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Black History Today: Voting Rights, HBCU Bomb Threats and Racial Epithets
Today on Sojourner Truth we kick off our Black History Month Coverage. We discuss challenges facing Black and Brown communities today including: on-going bomb threats against HBCUs; the latest on what is going on in Congress to protect certification of Presidential elections and community based work being done to encourage voters and to protect the vote; those on the right slamming President Biden’s announcement that he will select a Black woman to the US Supreme Court and the Dept of Justice has refused to reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 police killing of 12 year old Tamir Rice . Our first guest is Barbara Arnwine President and Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition.
And racist and anti-Semitic vandalism at Queens College part of the City University of New York. Delany Hall is a building used by the SEEK Program and was recently vandalized. SEEK students while mixed race are primarily low income, ethnic and people of color students. SEEK Students and faculty alike are pressing the college administration to take action. The SEEK program grew out of the Civil Rights Movement in an effort led by the late Shirley Chisholm. What’s going on? We speak with Dr. Natanya Duncan, Director of Queens College Africana Studies.
Likely many of you are gearing up to relax and root for your favorite team during Superbowl 2022 which takes place at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Los Angeles on Sunday February 13th. Inglewood is a community facing gentrification with a large Black and other people of color population. But what is going on behind the scenes as law enforcement promises to crack down on those viewed as “undesirables”, houseless people and sex workers. For every Superbowl there is the claim promoted by law enforcement and anti-sex worker campaigners that the bowls are a haven for sex trafficking. Not so says a coalition of sex worker organizations. They are planning to expose racist and sexist trafficking and the superbowl misinformation, and the misinformation about trafficking generally. Our final guest is Alex Makulit an organizer with USPROStitutes Collective.
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Today on Sojourner Truth we kick off our Black History Month Coverage. We discuss challenges facing Black and Brown communities today including: on-going bomb threats against HBCUs; the latest on what is going on in Congress to protect certification of Presidential elections and community based work being done to encourage voters and to protect the vote; those on the right slamming President Biden’s announcement that he will select a Black woman to the US Supreme Court and the Dept of Justice has refused to reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 police killing of 12 year old Tamir Rice . Our first guest is Barbara Arnwine President and Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition.
And racist and anti-Semitic vandalism at Queens College part of the City University of New York. Delany Hall is a building used by the SEEK Program and was recently vandalized. SEEK students while mixed race are primarily low income, ethnic and people of color students. SEEK Students and faculty alike are pressing the college administration to take action. The SEEK program grew out of the Civil Rights Movement in an effort led by the late Shirley Chisholm. What’s going on? We speak with Dr. Natanya Duncan, Director of Queens College Africana Studies.
Likely many of you are gearing up to relax and root for your favorite team during Superbowl 2022 which takes place at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Los Angeles on Sunday February 13th. Inglewood is a community facing gentrification with a large Black and other people of color population. But what is going on behind the scenes as law enforcement promises to crack down on those viewed as “undesirables”, houseless people and sex workers. For every Superbowl there is the claim promoted by law enforcement and anti-sex worker campaigners that the bowls are a haven for sex trafficking. Not so says a coalition of sex worker organizations. They are planning to expose racist and sexist trafficking and the superbowl misinformation, and the misinformation about trafficking generally. Our final guest is Alex Makulit an organizer with USPROStitutes Collective.