Truth Be Told: Protesting For The Soul of America

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week we’re sharing an episode from Truth Be Told, made by our colleagues: Tonya Mosley, Isabeth Mendoza and Suzie Racho. They speak with Dr. Eddie Glaude, chair of Princeton's African American Studies Department, to parse out what's happening in America right now, and how to recenter on black joy and resilience. Truth Be Told helps to correct the age-old diversity problem in the field of advice columns, which leaves many people of color out of the conversation entirely. Each week, host Tonya Mosley chats with an expert “Wise One” to unpack a listener question, dilemma or experience about race and culture in America. Subscribe to Truth Be Told wherever you get your podcasts and share it with a friend. Apple Podcasts NPR One Overcast Spotify

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Hey everyone, it's Olivia.
0:05.0	I am sitting in front of this microphone and I'm going to be honest, it's really hard to know what to say.
0:14.0	When Minneapolis police killed George Floyd,
0:17.0	they added another name to a list that should not exist.
0:21.0	Racism is at odds with the values that we so proudly call American, the belief
0:26.4	that all are created equal. And yet here we are. This week we're not going to
0:32.0	air an episode of Bay Curious.
0:34.0	Instead, we're going to share an episode from Truth Be Told,
0:37.0	made by our colleagues Tanya Mosley, Isabeth Mendoza, and Susie Ratcho.
0:41.0	They explore the question, where do we go from here?
0:45.7	These are the voices to listen to not just right now in this moment,
0:49.6	but always.
0:50.6	So subscribe to truth be told, and share it with a friend.
0:54.0	I am Carval Wallace and I'm about to read to you an excerpt from an article I wrote in June 2017
1:01.4	called If You're black in America,
1:04.2	riots are a spiritual impulse, not a political strategy.
1:12.0	In the summer of 1967, the city of Detroit burned. Milwaukee, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Newark,
1:20.2	were all engulfed in flames. Even forgotten towns like Cairo, Illinois, and Cambridge, Maryland
1:26.1	descended for some nights in that torrid summer into anarchy. The havoc seemed to be catching. The fire in one town sparked the fire in the next.
1:36.7	America seemed to be coming undone.
1:39.2	Yet for most Americans, the riots of that summer were viewed from afar through the lens of the evening news and front page headlines.
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