Today's episode includes an interview with interview Rep. Rena Moran, who represents Frogtown and parts of Rondo in the Minnesota State Legislature. We also hear from members of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofit unionization campaign, Ileana Mejia and Amber Davis.

On March 18, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel, hosted by the Minnesota Women’s Press, about what it means to transform justice and the different ways to think about and act on that task. I also recently had the opportunity to Guest Edit their latest issue on “Transforming Justice,” and so, for this panel, we gathered three of the voices together from that issue - Salena Beasley, Robin Wonsley Worbolah, and Nevada Littlewolf - together to more deeply discuss their work. We’ll listen to part of that panel during this episode.

Recently, my team at The UpTake and I had the chance to interview Governor Walz and Lt. Governor Flanagan Friday morning in a streamed interview. Here's that interview now.

Episode 31 of the Radical News Radio Hour shares part two of a community panel, “Politics, Policy, and Power: A roundtable discussion on BIPOC liberation and policymaking."

A transcription will be available at www.journalismofcolor.com soon. 

Today's episode includes an interview with Sophia, a youth climate activist. We’ll also speak with Clark Goldenrod, a budget expert with the Minnesota Budget project, as well as Julia Freeman, the Director of Community Engagement with Voices for Racial Justice.

On today's special episode of the Radical News Radio Hour, we’ll be listening to a previously-recorded and streamed panel discussion, “Politics, Policy, and Power: A roundtable discussion on BIPOC liberation and policymaking: part 1.”

On today’s episode of the Radical News Radio Hour, we’re talking about the Page Amendment with Our Children MN Campaign Manager and Executive Director Nevada Littlewolf. The Page Amendment is a proposed constitutional amendment, in Minnesota, that would - if passed by the voters in 2022 - provide a civil right to a quality public education to all Minnesota children.

On today’s episode of the Radical News Radio Hour, we’re talking about education equity. We’ll listen to a clip from a recent discussion held by the Federal Reserve, reported by Rico Morales. Then we’ll listen to some announcements from Peter Rachleff at the East Side Freedom Library.

You can find the transcript for this episode here.

On today’s episode of the Radical News Radio Hour, we’re discussing education equity. We’ll start with an interview with Denise Specht, President of Education Minnesota, as we discuss the intersections of education, racial justice, and policy making at the Minnesota State Legislature. Then we’ll listen to a discussion on the intersections of ethnic studies and the school-to-prison pipeline. 

During this episode of the Radical News Radio Hour, we discuss the environmental justice organizing happening in Minneapolis' East Phillips Neighborhood, as well as universal childcare and early learning in Minnesota.