Nicole Sandler What's News 03-23-2018 by Progressive Voices

A 5 minute quick shot of the CoffeeCast: Tom details the neocon war hawk John Bolton who has just been nominated to the position of National Security Advisor to the Trump Administration.

What happened in Rio De Janeiro March 14 wasn’t unusual.

A black lesbian leftist, child of the favelas, was gunned down, in public, probably by an agent of the state.

Our guest host today is Maggie Thompson of 'Generation Progress', a national organization that works with and for young people to promote progressive solutions to key political and social challenges. (On Twitter: @maggiekthompson)

Below are the topics she discussed, along with the guests she was joined by.

Topic: March for Our Lives/Community Gun Violence Prevention

Guest 1: Jacobi Crowley, a gun violence prevention activist from Oklahoma

Webiste: www.Jacobi4OK.com

Guest 2: Caitlyn Caruso, a gun violence prevention activist from Las Vegas

Tweets: @mylovelyCaitlyn

Guest 3: Michael Cogbill, a community organizer with CeasefirePA

Tweets: @CeaseFirePA

The website for 'Generation Progress' is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter handle is @GenProgress.

Relaxing, taking a breath, is daunting. Because you are left alone with you, your thoughts, classical music, chocolate, tea, a puppy, wait, it's heaven. Plus, Expensive Eating with Vox, 12 foods not to miss, and rainy day songs.

Ed Chung guest hosts today's show. He is the Vice President for Criminal Justice Reform at American Progress. Ed, and other staff at the Center for American Progress, will host the show each Thursday from 3-4pm ET until April 2nd when Mark Levine returns to the air following his work as a Virginia State Delegate.

Below are the topics that Ed discussed today, along with the guests he was joined by.

1. Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and the Trump Campaign

Guest: Luke Barnes, a Reporter at ThinkProgress

Tweets: @lukebarnes_92

2. The Racial Wealth Gap in the United States

Guest 1: Dionna Dorsey, Founder of DistrictOfClothing.com

Tweets: @DionnaDorsey

Guest 2: Danyelle Solomon, Senior Director of Progress 2050 at the Center for American Progress

Tweets: @danyindc

Ed's Twitter handle is @EdChungTweets. Before working at the Center for American Progress, he served as senior adviser on criminal justice, policing, and civil rights issues for the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

In that capacity, Chung coordinated a national initiative for building trust between the justice system and the communities it serves, as well as the Obama administration’s violence reduction and second-chance efforts under the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

Chung also held positions in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, including special counsel to the assistant attorney general and federal prosecutor with the Criminal Section, where he received the John Marshall Award for successfully prosecuting the first case under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.

The website for "The Center for American Progress" is www.AmericanProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @amprog.

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