Mississippi's Fight to Exist
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by Arekia Bennett, executive director of Mississippi Votes, and R.L. Nave, editor-in-chief at Mississippi Today and president of the Jackson Association of Black Journalists, to talk Mississippi electoral politics. They discuss the upcoming Democratic Primary and the POC vote, the legacy of Jim Crow and voting rights in the state, and what progressive organizing looks like in such a red state. Be sure to check your feeds for a special ITT Bonus where you can listen to a live performance from award winning poet and author, Amanda Furdge, who opened one of our live shows in Jackson! ITT Staff Picks: - How a Jim Crow law still shapes Mississippi's elections, via Vox. - Working Toward Freedom: Investigating Mississippi's Modern Day Debtors Prisons, via Mississippi Today. - Read Arekia Bennett's piece on how young activists organize against voter suppression in Mississippi, via The Root.
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| 0:23.0 | Grasias. |
| 0:26.0 | Everybody loves Mississippi because the heart and soul of how people resist and how we are resilient has been learned through the soles of black folks in Mississippi. |
| 0:37.8 | You know what's up? |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome to In the Think. |
| 0:42.2 | This is a podcast about politics race and culture from a POC perspective I'm |
| 0:46.7 | Marieno Hosa and I'm Julio Rico Barella |
| 0:49.4 | joining us from Jackson Mississippi is yes R yes, R.L. or Ryan, if you please, |
| 0:54.8 | nave, he's editor-in-chief at Mississippi today and president of the |
| 0:58.7 | Jackson Association of Black Journalists, a chapter of NABJ. What's up Ryan? What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up? |
| 1:04.7 | What's up, what's up, what's up? |
| 1:06.0 | And let us say hello to Arika. |
| 1:08.0 | Bennett, she's executive director of Mississippi Boats. |
| 1:11.6 | What up, Arika? What's good? So these are two badass |
| 1:18.1 | guests that are joining us and we're going to talk about Mississippi politics, the POC vote, the South, the Mississippi primary |
| 1:26.8 | that's coming up next week on March 10th. But, before we get to Mississippi, can we talk about what just happened? We're recording this on |
| 1:35.3 | Monday, so two days after the South Carolina primary and one day before Super Tuesday, so we don't have any results but you know |
| 1:44.9 | Joe Biden did win South Carolina primary he got 48.4% of the vote |
| 1:50.5 | he earned 35 delegates here Here's Biden on his happy night. |
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