Anne Frank Center: Trump’s Personal Twitter Account Amplifies Hate and Should Be Suspended; Nephew of Fascist Who Marched in Charlottesville & Former Neo-Nazi on Confronting Racists.
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Donald Trump has abandoned his Advisory Councils after they began hemorrhaging corporate CEO members in the wake of his Charlottesville defense of Nazis. On today’s show, Nicole Carty of the group SumOfUs will explain what the development means. Then, staying on Charlottesville, we’ll tackle the question: do hate groups that promise violence have the right … Continued
The month of August is a time where thousands of black people inside and outside of prison commemorate Black August to honor fallen freedom fighters in the black liberation movement. Today, we explore the history and significance of Black August and the continued incarceration of black bodies inside prison. Host Cat Brooks interviews Mama Ayanna … Continued
Exclusive: Stonewall Jackson’s Great-Great-Grandsons Call for Removal of Confederate Monuments; Life After Hate: Trump Admin Stops Funding Former Neo-Nazis Who Now Fight White Supremacy; “Vile, Hateful & Racist”: A Fargo Family Disowns White Supremacist Relative After Charlottesville; The Monuments Must Go: An Open Letter From Great, Great Grandsons of Stonewall Jackson.
Diversity is measured in large part by the presence or absence of people belonging to one ethnoracial category (Black, Hispanic, etc.) or another. But do those long-standing categories still make sense, given intragroup differences, immigration to the U.S., and race-mixing? David Hollinger thinks that if the goal of anti-discrimination policy is to match reward conferred … Continued
We talk to James Loewen, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. He worked with a commission studying Confederate monuments in Baltimore. He is the author of such books as Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong and the Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.
Immigrants, Advocates Rally to Save DACA
On the fifth anniversary of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, we’ll examine the various threats it faces as 800,000 young immigrants outed themselves to the government so they could live without fear. My guest Juan Escalante a DACA recipient will join us. Then, as Republicans prepare to re-write the US tax code … Continued
On today’s show, Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Cat Brooks discuss the extremist demonstrations that are imminent in the Bay Area, how we should strategize to combat them, and Trump’s response to the protest in Charlottesville. Then, Cat Brooks interviews Daria Roithmayr about her book Reproducing Racism, which explores the ways in which our institutions and personal relationships automatically … Continued
Meet the College Student Who Pulled Down a Confederate Statue in Durham & Defied White Supremacy; Bree Newsome: Charlottesville is Latest Chapter in Long U.S. History of White Supremacist Terror; Antifa: A Look at the Antifascist Movement Confronting White Supremacists in the Streets.
La Raza Chronicles – August 15, 2017
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Entrevista con la banda nicaragüense Ciclo. Boletos de regalo para el concierto de Residente en San Francisco. Y los titulares de noticias de Democracy Now! en Español.