Color Farm Media, and
iHeartMedia’s
The Black Effect Podcast Network. Together, they bring individual perspectives to the conversation and are joined by special guests and experts ranging from
Rev. William Barber,
Robin Rue Simmons, and
more. While they analyze reparations, the creative podcast investigates the underlying racist architecture of modern businesses, laws, policies, and institutions that have their roots in slavery.
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Both hosts have passionate reasoning for wanting to invest the time and talent in producing the unique broadcast.
“I think this subject is extremely important to both Erica and me. What we always say is, it’s interesting we traveled very different paths in life to end up in this place where we both feel that reparations, and trying to make amends to the devastation that slavery, put on black Americans as what we believe is the most important sort of national progress we need to undertake, essentially, that division
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We re ending Black history month where we started it.talking about reparations. On this episode, we re joined by Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow, who have spent the past two years exploring how reparations could transform the United States and all the struggles and possibilities that go along with that.
Salem Radio Network talk host
Larry Elder testifying remotely yesterday (2/17) before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on as a “rebuttal witness” opposing proposed legislation to provide reparations for descendants of slaves. During his testimony, Elder told Judiciary subcommittee chair
Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) that “reparations is the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves.” You can see his complete five-minute testimony here.
New Slave Reparations Podcast Launches Today. The issue of slavery reparations is the subject of a new podcast series from
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