by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
For the past year, Lois Beckett [@loisbeckett], senior reporter at The Guardian US, has been showing up at white nationalist rallies, taking their pictures, writing down what they say. And she finds herself thinking: How did we get here? How did her beat as a...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
Four years ago this week, on July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island at the hands of a New York City police officer. We probably wouldn’t have known if it hadn’t been for a cellphone video that captured his arrest, the excessive force that killed...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
The Code Switch Podcast, Episode 1: Can We Talk About Whiteness? At long last — the first episode of the Code Switch podcast! We decided to start off with a question we’ve been fixated on over the past few months: Why is it so hard to talk about whiteness?...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
DeRay talks with Wes Moore about his new role fighting systemic poverty at Robin Hood, #closerikers, and hope. Laura Weidman Powers of Code2040 joins DeRay to discuss the important of diversity in the tech industry and her time in Obama’s White House. Listen on the...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 8, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
While scouring the Sonoran Desert for objects left behind by migrants crossing into the United States, anthropologist Jason De León happened upon something he didn’t expect to get left behind: a human arm, stripped of flesh. This macabre discovery sent him...
by Mufson, Michael | Feb 4, 2021 | It's Monumental Resources, Podcast Episodes
In 1936, an African American man named Thomas Finch was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer who later became leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Very little was known publicly about Finch’s death until his name appeared at a new memorial to the victims of lynching....
