It's our 200th episode! DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam have a roundtable about the Derek Chauvin verdict and the underreported news of the week, including PPP for female business owners, political engagement, excessive force in prisons, and skipped vaccinations. DeRay interviews Larry Krasner, the focus of a new PBS documentary "Philly D.A.", to talk about the struggles of criminal justice reform.

DeRay: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/nyregion/rikers-guards-lie-nyc-jails.html

Kaya: www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/business/covid-vaccines-second-doses.html

Sam: https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2021-04-23/surge-political-engagement-youth-problem-for-gop-essential-politics

De'Ara: https://19thnews.org/2021/04/women-small-businesses-loan/

DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam celebrate Earth Day by diving into the underreported news of the week, including environmental justice, La Gran Madre, Brooklyn police corruption, and early voting. DeRay interviews Luvvie Ajayi Jones about her new book "Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual".

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople

DeRay: https://gothamist.com/news/brooklyn-da-will-purge-90-convictions-involving-indicted-detective-100-more-expected-manhattan

Kaya: https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/climate-change-law-codifies-environmental-justice/

Sam: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/10802/voting-should-not-be-difficult-mississippians-seek-10-days-of-early-voting-with-new-ballot-initiative/

De'Ara: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-04-16/la-gran-madre-helps-free-child-migrants-stranded-on-the-border-in-shelters-because-she-was-one

DeRay, Kaya, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including Maryland police oversight, California child care, college admission essays, and Derek Chauvin's trial. Netta Elzie gives an update on what's happening with the nationwide protests. DeRay interviews Alua Arthur about what it takes to be a death doula. 

DeRay: https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/essay-content-strongly-related-household-income-and-sat-scores-evidence-60000-undergraduate-applications

Kaya: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/04/california-teachers-childcare-coronavirus-478972

Sam: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-vetoes-police-accountibility/2021/04/09/c0ac4096-9967-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819_story.html

Teaching Study: https://hechingerreport.org/white-and-female-teachers-show-racial-bias-in-evaluating-second-grade-writing/

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Kaya Henderson sits down with Shaka King, the director and co-writer of "Judas and the Black Messiah". Netta Elzie gives an update on what's happening with the nationwide protests. DeRay interviews author/professor Dorothy A. Brown about racial discrepancies in American tax law.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople

DeRay, De'Ara, Kaya, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including Tanzania, suture threads, Tina Turner, and the Klan at Harvard. DeRay interviews Leigh Phillips of SaverLife and Solana Rice of Liberation in a Generation.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople.

DeRay: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/3/25/harvard-klan-scrut/

Kaya: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/high-schooler-invented-color-changing-sutures-detect-infection-180977345/?s=09

Sam: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56444575

De'Ara: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/03/remaking-tina-turner-hbo/618432/

DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including first responders, Mississippi Medicaid, pot use at the White House, and another lost Black utopia. Netta Elzie gives an update on what's happening with the nationwide protests. DeRay sits down with Cleo Wade to discuss her new book, "What the Road Said". 

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople.

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DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including the Royal Family, Black farmers, Mariya Russell, Aya Brown, and the Bruce family. DeRay sits down with Evan Stone, of Educators for Excellence, about the path forward for education.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople.

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DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including Sunday voting, Colorado bail reform, pandemic overdoses, and Arkansas vaccinations. Netta Elzie gives an update on what's happening with the nationwide protests. DeRay sits down with Justin Fenton to discuss his new book "We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption".

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople.

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DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including drug prosecutions, Billie Holiday, Nashlie Sephus, Black American sign language on Tik Tok. Netta Elzie gives an update on what's happening with the nationwide protests. DeRay sits down with Johnny Celestin to discuss the political situation in Haiti. De'Ara interviews Will Driscoll about roofing reform for public health.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople.

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DeRay, Kaya, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including child exploitation during a pandemic, linked fate, and jury exclusion. Netta Elzie gives an update on what's happening with the nationwide protests. DeRay sits down with Dr. Bob Wachter, guest host of "In the Bubble" podcast on Lemonada Media, to discuss the vaccine roll-out and the dangers of upcoming coronavirus spikes.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople.

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