During the 2020 Election, targeted difficulties, like voting ID laws, polling place closures, voter roll purges, registration requirements, and limitations on voting times, had a particularly burdensome impact on voters of color. Nevertheless, 2020 saw the highest turnout of voters of color in American history. On this episode,  Justice Above All unpacks how election sabotage invaded the 2020 electoral process and culminated in the violent attack on the Capitol. Joined by Christina Das (Legal Defense Fund) and Secretary Tahesha Way (New Jersey Secretary of State), they look at how election sabotage risks the lives of election worker and poses a grave threat to democracy. 

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On this episode, host Dr. Kesha Moore unpacks the anti-truth movement and the coordinated attempts to censor the accurate teaching of American history. Justice Above All is joined by Katrina Feldkamp, Assistant Counsel for the Legal Defense Fund and Anya and Raven, two student leaders in the Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition. 

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On this episode,  host Dr. Kesha Moore traces the history of fines and fees and outlines how localities are fining some of their poorest residents as a way to generate revenue for their budgets. 

Guests: Katurah Topps, LDF Policy Counsel, Emily Harris, Policy Director of the Ella Baker Center, and Cortney Sanders, Senior Manger of State and Policy Analysis at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 


Produced by Keecee DeVenny and Jacqueline O'Neill 
Edited by Keecee DeVenny 

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On this episode of Justice Above All, host and TMI Senior Researcher Dr. Kesha Moore talks with Sarah Saadian, Vice President of Public Policy at the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Sophie House, Law and Policy Director at NYU's Furman Center's Housing Solutions Lab, and Jason Bailey, Assistant Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund about how our current housing epidemic links back to the 2008 financial crisis, the racial disparities present in evictions, and how we can use the pandemic as impetus to prioritize creating a social safety net for renters. 

Guests: 
Sarah Saadian, Vice President of Public Policy, National Low income Housing Coalition 
Sophie House, Director of Law and Policy, NYU Furman Center's Housing Solutions Lab 
Jason Bailey, Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund 

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Later this year, the redistricting process will begin and the states will begin drawing the districts that will determine the allocation of political power and representation for the next ten years. However, a practice known as prison-based gerrymandering threatens the principle of "one person, one vote" and risks unfairly diluting the political power of Black and urban communities, while inflating the power of white, rural ones. 

 On this episode of Justice Above All, Thurgood Marshall Institute Senior Researcher Kesha Moore talks to the Executive Director of the Abolitionist Law Center, Saleem Holbrook, and Cara McClellan, Assistant Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, about the inherent racism surrounding prison-based gerrymandering and how it continues to feed the prison industrial complex. 

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In this episode, election law expert, Professor Richard L. Hasen speaks with, Thurgood Marshall Institute Senior Researcher, Dr. Algernon Austin about the many obstacles to voting facing African Americans this November. Professor Hasen and Dr. Austin discuss how this election is expected to be different from any other and how voters need to prepare.

 This podcast is a product of the Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI), an interdisciplinary center of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). This episode is hosted by Dr. Algernon Austin and produced by Keecee DeVenny.  

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In this episode, the Thurgood Marshall Institute team is joined by Dr. Janise Parker, Dr. Brooke Cunningham, and LDF's Monique Lin-Luse, Esquire to tackle four important questions: how should we reopen schools in a way that addresses the racial inequities and trauma experienced by Black students?; How can school districts better fulfill their responsibility for a safe and equitable education for all?; How do we ensure that Black parents do not have to choose between the health of their families and the education of their children?; What factors should parents use to guide their decision making about how to educate their children in the upcoming year?

This podcast is a product of the Thurgood Marshall Institue (TMI), an interdisciplinary center of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). This episode is hosted by Dr. Kesha Moore and produced by Keecee DeVenny and Will Searcy. 

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This episode features a conversation between Dr. Safiya Noble, New York Times Best-Selling Author of Algorithms of Oppression and Associate Professor at UCLA, and Will Searcy, Research and Operations Associate at the Thurgood Marshall Institute. At their most basic, algorithms are just instructions that are given to a computer to perform specific tasks. They can be very simple or incredibly complex. Working from this framework, Dr. Safiya Noble joins the pod to break down how bias becomes intertwined in algorithms and perpetuates discrimination.

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