It’s August 23, 2020. I finished reading Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist. I also attended a webinar hosted by WeBuyBlack.com, featuring Boyce Watkins. There are competing narratives describing how we should best move forward in the fight against the cause of racial inequity. In this episode I describe the landscape.

It’s August 23, 2020. There are hundreds of wildfires burning in California. Why is the state struggling to quell them?

It’s August 22, 2020. I learned how to make silence not awkward by reading and doing the things in Program Peace Chapter 11. Hint : breathe in.

It’s August 20, 2020. The Big Ten conferences could lose billions of $$$. Each individual school could lose hundreds of millions of $$$. Who will be the biggest losers in the economic fallout from the cancellation of the 2020 college football season? Sources include the Equity in Athletes Data Analysis database.

It’s August 19, 2020. Facebook removed 790 QAnon groups from their platform. So what is QAnon?

It’s August 18, 2020. The Big Ten supposedly cancelled its season due to health and safety concerns. So, is it safe to play college football? What protocols were in place? And what is myocarditis?

It’s August 17, 2020. Last week the Big Ten canceled its 2020 college football season. Why did that happen? Who made the call? And what changed after the Big Ten released its season schedule?

It’s August 14, 2020. In this episode I describe the voter purge that occurred in Florida before the 2000 Presidential election, and how this election season will see similar black voter disenfranchisement. Sources include an article from The Nation entitled “How the 2000 Election in Florida Led to a New Wave of Voter Disenfranchisement.”

It’s August 13, 2020. In this episode I describe the parallels between spoiled and overseas absentee ballots in the 2000 Presidential election, and mail in ballots + the defunding of USPS in the coming election.

It’s August 12, 2020. In this episode I highlight the series of events that led to Al Gore conceding the 2000 Presidential election. Sources include Wikipedia & post-gazette.com.