Podcasts about racial reckoning

In this episode we interview Austin McCoy to discuss his piece “'Disorganize the State': The Black Workers Congress's Visions of Abolition-Democracy in the 1970's", which Austin wrote for the Labor and Employment Relations Association's publication A Racial Reckoning in Industrial Relations: Storytelling as Revolution from Within.  Austin McCoy is a historian of the 20th Century United States with specializations in African American History, labor, and cultural history.  He is currently working on two books:   The Quest for Democracy: Black Power, New Left, and Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Midwest and a cultural and personal history of De La Soul. The conversation allows us to once again return to the current of radical anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-racist labor organizing that emanated from organizations like DRUM (the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement), the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and - the focus of McCoy's essay - the Black Workers Congress.  In this episode we talk about the BWC's radical vision, which McCoy describes as in the tradition of what W.E.B. Du Bois called “abolition democracy.” And we discuss some of the organizing history of the various individuals and organizations associated with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as well as what happened to their vision over time.  We recorded this discussion on December 18th of 2023 so while we discuss the solidarity that these revolutionary Black organizers had with Palestinians and discuss the UAW's ceasefire call and their proposal to examine divestment, there are some notes that are important to add as we release this discussion almost a year later (a delay that is entirely my fault).  The UAW has endorsed Kamala Harris despite her role in the genocide of Palestinians and her refusal to call for an arms embargo and they did so with no concessions whatsoever on that issue. This stance by the UAW in this moment in many ways reflects the very currents of racist and imperialist union organizing that groups like the League and the BWC were organizing against. So while we can talk about the folks within the UAW who organized for those statements and resolutions within their union as operating within the traditions we discuss in this episode, it is important to note - at least in my view - that the UAW as a whole has ultimately shunned that radical legacy and replicated the historical role of the labor aristocracy in this moment as they and other major unions in the US have done over and over again.  Nonetheless, I do think that it is important to not dismiss the power or potential of labor organizing in moments like this, even if that potential remains unfulfilled. I think about the lessons that Stefano Harney and Fred Moten pull from people like General Baker when they called us to “wildcat the totality” several years ago.  I'd like to send much appreciation to Austin McCoy for this discussion. If you would like to support our work please become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Links and related or referenced discussions: Our two part conversation with Herb Boyd about this period and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (Part 1, Part 2)  "Finally Got the News" (film about the League) Some archival documents related to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (visit FreedomArchives.org for more)  Our discussion with J. Moufawad-Paul on "Economism" which deals with some of the imperialist and racist trends within the labor movement (and within Communist or Socialist approaches to organizing the labor movement within empire at various times). 

Resmaa Menakem is a therapist, trauma specialist, and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies andThe Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning.For full show notes, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/resmaa-menakemSend us a Text Message.Save 10% on tuition for the Next Economy MBA, a nine-month facilitated cohort by the LIFT Economy team. Use PODCASTMBA at checkout. Learn more at lifteconomy.com/mbaSupport the Show.

It seems like a lifetime ago that Ta'Nehisi Coates was making his case for reparations, Ibrahim X. Kendi was teaching America how to be anti racist and a group of women from the West Coast launched a hashtag that for a time started a movement in Black Lives Matter. This was the impetus of  the racial reckoning that Kendi and others called a 3rd Reconstruction for Black Americans.   In 2014, Coates' essay in The Atlantic reignited a more serious conversation around reparations for African Americans, sparking a broader dialogue on the idea of systemic racism, historical injustices of redlining in housing and the need for meaningful change. That change would have to be redressed financially, because in capitalism, we can only solve the crisis of capitalism with more capitalism.    This moment is preceded with the early rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, which emerged in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin. The movement brought issues of police brutality and racial inequality and in some cases mass incarceration to the forefront of public consciousness, leading to widespread protests and calls for justice.   Over the next several years, the Black political vision became increasingly centered on identity politics, emphasizing the importance of representation and recognition in addressing racial disparities. This focus, however, gradually evolved, as it always does, into a form of patronage politics, where symbolic victories often took precedence over substantive policy changes. Corporate and philanthropic foundations played a significant role in shaping the agenda, funding initiatives that prioritized diversity and inclusion over federally backed plans to tackle deeper systemic issues.   By the time of the George Floyd uprisings in 2020, it seemed as though a transformative moment had arrived. The protests were unprecedented in their scale and intensity, with millions demanding an end to police violence and systemic racism. Yet, despite the outpouring of activism and foundation money and the apparent momentum for change, the underlying structures of power remained largely unchallenged.   Fast forward to today, and we are witnessing a troubling return to "tough on crime" policies reminiscent of the 1990s. Fear of crime and visible homelessness have fueled public anxiety, prompting political leaders in major metropolitan cities like San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles to revert to strategies that prioritize law and order over social justice. This shift highlights the limitations of a decade-long racial reckoning that, while significant, ultimately fell short of achieving the transformative change many had hoped for.   As we examine this period, we must ask ourselves: What were the successes and failures of this era of racial reckoning? How did identity politics shape the movement, and what role did foundations play in guiding its direction? Most importantly, how can we learn from this history to build a more effective and lasting movement for racial justice in the future?   Join us as we delve into these questions and more, exploring the complex legacy of the past decade's racial reckoning and its implications for the ongoing struggle for equality and justice in America.   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles   Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert

324. The Embodied Path to Healing Racialized Trauma with Resmaa Menakem Author, therapist, licensed clinical worker, racialized trauma expert, Resmaa Menakem discusses the concepts of somatic abolitionism, and the importance of embodied anti-racist practices.  Discover:  -The difference between clean and dirty pain; -What white people need to do in order to help create an anti-racist society; and -Why we should shift from looking at the personal to looking at the historical to heal our traumas. On Resmaa: Resmaa Menakem is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid. As the leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism – an embodied anti-racist practice for living and culture building – Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute. Resmaa works at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning, Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy—And What You Can Do About It, and The Stories from My Grandmother's Hands, a children's picture book with actor T. Mychael Rambo and illustrator Leroy Campbell. In 2023, Resmaa released an on-demand self-paced course titled Healing Racialized Trauma: Somatic Abolitionism for Every Body. You can learn more about Resmaa and his work at www.resmaa.com. Work with Resmaa: https://blackoctopussociety.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At work, Jared and I try to stay as far apart as possible because he's the actor and I'm the EDI consultant. This is Jared, as in Troilo—my husband and father to our son, Levi! This conversation is a huge treat for us! Join us as we discuss Jared's 20+ year acting career, parenting in the theater industry, relationship building, the importance of curiosity, and the behind-the-scenes of starting my company and this podcast! It's been quite a wild ride, and as we close out Season 1 of Inclusive Stages, I'm so thrilled to be able to have this open, honest, and vulnerable conversation with Jared. You definitely won't want to miss this episode—especially the personal life update we share! Enjoy the show!In this episode, you will:Uncover how conversations with Jared during the 2020 racial reckoning inspired Kira's EDI work.Discover the benefits of raising children in and around the theater community.Learn how we can create rooms where disagreement is—and still create a culture of belonging.Full Show Notes Here!Mentioned ResourcesConsent-Forward Practices & Care-Forward Leadership with Leigh BarrettSetting Boundaries BTS for Racism On StageGuys & DollsAn American in ParisAbout FateFascinating RhythmConnect with Jared:WebsiteInstagramCONNECT with Kira:@kiratroilo @artandsoulconsulting @inclusivestagesWebsiteBecome a PatronJoin our mailing list - scroll to the bottom of the pageThanks for joining me on this episode of Inclusive Stages! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple or a rating on Spotify to help me reach more people ready to collectively shape the future of human-first theater, one stage at a time.Thanks to our music composer, Zachary McConnell and our producer, Leah Bryant.

Can we ever learn from history or are we forever doomed to repeat it? On this episode, listen to producer, Nehemiah Bester, as he shares his experience working on the documentary film, The Riot Report on PBS, while comparing and contrasting his personal accounts of rebellion, most notably during the Racial Reckoning of 2020, as a student, activist, and journalist. What's a riot? And what's a rebellion? The Riot Report itself, was the written conclusion of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Kerner Commission of 1967 on what was needed to remedy the massively tense relations among Black people and police that spawned countless riots and uprisings of the 1960s. It's decades later, but what lessons from this investigation can we learn from to prevent future turmoil? And when can we answer President Johnson's century old question? “What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again, and again?” Read the written version of this episode at: aclu-md.org/en/news/riot-vs-rebellion Watch the film: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/riot-report/

The murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed looked like a turning point in the fight against systemic racism. Except, as Vox's Fabiola Cineas explains, it wasn't. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, department head and North Carolina State University professor, Rasul Mowatt joins as a guest host to interview our host, Too Black regarding their joint coauthored book Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits.    We use the analytic framework of the book to explore the myth of a Racial Reckoning in 2020—the idea that after the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin in 2020, the US began a reckoning with its racial history of oppression and brutalization towards Black people. We discuss the pitfalls of reckoning with empire, the laundering of Black Rage historically, and offer reflections on writing the texts. Laundering Black Rage is now available on pre-order and will be available worldwide on April 11th. To purchase it at a discounted rate please follow the instructions below.    Type Discount code at checkout: EFLY01   https://www.routledge.com/Laundering-of-Black-Rage-The-Washing-of-Black-Death-People-Property/Black-Mowatt/p/book/9781032573779   Discounted Ebook https://play.google.com/store/books/details?pcampaignid=books_read_action&id=cY_2EAAAQBAJ   Original Essays   Pt. 1 http://www.blackagendareport.com/laundering-black-rage   Pt. 2 http://www.blackagendareport.com/laundering-black-rage-part-2   Patreon https://www.patreon.com/blackmyths

Two hard-hitting journalists join the podcast for this episode. Independently, they are brilliant leaders in their field who represent the very best of investigative reporting. But together, they're igniting a nation on the verge of its racial reckoning. Returning guest Ebony Reed is the first-ever Chief Strategy Officer of The Marshall Project, a leading news outlet bringing visibility to criminal justices. Louise Story is a Yale Professor and - until recently - a Chief Officer and Masthead Editor at The Wall Street Journal. Jointly, they are co-authors of the upcoming release, Fifteen Cents On The Dollar. It's an in-depth look at the most crucial story of our time…that was hundreds of years in the making.Website: https://www.amazon.com/Fifteen-Cents-Dollar-Americans-Black-White/dp/0063234726 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ebonyinkc/ | https://www.instagram.com/story_louise/?hl=en | Twitter: https://twitter.com/ebonyreed?lang=en | https://twitter.com/louisestory Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louise.story/

This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie look back on the Racial Reckoning™ and discuss the implosion of Ibram X. Kendi's Center for Anti-Racism Research. Plus: Trevor Bauer gets the last word. To support the show and get exta content and much more, become a Primo. To buy our very popular merch, shop here.The Athletic: “Graphic details, photos emerge in restraining order filed against Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer”Bauer videoThe Athletic: “Trevor Bauer settles legal dispute with woman who accused him of sexual assault”Lindsey Hill on The BlazeBU Daily Free Press: “Amid mass layoffs, BU Center for Antiracist Research accused of mismanagement of funds, disorganization”New York: “The BLM Mystery Where did the money go?”Michelle Goldberg: “Ibram X. Kendi and the Problem of Celebrity Fund-Raising”John McWhorter: “Don't Call Ibram X. Kendi a Grifter”Free Beacon: “Boston University Loaned $600K to a Mysterious Trust Run by Ibram Kendi's Brother-In-Law” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

Welcome to the 1st episode of season #4 of the Mind-Blowing Happiness® Podcast! Each month we speak to inspiring and empowering guests to help you rediscover your authenticity, realign with your values, and walk in your purpose for a juicier, more joyful life.In this episode, Trish kicks off the new season with New York Times Bestselling Author, Healer, and Trauma Specialist, Resmaa Menakem. Resmaa is the author of the New York Times bestseller, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. He is also the author of The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning, and Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy–and What You Can Do About It. Resmaa Menakem is a longtime therapist and a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the healing of racialized trauma. He is the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute and the originator and key advocate of Somatic Abolitionism. For ten years, Resmaa co-hosted a radio show with former U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison on KMOJ-FM in Minneapolis. He also hosted his own show, Resmaa in the Morning, on KMOJ. Resmaa has appeared on both The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on family dynamics, couples in conflict, and domestic violence. He has also been a guest on Charlamagne Tha God's Comedy Central TV program, Tha God's Honest Truth, and on iHeart radio's The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy.1:00 – Trish talks about how she learned of Resmaa's work3:50 – Resmaa talks about how he got into the work of healing8:40 – Resmaa explains "somatic abolitionism"12:00 – Trish and Resmaa address the concept of "wokeness"13:15 – Resmaa gives historical context to wokeness and "fugitiveness"17:05 – Trish and Resmaa talk about the impact of Jan 6 and the potential for a Civil War18:54 - Resmaa discusses how "symbols of our feral past" are part of our present20:30 - Resmaa examines the "training ground" of Jan 623:00 – Resmaa explains the value and "currency" of whiteness23:40 - Resmaa shares the mistake in his bestselling book, My Grandmother's Hands24:50 – Trish and Resmaa discuss the reason for the creation of "white supremacy" 26:15 – Resmaa explains why black and brown people should seek each other out27:00 - Resmaa explains that race has a "charge"28:40 - Trish talks about the need to awaken white compassion instead of tears29:53 - Resmaa offers his recommendation for personal growth in mainstream communities31:30 - Resmaa explains "bodies and logic"35:00 - Resmaa explains the concept of "generativeness"37:37 - Resmaa discusses the acronym, "VIMBASI" and how to reclaim the "6 intelligences"40:00 - Trish talks about her work with Black women and busyness40:30 - Resmaa talks about how rest for Black women is revolutionary41:50 - Trish recalls the consistency of images of white women being pampered and resting43:30 - Resmaa explains why the "structure" wants free labor45:00 - Resmaa encourages you to think of your body as a "toy box" instead of a "toolbox"45:20 - Trish talks about the shame of body rest and pleasure46:00 - Resmaa describes a powerful embodied mirror practice47:19 - Trish talks about the importance of nurturing the physical body48:00 - Resmaa discusses the power of pausing49:20 - Resmaa dives into pain and healing54:00 - Resmaa explains that most people don't look at or hold their own bodies54:50 - Trish and Resmaa share the strange childhood behavior they have in common56:00 - Trish and Resmaa talk about how to prepare for whatever is coming58:38 - Resmaa shares his new children's book projectLearn more about Resmaa Menakem's work and donate to his children's book project at https://www.resmaa.com/Learn more about Trish Ahjel Roberts' work and schedule a Clarity Call at https://TrishAhjelRoberts.com to learn about the 2024 Ghana Soul-Healing Retreat, Mind-Blowing Happiness Private Coaching, Finding Freedom Book Coaching, Passion Quest 6-Week Mind-Body-Soul Refresh for Black Women, and more!Follow @TrishAhjelRoberts on social media and get your complimentary copy of the Black Girl Joy Toolkit and the Mind-Blowing Happiness® Guide to Self-Careep52/s4/ep1

Originally Recorded July 25th, 2023Check out Eve Fairbanks's book The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning, now on paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Inheritors-Intimate-Portrait-Africas-Reckoning/dp/1476725276/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Check out Helen Andrews's review of Eve's book, Look Back In Anger, published in the Claremont Review of Books: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/look-back-in-anger/ Get full access to Unlicensed Philosophy with Chuong Nguyen at musicallyspeaking.substack.com/subscribe

Ranting and raving on two topics that are pressing issues in society. We've approached an alarming trend of emotional detachment in today's world, where genuine concern for others seems to be waning. Shifting gears, we confront the uncomfortable reality of racial issues in America. Unmasking the unsettling truth behind the whitewashing of history by those in power. Bottom line they don't give a F!

Spending time with the Breaking Ice theater based diversity, equity, and inclusion program gave rise to a question: How might new insights about how the brain works might help us better understand the how and why of our continuing struggle with difference? Here is what ensued. LISTEN TO Breaking Ice Chapter 1LISTEN TO Breaking Ice Chapter 2Change the Story / All Episodes Change the Story Collections - Our full catalogue of Episodes in 12 Collections: Justice Arts, Art & Healing, Cultural Organizing, Arts Ed./Children & Youth, Community Arts Training, Music for Change, Theater for Change, Change Making Media, Creative Climate Action, Art of the RuralNotable MentionsBreaking Ice is the award-winning program of Pillsbury House Theatre that for over 20 years has been “breaking the ice” for courageous and productive dialogue around issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. A diverse company of professional actors portrays real-life situations that are customized to meet the goals, needs and culture of each unique organization we serve.Pillsbury House and Theater is a groundbreaking “new model for human service work that recognizes the power of the arts and culture to stimulate community participation, investment and ownership.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.[1][2] He was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He was also the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.[3]SourcesQuestion 2: How does our environment what we think and believe? 1.Lobel, T. (2014) Sensations: The New Science of Physical Intelligence, Simon & Schuster.2 Eagleman, David. The Brain: The Story of You. Pg., 105, Vintage Books, 2017Question 4: Why are stories...

Resmaa Menakem is the author of “My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies,” published in September 2017, which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list in May 2021 as well as "The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning," published in 2022. Resmaa is the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute. He also wrote Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy- and he tells us what to do about it. He has done more interviews than I can count, including the Breakfast Club. Resmaa has single-handedly changed JD and many others' professional and personal life. What You Will Hear:The Quaking of AmericaHealing in and through the bodyWhat do bodies of culture need to do to continue thriving and moving forwardWhite bodies deflecting white body supremacy and embodied gnawingThe growth area = gnawing and discomfortThe soil of AmericaTrauma Trump and learned templates (victim and perpetrator)The MirrorWhat's next for ResmaaQuotes:“Recent studies and discoveries increasingly point out that we heal primarily in and through the body, not just through the rational brain. We can all create more opportunities for growth in our nervous system, but we do this primarily through what our bodies experience and do not through what we think or realize cognitively.”“We learn from what our parents or our care caregivers recoil from and lean into, not just by what the instructions that they give to us.”“You are not defective.”“Bodies of culture have been gnawing at us every moment we live because racial trauma persists.”“Embodied gnawing is the way towards generative knowledge. You cannot get knowledge without gnawing.”“The growth area is actually in the shit that you don't like to do.”“The Dark Ages wasn't the dark ages because motherfuckers turned off the light. It was the Dark Ages because it was some brutal, foul shit happening from powerful white bodies to less powerful white bodies.”“The plantation organized white people.”“White folks have created a world that is on fucking fire, like literally on fire, and we keep trying to take our buckets and throw water on it, and they keep squeezing kerosene on the other side.”MentionedMy Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and BodiesThe Quaking of AmericaResmaa MenakemMama Rose Underground BooksPenumbra Theater GroupI AM Music Group

Resmaa Menakem is the author of “My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies,” published in September 2017, which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list in May 2021 as well as "The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning," published in 2022. Resmaa is the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute. He also wrote Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy- and he tells us what to do about it. He has done more interviews than I can count, including the Breakfast Club. Resmaa has single handedly changed my professional and personal life and numerous others. What You Will Hear:The catalyst and ripple effect of My Grandmother's Hands IatrogenesisWhite supremacy trauma and how it can manifest in culture, family traits, personality traits, et cetera.Decontextualizing trauma The Plantation and white body supremacyClean pain vs dirty pain and white feralityOur virtues and our limitationsHow white bodies can hold each other accountableTools vs toysThe pervasiveness and persistence of white body supremacyHuman growth and healingPrivilege vs advantageLiberatory work and appealing to the kindness of white peopleQuotes:“Trauma works in alignment with your virtues. Trauma works in alignment with what you do best. Trauma works in alignment with what fuels you.”“The white body deems and has deemed itself the supreme standard by which all bodies, humanity shall be measured structurally and philosophically.”“The most enduring structure in America is the plantation.”“White bodies have collective understanding or efficacy when it comes to race.”“A key factor in the perpetration of white body supremacy is many people's refusal to experience clean pain around the myth of race. Instead, usually out of fear, they choose the dirty pain of silence and avoidance. And inevitably or invariably, Prolong the pain.”“Our virtues are wrapped inside of our limitations. It is only when we are close in proximity to others that we begin to intimately explore the boundaries of virtues by slamming into our limit limitations.”“White folks want to do good shit and wanna do good things when it comes to race but they have not developed the conditioning and done any conditioning around race communally……they have to begin to get together in a room and sit with each other and try and work with not a book club. A book club is like crack to a white woman.”“When you're talking about liberatory work, you're talking about a toy box, an exploration, a sitting with I don't know if this is gonna work, but I'm gonna try it anyway. That's different than tools.”“White body supremacy is the water, not the shark.”“You can both be brutalized by something and be benefited by the brutalization at the same time.”“In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary, either we're broken or we're healed from that brokenness, but that's not how healing operates. It's almost neverHow human growth works.”“What has happened to our peoples and continues to happen to our people ain't happening to our people individually. It's happening communally. So only developing individual response to a communal horror is inadequate. It's not enough.”“White folks are not privileged by white body supremacy. They're advantaged by white body supremacy.”MentionedMy Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and BodiesI AM...

The murder of George Floyd prompted a number of American colleges and universities to reckon with their historic roles in slavery. Three years later, many institutions have abandoned those efforts. One that's still going strong is the Hard Histories Project at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. On today's episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by historian Martha Jones, the director of that effort. The scholars associated with the project have uncovered many challenging truths, including evidence that the founder of Johns Hopkins—widely hailed as an abolitionist—owned slaves. Guest: Historian Martha Jones, Director of the Hard Histories Project at Johns Hopkins University Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for $15 for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the WDMP Podcast. Instead of a regular question, today we're answering a listener's request to talk about the dynamics between interracial couples and the conflicts that arise from their cultural differences.We take it as an opportunity to slow down and acknowledge that there's so much that comes with this big, heavy topic. There's the weight of inherited hurt and oppression, the weight of silenced voices and marginalized bodies. Of trying to do things differently - maybe even better - than those who came before us. We discuss how this situation can be ripe for misunderstanding as each person brings generations of meaning and experience into the relationship, which could be totally different from their partners. Finally, we share an embodied practice for pausing, checking in with your inner vibrations, and letting yourself imagine what could be and being honest about what you don't know. Quote:“Imagination lives in that space of transformation…it invites it.”Resources from today: The VIMBASI practice from Resmaa Menakem's The Quaking of America: an Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning. You may also want to listen to these two episodes from Rebecca's Connectfulness Practice Podcast: Episode 30: Embodying Anti-Racism in Interracial Relationships with Francesca Maximé and Episode 46: The Impact of Racism on Relationships with Akilah Riley RichardsonShare your questions with us at whydoesmypartner.com/contactIf you want to dive in deeper, consider attending our upcoming workshops. Learn more at whydoesmypartner.com/eventsThis podcast is not a substitute for therapy with a licensed provider.

This conversation is from the Wisdom of Trauma Talks on Trauma Series (2021). Somatic Abolitionism is living, embodied anti-racist practice and cultural building —a way of being in the world. It is a return to the age-old wisdom of human bodies respecting, honoring, and resonating with other human bodies. It is not a exclusively a goal, an attitude, a belief, an idea, a strategy, a movement, a plan, a system, a political position, or a step forward. Resmaa Menakem is an American author and psychotherapist specialising in the effects of trauma on the human body and the relationship between trauma, white body supremacy, and racism in America. He is the author of “My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies,” published in September 2017, which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list in May 2021 and "The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning," published in 2022.He is also the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute. Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Gabor Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them. After 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, Dr. Maté worked for over a decade in Vancouver's Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of four books published in over thirty languages, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. His book on addiction received the Hubert Evans Prize for literary non-fiction. For his groundbreaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country's highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. His books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction; When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress; Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder; and (with Dr. Gordon Neufeld) Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His next book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture is due out on September 13, 2022. His second next book, Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and Their Adult Children is expected in 2023. Gabor is also co-developer of a therapeutic approach, Compassionate Inquiry, now studied by hundreds of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others internationally. More on his books and programs can be found here.

Arlene GoldbardIn this episode we talk to author, visual artist, educator, and activist Arlene Goldbard about her new book. In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does it Mean to be Educated. In it she explores her life's journey along with a camp of 11 angels that include James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Paolo Freire, Doris Lessing, and Jane Jacobs. BioArlene Goldbard (www.arlenegoldbard.com) is a New Mexico-based writer, speaker, consultant, cultural activist, and visual artist whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics and spirituality. Her books include The Wave, The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future; New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, Community, Culture and Globalization, Crossroads: Reflections on the Politics of Culture, and Clarity. Her new book, In The Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated? was published by New Village Press in January 2023. Her essays have been widely published. She has addressed academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe and provided advice to community-based organizations, independent media groups, institutions of higher education, and public and private funders and policymakers. Along with François Matarasso, she co-hosts “A Culture of Possibility,” a podcast produced by miaaw.net. From 2012 to 2019, she served as Chief Policy Wonk of the USDAC (usdac.us). From 2008-2019, she served as President of the Board of Directors of The Shalom Center. Notable MentionsChange the Story / Change the World: A Chronicle of art and community transformation across the globe.Change the Story Collection: Many of our listeners have told us they would like to dig deeper into art and change stories that focus on specific issues, constituencies, or disciplines. Others have shared that they are using the podcast as a learning resource and would appreciate categories and cross-references for our stories. In response we have curated episode collections in 11 arenas: Justice Arts, Children and Youth, Racial Reckoning, Creative Climate Action, Cultural Organizing, Creative Community Leadership Development, Arts and Healing, Art of the Rural, Theater for Change, Music and Transformation, Change Media. In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does it Mean to be Educated: An autodidact explores issues of education itself through essays and personal portraits of the key minds who influenced her. What does it mean to be...

Independent journalist Emeri Burks interviewed 12 journalists as part of her masters degree work for the University of Missouri School of Journalism.The Donald J. Reynolds Journalism Institute recently published Burks' report about the media industry's racial reckoning in the aftermath of George Floyd's death. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. Also, listen to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, PodcastOne, Soundcloud, Audible, Amazon, or Stitcher.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in 2020 many Americans were at a breaking point, writes journalist and author Wesley Lowery, ready for a radical re-ordering – or at least a re-imagination – of policing. But as most painfully evident after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police last month, there has been no great reckoning, and in fact in many cases backlash has outpaced reform. We talk to the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter about his new piece for the Atlantic “Why There Was No Racial Reckoning.” Guests: Wesley Lowery, journalist and author. His new piece for the Atlantic is "Why There Was No Racial Reckoning."

In today's episode of Dear Grad Student, Elana chats with Dr. Apryl Alexander to discuss progress made (or not) since the 2020 'Summer of Racial Reckoning' following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others by police. What does it look like to reflect on our privilege, speak about that privilege to uplift others, and bring the safety and well-being of minoritized groups to the forefront of practice? Institutions have shown where and how they “care” about the well-being of marginalized students, staff, and faculty. CLICK HERE for more episodes covering racism and diverse identities in academiaSUPPORT THE SHOW: PatreonBuy me a CoffeeWithout our Patrons and supporters, this podcast would not be possible!PODCAST SWAG: https://www.deargradstudent.com/merchhttps://deargradstudent.comTikTok: @deargradstudent Twitter: @DearGradStudentInstagram: @DearGradStudentPodElana on Twitter: @elana_glogerConnect with Apryl:TwitterInstagramWebsiteEpisode Resources: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21533687221101787https://asalh.org/deadline-approaching-african-american-cultural-heritage-action-fund/https://uncf.orgMusic provided by: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4171-open-those-bright-eyes License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [Episode edited by Coral Arroyo]Team Credit and Episode Made Possible by Aubrey Tingler and William OtaSupport the show

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0:08 — Eve Fairbanks, is a former political writer for The New Republic. She's lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, for thirteen years. Her debut book is The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning. The post An “intimate portrait of South Africa's racial reckoning” with Eve Fairbanks appeared first on KPFA.

One of the most profoundly human experiences that most of us share, at some point in our lives, is the feeling that we are living through a monumental shift; the feeling that something socially, culturally, or politically is changing, and we are participating in — and making — history. In his latest work, distinguished professor and historian Dr. Peniel E. Joseph asserts that the modern-day struggle to attain equality for Black Americans is as momentous as those of the post-Civil War and Civil Rights eras. His book, The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century, explores the crucible of civil and political unrest that emerged amid the tumult of 2008-2020, framing them within socio-historical contexts. As the current crusade for justice continues to unfold, Dr. Joseph invites readers to learn the lessons – and limitations – of the undertakings that preceded it. He shares his insight that the zeitgeist of such periods as the 1860s and 1960s helped give rise not only to the existence of The Third Reconstruction, but also its place and shape as they exist today in the national landscape. Joseph draws multiple parallels between past and present, spanning over a century and reaching critical turning points with the election of former President Barack Obama, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the attack on the Capitol. The text, though critical, is nonetheless hopeful: Although the first and second Reconstructions fell short, this Third Reconstruction conceived by Dr. Joseph believes in an opportunity to achieve full citizenship and dignity for African-Americans. Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, and Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of award-winning books on African American history, including The Sword and the Shield and Stokely: A Life. He lives in Austin, Texas. Naomi Ishisaka is the Assistant Managing Editor for Diversity and Inclusion and the Social Justice Columnist for The Seattle Times. She is an award-winning journalist and photographer who focuses on racial equity and social justice. Her writing and photography have appeared in The Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, City Arts, ColorsNW Magazine, Seattle Globalist, South Seattle Emerald and other publications. Ishisaka is a frequent speaker at media workshops and community events, and is on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Seattle chapter. Presented by Town Hall Seattle and the Northwest African American Museum. The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century Estelita's Library

ABOUT THE BLACK FUNDRAISERS' PODCAST The Black Fundraisers' Podcast was founded in 2021 by Kia Croom, a 21-year Nonprofit Fundraiser, and Marketer. To learn more about Kia's work or to connect with her, visit www.kiacroom.com. Email the Black Fundraisers' Podcast with suggestions for show topics, inquiries, advertising, and sponsorship opportunities at Blackfundraiserspodcast@gmail.com. Subscribe to the Black Fundraisers' Podcast wherever podcasts are available Connect with us on IG & YouTube @Blackfundraiserspodcast ABOUT TODAY'S GUEST For more than 25 years, Jeff Schreifels has been developing, planning and executing strategic fundraising and marketing programs. He's served as Development Director at several nonprofits and was Senior Strategy Director at The Domain Group, where he helped to develop record-setting fundraising programs for the agency's largest clients. REGISTER FOR “HOW TO START A MAJOR GIFT PROGRAM” The six-week virtual fundraising course launches Wednesday, October 11th. Black female fundraisers Kia Croom and Renita Tyson will co-facilitate the course via several live sessions. The cost is $99.00 Register here: https://lnkd.in/etzEpnR5 LISTEN Listen to Kia and Jeff's previous discussion on the Veritus Group's “Nothing But Major Gifts” Podcast here: https://anchor.fm/veritusgroup/episodes/Supporting-Black--Brown-Fundraisers-in-the-Non-Profit-Sector-e1i9iu7/a-a7t4hnk To learn more about the Veritus Group's Consulting services and training, visit: https://veritusgroup.com/ This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

Host of Roland Martin Unfiltered, Roland S. Martin joins Zerlina on the show to discuss his new book White Fear: How the Browning of America is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds, out now!

Today's episode is borrowed from the feed of the great podcast The Fifth Column. Usually hosted by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, this episode, which aired in July of 2022, features Kmele and two guests who have become elder statesmen around the persistent issue of race in America: John McWhorter and Glenn Loury.  Over the past few years McWhorter, Loury and Foster each have written, discussed and lectured exhaustively on anti-racism, the role race plays in America, and the changing meaning of the word “racism” itself. In this episode, they talk about the inadequacies of regarding people solely by their racial category, the dignity of the individual and what a future might look like if we were to abolish race all together. While all three men bring a contrarian streak to this discussion, you'll find that they have disagreements when it comes to questions of race abolition and the so-called “Racial Reckoning” of 2020.  Loury is an economist and professor of social science at Brown University. You can listen to his interview with Bari here. McWhorter is the author of numerous books, including Talking Black and Woke Racism. He's also professor of Linguistics, Philosophy and Music at Columbia University, and a columnist at The New York Times. Since 2015 Kmele Foster has been a prominent voice in a number of discussions about race in America, including his reporting challenging the mainstream media's verdict on Amy Cooper, better known as the Central Park Karen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eve Fairbanks writes about change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values, and our ideas of ourselves. A former political writer for The New Republic, her essays and reportage have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Born in Virginia, she now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her new book is titled The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning. A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy.

Part Two, in a two-part documentary follow-up to the audio drama #MATTER, spotlights community driven efforts to uproot and reimagine public safety, joined by some of the nation's leading activists, historians, and thinkers. This episode is brought to you in collaboration with ONEOPP, a social justice coalition working to end police brutality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The author of So You Want to Talk About Race discusses how the conversation around race has evolved since the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in the spring of 2020 fueled a nationwide conversation about race. It drew hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets, elicited commitments from businesses to do better when it comes to equity and sent books that tangled with systemic racism, white supremacy and the experience being Black in America up the bestseller lists.  But two years on, where has all that conversation and commitment led us? And where do we go from here? That is the topic of this episode of the Crosscut Talks podcast, which features a conversation with author Ijeoma Oluo, whose book So You Want to Talk About Race was central to many of the conversations happening in 2020. In this talk with Seattle Times journalist Naomi Ishisaka, which took place in early May as part of the Crosscut Festival, Oluo offers a clear-eyed appraisal of the state of race in the country right now.  Her assessment may not come as a surprise to anyone who has been tracking the faltering efforts to rethink policing in America, the continued inequities in our health care system or the backlash against educators who acknowledge the role that white supremacy plays in our history and culture. But, in addition to seeing things as they are, Oluo also shares what she believes it would take for them to truly change in a meaningful way. Credits Host: Mark Baumgarten Producer: Sara Bernard Event producers: Jake Newman, Andrea O'Meara Engineers: Resti Bagcal, Viktoria Ralph

Updated: 11:20 a.m. Dozens of students in rain coats and parkas gathered by a parking lot outside the Billy Graham Community Life Commons on the University of Northwestern campus in November 2020. Some took shelter from the rain under the school's columned porticoes. Most of the student body went about their day, climbing steps emblazoned with the names of books of the Bible, or returning to dormitories named for Christian heroes of the school's past.  A blue pickup truck loaded with speakers backed into a parking space near Riley Hall, named for the university's founder. Senior Payton Bowdry, 22, grabbed a microphone connected to the speakers and started talking.  After asking God to “unravel the ugly truth, so that we can really be healed as a Christian community,” he began to talk about life as a Black student on campus and how belief in God's compelling love, spelled out in the university's vision statement, seemed too often to disappear when he brought up issues of racism and the needs of students of color. “BIPOC students have been asking for help for years, but it hasn't yet been received,” he told the crowd. “BIPOC students are in need. Are we a part of that vision?” They were asking their peers, teachers and church leaders to recognize and disrupt more than a century of history and theology, to change a way of thinking that had birthed a religious and political movement and a brand of conservatism that continues to define the theology and worldviews of many white Minnesota evangelicals today.  The school, which counts the Rev. Billy Graham among its past presidents, is working on change, said current president Alan Cureton. But he conceded not everyone agrees the university needs to change.  “We're slowly doing it and I think we're making progress … but we're never going to reach utopia, and I keep reminding students we're a microcosm of a big culture,” Cureton said. “We still have issues … but not everybody in my community believes we have an issue.”  Cureton noted the school, among other steps, had hired a “director of intercultural engagement and belonging” last year. “We're doing that work, we're just not using the terms that cause people to get angry about,” he said. “Especially when I've got multiple constituencies.”  ‘Two worlds' In interviews, Bowdry and other students of color detailed recurring experiences of casual, exhausting bigotry on the Roseville campus — from tone-deaf comments on race by students and professors to disbelief over claims of discrimination to a kind of passive-aggressive behavior that made them feel unwelcome. Bowdry and others seeking change that day came with a list of actions they wanted the university to take to improve the campus climate, but they were pressing for more than a diversity office and language changes to university documents.  Among the marchers was Ruti Doto, a 2016 University of Northwestern graduate. In her years at the school, Doto said she frequently ran into conflict with students and faculty members.  She recalled hearing a professor denounce a Black student-led gospel music group as “not Christ-like” and “not real worship.” Another teacher, she said, called her requests for racial justice on campus “diabolical.” A few times, she said, she heard fellow students say they believed Michael Brown — a Black man killed in 2014 by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. — deserved to die.  “I think there were two worlds at Northwestern,” Doto said. “There were white students who saw Christ as the end-all-be-all, as we should. But it was a blanket over all the injustices that we see people facing. It was, ‘Let's just pray about it. Thoughts and prayers.' But then (there's) the other world where Black students and students of color were continually being traumatized by the racism they experience.” Courtesy of Ruti Doto A group of students painted the phrase “Black Lives Matter” on a rock, traditionally used for student expression on the University of Northwestern campus in Roseville. Following the Twin Cities police killing of Philando Castile in 2016 during a traffic stop fewer than four miles from campus, Doto said she and other students painted the phrase “Black Lives Matter” on a rock traditionally used for student expression.  That night, she said, members of the university security team covered the rock and its message with white paint because, as a university official explained later, “it was misinterpreted by the university as a political statement.”  Doto said she and others returned the next day to repaint “Black Lives Matter” on the rock but discovered a group of students had blotted out the word “Black” and wrote “All” there instead, turning the phrase into “All Lives Matter.”  In June of 2020, when she saw a picture of the rock on Instagram, newly painted with the phrase “Black Lives Matter,” it felt to her like the university had forgotten its actions four years earlier. Courtesy of Ruti Doto A group of students blotted out the word “Black” and wrote “All” on a campus rock used for student expression, turning the phrase into “All Lives Matter.” “Of course, this triggered me and multiple students of color,” Doto said. “When we did this, you all painted over it and we were dismissed. You didn't care for what we had to say. Now that it's the trending topic is when you decide to speak up. But what really angered us is … there wasn't any meaningful actions. It was just painting the rock.”   Doto and some of her fellow alumni drafted a petition in response, suggesting a list of “measurable actions to support students and address institutional racism” at the university. “I have a ton of Black high school students who ask me if it's a place they should consider. And my truthful answer now is no,” Doto said. “And I want to get it to a place where I can say it's a great place that you can be part of.”    Thousands of supporters added their names to Doto's online petition, some with their own stories of racism they'd experienced at Northwestern. One person wrote about resident assistants hanging a Confederate flag in a dorm hallway as decoration. Another wrote of people on campus referring to Obama as the anti-Christ after his reelection.  “This place was supposed to be my community,” one signer wrote. “Instead I was reminded of how much I didn't fit in or belong … most of the passive aggressive racism that I've experienced came from this school.”  When Bowdry, the student who led the protest on campus, returned to campus in the fall of 2020, he and his fellow students used Doto's petition as a framework to guide their list of demands.  They asked university leadership to establish a diversity, equity and inclusion office, mandatory anti-racism training for faculty, staff and students, core courses on Black, Native, Latino and Asian theologies and histories, a zero-tolerance policy on racism, a George Floyd memorial scholarship for aspiring Black American leaders and language in the university's Declaration of Christian Community requiring students and staff to condemn racism.  “We are no longer willing to endure our campus's compliance with racism,” they wrote. “For too long, the interests and desires of our white counterparts have been held at a higher consideration. The Gospel of Jesus Christ that we have placed our faith in is incomplete without the commitment to restore justice in our world.”  ‘Even if they're trying to understand you, they don't' Kenneth Young is one of the first full-time African American faculty members hired at the University of Northwestern. He's been at the institution for close to 30 years and teaches systematic theology and Christian ministries. It's a job he dearly loves at an institution he considers a good fit.  “They pay me to teach the Bible!” he said, laughing.  Young, though, said he's had unpleasant run-ins with students and colleagues during his tenure, and he knows students of color there have also had bad experiences.  “I don't think it's those overt experiences of marginalization or even racism that is discouraging them. I think that there's a gap, a hole in the European American evangelical Christian worldview that students of color sense … there's a lack of empathy,” he said. “Not because the European American students are bad or racist but because there's a gap in their worldview … even if they're trying to understand you, they don't, and so you feel marginalized.”  It's a problem grounded in teaching from Sunday School classes to Bible colleges, he said, noting that Blacks were largely excluded from the Bible college movement.  “The people who were teaching had no clue. This space, this worldview space, is just rampant within the context of the greater Christian community and it leaves us with a gap, with an inability to communicate with each other.”  Young said he prefers not to use the terms “racist,” “Black” or “white.” Instead, he speaks of geographic origins, cultures and worldviews. For him, the problems he and students of color have experienced at Northwestern are based in theology and ideology with a long history in the evangelical church “that make us vulnerable to complicity in social injustice.”  He said he tells students two things: “We need to learn how to have real dialogue and we need to enter that dialogue with a high degree of humility. Critical thinking, having dialogue, you gotta be able to consider what somebody else is saying … let it really sink in.”  Many Christian colleges and universities now brand themselves as conservative “and that's really part of their identity,” said Jemar Tisby, a historian who has written extensively on the history of racism in American Christianity. So it's a lot harder for these institutions to change because their institutional vitality depends on them not being progressive in any way.” These institutions were not founded with racial or ethnic diversity in mind, and that works against social progress, Tisby said. “It's much more about a social, political identity than it is about a religious identity.”  For David Fenrick, who worked at the University of Northwestern from 2008 to 2019, the experiences of students of color on campus like Bowdry and Doto are directly linked to the school's history.  “It's a historically white institution, a very conservative evangelical school. And the experience of students of color there was not very positive. They felt that their voices weren't heard, their culture wasn't recognized, their perspectives weren't validated. Sometimes there was open hostility,” said Fenrick, who served as director of the school's Center for Global Reconciliation and Cultural Education. He could remember many times students would come to him with stories of bad experiences. That includes an Ethiopian Orthodox student who spoke up in a theology class to offer his perspective. The student said the instructor was dismissive, Fenrick recalled — “‘Well, that's great, but we're not here to study Black theology,' … or ‘We're not here to study Ethiopian Orthodox theology. We're here to study Christian theology.'”  Elizabeth Shockman | MPR News 2020 Students at the University of Northwestern in Roseville march in a protest in November. For Fenrick, those kinds of stories illustrate the problem at the University of Northwestern.  “There's a kind of welcome (at Northwestern) that says, ‘We're glad you're here, now be like us.' That's what they (students of color) were experiencing. What they wanted is a place to say, ‘Welcome, we're glad you're here, let's all be who we are, the way God made us in our cultures and our gifts, our abilities and our experiences.'” The school was founded in 1902 as a Bible and missionary training school by Baptist pastor and evangelist the Rev. William Bell Riley. Riley was also politically active and focused much of his attention on trying to get the teaching of evolution banned from public schools. He has also been accused of antisemitism for his writing and speeches that blamed a “Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy” for a variety of social and economic ills.  Randy Moore, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota who's studied Riley's influence, points to Northwestern's founder as a father and organizer of the Christian fundamentalist movement.   “What came to be known then as ‘fundamentalism' — contrary to most people's knowledge of it now — originated in the north in towns like New York City and Minneapolis and Chicago,” Moore said. “He tapped into this discomfort that what we now call fundamentalists had with the direction of the country … and he organized it,” Moore said. “And it was militant. That was very unusual. Now it's very common — Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. There've been others, but you can trace them back to William Bell Riley.”  Riley was succeeded in his leadership by Graham, who was president of the institution for four years.  For the Rev. Curtiss DeYoung, CEO of the Minnesota Council of Churches, the histories of Graham and Riley offer clues to the difficulty modern-day white evangelicals have when it comes to dealing with racism.  On a personal level, DeYoung points out, Billy Graham abhorred racism and refused to hold segregated rallies. But, although he invited Martin Luther King to pray at his crusades, Graham was not involved in the civil rights movement.  “If your priority is just to convert people to Jesus so they can go to heaven, you have less of a focus on the systems that exist right now because you're thinking about eternity. Therefore these systems continue to exist and reproduce themselves,” DeYoung said.    For historian Tisby, this individualistic theology is at the crux of white evangelicals' inability to deal or make progress on many social issues, including race. The problem is compounded at institutions like Northwestern. “White evangelical colleges and universities are more individualistic than the larger society. They're focused on maintaining the status quo and racial justice is not within the scope of what they're looking at,” Tisby said.  ‘Our beloved University is at a turning point' The changes pushed for by students of color at University of Northwestern in the last several years have also brought protest from students, staff and the wider evangelical community. Last year, a group of conservative students on campus released a petition, condemning anti-bias training, curriculum changes and the new DEI position, among other initiatives. “Our beloved University is at a turning point,” the petition authors wrote, “Perhaps more significant than any other in its history.”  The petitioners objected to the university including cultural competency in curriculum, mandating racial bias training for staff, funding a diversity and inclusion office and sponsoring campus-wide events promoting “reconciliation” among other things and suggesting that the school was implicitly endorsing critical race theory or social justice, leading down a road to Marxism or other “anti-biblical ideologies.” The petition authors took their concerns to Fox News, saying “as Christians we believe our primary call is to preach the gospel. And we firmly believe Critical Race Theory is unbiblical and that it preaches a different gospel.”  The petition was reviewed by local pastors then published online. It has since been signed by thousands, many of them raising concerns about critical race theory in schools. One threatened to withhold financial donations to the school “unless things turn around.”  ‘Still really harming people' Conditions have improved during Kenneth Young's time at Northwestern. While the percentage of students of color remains less than 20 percent, it's grown from about five percent the past two decades. Close to a decade ago president Cureton oversaw the preparation of a “strategic diversity and inclusion framework,” which included directives such as examining “systems that may be preventing full diversity, equity and inclusion” and intentionally increasing “the diversity of students, faculty, staff, administrators and board of trustees.” The framework was affirmed by more than 90 percent of the school's faculty and unanimously adopted by the university's board in 2018.  And there were changes that the university made in response to the protests and demands of students of color like Bowdry and Doto in 2020.  Student body president at the time, Qashr Middleton, helped shepherd those demands into action.  Middleton, a 24-year-old from Colorado pursuing a degree in ministry leadership, was the first student body president of color in Northwestern's history. He stepped into his role in the summer of 2020, after spending weeks protesting the murder of George Floyd, getting chased by white supremacists, tear-gassed by police officers and almost getting run down by a semitrailer on the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.  When he tried to talk about his experiences on campus, he felt like it made some white students and staff on campus uncomfortable.  “It's hard to tell that story at Northwestern. Because you really get to see people's conflict of interest within themselves. Because now you're telling a personal story. And they know your character. You peacefully were protesting and almost got hurt. And yet they still were able to find a way to say, ‘Well, what about this?'” Middleton said.  After the 2020 student protest, Middleton organized a student government committee to begin working on those and the other demands. Eventually, the school inserted phrases into its Declaration of Christian Community, requiring students and staff for the first time in its history to commit to “refrain from racism, prejudice, and social injustices” and “condemn oppression which can manifest itself in individuals and systems.”  Leaders did not create a “George Floyd memorial scholarship” as requested by students, but they did endow a scholarship geared toward students planning to work with “urban youth leadership” or “biblical reconciliation.”  There is anti-bias training for faculty and staff at Northwestern, although attendance is not required because, as Cureton said, “You can't force people. It may appease people (saying) you're required to go, but it doesn't work.”  The university president, who's set to leave his position this year, has said he believes it's the school's job to help students and staff learn how to “live amidst multiple cultures” — something he believes is integral to the university's mission of “reflect(ing) the essence of the Kingdom of God.”  He does not believe the university has a “culture of racial intolerance.” But he concedes his community falls short.  “Are there acts of insensitivity exhibited by some towards people of color? Yes. Is learning to live amidst multiple cultures a learning process? Yes.” Cureton said. “We still have a ways to go. But acknowledging that we have a ways to go, acknowledging that we still have issues — that's a huge step. But not everybody in my community believes we have an issue.” Katy St. John, 21, who graduated from Northwestern in May, said she has a hard time understanding why Northwestern students and faculty are not more wholehearted in embracing change. St. John, who is white, is a pastor's daughter. She grew up leading youth group programs and going on mission trips. As an incoming freshman, she'd been excited about Northwestern's beautiful campus, and the opportunity to grow her faith there as she studied communications and sang in the chapel on the worship team.  Her first year on campus was filled with good memories, but she soon became worried by what she saw and heard. A white professor, she said, insisted it was OK to say the n-word. White students questioned her relationship with students of color asking, as she put it, “Why are you friends with those people?”  When St. John expressed her frustration to other white students about professors who said “ignorant things” about race, she was surprised at those students' reactions.  “It ended up blowing up in my face a lot where they misunderstood what I was saying, took it very personal, and they got very, very angry at me and told me that I was racist towards white people,” St. John said.   In 2020 St. John helped organize the protest and the list of demands with students of color. She's pleased that some of the demands they made were met. And she has glowing reports of individual people she thinks are fighting hard to change things at the school. But overall, she doesn't think enough change has been made.  “There's ways I've seen Northwestern grow. Very tiny little pieces that feel like they're doing a good job … (but) they're also working under people who are not prioritizing it the same way and still are prioritizing whiteness and white feelings,” St. John said. “The institution is systemically still really harming people. There are people I know who've left here who act like (they have) actual diagnosed PTSD from being here as a student of color.”  Even more difficult to understand for St. John is the way in which her fellow white students are pushing back on racial justice. “The liberation of Black people is liberation of all of us,” St. John said. “There's this concept that when whiteness has its privilege and its power and its position stripped from it, then we've lost, we've fallen … but the reality is, is what we get is so much better. What we get is the opportunity to be human, to see other people as human.” St. John said her experiences on campus have challenged her faith. St. John's roommate, Kiera Sconce, feels similarly. A 21-year-old Black woman, she also graduated in May. The school's racial and ethnic affinity groups are where she grew, learned and made friends. But outside of those groups, she said she didn't feel safe to be herself or say what she thought. She said she and some of the other students of color she knows at Northwestern spent their last semester in 2022 isolating themselves, keeping their heads down in class and escaping back to their rooms or other places they could be alone afterward.  “There is very little time when I feel or felt seen on this campus. Whether it's by professors or it's by other students. They don't know you,” Sconce said. “A lot of students of color tend to hide at Northwestern.”  More from this series North Star Journey What should we cover next? Pass the Mic Editor's Note: University of Northwestern is a financial supporter of MPR News. Correction (May 26, 2022): An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated where Qashr Middleton is from and the degree he is pursuing. The story has been updated. Correction (June 5, 2022): An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the location of the campus rock used for student expression. The story has been updated.

Reporter ​​Colleen Sanders takes us through the final moments before the trial verdict is revealed as she reports from outside Jayce 42. Michelle Hayes speaks on the responsibility of Nile's death. Kate comes to a personal revelation in regards to this case and records a heartfelt message for Gerald. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr.Azatti goes inside Jayce 42 to provide medical care for Sergeant Place. His POV of the standoff and of Niles' injuries makes Kate begin to wonder who's really responsible for Nile's death. Martin loses his cool as the tensions mount and he unloads on Jayce and Gerald. Big H and the community stand up for Niles, Gerald and Jayce in an unorthodox way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Solomon is joined by Resmaa Menakem, a therapist and licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the healing of racialized trauma, for a truly transformative conversation about the somatic impacts of racism and how we can move towards reckoning and healing.Share your feedback in the Reimagining Love Listener Survey:https://dralexandrasolomon.com/survey/Subscribe to Dr. Solomon's Newsletter:https://dralexandrasolomon.com/subscribe/Submit your question to Dr. Solomon:https://form.jotform.com/212295995939274Resmaa's website:https://www.resmaa.com/The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning by Resmaa Menakemhttps://bookshop.org/books/the-quaking-of-america-an-embodied-guide-to-navigating-our-nation-s-upheaval-and-racial-reckoning/9781949481747My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakemhttps://bookshop.org/books/my-grandmother-s-hands-racialized-trauma-and-the-pathway-to-mending-our-hearts-and-bodies-9781942094470/9781942094470 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Minneapolis therapist and author Resmaa Menakem is a leading voice in today's conversation on racialized trauma. His work explores how racism and trauma affect our bodies and how a focus on our bodies can be an avenue for healing and growth. He is the author of the national bestseller “My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies” and the forthcoming “The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our National Upheaval and Racial Reckoning.”  As the founder of the consulting firm Justice Leadership Solutions, Menakem also coaches leaders through civil unrest, organizational change and community building. On Tuesday, MPR News host Angela Davis spoke with Menakem about his latest book, “The Quaking of America.” Guest:  Resmaa Menakem is a therapist, trauma specialist, the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and a bestselling author. His latest book is “The Quaking of America.” 

After multiple failed negotiation attempts, Detective Patterson tries his luck with Gerald. Meanwhile a reporter discovers Michelle Hayes at the protest and takes her to the police where she finally learns of the online trial. The media weighs in on Gerald, the trial and Jayce's public image.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's guest is a leading voice in the conversation of racialized trauma. Resmaa Menakem is a therapist, trauma specialist, and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. His forthcoming book, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning was released on April 12th, 2022.For the show notes, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/resmaa-menakemSubscribe to Next Economy Now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you find podcasts.---LIFT Economy NewsletterJoin 7500+ subscribers and get our free 60 point business design checklist—plus monthly tips, advice, and resources to help you build the Next Economy: https://lifteconomy.com/newsletter---Next Economy MBAThis episode is brought to you by the Next Economy MBA.What would a business education look like if it was completely redesigned for the benefit of all life? This is why the team at LIFT Economy created the Next Economy MBA (https://lifteconomy.com/mba).The Next Economy MBA is a nine month online course for folks who want to learn key business fundamentals (e.g., vision, culture, strategy, and operations) from an equitable, inclusive, and regenerative perspective.Join the growing network of 350+ alumni who have been exposed to new solutions, learned essential business skills, and joined a lifelong peer group that is catalyzing a global shift towards an economy that works for all life.Learn more at https://lifteconomy.com/mba.---Show Notes + Other LinksFor detailed show notes and interviews with past guests, please visit https://lifteconomy.com/podcastIf you enjoy the podcast, please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts by visiting:  https://bit.ly/nexteconomynowTwitter: https://twitter.com/LIFTEconomyInstagram: https://instagram.com/lifteconomy/Facebook: https://facebook.com/LIFTEconomy/YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/LifteconomyMusic by Chris Zabriskie: https://chriszabriskie.com/The spring cohort of the Next Economy MBA is officially open! Save 20% when you register before 1/29 with our early-bird sale ➡️ https://lifteconomy.com/mba

Niles' mother recounts her arrival on the scene at Jayce's 42 Sports Bar & Grill and we hear how the evening begins to unfold through her eyes. Kate questions the CEO of Polycam about the online trial then conflict and tensions rise between the members of the hostage negotiation squad.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After Niles' death, Gerald uses what he believes to be the only option available to him to set the record straight - social media. Kate introduces footage and interviews with reporter Colleen Sanders, who broke Gerald's story and the public trial that followed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Commander Ammons, the lead hostage negotiator, provides Kate with more insight from the scene of the standoff. Audio from inside the restaurant sheds light on Gerald's mindset after the incident and Kate hears first hand accounts of Nile's condition from the EMT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For decades, Doctors Without Borders has been admired for bringing desperately needed medical care to crises around the globe and pioneering modern-day humanitarian aid. It's an organization with radical roots, promising to do whatever it takes to deliver life-saving care to people in need. But now, it's struggling to address institutional racism. The organization, also known by its French acronym MSF, has about 63,000 people working in 88 countries. While foreign doctors parachuting into crisis zones get most of the attention, 90 percent of the work is being done by local health workers.  In the summer of 2020, more than 1,000 current and former staffers wrote a letter calling out institutional racism at MSF. They say that MSF operates a two-tiered tiered system that favors foreign doctors, or expat doctors, over local health workers.  Reporters Mara Kardas-Nelson, Ngozi Cole and Sean Campbell talked to about 100 current and former MSF workers to investigate how deep these issues run. We meet Dr. Indira Govender, a South African doctor who in 2011 accepted what she thought was her dream job with MSF in South Africa, only to get a front-row seat to the organization's institutional racism. Even though she's officially the second-in-command of her project, she says it feels like a select group of European expats and White South Africans are running the show.   Then, Kardas-Nelson and Cole take us inside the inequities MSF staffers experienced during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. While expat doctors had their meals together and socialized, local health workers were left out. But inequities ran deeper. If expat doctors got sick, they would be evacuated out of the country, while local workers didn't get that care – they were treated at the same center where they worked. Kardas-Nelson and Cole reported the story from Sierra Leone in the Spring of 2021 and spoke to former National MSF clinicians. Finally, we talk about what can change in humanitarian aid. Govender is part of a group of current and former MSF workers called Decolonize MSF. While she and others are pushing the organization to commit to changes that address racial inequities, some are skeptical about what will actually change.  This week's episode was created in partnership with the global news site Insider. This is an update of an episode that originally aired in September 2021. Support Reveal's journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow  Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/newsletter Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

In his more than 30 years in the industry, Chip Wade, President of Union Square Hospitality Group, has seen all sides of hospitality – from the kitchen to HR and real estate development. Throughout his career, he's been a champion for expanding leadership diversity in the hospitality industry. “In our industry we are woefully underrepresented with women in key leadership positions and that is the same for people of color,” noted Wade when we connected with him as part of Add Passion and Stir's ongoing Rebuilding series. This work requires looking at how the hospitality industry has been designed and who it was designed for. For Wade, this means fostering a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive, not only for employees, but also for partners and guests: “We want our workforce to look like the city of New York. And last time I looked, New York was the second or first most diverse city in America.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Martin Simms, who recorded the attack on Niles, gives Kate a firsthand overview of the events that transpired outside and inside of Jayce's bar. Intriguing details are revealed surrounding Sergeant Place's shooting and the hostage situation that follows. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He's at it again! Back by popular demand... Join Ryk Good as he dives into another conversation about culture. With Black History Month 2022 and the Racial Reckoning 2020 in the rear-view, Ryk drops his two cents on how he feels about businesses attempts to address inequalities in the nation. If you know, you know. Much love to ya! Links mentioned in today's episode include: @RykGoodDesu on TikTok // 8-Bit Stories Presents on Facebook // All Point Podcasts on Apple Podcast --- 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/8bit-stories-presents/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/8bit-stories-presents/support

Martin Edel, Co-Chair of the Sports Law Practice at Goulston & Storrs, discusses the lawsuit former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores filed against the NFL and three teams alleging racist hiring practices. Jeannine Bell, a professor of law at Indiana University, discusses the hate crimes trial of the three men already convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. June Grasso hosts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Anthony and Georgia catch up on this week's news and check-in with Racial Reckoning founder Freddie Bell about the origin of the project and where he sees it going in the future.

Rhonda C. Hight: Evaluating DE&I in Corporate America —  After the murder of George Floyd, corporations acted with a sense of urgency to address areas of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I).  Over a year later, it appears that there has been some change. Are these changes for the better, or do companies still have a lot of work to do? Listen to the conversation today as Ramona and Rhonda discuss the current state of DE&I in the private sector. A human resource consultant and President of Let's Talk LLC, Rhonda C. Hight is originally from Detroit and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. To learn more about Rhonda C. Hight and Let's Talk LLC, visit http://www.Letstalkllc.com.

Recent evidence of hundreds of unmarked graves at numerous residential schools in Canada has made headlines around the world. But the news is not new, says to Sam Rocha, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. The Catholic Church participated in Canada's residential school system in the 19th and 20th centuries, where 150,000 Indigenous children were sent against their wills to be assimilated into European settler–and Christian–society. An unknown number of children never returned to their families. Gloria and Sam speak about the legacy of the Church's involvement in the residential school system and colonization more broadly. While some Catholics have felt the need to defend the Church's actions in light of her evangelizing mission, Sam suggests that it's those Catholics who need to be evangelized to the Gospel. Support The Gloria Purvis Podcast by subscribing to America Magazine! Links: Túpac Shakur at 50: Remembering an underdog prophet by Sam Rocha Learn more about Sam Rocha and listen to his podcast, Folk Phenomenology here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices