A playlist on the racial injustices and the criminal justice system in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Artwork: @shirien.creates
The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news — stories about the police killing black people. At this point, these calamities feel familiar — so familiar, in fact, that their details have...Show More
The Justice Department says it has made the investigation into George Floyd's death "a top priority," after furor over a video depicting a white police officer kneeling on his neck spilled over into w...Show More
After the events that have been happening over the week, we needed to have an open discussion about your emotions and the events happening with police brutality, riots and more. In addition, Dj Envy h...Show More
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC. How can he justify not firing Pantaleo and NYPD's acts of violence on Union Square yesterday when he sai...Show More
Today on the show Dj Envy went live with his listeners and allowed them to vent about the injustice and police brutality that have been recently taking place in differenent states. Also, Mysonne gave ...Show More
It's been over four years since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO and the issue of racism in the criminal legal system remains as stark and urgent as ever. Our guest, professor at American ...Show More
“Police accountability” is a term that gets thrown around a lot in conversations about criminal justice reform. But how do we make sure police officers who break laws or department rules are held to a...Show More
We are triggered. The white privilege of Amy Cooper, the tragic death of George Floyd… it’s been a difficult week. We come together to vent, to preach, to scream. We unpack the lies and address the pa...Show More
"The United States believes any Palestinian government must renounce violence,” a U.S. official told Ha'aretz. When it comes to nonviolence, writes Barbara Reynolds in The Washington Post, “Black Live...Show More
Before 2014, police killings of unarmed Black people weren’t a huge news story. Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, Ferguson activist Johnetta Elzie, and host Lewis Raven Wallace look at how media...Show More
Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida, to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up there, ...Show More
The struggle for racial justice is far from over. Inequality is built on many aspects ingrained in our society—history, law and culture. How do we confront this inequality embedded in American life? H...Show More
In "How to Be An Antiracist," author and professor Ibram X. Kendi combines searing autobiography with pointed analysis to show just how deeply racism is woven into our national—and global—fabric.
In our third stop of the Fall tour, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect behind The 1619 Project, and Ibram Kendi, author of “How To Be an Antiracist”, join Chris Hayes to examine the 400 year legacy of...Show More
Our guests are activist and scholar Angela Davis, and historian Ibram X. Kendi. Throughout her lifetime, Angela Davis has been a passionate voice for human rights, working from the position that th...Show More
Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the sound of America. On today’s episode: Wesley Morris, a critic-at-large for The New York Times. “161...Show More
On the last episode of Season 2, Josie and Clint discuss prison abolition with Mariame Kaba, one of the leading activists and organizers in the fight against America’s criminal legal system and a cont...Show More
Black identity is central to the question of reparations — and the difficulty of defining blackness becomes even more salient when there's money at stake.
Despite making up only 13 per cent of the population, black Americans represent about a quarter of all people killed by police. Today on Front Burner, we speak to civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson ...Show More
jennx recommended:
This episode is a must-listen. It really broke my heart hearing grown black men call in, crying and speaking about George Floyd and their own experiences in a white world. You will also hear from the ...Show More