For The Movement

On this episode, we are joined by Evan Marwell, CEO of EducationSuperhighway, a non-profit organization that just smashed a very ambitious goal to connect 99% of America's public school classrooms to high-speed internet. Mr. Marwell talks about the work and partnerships that contributed to this successful venture and what's next for the organization as America's students migrate away from classrooms to at-home learning.

The hosts for this episode are Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and Toni Wiley, NUL Director of Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

Politics

Education

COVID

Students

Public Schools

Digital divide

Technology

High-Speed Internet

Broadband

Opportunity

FCC

Jessica Rosenworcel

Bill Kennard

Comcast

Charter

Telecom

Internet Service Provider

Governors

Affordability

School closure

Homework gap

Remote learning

Jobs

Pandemic

Homeless

Eviction

Foreclosure

Displacement

Learning labs

Twitter and Instagram: @edsuperhighway

Website: www.educationsuperhighway.org

On this episode, we are joined by Pete Buttigieg, two-term mayor of South Bend, IN, 2020 U.S. presidential candidate, and Biden campaign surrogate. Mayor Buttigieg stops by for a "Election Eve" conversation about race, politics, and moving the country forward following one of the most divisive election cycles in recent history.

The hosts for this episode are Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and Toni Wiley, NUL Director of Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

Politics

2020 Election

President

Remote learning

Digital divide

Pandemic

Early vote

Mail-in ballot

Vaccine

Voting rights

Climate change

Infrastructure

Biden-Harris

Amy Coney Barrett

Darrick Hamilton

Federal courts

ACA

Pro-choice

Voter suppression

Judicial activism

Police reform

Accountability

Crime

Law enforcement

Vice Presidential Debate

Mike Pence

The fly

FOX News

Information silos

Echo chambers

Privilege

Multiracial conversations

Reparations

Household wealth gap

Pete Buttigieg on Twitter: @petebuttigieg

Website: wintheera.com

On this episode, we are joined by Michael Tubbs, the youngest, first African American, and current mayor of Stockton, CA. Mayor Tubbs discusses why he founded Mayors for a Guaranteed Income and the importance of all citizens having access to economic safety nets during our current pandemic and beyond.

The hosts for this episode are Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and Toni Wiley, NUL Director of Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

Universal Basic Income

Guaranteed Income

Stockton CA

Safety Net

Housing

Housing insecurity

Unemployment

Welfare

Institutional racism

Social contract

Working poor

Dignity of work

Human dignity

COVID-19

Coronavirus

Subsidies

Bail out

Mayors

Black Lives Matter

CARES Act

LIFT Act

Essential workers

Poverty

Foreclosure

Eviction

Kamala Harris

Rashida Tlaib

Mayors for a Guaranteed Income website: mayorsforagi.org

Mayors for a Guaranteed Income on Twitter: @MayorsforAGI

SEED website: StocktonDemonstration.org

Mayor Tubbs on Twitter & Instagram: @michaeldtubbs

On this episode, we are joined by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), the current ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. Senator Brown discusses the committee's newly-released report, Turning Back the Clock: How the Trump Administration Has Undermined 50 Years of Fair Housing Progress, which details the ongoing lack of improvement in the area of fair housing, particularly as it relates to the wealth and health gap in communities of color.

The host for this episode is Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

Housing

Segregation

Wealth gap

Fair Housing Act

Community Reinvestment Act

Redlining

Housing discrimination

Racism

Suburb

Inner-city

Eviction

Foreclosure

Displacement

Gentrification

Black homeownership

Public health

COVID

Emergency Renters Assistance

Dignity of work

Martin Luther King Jr

Civil Rights

Affordable Housing

Ben Carson

HUD

Turning Back the Clock…(Senate Housing Report): http://bit.ly/TurningBack_HousingRpt

Twitter- @SenSherrodBrown

Facebook- Senator Sherrod Brown

Instagram- http://bit.ly/sensherrodbrown

On this episode, we are joined by Rebecca "Becky" Pringle, the current President of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest employee organization and labor union in the country. Mrs. Pringle talks about the challenges that educators, support staff, students and parents face as they navigate education during the dual crises of COVID and racial inequity.

The hosts for this episode are Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and Toni Wiley, NUL Director of Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

National Education Association

NEA

Education

Public school

Equity

Teachers

Students

Parents

Distance learning

Pandemic

COVID

Homework gap

Digital divide

School to Prison Pipeline

Implicit Bias

Special Needs

Broadband

Department of Education

Betsy DeVos

Trump

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

HEROES Act

Twitter: @beckypringle

Website: educatingthroughcrisis.org

On this episode, we are joined by Shannon Curie, Vice President at Benenson Strategy Group and award-winning National Urban League Young Professionals leader. At Benenson, Ms. Currie specializes in qualitative research and strategic messaging and will walk us through recent ethnographic studies mapping the Black American experience during the 2020 presidential election cycle, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Movement for Black Lives.

The hosts for this episode are Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and Toni Wiley, NUL Director of Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

Benenson Strategy Group

Microaggression

Discrimination

Fatigue

Polling

Leadership

Reform

Justice

Media

Values

Attitudes

Survey

Vote by Mail Fraud

Coronavirus Vaccine

School Reopening

2020 Presidential Election

Approval Rating

Market Research

Qualitative Research

Social Ambassadors

Social Responsibility

Decision-making

Seat at the Table

Black Lives Matter

Movement for Black Lives

National Urban League Young Professionals

Twitter/ IG: @shannonjanean

In this episode, we pay tribute to the groundbreaking and iconic life of the "Notorious RBG," Justice Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who left an indelible jurisprudential legacy of gender equality, civil rights, voting rights, and dignity for all people. Through her work as a law professor and head of the American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, her appointment by President Jimmy Carter to the federal bench and her elevation in 1993 to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton, Ginsburg has been referred to as the most important woman lawyer in the history of the Republic. In honoring Justice Ginsburg, we are joined by one the few Black women to lead one of the Nation's 204 law schools, Howard University School of Law alumna and current Washburn University School of Law Dean Carla Pratt. We discuss Ginsburg's impact on the Supreme Court as an advocate and a jurist and explore the comparisons between Justice Thurgood Marshall's work on racial equality and Justice Ginsburg's work on gender equality. The host for this episode is Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy. From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color. Discussed in this episode: ACLU Affirmative Action Affordable Care Act/Obamacare African American law school deans @AJCGlobal (American Jewish Committee) Ambassador Delano Lewis Anti-racist #BlackJewishUnity week Brown v. Board of Education Columbia University Law School Equal Protection Clause Equal Rights Act Gender equality Georgetown University Law Center Professor Paul Butler Howard University School of Law Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joe Biden Judge Harry T. Edwards Judge Paul Watford Justice Clarence Thomas Justice Elena Kagan Justice Thurgood Marshall Legal Defense and Educational Fund Lilly Ledbetter National Public Radio Notorious RBG Penn State Dickinson Law of Law President Barack Obama Reproductive Rights Roe v. Wade Supreme Court of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Title VII Topeka, Kansas U.S. Senator Bob Dole U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Voting Rights Verizon https://washburnlaw.edu/profiles/pratt-carla.html @washburnlawdean Washburn University Law School

On this episode, we are joined by Ronald Haley, Esq. attorney for the family of Trayford Pellerin, a 31-year-old Black man killed in a hail of 17 bullets by Lafayette Parrish (Louisiana) police officers as he was walking away from them. Pellerin was killed two days before the world learned of another 29-year-old Black man, Jacob Blake, who was shot in the back seven times by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, leaving him paralyzed. While Blake's case went viral, Pellerin's case remains noticeably out of the headlines. Mr. Haley updates us on the details of the Pellerin case and the steps he and local activists are taking to bring justice to those responsible for his death.

The host for this episode is Clint Odom, Lafayette native and NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

Police Brutality

Officer-Involved Shooting

Transparency

Reform

Justice

Media

Trayford Pellerin

Jacob Blake

Donald Guidry

Alton Sterling

Unarmed Black Man

Benjamin Crump

Rev. Al Sharpton

Black Lives Matter

Movement for Black Lives

March on Washington

Commitment March

Lafayette Police Department

Non-compliant

Bodycam

Public Records Act

Excessive Force

Independent Investigation

In celebration of the enduring ties between America's Black and Jewish communities, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the National Urban League are partnering to designate the week of September 7thBlack-Jewish Unity Week. To kick off #BlackJewishUnity week, we're collaborating for an exciting crossover event with the AJC's podcast, "People of the Pod"!

In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Elbaum, the American Jewish Committee's Chief Advocacy Officer, to talk about the connections between the Black and Jewish communities and how we can use #BlackJewishUnity week to strengthen those ties.

The hosts for this episode are Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and Toni Wiley, NUL Director of Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Show notes:

Be sure to check out AJC's People of the Pod's episode with NUL SVP of Policy and Advocacy, Clint Odom.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

American Jewish Committee

Black-Jewish Unity Week

No Hate Act

Justice in Poling Act

Hate Crimes

Anti-Semitism

Racism

Coronavirus

Police Brutality

Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rep. John Lewis

Sen. Kamala Harris

James Chaney

Michael Schwerner

Andrew Goodman

Lynching

In this episode, we are joined by DuJuan McCoy, Owner, President & CEO of Circle City Broadcasting. As one of only a few Black television network owners in the country, Mr. McCoy talks about the challenges of being in his space, as well as the prospects of broadcast television closing the digital divide and influencing social justice movements. The hosts for this episode are Clint Odom, NUL Senior Vice President of Policy & Advocacy and Toni Wiley, NUL Director of Advocacy.

From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.

Discussed in this episode:

National Urban League

Black

Black America

African-American

News

Information

Advocacy

Entrepreneurship

Broadcast Television

Media

Education

Indianapolis

Black-owned

Economics

Internet access

Broadband

Digital Divide

Inequity

COVID-19

Social Justice

Black Lives Matter

John Lewis

CT Vivian

FCC