Gen Z Has Entered the Chat Pt.2
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
PART TWO of our hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum’s a cross-generational discussion with three politically active Gen Z’ers.
After responding to Roland Martin’s criticism of younger generations, the discussion turns to ‘rest is resistance,’ mentorship, and fostering mutual understanding between age groups.
OUR GUESTS:
Victoria Pannell is an activist, organizer, and social impact strategist. In 2012- 2016, Victoria served as Northeast Regional Director of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Youth Movement. Victoria helped organize the March 14, 2018 National School Walkout, a call to action for gun reform, and in 2022, Victoria created Blue Shelter, a nonprofit dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of survivors of human trafficking. She currently serves as Senior Social Impact Advisor and Director of Social Media Management at Inspire Justice.
Ty Hobson-Powell led the “51 For 51” Washington D.C. statehood campaign and founded Concerned Citizens Demanding Change. In 2024, he managed the Mail-In Ballot Processing Division for D.C.’s Board of Elections. He’s been appointed State Political Program Director in Mississippi, supporting a major voter engagement initiative with Mississippi Votes. His upcoming book, The Fire Right Now—a nod to James Baldwin—is slated for release this summer.
Marley Dias is a celebrated changemaker and one of the youngest people to appear on Forbes 30 Under 30. She launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, collecting over 15,000 books featuring Black girl protagonists. A junior at Harvard, Marley is also the host and executive producer of Netflix’s Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices.
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| 0:06.3 | It's about bringing voices not from the extremes, but from the vast middle into the |
| 0:10.7 | national conversation. |
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| 0:20.2 | focuses on just one item from the avalanche of news. |
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| 0:30.2 | Native Land Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome home, y'all to part two of |
| 0:40.7 | Nativeland pod. And listen, I have heard a lot of you all say, I am resting, we are resting, |
| 0:46.7 | and certainly you deserve that, but are we at the point where it's enough and it's time to get |
| 0:50.9 | back to work. Well, nobody better to have that discussion with with young |
| 0:54.9 | people who have all the energy so we're going to pick up where we left off in the previous episode |
| 1:00.1 | of native land pod and get into what are these young folks doing but more importantly what do |
| 1:06.0 | they need from us to empower them so let's kick off this conversation right now. I appreciate all your |
| 1:14.4 | points, all of you guys, and I think it's healthy for us to hear, you know, the healthy exchange |
| 1:21.8 | of ideas and ideology. Ty, you talked about, you know, it doesn't take, you know, everybody. |
| 1:28.3 | I wonder, this is really for all of you all, but I'll start with Ty. |
| 1:31.3 | I wonder, do you feel like you're reaching people? |
| 1:35.8 | Do you feel like, okay, well, if it's one out of a hundred that's organizing, out of that 100 people, |
| 1:40.9 | do you feel like you're tapping into somebody? |
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