CRT2

Josephine Baker became the latest recipient of one of France’s highest honors—induction into the Pantheon. What was the symbolic significance of Baker’s induction into the Pantheon and Macron’s subsequent remarks, and what does it mean that France chose to honor an American-born woman with one of their highest honors? In this episode, we talk to Professor Maboula Soumahoro to uncover some of these answers. See more information at https://crt2.podcasts.library.columbia.edu .

Mini Feature guests continue the conversation on re-entry into community and family reunification, and help us learn how CRT can play out in our everyday relationships, between lawyers and clients and especially between mom and daughter. We speak with Shameeka and her 11 year-old daughter, Empress, two powerful voices for resilience, healing and racial justice. See more information at https://crt2.podcasts.library.columbia.edu/ .

Over 1.9 million individuals leave women’s prisons and jails every year in the US. This process of returning to the community is labeled “re-entry”. In this episode of CRT2, we ask - What does the re-entry experience actually look like for Black women? The stories shared with us by four formerly incarcerated women and a justice impacted girl illuminate the sometimes gut wrenching journey one must go through after incarceration and en route to freedom. Extra feature included. See more information at https://crt2.podcasts.library.columbia.edu .

The histories of slavery and segregation have not only left distinctions between the economic and social realities of people of different races in the United States, but have literally shaped the geography and environments we live in. Racial identities of different communities and geographies are as obvious as any other physical attributes of the community. Not only to they shape the character and culture of communities, but continued geographic segregation has resulted in health crises and facilitated mass incarceration, particularly in Black communities. See more information at https://crt2.podcasts.library.columbia.edu .

CRT2 is a project of the Studio for Law and Culture at Columbia University. Each podcast

episode is conceived, written, hosted and produced by students in the Critical

Race Theory Seminar Workshop at Columbia Law School. CRT2 will take our listeners from New

York to Louisiana, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to Paris, France, on a journey that shows the

global reach and relevance of Critical Race Theory.

Each episode of Columbia Race Talks/Critical Race Theory will cut through the fog of myth and

misinformation surrounding the CRT culture wars, to take a deep dive into issues of race, racism

and racial justice.