America 250: A Nation On Fire
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Across the South, lawmakers are moving to weaken our votes. Not on our watch.
We are standing up, showing up, and fighting back. We’re joining the Mississippi Fights Back! In this episode of Native Land Pod, we present the Rally for Voting Rights in Jackson, MS, held on May 20, 2026.
Our vote is our power, and fair representation is worth fighting for. It’s time to show lawmakers that we won’t let our voices be silenced. Will you stand with us?
Guest Information for the Show:
Guest Host: Eddie Glaude Jr.
Guests:
Scott Colom - District Attorney
Theresa Gilespie Isom - Senator District 2
Tylik McMillan - National Director, Youth & College
Charles Taylor - Executive Director of Mississippi State Conference
Congressman Bennie Thompson
Congressman Jonathan Jackson
Derrick Johnson - NAACP President
State Representative Justin Jones
Arekia Bennett-Scott - Executive Director of Mississippi Votes
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Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Native Lambot is a production of IHeart Radio and partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:14.3 | Jackson, Mississippi, hello. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh, y'all can do better than that. |
| 0:19.3 | We black, we grew up in black church. How y'all doing? |
| 0:23.5 | All right, all right. I'm Angela Rye, and this is my co-host, my brother, my friend, Andrew Gillum. Does your mic work? |
| 0:30.0 | Good morning, good morning, good morning, everybody. Can you fire it up? |
| 0:34.1 | No, no, no, no, no, no. We're trying to, we're trying to pierce the ears and the consciousness of these legislators who are trying to throw us 100 years back. |
| 0:43.1 | Are we fired up? |
| 0:45.5 | Fired up? |
| 0:47.6 | Fired up. |
| 0:49.2 | I know y'all are ready to go in, ready to vote, right? |
| 0:52.9 | Fired up and ready to vote. |
| 0:54.0 | Angela, I think we got a group? Fired up and ready to vote. Angela, I think we got |
| 0:55.1 | a group that is fired up and ready to vote, but I know one more person who might get y'all |
| 1:01.4 | just a little bit more hype, and it is our guest host for today's podcast, which is what |
| 1:09.2 | Angela and I are here representing Native Land Pod, but we are here in |
| 1:13.9 | strict solidarity with this fight here in Mississippi and all over the country as they try to |
| 1:19.6 | take back what we fought so hard. Our ancestors died, bled, fought for, and we're the recipients of, and they want to give us rights |
| 1:32.9 | that are less than the rights that our foreparents had 100 years ago. |
| 1:37.9 | And I think we got a message to send them today and over the coming days, coming years, |
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