Our Body Politic Presents: the Podcast "Into America" on Banned Books and the Trauma of Witnessing George Floyd’s Death, Plus a Special Roundtable on Covid

Our Body Politic

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🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Our Body Politic continues our month-long series 'Our Body Politic Presents' with 'Into America' - a podcast about being Black in America, told by people who have the most at stake. Host Trymaine Lee speaks with his 9-year-old daughter Nola and author and illustrator Jerry Craft about banned books and Critical Race Theory. Also, from Minneapolis, Cup Foods clerk Christopher Martin, witness to the murder of George Floyd, opens up to Trymaine about moving forward from trauma. On our weekly roundtable 'Sippin the Political Tea', Farai is joined by former Obama White House Health Policy Director Dr. Kavita Patel, and Dr. Bernard Ashby, Florida State Lead for the Committee to Protect Health Care. They examine the latest on COVID and Omicron, the impacts on mental health, and the Biden Harris administration's response.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hi folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politic.
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0:36.8	We'd also love you to join in financially supporting the show if you're able.
0:40.9	You can find out more at ourbodypolitic.com slash donate.
0:45.4	We are here for you, with you, and because of you.
0:49.9	Thank you.
0:53.0	This is Our Body Politic.
0:54.7	I'm Farai Chidea.
0:56.2	For the month of January, we're bringing you fresh voices from the podcasting world in our
1:00.4	series Our Body Politics Presents.
1:03.5	Each week, you'll hear a different show take us on a journey of news, narrative, and
1:07.4	emotion.
1:09.0	This week, we're featuring the work of Into America, a podcast about
1:12.7	Black Life by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tremaine Lee of MSNBC. Sometimes Lee takes us into his
1:19.6	America, for example, interviewing the author of one of his nine-year-old daughter, Nola's favorite
1:24.4	books. Now, Nola loves the graphic novel New Kid about a black boy who goes to a
1:29.4	wealthy, mostly white private school in New York City. It's based on the life of author Jerry Kraft
1:35.0	and it's won awards including the prestigious Newberry Medal. But New Kid was also attacked by people
1:40.9	who wanted to ban the book, claiming it promoted critical race theory and Marxism.
1:46.0	Here on Our Body Politics, we've covered banned books many times and we will continue to.
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