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On this show:
0:08 – Fire evacuation orders are underway in the surrounding areas for two California prisons, California Medical Facility in Vacaville and Solano state prison. But state officials refuse to evacuate the facilities and those incarcerated inside say they’re being affected by the smoke and heat, and worried about the encroaching fires. To talk more about the emergency in California prisons during Covid-19 and the wildland fires, we’re joined by Adnan Khan, co-founder of Re:Store Justice.
0:34 – As Kamala Harris formally accepts the nomination for vice president, how should we think about Black leadership and electoralism in the United States since Reconstruction? Greg Carr, chair of Howard University’s Department of Africana Studies, discusses.