LIVE From Cambridge: POC Vote in 2020
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
For this live show from Cambridge, Mass. Maria and Julio discuss 2020 and the POC vote with guests IOP Resident Fellow LaTosha Brown, award-winning organizer and co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, and Renée Graham, associate editor and columnist with The Boston Globe. The 2018 midterms were the highest turnout rate for a midterm election in recent history, with voters of color turning out in greater numbers than in 2014, according to a Pew Research Center. And in 2020 voters of color will make up a third of all eligible voters, the largest breakdown yet with the Latino community in particular becoming the biggest POC demographic. But this is more than numbers, POC communities are historically underreported in media coverage during election season and often overlooked by candidates. We discuss the POC vote in 2020 and civic engagement among communities color beyond this election cycle.
ITT Staff Picks:
- Journey to power: The history of black voters, 1976 to 2020, from NBC News
- Latino reflections on racism and the 2020 election, via Latino Decisions and Univision
- Voter suppression Is a looming threat in the 2020 elections, via Rewire.NewsFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:26.0 | Hey what's up in the thick listeners. |
| 0:28.0 | This is Julio Riegel |
| 0:30.0 | La Valle. And today we're bringing you this fire episode from a live in the thick show we did |
| 0:37.9 | last week from Cambridge, Massachusetts. We talked all things 2020 and the significance of voters of color, but I will reveal this. |
| 0:49.0 | The intro, like the first couple of minutes of this in the thick historic like never before |
| 0:55.6 | done or heard in the history of in the thick so I'm just gonna cut to the chase |
| 0:59.3 | let's go live from Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:02.6 | Hey, welcome to the Think |
| 1:07.0 | This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture |
| 1:09.5 | from the POC perspective. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Maria Nohosa. |
| 1:12.4 | And I'm Burya, Nicaragua, And I'm Buryorinco de la |
| 1:16.6 | Camar! |
| 1:17.6 | All right. |
| 1:20.6 | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, we love our live audiences right here in the very proper city of Cambridge |
| 1:29.8 | Massachusetts. |
| 1:30.8 | But it's right here where we're talking politics 2020 and really we're going to focus on voters of color and |
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