Black Mayoral Town Hall: The Preview
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Our very own Andrew Gillum previews an upcoming town hall with Black mayors to discuss how local leaders are responding to federal immigration enforcement and overreach, and what protections cities are able to provide to their residents.
The town hall was going to be today but our mayoral panel was impacted by severe storms. We're rescheduling to March 30th.
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| 0:00.0 | Nativeland Pod is a production of IHeart Radio and partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:07.9 | What's up, everybody? This is Andrew Gillum. I am coming to you live this, what, morning from Tallahassee, Florida. |
| 0:17.9 | And unfortunately, I have not great news, which is some of the things you don't |
| 0:24.5 | consider when you're planning a mayor's town hall is that a storm will hit and take |
| 0:30.5 | about half your panel out of mayors. Our mayors, who we were speaking to today, are all |
| 0:37.0 | currently holding office, as well as a lieutenant governor, and are currently being impacted by this storm. |
| 0:46.3 | Folks got lights out and hopefully no lives lost, but the storm is still coming across. |
| 0:52.1 | In fact, right here in Tallahassee, where I am, we are under hurricane warning. |
| 0:56.8 | I got a text a few moments ago that we're under a hurricane warnings. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm not a tornado warning. |
| 1:03.2 | Forgive me. |
| 1:05.0 | So just first heads up is that we have rescheduled our conversation with the mayors, |
| 1:09.8 | and you will not want to miss it. |
| 1:11.1 | It's going to be a really good, I think important conversation. |
| 1:14.9 | We'll revisit some of the ICE stuff that is still ravaging communities |
| 1:20.7 | here firsthand from the elected officials that got to deal with this in Minnesota, |
| 1:26.7 | Chicago, Los Angeles, and other places. |
| 1:31.5 | For those who are trying to figure out, well, what do we do? |
| 1:34.7 | What powers do locals have? |
| 1:36.3 | How do we protect ourselves? |
| 1:38.3 | We want to get underneath all of that and offer some real say and advice for not just elected officials, but members of our community who can help your elected officials plan, members of our community who, quite frankly, I think, and you'll hear it directly from them. |
| 1:53.9 | But if the folks were to tell a story of how they won or push back the federal government, the mighty might of the federal, and Trump's Gustapo, they would say it was the people showing up. |
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