We have two terrific guests in this segment for Election Night Watch Party 2020.

We have Ms. Ashley Woodard Henderson, and we have Mr. Bashkar-Sankara.

Ashley Woodard Henderson is the co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education

Center.

Is affiliated very closely with Black Lives Matter and freedom road socialist organizations including liberation roads and very active

in a variety of activist organizations working families and so on and Bashkar Sankara is the creator

editor and publisher.

That's quite a trifecta of Jacobin Magazine,

and author of The Socialist Manifesto,

The Case for Radical Politics and an era of extreme inequality.

And so thank you both for joining us on the tightrope.

Thanks so much for having us.

Thanks for having me.

Yes, it's great to have you both. So I want to

start with Ashley, if that's okay. I just have a couple of questions and then I'll turn it over to

my esteemed colleague, Cornell. So I'm wondering, Ashley, if you can talk a little bit about,

you know, the complexity of being black, southern,

a rural in a time, not only of COVID, but also in the context of the political environment that

we're in when there's so much assumption about rural counties being particularly racist,

anti-black, you know, Trump supporters and so on. And I'm wondering

if you could share your perspective on what you've experienced and what your activism has, you know,

how your activism has been shaped by those experiences. All right. Thank you for that. So I think,

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