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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Covering Criminal Justice With Akela Lacy

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by Akela Lacy, reporter at The Intercept, to discuss the world of reform-oriented district attorneys (2:32), Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his role in influencing the state’s supreme court (8:34), and the state of federal immigration policy under the Biden administration (13:33). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Akela Lacy Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

0:18.0

Today, I think we can actually learn something.

0:20.0

I don't know if we learned something on most of my shows I try but I think today we actually

0:23.6

will get to the bottom of some things and learn some things we have with us none other than a Kala Lacy.

0:29.2

How are you today?

0:30.2

I'm great how are you?

0:31.0

How are you?

0:32.0

Can I start with talking about how dope your frames are those are pretty see them but yeah they're pretty dope. So our show is unique because we we

0:43.9

start our show by having each one of our guests walk us through the arc of

0:46.6

their careers and you've been a part of some of the countries leading newsrooms

0:50.1

from political to the work you do now at the intercept.

0:53.0

Can you walk us through the arc of your career since finishing at William and Mary?

0:56.2

Shout out to William and Mary.

0:57.4

Forget what their mascot is, but.

0:59.4

So, and it's now, go them. Talk about your beat now for the intercept covering Washington

1:07.6

criminal justice as well as governor to sanctimonious. Sure yeah so I I moved to DC, you know, after I graduated from college. My first job was at a place called the Pulitzer Center, which gives grants to reporters to do international reporting

1:25.0

and bring those stories back to US outlets.

1:27.5

And I went from there to political where I had a very,

1:31.5

a crash course in everything from producing playbook to writing breaking news. This was like during the beginning of the Trump administration and then I went to the intercept and I've been there for about five years.

1:44.0

I was in DC. I'm now based in New York, but I do a mixture of congressional reporting,

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