In The Thick

A deadly terrorist attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday left at least 49 people dead, dozens injured, and the rest of the world shaken. Julio is joined by guest co-host Antonia Cereijido of Latino USA, to discuss this tragedy, plus Beto O’Rourke’s announcement of his 2020 candidacy and how the college admissions scandal is just another part of the problem of racism in higher education.  

ITT Staff Picks:

• Watch the full segment of Waleed Aly’s emotional response to the mosque shooting on The Project.
• Refinery29 explores the double standard of Beto O’Rourke’s presidential run.
• Your questions on the college admissions scandal answered, by the New York Times.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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A new budget plan was released on Monday that includes a proposal of $8.6 billion for construction of the border wall. Meanwhile, the long-awaited Robert Mueller report could be published any day, and a new House resolution was passed that broadly condemns hate. Maria and Julio are joined by All-Star Callie Crossley, host of WGBH’s Under the Radar, and Aisha Moodie Mills, political strategist and fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics, to discuss these latest issues, plus their thoughts on the 2020 Democratic candidates.  

ITT Staff Picks:

• Vox gives a breakdown of Trump's $4.7 trillion budget proposal.
• This opinion piece on what the Mueller report will reveal, via the New York Times.
• What Progressive Jewish groups think about Rep. Omar's debate on Israel, from The Washington Post. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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This week, four different congressional hearings on immigration took place at the same time. Maria and Julio discuss one where Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified that she was unaware of the long-lasting effects family separation has on migrant children. They also talk about R. Kelly’s interview with Gayle King, and how to grapple with sexual abuse allegations against celebrity idols.

ITT Staff Picks

• A report this week explains how Border Patrol’s inadequate health care puts migrants at risk, via the New York Times.
• This Vox piece explores the myth of the cycle of abuse, in the wake of high-profile sexual abuse allegations.
• This piece from The Atlantic on revisiting the legacy of Michael Jackson in the face of new sexual abuse allegations.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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In Texas, 40 percent of the state is Latinx and by 2022 Latinos are expected to be the largest demographic group in Texas, surpassing non-Hispanic white people. Maria and Julio discuss the demographic and political changes that Texas is going through. For this live show from the Borderland, they're joined by Cristina Tzintzún Ramírez, executive director of Jolt, and Efrén Olivares, racial and economic justice program director with the Texas Civil Rights Project.      ITT Staff Picks:

• As demographics shift, Latinos in Texas are claiming the majority and seeing themselves in the center of the national story, by Michelle García in Guernica's series, Rewriting the West
• Latino turnout surged in the 2018 Midterms. Then Texas questioned 98,000 voters’ citizenship, by Roque Planas in HuffPost
• Democrats had historic gains in Texas in 2018. They're setting their sights on even more in 2020, via The Texas TribuneFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Maria and Julio talk about Michael Cohen’s testimony with the House Oversight Committee, where he called President Trump a con man, a cheat, and a racist. They also discuss the latest report that revealed an increase in complaints of sexual abuse against children in immigration detention centers under the Trump administration's Zero Tolerance policy.

ITT Staff Picks:

ITT All-Star Terrell Jermaine Starr's analysis of the exchange between Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Mark Meadows at the Cohen hearing, and the response from Rep. Elijah Cummings.

This piece from Vox explaining the significance of Michael Cohen’s testimony to the Russia investigation.

Thousands of complaints of sexual abuse against immigrant children in U.S. detention centers have been reported, via The New York Times.

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The crisis in Venezuela escalated over the weekend after the government blocked humanitarian aid at the Colombian border, leading to violence and protests. In this episode, Julio and guest host All-Star Imara Jones talk with guests Eli Lopez, senior editor of global opinions at the Washington Post, and Phil Gunson, senior analyst with the International Crisis Group and writer on Latin America, about the political tension in Venezuela and what role the U.S. plays in it.

ITT Staff Picks:

• Vox explains what went down this weekend at the Venezuelan-Colombian border
• This episode of the Intercepted podcast delves into the US’ interventionist history, and what it means for the political regime in Venezuela
• An in-depth look at the humanitarian and economic crisis in Venezuela, explained through charts from the BBC. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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No matter if she was trying to find a job or get an education, Leyla Martinez kept finding the same problem: on the application forms, she would have to declare that she had a past conviction. Maria and Julio talk to Leyla about her experience, how she got to graduate from Columbia and why she founded the Beyond the Box initiative.   ITT Staff Picks:

• A South Bronx single mom's improbable journey from prison to Columbia University: Leyla's profie in The Daily News.
• Hiring ex-offenders can actually led to more profitable businesses, according to The Guardian.
• From the Vera Institute of Justice: Postsecondary education in prison increases employment among the formerly incarcerated.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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Discrimination and housing segregation in the United States didn't happened by chance. In this episode, our guests Richard Rothstein, author of the book The Color of Law, and Emmanuel Martinez, data reporter for Reveal, explain how redlining still shapes our cities and affects people of color.     ITT Staff Picks:

• Reveal's award-winning investigative series Kept Out, which Emmanuel co-reported for, explores how housing discrimination still happens through banks and loans.
• Richard Rothstein and Ta-Nehesi Coates talk about the book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (from C-SPAN).
• The Disturbing History of the Suburbs: a great video explainer of housing discrimination, featuring Adam Conover from Adam Ruins Everything.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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While President Trump declares a national emergency, Maria and Julio talk about the truth behind this political move, as well as the situation of the rapper 21 Savage, who was detained by ICE. They also discuss the controversy we've seen around Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

  ITT Staff Picks:
- Vox explains the winners and the losers of Trump's emergency declaration.
- From The Nation: Israeli lobbyist Ady Barkan defends Ilhan Omar's comments.
- This opinion piece about being a Black immigrant, from the New York Times.
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Two leading Democrats in Virginia have acknowledged that they did blackface in the past and a third Democrat has been accused of sexual abuses. Maria and Julio try to understand this mess (and more) with two All-Stars: journalist and Columbia professor Alexis Clark, and Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University.     ITT Staff Picks:

• Vox explains why we need to talk about blackface and racism now.
• The Intercept on the power of the Green New Deal and its first "baby steps."
• Trump's rally in El Paso —and Beto's response — is a preview of every 2020 debate to come, Julio's latest for NBC Think.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy  
  

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