Racial Justice & Human Dignity
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Whitewashing History and Suppressing Voters Go Hand In Hand
There’s been a lot of news about the Democratic legislators in Texas who fled the state to prevent Republicans from pushing through sweeping new voter suppression laws.
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D.C. Statehood A Voting Rights And Racial Justice Issue
Washington, D.C., has a higher percentage of Black residents than any state in the country, and they have no voting representation in Congress.
This is systemic racism in action.
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Harry Belafonte: Trump Is Standing in Our Way
Four years ago, when Donald Trump first ran for president, he urged Black people to support him, asking us, “What have you got to lose?”
Four years later, we know exactly what we had to lose. Our lives, as we died in disproportionate numbers from the pandemic he has let flourish among us.
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Politicians Can Stop Police Killings, by Ben Jealous
In presidential election years, most of the energy and focus goes to the top of the ticket. And that’s essential this year. But we can’t ignore the fact that we have been through a spring and summer of traumatizing televised murders of Black people.
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What’s at stake, by Ben Jealous
The push by President Trump and Senate Republicans to pack the U.S. Supreme Court while ignoring the urgent needs of our community and our demands for justice is the ultimate evidence of how important this election is to America, especially to Black America.
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America's Moment of Reckoning: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Cornel West on Uprising Against Racism
Following the killing of George Floyd, West and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor respond to the global uprising against racism and police violence. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an American academic, writer, and activist.
This episode originally aired on July 3, 2020
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Danny Glover on George Floyd and Possibly Reviving ‘Lethal Weapon’
In an exclusive interview with Nick Vivarelli from Variety magazine, Glover discusses immigration, the murder of George Floyd, the fight for racial justice, and how these narratives can be democratized through “cultural production.”
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