A special collaboration with Today with Dr. Kaye, this episode was taped live at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C.
Host Kimberlé Crenshaw, with Kaye Wise Whitehead and guests Time Wise, Karen Attiah, Melanie Campbell, Janel George, Ambassador Elizabeth McKune, and Barbara Arnwine, discuss the importance of protecting Black American history through fighting for the Smithsonian, and why the struggle to protect museums goes hand in hand with the struggle to protect democracy.
Learn more about the Freedom to Learn Coalition and the annual National Week of Action at freedomtolearn.net
This episode was produced by the team at the African American Policy Forum and the team at Today With Dr. Kaye from WEAA.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
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68. The Battle for America's Memory
At the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. They explore how museums shape national identity. They also historicize the current political attacks aiming to erase Black narratives, as institutions like the Smithsonian and Whitney Plantation face censorship and defunding because of executive orders.
This episode outlines why defending America's memory is essential to defending democracy itself.
Dive deeper:
Learn more about The Legacy Museum here: https://legacysites.eji.org/about/museum/
Learn about the Freedom to Learn Network's National Week of Action here: https://www.freedomtolearn.net/
This episode used clips from:
ABC News 7 WJLA
Harvard Historian Responds to Trump’s Order Targeting the Smithsonian | Amanpour and Company
WUSA9 Gov. Moore reacts to changes at Smithsonian
Hosted and co-written by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Sr Producer and co-writer Nicole Edwards
Mixing by Sean Dunnam
Scripting support from Kevin Minofu, Kristin Penner, Meredith Shiner, and Tim Wise.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
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67. Bloody Sunday, 60 Years Later
Host Kimberlé Crenshaw takes listeners to Alabama to learn about the contemporary importance of Bloody Sunday and the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
Featuring:
Cliff Albright, co-founder, Black Voters Matter
LaTosha Brown, co-founder, Black Voters Matter
Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
1965 foot soldiers Denise Jaringan-Holt and Alice Moore
Click here to listen an uncut conversation about the Selma Jubilee with Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Laura Flanders and Friends podcast.
Podcast co-written and produced by Sr. Producer Nicole Edwards
Mixing and sound design by Sean Dunnam
Podcast art by Ashley Julien
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters (Twitter), @IMKC_podcast (Instagram + Bluesky)
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66. Executive Disorder
In this episode, host Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by some of the country's brightest legal minds to discuss the Trump administration's executive orders, how they'll affect progressive movements, and what communities can do to defend those affected.
Watch the extended version of this episode
Learn more about Trump's executive orders and their potential harms
Featuring:
Damon Hewitt
David J. Johns
Russel Robinson
Nina Turner
Podcast mixed and produced by Sr. Producer Nicole Edwards
Under the Blacklight is produced by Kevin Minofu
Podcast art by Ashley Julien
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters (Twitter), @IMKC_podcast (Instagram + Bluesky)
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United States of Amnesia: The Real Histories of CRT, Ep. 1 - The Students Who Protested
In the first episode of this limited series, Critical Race Theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw takes listeners on a journey through the origin story of Critical Race Theory (CRT), from her days as a student demanding desegregation at Harvard, to the moment she learned President Trump banned CRT in his 2020 executive order. This episode delves into the hopes and inspiration that birthed the CRT legal movement, and how the current opposition to CRT is history repeating itself.
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Host: Kimberlé Crenshaw
Sr. producer/Writer: Nicole Edwards
Mixing and Sound Design: Reza Daya
Addition mixing support: Sean Dunnam
Associate Producers: Madison Bello, Gordon Curry, Sana Hashmi, Kaila Philo, African American Policy Forum team.
Art: Work By Index
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