Another Take: Voices from the George Floyd protests
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Protesters across the United States defy curfews and risk arrest to protest against police brutality. The US has seen demonstrations like this before, but this feels different. To understand why, we speak with Hanif Abdurraqib, a cultural critic and editor at GEN magazine. We also speak with Madiha Nawaz, a graduate student and Washington, DC resident who unexpectedly faced the police at her doorstep this week.
In this episode:
- Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad), cultural critic
- Madiha Nawaz, (@madihasays), graduate student
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Haleema Shah. The original production team was Priyanka Tilve, Dina Kesbeh, Alexandra Locke, Amy Walters, Ney Alvarez, Natalia Aldana, Stacey Samuel, Graelyn Brashear, Alex Roldan, and Malika Bilal.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, I'm Halima Shaw, a producer at the take, and you're listening to Another Take, where we look back at episodes from our archives. |
| 0:20.0 | George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was murdered by police five years ago. take, where we look back at episodes from our archives. |
| 0:25.8 | George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was murdered by police five years ago this weekend. |
| 0:32.2 | His death sparked global protests that defied pandemic lockdowns and threats of police violence. |
| 0:38.5 | Soon after, state governments proposed a flurry of police accountability and reform measures. |
| 0:45.3 | But now, many U.S. states are either rolling those efforts back or swinging the other way entirely. |
| 0:53.7 | In Alabama, a new law expands immunity for police officers, a setback for the movement against racism and police brutality. |
| 0:58.8 | Today, we look back at the high watermark of the Black Lives Matter movement and public demands for police accountability. |
| 1:02.0 | This episode originally aired on June 5th, 2020. |
| 1:06.3 | All dates and references are from that time. |
| 1:24.6 | Music and references are from that time. When do we want? |
| 1:25.6 | When do we want it? What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! |
| 1:28.3 | What do we want? |
| 1:29.3 | Justice! |
| 1:30.3 | When do we want it? |
| 1:31.3 | Now! |
| 1:32.3 | What do we want? |
| 1:33.3 | The protest chants we're hearing across the United States right now tell a visceral story of desperation and solidarity. |
| 1:48.1 | And it's an especially shocking jolt to the system when you compare it to the silence and isolation |
| 1:51.3 | that defined this country just a few weeks ago |
| 1:55.3 | under pandemic quarantines. |
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