New York Times Magazine staff writer Emily Bazelon joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what makes a university a “safe space” for free speech, how 90s era laws complicate that, and how students should be included in discussions about the rules of campus protesting.
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Elizabeth Hinton joins us to discuss why the word “riot” is a racist trope and masks a long arm of history of over policing and neighborhood crackdowns.
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Davin Phoenix, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, talks to us about who gets to be angry and whose anger actually affects change.
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Seth W. Stoughton, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and a former Tallahassee Police Department officer, joins us to talk about his research into why he believes the current playbook for police training is too focused on force rather than community.
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Omar Wasow, assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton and co-founder of BlackPlanet.com, joins us to talk about protest tactics that work and why.
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Ed Morales joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how years of corruption, economic problems and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria have led to the current uprising in Puerto Rico.
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Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin join us to talk about the many ways black Americans resist the forces against them every day. Their collection of interviews is called, “How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance.”
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Carol Anderson joins us to dissect the clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters that happened in Charlottesville and to talk about how we got to here.
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