SNT gets into the nitty gritty of the dire state of education with mentee, friend and Howard University student, Erica England. From gentrification in collegiate neighborhoods, to the housing and job financial crisis, to student debt and the needed regulation for tuition, Erica bravely shares her story of what she’s experiencing (and megaphoning about) when it comes to what it is really like at an HBCU (Historically Black College University) specifically and college in general. 

Link:

American Association of University Women report: “Women Doubly Squeezed by Student Debt

https://www.aauw.org/resources/news/media/press-releases/women-doubly-squeezed-by-student-debt/

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SNT returns with a post-election solo episode full of reflective golden nuggets for you -- and for herself! Full of heart and, yes, sorrow and disdain, Senator Turner questions what brought about the election outcome and gives thanks to the thousands of supporters who made her race competitive. While taking the bitter with the sweet, SNT implores us to remain vigilant; reminds us that the journey does not end with a loss as there is still opportunity and NEED to continue on this path to justice. Hello Somebody!

LINKS:

Please read: Nina Turner: My Love letter to Our Movement in Jacobin Magazine

Please remember: “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Recorded, produced and edited by Larj Media in April 2020

Some lessons never get old! This oldie but goodie conversation between organizer, artist and leader, “Dr” Phillip Agnew and SNT is a special lecture at the “Nina Turner School of Hell-Raising Humanitarians”. More than a history review, this mind-blowing session takes on wealth, health, safety, morality and how our “bastard” country has murdered its way to exactly where we are right now. Be prepared to be schooled with helpful facts to keep your foot on the gas toward continued organizing, motivating and activating. Hello Somebody.

NOTES: 

Phillip Agnew TED Talks: https://www.ted.com/speakers/phillip_agnew

Black Men Build: http://www.blackmen.build/

Black Men Build Survival Guide: http://www.blackmen.build/page/survivalguide/

Dream Defenders Contact https://dreamdefenders.org/

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From health care to filibuster to getting to a better normal, Senator Turner and Congressman Ro Khanna passionately run-down the current state of affairs with an eye on hope.

LINKS:

Congressman Ro Khanna (17th Congressional District, California) and his Universal Health Care bill:

https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-rep-khanna-introduces-state-based-universal-health-care-act-landmark

History of the Filibuster

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture/overview.htm

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/origins-of-filibuster-united-states-senate

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Rather than “run out the room screamin’”, SNT and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., American Academic and Princeton African American Studies Chair, purposefully intellectualize about the gutted voting rights act, white supremacy and the value gap, the dire need for critical thinking, and how the current political moment attacks imagination. James Baldwin quotes fly in this episode as these two urgently implore us to fight back and become political poets – right now, in real time, or else. Hello Somebody!

*Recorded early July 2021

LINKS:

More about Mr. Glaude:

https://aas.princeton.edu/people/eddie-s-glaude-jr

Mentioned books by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.:

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/228365/democracy-in-black-by-eddie-s-glaude-jr/

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575725/begin-again-by-eddie-s-glaude-jr/

Shelby v. Holder

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/how-shelby-county-broke-america/564707/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder

More on The Value Gap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5R5966c7Ek

Matthew Yglesias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Yglesias

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Senator Turner elevates U.S. poverty repair with author-activists, Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox. These three break down the gravity of how we’re perpetuating poverty through policy, practices and pre-conceived notions about the morality of being poor…and how we can change. #HelloSomebody

LINKS

Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending U.S. Poverty by Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox

*Foreword by Bomani Jones; SNT reads from the foreword in this episode

http://brokeinamerica.net/

The National Diaper Bank Network

https://nationaldiaperbanknetwork.org/

Poor People’s Campaign: William Barber

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/

American Promise – restore American democracy

https://americanpromise.net/

PRO-ACT, Protecting the Right to Organize Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842

Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer by Morris Pearl, Erica Payne & The Patriotic Millionaires 

https://taxtherich.com/the-book/

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Senator Turner has a heart-felt conversation with progressive entrepreneur, Joe Sanberg about corporate responsibility, public policy serving humanity, the call for universal healthcare … and how we can live morally and strive to simply treat one another better. #HelloSomebody!

LINKS

Joe Sanberg

https://www.joesanberg.com/

Working Hero

https://workinghero.org/why-eitc/

 Aspiration

https://www.aspiration.com/

Robert Reich & Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

https://robertreich.org/post/82938136466

Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer by Morris Pearl, Erica Payne & The Patriotic Millionaires 

https://taxtherich.com/the-book/

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SNT and trail-brazing, millennial activist Gary Chambers discuss the evolution of politics, liberation, mobilizing the progressive South, and how real the struggle is when it comes to the possibility of change.

LINKS

Bigger Than Me

Working to elect progressive leaders across the South.

https://biggerthanme.com/

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SNT dishes on all the things with the Professor of life and learning, Melissa Harris-Perry. From justice-centered education, to media monopoly, to policy imagination, to political “shiny objects”, to Black excellence versus Black mediocrity, to joy and gratitude, these two cover it all! Listen in and get ready to shout, “Hello, Somebody!”

Links:

Melissa Harris-Perry

https://www.melissaharrisperry.org/professor

Podcast: System Check with Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/system-check-with-melissa-harris-perry-and-dorian-warren/id1536830138

Tanzina Vega – Host, The Takeaway - WNYC

https://www.wnyc.org/people/tanzina-vega-1/

PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)

https://pflag.org/our-story

ALEC – American Legislative Exchange Council

https://www.alec.org/about/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/exposing-alec-how-conservative-backed-state-laws-are-all-connected/255869/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/29/conservatives-remade-american-state-politics-heres-how-they-did-it/

Alicia Garza – Activist, Black Future’s Lab, co-founder Black Lives Matter movement, author: The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

https://aliciagarza.com/

https://blackfutureslab.org/

Ben Carson, surgeon, author: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18422.Gifted_Hands

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