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Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness

“It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to colonial violence at the border and on indigenous lands, activist...

Stimulus Checks Every Month?

The Compton Pledge is paying 800 families up to $600 per month to give them a leg up. So far, unemployment is down 50% and life is looking up for recipients and the community...

Black Pain / White media: Introducing URL Media, a new, BIPOC Network

If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors across the full spectrum of our media thinking about this? This week,...

Heather McGhee: Racism Costs Everyone

Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together. She shows how...
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Uncut Interview: Winona LaDuke

This is the full interview with Winona LaDuke from the episode The Future of Energy is Indigenous (and it won’t involve pipelines!)Winona LaDuke is the Director of Honor the Earth, a platform she co-founded with...
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Remembering The Black Roots of Memorial Day

Different stories told differently matter. Consider Memorial Day and the holiday that could have been if white media hadn't erased Black history.  In April 1865, a week before President Abraham Lincoln declared the end of...

Minneapolis: Not Giving Up on Police Abolition

In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, expectations were high that if systems-change around policing were possible anywhere, it would be in the progressive city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. On the anniversary...
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Uncut Interview: Andrea Jenkins

This is the full, uncut interview with Andrea Jenkins from the episode Minneapolis: Not Giving up on Police Abolition.Andrea Jenkins made history in 2017 as the first African American openly trans woman to be...

Mariame Kaba: Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm

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 is addressed,...
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Mariame Kaba: Full, Uncut Conversation

This is the full uncut conversation with Mariame Kaba from our episode Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm.In this inspiring Juneteenth conversation, abolitionist Mariame Kaba joins Laura and the Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis...

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