We mentioned the abortion issue in the episode on Voting Challenges. A woman’s right to chose is an abortion is an important issue. Yet, its one of those issues which our communities don’t talk about. We asked Dr. Alicia Christy (retired Colonel) to return to the show to talk about abortions. Dr. Christy is the … Abortion and Reproductive Justice
Progressive Black people use the term POC or BIPOC frequently. But, what do we know about the communities other than African American that are included in those terms? In our round table discussion of the 2020 election we discussed how communities voted. Through that discussion we realized we heard conflicting news accounts about the Latino … Learning About Our Allies – Latinos
Election 2020: The People Have Spoken is our final episode for season 1 of our podcast. In a sense, it’s a cliff hanger because the current president did not concede the election. We know that plans are afoot to continue his efforts to disrupt the democratic and orderly transition of administrations. However, hopefully, his corrupt … Election 2020: The People Have Spoken
This is Part III: The Tigresses Wrap Up Their Election Talk. The Tigresses they come to the end of their after-election analysis. In Part I: they talked about their anxieties. Part II covered whether they voted by mail or in person. In the wrap up, they analyze why they believed the nation’s vote was so … Part III: The Tigresses Wrap Up Their Election Talk
This is Part II: The Tigresses talk 2020 election results. In Part I they discussed their fears leading up to the election. Now, they continue to share their experiences exercising their right to vote. Did they go to the polls or vote by mail? Did their experiences voting alleviate any of their anxieties? Take a … Part II: The Tigresses Talk 2020 Election Results
Each of our guests in the Election Challenges series gave insightful comments about the campaign process. In this final podcast in the series: Election Challenges Episode 4: Roundtable Discussion, Our guests speak to each other. They share their experiences and bring the discussion around to the 2020 race. At the end, we all agree, this … Election Challenges Episode 4 – Roundtable Discussion
Join us for our conversation with guest Theresa Brown, Esq, in Election Challenges Episode 3: The Polls. Theresa follows Larry Hamm and Mary Nelson from our previous two episodes. In the episode we’ll be looking at the experiences the voter may have when they arrive at the polls. This year voters will experience many challenges … Election Challenges Episode 3: The Polls
In conjunction with our podcast series on election challenges we gathered Election 2020 Information and Resources to aid our listeners. COVID-19 CHALLENGES The COVID-19 pandemic jeopardized many routine voting procedures. Senior citizens cannot be poll workers because they would be at risk for catching the coronavirus. Some States haphazardly enacted measures to allow voting by … Election 2020 Information and Resources
We continue Election Challenges Episode 2: Independent Candidates with candidates who are not main stream as the focus. Our last podcast was with Mary Nelson, who worked in the administration of Jay Nixon, the former governor of Missouri. Nixon was the Democratic party’s candidate and ran with their full support. Our guest in this episode … Election Challenges Episode 2 : Independent Candidates