Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow the Diversity Industry Is Failing - Pamela Newkirk
The following episode was recorded February 2020.
In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, …
6 years, 1 month ago
F-Word: The Great American Lie?
We can not cling to the cruel lie that economic success is the product of individual merit and sweat.
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timel…
6 years, 1 month ago
Armed and Unmasked: Whiteness at the Core of a Public Health Crisis
Episode 299
White Supremacy and the Covid crisis aren’t separate. They’re linked. Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been cata…
6 years, 1 month ago
Covid in the Country
Episode 298
Although the toll of the coronavirus has been most acute in urban areas, the virus has been spreading in rural America. The reasons behind the uptick…
6 years, 1 month ago
New Justice, Prison Abolition: A World Beyond Prisons
Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the land of the free? Sustained campaigns for change are beginning …
6 years, 2 months ago
F-Word: What lies ahead; Tulsa 1921 or Somewhere We Haven’t Built Yet?
"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news that…
6 years, 2 months ago
Special-Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model
Episode 297
Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and th…
6 years, 2 months ago
F-Word: Paradigms Take Years to Shift
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law."
Watch/Listen to this week's LFShow "Putting Public Safe…
6 years, 2 months ago
Musician Raul Midón on Creative Adaptation During Covid-19
Episode 296
Grammy-nominated musician Raul Midón has never fit neatly into any category. A skillful singer-songwriter and guitarist, he melds African and Latin i…
6 years, 2 months ago
Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic
Episode 295
The skies over Los Angeles may be bluer thanks to the Covid 19 slow-down, but the impact of environmental racism on low income people of color persis…
6 years, 2 months ago