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What a Black Cop Knows About Race and Policing

'Matthew Horace, former police officer and contributor to CNN, The Wall Street Journal and author of The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism and the Injustice in America's Law Enforcement (Hatchette Books, 2018) talks about racism within American police departments.' -- The Brian Lehrer Show
         
        

Why Black Americans Suffer the Burden of America's Homelessness?

'Among the nation's homeless population, there's a deafening disparity in race. At just 12 percent of the U.S. population, black Americans are a whopping 43 percent of the nation's homeless.  It has been well-documented that black Americans make up a larger share of America's poor and that black wealth is almost non-existent. However, racial gap found in America's homelessness cannot be not explained by poverty alone. According to a study from the Center of Social Innovation, network impoverishment explains why black Americans have a particularity hard time bouncing back financial hardship and are more likely to lose their homes.'  -- The Takeaway

The Black Panther Still in Prison After 46 Years

'In 1971, two police officers were shot dead in Harlem. Nineteen-year-old Jalil Muntaqim of the Black Liberation Army was convicted and sent to prison. Nearly half a century later, he's still locked up – and he believes he's a victim of his involvement in the black liberation struggle.'

Salim Akil on Making a "Different Type" of Superhero Show With 'Black Lightning'

'Salim Akil (Black Lightning) joins Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter for this season's Genre Roundtable. He talks about bringing real world problems and African American representation to the superhero genre.'

Black Boy Joy: An Interview with Baltimore Photographer Devin Allen

'Khalilah Harris discusses arts education, trauma, healing, and life after Freddie Gray with photography phenom Devin Allen, whose collection A Beautiful Ghetto was recently published.' -- TheRealNews

TimesTalks: 2 Dope Queens

'An entertaining evening with the hosts of 2 Dope Queens, comedians Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams. These two incredible forces of nature have turned their riffs on popular culture and their daily adventures into a hit weekly podcast and series of HBO specials. Robinson and Williams discuss sex, romance, race, hair journeys, New York living and more with Jessica Bennett, gender editor of The New York Times.' -- TimesTalks

'Straight Outta Compton' at 30: Mark Anthony Neal on "Fuck Tha Police"

'A featurette from the documentary What's Beef? - The Construction of Street Culturalism (dir. Cauleen Hudson) featuring public intellectual and Duke Professor of African & African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal speaking on the socio-cultural importance and relevance of NWA's "Fuck Tha Police".'

Even Famous And Successful Black Women Can Encounter Serious Pregnancy Complications

'NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine, about the fact that Black mothers have a higher mortality rate than White mothers.' -- NPR

Television Reboots Add Diversity In Front of the Camera, Not Always Behind It

'Hollywood is bringing Magnum P.I. back, and this time, with a Latino actor, Jay Hernandez, in the lead role. So is this a victory for representation? Yolanda Machado, a freelance television critic and journalist for Remezcla, Marie Claire, and Harpers Bazaar and Melora Rivera, a writer for Black Lightning on the CW and Love Is... on OWN, join The Takeaway to discuss the "Magnum P.I." reboot and how it reflects on television diversity more broadly.'

God is with Poor People: Liberation Theology's Challenge to This World

'Historian Lilian Calles Barger explores the legacy of liberation theology -- as a critique of Christianity under capitialism, a challenge to the conditions of inequality and oppression faced by poor and working class people, and as a resurgment movement with the power to propel social movements today and tomorrow. Lilian is author of The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology from Oxford University Press.'