by Mufson, Michael | Feb 18, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
When President Trump announced that he would be rallying his supporters on June 19th in Tulsa, it scanned to many as a vicious one-two punch. After all, June 19th, or Juneteenth, marks the day in 1865 when Union general Gordon Granger told the enslaved people of Texas...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 15, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
You can really draw a clear line from the earliest days of slavery…to the racial wealth gap and economic picture of this country today. Today, 400 years since slavery began in the United States, we’re going to draw those connections with William Darity, who goes by...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 14, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of those prisoners are Black. What are the origins of the U.S. criminal justice system and how did racism shape it? From the creation of the first penitentiaries...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 14, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
The white nationalist ideas of Madison Grant influenced Congress in the 1920s, leaders in Nazi Germany, and members of the Trump administration. This week, we share an episode we loved from It’s Been A Minute with Sam Sanders that explores a throughline of white...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 14, 2021 | Documentaries, It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
In 2014, Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, was killed on a sidewalk in Staten Island, N.Y., when a male police officer put him in a chokehold during a misdemeanor arrest. Filmmaker Deirdre Fishel, who was working just a few blocks away, remembers asking a female...
