Mapping Prejudice and Rallying for Tax Justice

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TTT1813 March 26 Mapping Predjudice Project, Tax Da

Inspired by the idea that we cannot address the inequities of the present without understanding the past, the Mapping Prejudice Project is developing the first-ever comprehensive map of racially based housing restrictions in an American city. These restrictions, known as racial covenants, prevented people of color from buying or occupying property. This hidden form of structural racism continues to impact our cities to this day. Meanwhile, here in the present, federal tax policy continues to reinforce the class divide, and this year’s legislation is worse than ever. To help us understand both past and present, TruthToTell welcomes two experts from the Mapping Prejudice Project, Kirsten Delegard and Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, as well as organizers of the Tax Rally Minnesota, 2018.

Race, Family History, and Today

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TTT1809 February 26 The Family Tree- repeat

In a rebroadcast of our February 15, 2016 show, journalist Karen Branan discusses her powerful book, "The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets and My Search for the Truth". Through the prism of family history, Branan explores racial dynamics that continue to influence America today — both South and North.

Necessary Conversations: Bridging Divides in American Culture and Politics

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TTT1742 October 16 Racial Justice-Polarization

In this edition of TTT, we explore two approaches to discussing race and other issues that often divide citizens. Vina Kay, executive director of Voices for Racial Justice, explains how her organization developed a unique set of questions for candidates to get beyond simple “yes” and “no” positions to a deeper discussion of race and public service. Professor William Doherty, director of the Citizen Professional Center at the University of Minnesota and founder of Better Angels, a grassroots effort to depolarize American Communities, discusses how political polarization is reaching dangerous levels across the country and what can be done about it.

Educating for Change: Developing New Leaders for Racial Equity and Social Change

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From Ferguson, Mo., to New York City, from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C. and back, hundreds of thousands of concerned Americans have taken to the streets in protest against police brutality and a racist criminal justice system. The demonstrators are black and white, young and middle-aged—although the mass participation of millennials has been a particularly exciting[...] Read More »

TruthToTell, Monday, April 29 – 9am: FACING RACE: Getting the Conversation Started – AUDIO HERE

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Many will tout these days, particularly since the election of President Obama, that racism is no longer an issue in the country. But as we’ve seen how the disparate rates of black male prisoners in this country have created slavery by another name, we must also see how certain daily privileges afforded to the majority[...] Read More »

TruthToTell May 16: LABOR’S UNTOLD STORIES: History Belies Successes

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many of us know and understand the struggles working people fought when corporations and managers abused their workers, the 100-year effort to improve wages and working conditions, to organize craftsmen and laborers, the police-supported thugs hired to prevent them from it. We know how labor unions that emerged from all that conflict gave us[...] Read More »
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