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Pod Save the People

Get the Coffee (with Jonathan McCrory)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including forensic science reform, a Wegmans warehouse, the wealth gap in education, and Rebecca Hall's graphic novel "Wake." DeRay interviews Jonathan McCrory of the National Black Theatre. DeRay: https://theintercept.com/2021/08/08/forensic-science-reform-justice-department/ Kaya: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/08/04/why-are-african-american-residents-this-small-town-determined-block-wegmans-warehouse/ Sam: https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-was-supposed-to-close-the-wealth-gap-for-black-americans-the-opposite-happened-11628328602 De'Ara: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/new-graphic-novel-reveals-black-womens-hidden-role-slave-revolts-rcna1573 For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Derey and what about the people in this episode?

0:04.2

It's me, Sam Kyan, D.R. as usual, talking about the news that was under reported for the

0:08.6

past week.

0:09.6

You can use it, you should know.

0:10.6

Use it about equity, race, and justice.

0:11.6

Just to make the headlines.

0:13.2

And then I sit down with Jonathan McCrory, the executive artistic director of the National

0:17.8

Black Theater in Harlem, to discuss the work that they're doing to elevate Black creators,

0:21.9

the history of such an incredible organization, and so much more.

0:25.2

Here we go.

0:26.2

The next slide for this week is to go to coffee, go to lunch, have the face time.

0:31.5

There are so many people that I've met in passing.

0:33.5

We're like, I keep seeing them.

0:34.6

I saw them at a thing, saw them at a party, saw them at an event, and we just didn't have

0:38.6

time to talk in the moment.

0:40.4

And we're like, oh, we'll get together.

0:41.8

And we never really get together.

0:43.3

And in the past month, I've been much more thoughtful about getting together, about saying,

0:47.3

hey, let's go do coffee, let's go do lunch, let's do those things.

0:51.1

You should do those things with the people in your life.

0:52.7

For some people, it's like, hey, can we just face time?

0:54.5

Let's just hop on the phone.

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