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Episode 396: Kierna Mayo with Patrice Peck

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Kierna Mayo is the showrunner and head writer for the Lena Horne Prize for Artists Creating Social Impact. She is the former editor-in-chief of Ebony and Honey Magazine, which she co-founded at age 27. Guest host Patrice Peck is a freelance journalist and writes the Coronavirus News for Black Folks newsletter. Her most recent article is "Black Journalists Are Exhausted," an op-ed published in The New York Times. “Advocacy is not a bad word. Telling the truth about a particular slice of life is what my career has been. That slice of life started about young people who were partaking in hip hop culture. Most of them were of color, most of them were poor. So that was a perspective. If you begin to tell the stories of those people at that time, that begins to have an advocacy feel and taste and touch. Not even with a consciousness to it. Because this is a lost voice. This is a lost point of view. It is not in the mainstream. It is not being centered. No one is telling it. So the mere act of shedding light journalistically in places where there has been no light before is advocacy. Sorry, journalists. Sorry, all you impartial, fair-and-balanced folks.” Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode. @kiernamayo kierna-mayo.format.com @speakpatrice Coronavirus News for Black Folks [3:00]"'Ebony Magazine' Explores 'The Cosby Show's' Tainted Legacy" (All Things Considered • Oct 2015) [4:30] "Black Journalists Are Exhausted" (Patrice Peck • New York Times • Jun 2020) [10:00] Jamilah Lemieux [48:00] "Does America Love Black People?" (Ebony • Jul 2015) [48:45] Amy DuBois Barnett [54:00] Damon Young [54:00] Michael Arceneaux [54:00] Zerlina Maxwell [54:00] Longform Podcast #395: Wesley Lowery [1:16:45] cassiuslife.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white momfluencer of attempting to kidnap her children.

0:07.0

The Karen phenomenon where white women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually fixates on the

0:13.5

accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the

0:17.2

innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know

0:21.9

what she did was wrong.

0:24.0

In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen,

0:26.4

available now wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the long form podcast. My name is Patrice Peck.

0:41.0

Hi Patrice, it's Max. Hi Patrice, it's Max.

0:43.4

Hi Patrice.

0:44.4

This is Evan.

0:45.1

And this is Aaron Lamer.

0:47.0

Welcome.

0:48.1

I'm glad to be here, y'all.

0:50.1

We are glad to have you.

0:56.0

Aaron and Evan and I were thinking, have been thinking about what to do on the show this week.

1:00.0

And we were thinking about it last week.

1:02.0

And then Friday morning Patrice he sent all three of us a message saying well you can tell me what you said

1:11.0

I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm a big fan of the podcast,

1:16.7

but I also realize, you know, we're having all these conversations now

1:21.1

about the lack of diversity in newsrooms and in media and you

1:26.0

know black journalists are starting to hold these media companies accountable

1:30.6

and so I had had some thoughts on long form in terms of the

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