Julie Bennet Hume, Davoya Marshall and Jane Kloeckner welcome Avery Jones from Decarcerate KC, which aims to raise awareness, build power, and create change around issues of incarceration and policing in Kansas City. Listen to learn about initiatives such as Reach, Reimagining Safety and Community Safety Hubs.

She Talk Wha?? is a weekly Chautauqua, a historic movement for adult education and cultural enrichment, that focuses on local, state, national and global issues facing women in today’s political and cultural climate. We’ll discuss books, ideas, current legislation and executive actions, local and national activism and the different challenges women are dealing with in today’s society.

This episode originally aired on Sept. 6. Listen live on KKFI 90.1 fm – Kansas City Community Radio every Saturday at 3 p.m. CST and on kkfi.org.

We will also discuss the 2010 book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander.