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    Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?

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    A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racism. Many made sweeping promises to support Black-owned...
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    The Complete Picture of Our Work Culture

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    What if we told the people we cared about just what we thought of them more often, and not just the bad stuff...
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    Democracy: A National Temperature Check

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    Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of these are turning up the heat on American democracy. At the same time, pro-democracy...
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    These Films Keep People Out of Prison

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    What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film and storytelling to give judges an in-depth, humanizing...
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    Black Candidates, Black Media: Making Coverage Complex—And Better

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    New York City will likely elect its second African American mayor in November. Eric Adams, currently the Brooklyn Borough President, was declared the winner of the Democratic primary in July. A former...
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    Gender Justice Requires More Than Money Say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy During Covid

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    MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in historically underfunded sectors - her third such drop...
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    Kimberlé Crenshaw & Soledad O’Brien Call Out the Media on Critical Race Theory

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    The right wing has found its newest racist wedge issue: Critical Race Theory. This decades-old movement in legal scholarship has suddenly become a talking point for GOP activists, and a widely misused...
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    India Walton is Putting Electeds on Notice

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    Sometimes, the good people win, and that’s just what happened on June 22  in Buffalo, NY when community organizer, working mom and self-described...
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    Mariame Kaba: Full, Uncut Conversation

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    This is the full uncut conversation with Mariame Kaba from our episode Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm. In...
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    Mariame Kaba: Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm

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    In this inspiring Juneteenth conversation, abolitionist Mariame Kaba joins Laura and the Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis, to discuss how each of us—parents, children, elders—can be part of building a society where harm...
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