, being a part of the community.” conversations Michael J. Chitwood is Superintendent of the Upper Darby Police Department. His 53 year career in law enforcement began in 1964 in Philadelphia, where he worked as a highway patrolman, hostage negotiator, and homicide detective for 19 years. In 1983, he became Police Chief of Middletown Township in Bucks County, where he spent four and a half years before being named Chief of Police in Portland, Maine, where he worked for 14 years before coming to Upper Darby in 2005. As Superintendent, Chief Chitwood oversees more than 130 officers in the incredibly diverse community of Upper Darby, which is home to residents who speak more than 50 languages. Chief Chitwood's leadership centers on building relationships between the police force and the community. The Police Department runs a number of community initiatives, including a 5th grade mentoring program, Citizens Police Academy, and Coffee with a Cop. Image: Upper Darby Police Department Dubois Stewart (left) is a senior at Science Leadership Academy. An avid squash player, Dubois is a member of the SquashSmarts family where he mentors other young people and teaches them how to play squash. This fall, he will attend the University of Pennsylvania to study environmental science. His mother, Vashti Dubois (right), is the Founder and Executive Director of The Colored Girls Museum in Historic Germantown. Founded in 2015, The Colored Girls Museum "honors the stories, experiences, and history of Colored Girls" and is the first institution of its kind, offering visitors a multi-disciplinary experience of memoir in all its variety in a residential space. Vashti is also a literacy coach at the Free Library of Philadelphia and has held leadership positions at a number of organizations over her more than 30 year career in non-profit and arts administration, including: Tree House Books, the Historic Church of the Advocate, Children's Art Carnival in New York City, Haymarket Peoples Fund in Boston, Congreso Girls Center, and The Leeway Foundation. Image_: Denise Allen_ connections According to their website, "The mission of the Upper Darby Township Police Department is to partner with community members to increase the quality of life for all citizens in the Township. Through law enforcement, we will increase public safety thereby reducing the fear and incidence of crime. We will commit to providing high quality services with honor and integrity." Mural of officers and youth painted by young residents of Upper Darby (photo by Mitchell Bloom) The Colored Girls Museum "is a memoir museum, which honors the stories, experiences, and history of Colored Girls. This museum initiates the 'ordinary' object—submitted by the colored girl herself, as representative of an aspect of her story and personal history, which she finds meaningful; her object embodies her experience and expression of being a Colored Girl. The Colored Girls Museum is headquartered in the historic neighborhood of Germantown in Philadelphia, an area renowned for its compliment of historic buildings and homes. Audience members are treated to a Salon Styled-Guided tour of a home which has been converted to a Museum. This multidisciplinary event is a collaborative experience between patrons and The Colored Girls Museum." further reading & Resources For more information about police violence in the United States, check out Mapping Police Violence, a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities. For our Philly crowd: Find out where the Democratic candidates for District Attorney stand on police shootings and policies like stop and frisk via Philly.com. For some lighter fare and perhaps a smile, check out this article from the Washington Post about a video of a police encounter that ended in a dance off, which includes a compilation of some of the finer dancing cop moments. From the article: "When reached by phone, the officer in the video said she did not want to be identified because she didn’t want to make the story about her. 'It’s kind of embarrassing that this became so big,” she said. “This is what we do everyday.'" Click here to learn more about Philadelphia Young Playwrights.
A rerun of a conversation with Samuel Sinyangwe describing why data on police shootings is so murky. Samuel runs mappingpoliceviolence.org and checkthepolice.org
Mike talks to Samuel Sinyangwe, co-founder of OurStates, an initiative that connects communities to actionable information and tools to reject the Trump / GOP agenda in every state and protect communities from harm. Mr. Sinyangwe is a policy analyst and data scientist who also co-founded Mapping Police Violence, which collects and analyzes data on police violence in the United States. He's been featured on MSNBC, CNN, BBC, LA Times, the Forbes '30 under 30' and The Root 100. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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