The Afermath: Amelia Earhart
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Aftermath, Rebecca talks with Susan Wels, author of Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It about the iconic pilot.
Here are some social justice organizations Rebecca, Chris and Amanda are supporting:
NAACP Legal Defense and educational fund https://www.naacpldf.org
Minnesota Freedom Fund https://minnesotafreedomfund.org
Black Futures Lab https://blackfutureslab.org
Movement Voter Project https://movement.vote
Women’s foundation California (https://womensfoundca.org)
JUSTICE LA - http://justicelanow.org
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. |
| 0:20.0 | Check the Uber app. An Eio's Original. |
| 0:25.0 | Each week we decide who's to blame for historical tragedy. |
| 0:30.0 | And each week you tell us if we got it right. My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and this is the |
| 0:37.5 | Aftermark. |
| 0:38.5 | Hi everyone, thanks for tuning into this episode of the aftermath. Before we get started I just want to take a moment to acknowledge what is going on right now in our country. I think it's important that as a society we are all taking time to |
| 0:55.2 | reflect, to listen and support and educate ourselves on the struggle and |
| 1:02.1 | the history of black people in this country. |
| 1:05.0 | As someone who is not black, I'm looking to the people around me in my community, |
| 1:10.8 | friends, and taking their lead. I think that many white people as as well as non-black |
| 1:17.8 | Latinos and Asians and other people of color that are not black are looking |
| 1:21.9 | around and not knowing what to do and |
| 1:25.0 | they're scared of saying the wrong thing or getting it wrong to the point of |
| 1:29.6 | paralysis but I know myself that I'm trying really hard to push through that, which means that I'm probably |
| 1:37.7 | going to mess up. But like they say, if you're not messing up up then you're probably not actually trying so I encourage everyone to |
| 1:47.1 | Donate to causes and to show your support by taking active measures. |
| 1:52.6 | I know that I am doing that, and Chris and Amanda are also doing that. |
| 1:59.1 | And we're going to include in the show notes links to some organizations that we feel strongly about, |
| 2:08.0 | in case you're interested in knowing, we'll also be posting them on our Instagram page. |
| 2:14.0 | So we are going to be releasing the episodes that we had planned, |
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