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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