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Voting Rights - Shelby to North Carolina to 2020

Voting Rights before the VRA Feb 07, 2020

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Violence, intimidation, and murder were not enough. In this episode, the hosts discuss how southern states used legal structures post Reconstruction to nullify rights embodied in the Fifteenth Amendment. White primaries, poll taxes, literacy tests, and other "legal" policies worked to virtually eliminate Black Americans from the voting rolls.

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Voting Rights Jan 31, 2020

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In this episode, the hosts discuss the pre- and post-Civil War resistance to granting empowerment at the ballot box, both in the North and the South; ranging from legal restrictions and social animus to intimidation, violence and murder.

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Stolen history Jan 16, 2020

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In this episode, the hosts explore how historical incidents of violence against Black communities (such as the Tulsa and Rosewood massacres) are lost, minimized, or sanitized when the narrative is controlled by persons who place less value on the lives of people in those communities.

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The realities of eugenics and massacres in history
How history books have been sanitized and students only get a partial picture of what events, some not even mentioned
Things were no better at an earlier time. Rights, narratives, people being vilified, and movements against minorities are not new and give points of reference for contextualizing law. But it's important to get complete, accurate information.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocoee_massacre

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Self-Evident Lies: Eugenics, Social Policy, An Imperfect Union Dec 15, 2019

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In this episode, the hosts discuss how beliefs that certain groups are inferior and less desirable components of the American Dream fostered the Eugenics movement in the U.S.; justified legal support for slavery, Jim Crow, and forced sterilization; and influenced U.S. policies on immigration, government programs, and criminal law enforcement.

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Profiling and Prison Nov 27, 2019

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In this episode, the hosts discuss how racial profiling increases contact with law enforcement and the possibility of incarceration, thus causing harm to the social, psychological, and economic interest of targeted communities. Specific examples include a manhunt in Oneonta, New York, and the Bloomberg Administration's Stop and Frisk policy.

Poverty and Discrimination Nov 21, 2019

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Poverty, race, and suspect classifications: The hosts begin conversations about how non-racial classifications or even classifications neutral on their face, can have negative impacts on discernible groups; how the courts have taken a hands-off approach; and why this approach deprives individuals in those groups of the equal protection of the laws.

Separate but unequal Nov 15, 2019

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Fifty years after the Kerner Commission warned that we were heading toward two separate and unequal nations, America's cities remain largely segregated. In this episode, the hosts discuss how federal and local governments encouraged, supported, and mandated race-conscious programs and policies that hindered efforts at integration.

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Housing and segregation in the United States was not by accident.
Modern technology has assisted in some of the discriminatory practices.
How suburban communities came into existence

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