Ken Scott Baron Podcast

Ken from the National Association of Black and White Men talks about the NA’s effort on Voter Rights and Voter Suppression, He outlines how the Black community votes in huge numbers on these issues but other communities need to do the same.

It is a question I get sometimes: I don’t have slaves but maybe my ancestors did, if that is the case, how to make amends? The the case of Stacie Marshall in Georgia. She was in line to inherit 300 acres, which would make her the first woman in her family to own a farm. […]

We are all relieved to have a sane President. And then we have the QAnon wackos, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists, the voter suppression hard-liners, the coup enthusiasts and the election deniers. They could take the House next year during the midterm elections, and possibly the Senate, as they continue to rewrite election rules in several […]

The Democrats are fighting back on voter suppression. The battle among Texas lawmakers over a bill that would impose some of the strictest limits in the nation on voting access escalated Monday as Democrats and Republicans vowed that they would not back down over a highly charged issue that has galvanized both parties. Democrats killed […]

One year ago, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, and the streets of American cities filled with protesters demanding an end to police killings, in the largest mass movement for civil rights in a generation. Thousands of people gathered in West Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles in June to demonstrate against […]

Last week the BWMTSC group watched episode one of  “The Underground Railroad,” Barry Jenkins’ TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.  This is disturbing 10-hour saga of an enslaved woman on a journey to freedom across the antebellum South by way of a literal subterranean train with conductors and […]

So said Senator Schumer at the hearing of Senate “For the People Act”. The “Big Lie” continues, fueled by Republican claims that the 2020 election was rigged. This is despite the fact that many judges and election officials said otherwise. The Brennan Center reports that State lawmakers continue to introduce voting and elections bills at […]

Remember when Mathew Sheppard was murdered and the accused men’s legal teams attempted to advance the “gay panic” theory on their client’s behalf? They claimed that Shepard had made an advance on their client and triggered a violent response – one that drew on traumatic youthful homosexual experiences as well as the influence of drugs […]

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant seeking to challenge his removal from the U.S. by immigration authorities.In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court said the Justice Department was violating federal law by not providing immigrants it seeks to deport with a single, comprehensive “notice to appear” […]