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Know Your Limit (with Professor Richard L. Hasen) Jan 28, 2020

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This week DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss Seattle's smartphone voting, Florida's felon fines, Houston's cancer clusters, and criticism of the 1619 Project. Then, DeRay sits down with election specialist Richard L. Hasen to examine frightening gaps in our voting security, regional pockets of governmental incompetence, and why he thinks we're in the midst of democracy's meltdown. Also, please watch Matthew A. Cherry's Oscar-nominated animated short film Hair Love.

Show Links

The Verge: Seattle is the first area in the US where residents can vote via smartphones

NPR: Florida Supreme Court Rules Convicted Felons Must Pay Fines To Vote

The Boston Review: The fight over the 1619 Project

The Houston Chronicle: Map shows racist government policies that contributed to conditions for Houston cancer clusters

Go Where the People Are (with Brittany Young) Jan 21, 2020

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This week DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss facial recognition technology, the link between guns and racism, Johns Hopkins ending legacy admissions, and the public perception of Martin Luther King, Jr. Then, DeRay sits down with Brittany Young, who uses the Baltimore dirt bike community to inspire interest in STEM.

SHOW NOTES

More about Brittany and her program

The New York TImes - The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

The Guardian - 'Dying of whiteness': why racism is at the heart of America's gun inaction

Smithsonian - Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed

The Atlantic - Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins

Imagine More Radically (with Saidiya Hartman) Jan 14, 2020

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This week we've got DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam covering The Royal Family, racism in textbooks, poverty replacing the draft, restitution centers, and the marketing of drugs to jails. Then, DeRay sits down with 2019 MacArthur Fellow Saidiya Hartman to examine the complications in archiving black history.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/pharmaceutical-companies-are-marketing-drugs-jailers/604264/

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/09/17/student-loan-crisis-not-mideast-wars-helped-army-leaders-exceed-recruiting-goals-this-year/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.clarionledger.com/in-depth/news/local/2020/01/09/debtors-prison-miss-still-sends-people-jail-unpaid-debt/2742853001/

https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/so-free-month-people?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=1000140

https://burrow.com/PEOPLE

Do The List (with Teach For All CEOs) Jan 07, 2020

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We're back! This week DeRay, Brittany, and Clint discuss IRS cheats, drug price increases, and the heartbreaking legacy of January 1 for enslaved people in the US. Then, DeRay sits down with three CEOs from various countrywide organizations within the Teach For All Organization. DeRay is joined by James Kassaga Arinaitwe from Teach for Uganda, Daniel Dotse, from Lead for Ghana, and Folawe Omikunle from Teach for Nigeria.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/03/irs-reforms-free-file-program-can-now-compete-turbotax-h-r-block/2802945001/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/01/04/annual-ritual-of-drug-price-increases-to-get-more-political-scrutiny-in-2020/#6b0e30121852

https://time.com/5750833/new-years-day-slavery-history/

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https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/so-free-month?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=1000140

For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople.

What's Good For Me Is Good For Society (with DA Rachael Rollins and College Behind Bars documentary) Dec 24, 2019

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This week we've got two interviews: The first is with DA Rachael Rollins, who is the first woman to hold the office of Suffolk County D.A. and the first woman of color to serve as a Massachusetts D.A. Then, DeRay chats with the creative team (and one of the subjects) from the Ken Burns produced PBS docuseries College Behind Bars.

Lynn Novick, director

Sarah Botstein, producer

Jule Hall, BPI alum

Now streaming at www.pbs.org/collegebehindbars

Every Little Bit Counts (with Mondaire Jones) Dec 17, 2019

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DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss how an IRS notice saved 700 lives, death penalty repeal, Kentucky's voter rolls, and UNC's Silent Sam problem. DeRay talks to Mondaire Jones, who is running to be the first black and openly gay Congressman.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/upshot/irs-letter-health-insurance-fine-study.html#click=https://t.co/JFuWkzTTaY

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/opinions/unc-sons-of-confederate-veterans-silent-sam-cox/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/12/kentucky-ex-felons-vote-democratic-governor-andy-beshear

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/03/death-penalty-abolition/

https://burrow.com/PEOPLE

Babbel.com, promo code PEOPLE

Democracy Is A Full-Contact Sport (with DeNora Getachew) Dec 10, 2019

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DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss California's police policies, high interest loans, food safety risks, and how McKinsey helped the Trump administration. DeRay talks to DeNora Getachew from Generation Citizen.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/461774-risking-food-safety-usda-plans-to-let-slaughterhouses-self-police

https://www.propublica.org/article/they-loan-you-money-then-they-get-a-warrant-for-your-arrest

https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1202723007942340609?s=21

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-helped-the-trump-administration-implement-its-immigration-policies

https://quip.com/SaveThePeople

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Babbel.com, promo code PEOPLE

In Your Skin (with Nic Stone) Dec 03, 2019

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DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss the hidden history of slavery in the North, alien encouragement provisions, misguigded magistrates, and Iraqi protests. DeRay talks to author Nic Stone about her book "Dear Martin" and her flurry of new releases that aim to influence a younger generation's understanding of racism and fantastical visions of processing the past.

https://www.propublica.org/article/these-judges-can-have-less-training-than-barbers-but-still-decide-thousands-of-cases-each-year

https://www.vox.com/2019/10/9/20903541/trump-proclamation-legal-immigration-health-insurance

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraqi-prime-minister-says-he-will-resign-statement

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/09/nyregion/dig-unearths-early-black-burial-ground.html

https://www.upstart.com/personal-loans?podcast=PEOPLE&utm_campaign=PEOPLE&utm_source=podcast

https://bombas.com/pages/people?utm_source=people&utm_medium=podcast

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No In Between (with Ibram X. Kendi) Nov 26, 2019

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DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss WeWork's collapse, refugee resettlement, real estate investigations, and ballot organization lawsuits. DeRay talks to author and historian Ibram X. Kendi about what it means to be an Anti-Racist.

https://qz.com/1741113/no-refugees-were-resettled-in-the-us-in-october-2019/

https://mashable.com/article/wework-2400-layoffs/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-sue-three-battleground-states-over-law-that-gop-candidates-names-be-listed-first-on-ballot/2019/11/01/b62c8f44-fcc0-11e9-8906-ab6b60de9124_story.html

https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-investigation/

Let's Push Together (with Randi Weingarten) Nov 19, 2019

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DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss Brooklyn's attempt to integrate middle schools, the psychology of inequality, partisan District Attorney problems, and Trump's EPA lighting the planet on fire. Then, DeRay chats with Randi Weingarten, the leader of the American Federation of Teachers, regarding union fights facing the nation.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/the-psychology-of-inequality

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/15/what-happened-when-brooklyn-tried-integrate-its-middle-schools/?arc404=true

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243162

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trumps-unpopular-epa-agenda-could-cost-him-in-2020.html

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