Black Mayors Roundtable: Protecting Our Cities from Federal Overreach
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Our very own Andrew Gillum hosts a town hall with Black mayors to discuss how local leaders are responding to federal actions (and inactions), and what protections cities are able to provide to their residents.
Federal law enforcement actions are ramping up within our cities, directly impacting Black and immigrant communities. Residents are looking to mayors for leadership and protection while cities face legal constraints, political pressure, and public scrutiny.
The Mayors will speak candidly about what local power truly looks like in practice, where their power starts and ends, and what strategies are currently in use.
Guests Include:
Mayor Frank Scott of Little Rock, AR
Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah, GA
Mayor Leonardo Williams of Durham, NC
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Land Pot is a production of IHeart Radio and partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:13.9 | All right, hello, hello, hello, everybody. |
| 0:16.1 | This is Andrew Gillum. |
| 0:17.9 | Coming to you live on this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Monday afternoon, depending |
| 0:23.8 | upon where you are in the country. |
| 0:24.9 | I think everybody is about almost afternoon. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to our California, West Coast folks. |
| 0:29.5 | Still a little morning left. |
| 0:31.3 | I just wanted to thank you. |
| 0:32.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:33.1 | Thank you for joining us this afternoon. |
| 0:36.1 | We all have been eagerly anticipating these conversations |
| 0:39.0 | that we're trying to bring to you increasingly at Native Land Pod, which is how the politics |
| 0:45.4 | of Washington, how politics, period, how democracy and decisions around that really trickle down |
| 0:52.0 | to impact your everyday life. And I would even argue, in some |
| 0:55.3 | cases, might impact your lives more regularly and consistently and in more substantial ways than |
| 1:02.4 | anything that you might hear about on the evening news regarding what's happening in Washington. |
| 1:06.3 | But the truth is that all these things work together, hopefully for the good, but in some cases, |
| 1:11.8 | to stave off the bag so that we all get to experience some of the good. |
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