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Episode 23: Podcast Blackout
As we are all - or should be - aware, we are in the middle of a pivotal moment in our history. Following the deaths of Brionna Taylor - a 27 yr old frontline worker who was innocently gun downed by law enforcement in her own home - and George Floyd, who was questioned about using a fraudulent bill, detained and crushed under the weight of an officer for over 8 minutes and died from his injuries, peaceful protests, demonstrations and social media movements calling for police reform and racial justice have now taken place for the past week in all 50 states.
Changing the format of our small New Orleans podcast is not going to change laws or the systematic racism that plagues our country, but (name) and I couldn’t find it in us to deliver a humorous story to our followers this week. We’re not in a jovial mood and our world is not in a jovial spirit.
Black Lives Matter.
A change needs to be made and it needs to be made now. We do not have the answers, but we know our friends in the black community have struggled with injustices that we as white women will never understand.
For our small part, we want to promote black-owned businesses in New Orleans and ways that you can donate and help make a change!
Support Social Justice Organizations:
Black Lives Matter
The Loveland Foundation
Campaign Zero
The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Community Bail Funds
ACLU
Color of Change
Pods and Reads:
WWOZ
WBOK 1230 am
Yamiche Alcindor’s podcast with PBS News Hour
NPR’s Code Switch
Pod Save the People
Books:
Beloved by Toni Morrison (also the Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
Click here for a full link of black-owned New Orleans businesses from New Orleans & Co. / NewOrleans.com
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As we are all - or should be - aware, we are in the middle of a pivotal moment in our history. Following the deaths of Brionna Taylor - a 27 yr old frontline worker who was innocently gun downed by law enforcement in her own home - and George Floyd, who was questioned about using a fraudulent bill, detained and crushed under the weight of an officer for over 8 minutes and died from his injuries, peaceful protests, demonstrations and social media movements calling for police reform and racial justice have now taken place for the past week in all 50 states.
Changing the format of our small New Orleans podcast is not going to change laws or the systematic racism that plagues our country, but (name) and I couldn’t find it in us to deliver a humorous story to our followers this week. We’re not in a jovial mood and our world is not in a jovial spirit.
Black Lives Matter.
A change needs to be made and it needs to be made now. We do not have the answers, but we know our friends in the black community have struggled with injustices that we as white women will never understand.
For our small part, we want to promote black-owned businesses in New Orleans and ways that you can donate and help make a change!
Support Social Justice Organizations:
Black Lives Matter
The Loveland Foundation
Campaign Zero
The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Community Bail Funds
ACLU
Color of Change
Pods and Reads:
WWOZ
WBOK 1230 am
Yamiche Alcindor’s podcast with PBS News Hour
NPR’s Code Switch
Pod Save the People
Books:
Beloved by Toni Morrison (also the Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
Click here for a full link of black-owned New Orleans businesses from New Orleans & Co. / NewOrleans.com