Still Marching: The Poor People’s Campaign 2018

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The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Poor People’s Campaign in 1967-68. It was a nationwide effort to persuade a reluctant Congress and White House to take comprehensive action against poverty. Fifty years later, poverty persists, but so does the determination of a new generation of activists. To learn more, TruthToTell interviews Rob Eller-Isaacs, co-pastor of Unity Unitarian Church and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign Minnesota.

A March That Changed History: The 1963 March on Washington and the Unfinished Agenda of Jobs, Freedom, and Racial Justice

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We live in an era of marches. One week it is a march for women, the next a march for science, the next a march for the $15 minimum wage. What does marching accomplish anyway? University of Minnesota history professor William Jones, author of “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights,” joins TruthToTell for a discussion on a historic march that inspired real change and continues to have relevance for today. This is a rebroadcast of a program originally aired on June 19, 2017.

Super Bowl Special: Sports as an Arena for Social-Justice Struggle

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TTT1805 January 29 Sports Protests

When professional football players “took the knee” during the national anthem, supporters of groups like Black Lives Matter were heartened even as President Trump took to Twitter to incite an often fierce and abusive backlash. On the eve of the Super Bowl, TruthToTell explores the role of professional and amateur athletes in both men and women’s sports to bring visibility to issues of racial and social justice. Our guests include David Zirin, sports editor of The Nation and the country’s foremost writer on labor, race, and gender issues in sport, and Mel Reeves, human rights organizer, writer, and editor. Mel has organized a conference during Super Bowl weekend, Take a Knee Nation, to explore race, police violence, and the right to protest. His column, Mellaneous, appears in the Spokesman-Recorder. For more info: https://fightthepowerjournal.com/

Martin Luther King and the African American Freedom Struggle: Reflecting on the Past, Creating the Future

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TTT1703 January 16 MLK Day

To many, Martin Luther King was the man with a dream. It turns out he was also a sophisticated political analyst who understood the connection between class and race who died defending labor rights. On this holiday special, TruthToTell will explore not only MLK’s legacy, but the broader contributions of the makers and shapers of the African American Freedom Struggle.

Can Neighborhood Organizations Be a Force for Racial Equity?

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Can a food coop bring jobs and opportunity to an inner-city community? A conversation with Ishmael Israel, interim director of the Bryant Neighborhood Association and chair of the Minneapolis Neighborhood and Community Engagement Commission on TruthtoTell, Monday morning January 4, 9-10,  KFAI FM radio, 90.3  Minneapolis or 106.7 St. Paul or live stream at www.kfai.org.[...] Read More »

Bringing Justice to the Criminal Justice System: Creating a Law Enforcement System That Works for All

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Only the civically comatose could have missed the massive demonstration of outrage at the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York City.  Here in Minnesota, the demonstrations have been large, creative, interracial, often youth-led,  and non-violent.   Some observers say we are seeing the birth of a new civil rights[...] Read More »
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