Into America Podcast

25/07/2023

Here's our host Trymaine Lee with The Night Light with Joshua Johnson talking about our update on the legacy of slavery at Harvard University https://youtu.be/HB32ZykpcxY?t=2112

20/07/2023

The struck down last month... but nearly 30 years ago, California voters approved Prop 209, which banned affirmative action in public universities. For elite schools like UCLA, Black enrollment plummeted, changing the campuses for decades to come.

In this episode, speaks with former Cal student Quamè Love, now an academic advisor at UC Berkeley, to tell the story of “the wall,” and how for him, affirmative action meant opportunity. And history and education professor Eddie R. Cole helps explain what the Supreme Court’s decision means at this moment in the nation’s history.

One more thing: we’re stepping away for a bit to work on a new project for MSNBC but we’ll be back soon, so keep your eyes peeled 👀

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22/06/2023

The Black working class is the backbone of the US economy. The country would be nowhere without the blood, sweat, and tears of Black labor.

This week host Trymaine Lee digs into Black Folk -- a new book from historian Dr. Blair LM Kelley of The Center for the Study of the American South at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era, we hear about the role of domestic workers, Pullman porters, and the


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19/06/2023

Today is third-ever official National Independence Day https://link.chtbl.com/obvkRMCh?sid=facebook

16/06/2023

New episode: In Galveston, the birthplace of Juneteenth, Trymaine Lee meets three Black residents fighting for "absolute equality".

On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger announced General Order No. 3: “the people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

This week we head south to the Gulf Coast of Texas island city of Galveston, on the . We hear from Sam Collins of the Juneteenth Legacy Project, June Pulliam, whose great-great grandparents moved to the island in 1865, and activist-author Anthony P. Griffin, who is trying to preserve land for Black folks in this historic city.

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14/06/2023

Listen to this episode from Into America on Spotify. In May 2020, the murder of George Floyd inspired people to take to the streets in America and overseas, calling for cop reform, the defunding of police, or saying police should be abolished altogether. And as racial injustices continued, communiti...

09/06/2023

Black people are drastically underrepresented the tech industry. At Google, one of the leaders in AI development, just 3.5% of technical jobs are held by Black engineers.

For this week's episode, we spent some time with an presentation app called Tome to understand how the lack of diversity in AI development might be affecting its bias.

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08/06/2023

New podcast ep out today: "I’m Trym(AI)ne Lee"

This week Trymaine has a conversation with an AI version of himself! He also talks with Gelyn Watkins of Black in AI, an org that works to address the diversity crisis in the field of .

The future is here. With Siri, Alexa, GPS, predictive texting, we're already interacting with artificial intelligence every day. But there's reason for concern. Only a small number of the humans behind technology are Black, leaving room for bias, and discrimination. https://link.chtbl.com/obvkRMCh?sid=facebook

29/04/2023

Some exciting news…

27/04/2023

What does it mean to have the right to life?

As Florida's Gov. DeSantis pushes a 6-week ban on abortion in Florida, lives of pregnant Black women hang in the balance.

In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, fourteen states have made abortion illegal at any stage of pregnancy... with very few exceptions made. Georgia already bans abortion after six weeks, which is before most people even find out that they’re pregnant.

In America, Black life is fragile... and strict abortion bans are putting even more lives at risk. Trymaine Lee speaks with Anya Cook, who almost died when her water broke at 16-weeks, and the hospital sent her home. A day later, she lost her baby, and half the blood in her body. Then Trymaine speaks with ob/gyn Dr. Zsakeba Watkins Henderson of the NICHQ - National Institute for Children's Health Quality -- to learn how abortion laws (and the legislators who make them) ignore clinical realities... and that disproportionately affects Black mothers.
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25/04/2023

24/04/2023

Latest episode: the Capitol Police are expanding in Jackson, Mississippi… and white conservative state lawmakers are taking power away from this majority Black capital city.

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22/04/2023

Reminder: Climate Denial is Racist

Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. Into America explores the links between white supremacy and America’s inaction on the environment.

21/04/2023

The state government in Mississippi recently expand the powers of the Capitol Police, an agency meant to secure and protect state buildings. But in Jackson, Capitol Police officers are infamous for aggressive tactics.

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21/04/2023

This week we hear from two mothers in , Mississippi-- one shot by Capitol Police while in her own bedroom, another who lost her son last year in a deadly shooting.

Jackson has the highest homicide rate of any major city in the country. Not everyone in the community is against expanding police presence. But for some, this is another example of conservative white state officials taking control away from the people of Jackson. https://link.chtbl.com/obvkRMCh?sid=facebook

13/04/2023

The Re-Freshed Prince of was renewed for a third season on Peacock TV, ahead of the season 2 finale.

Last year we talked with original Fresh Prince co-star , Bel Air co-creator Morgan Cooper, & Aunt Viv herself, Cassie Freeman
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11/04/2023

Our show is nominated in two categories at The Webby Awards!

We're up for Podcasts, General Series (News & Politics); and in Podcast, Limited Series & Morning Specials (News & Politics) we're nominated for last year's Black History Month series, Reconstructed. Vote today for Into America from !

Voting is open until Thursday, April 20th.
🙏🏾 Thanks for your support!

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03/04/2023

Like , the community of Institute, West Virginia is a

Our Future West Virginia

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30/03/2023

This week: toxic air in the Black community of Institute, . We talk with activist Katherine Ferguson of Our Future West Virginia, Dr. Sacoby Wilson of University of Maryland School of Public Health, and activist Vernice Miller-Travis of WE ACT for Environmental Justice https://link.chtbl.com/obvkRMCh?sid=facebook

24/03/2023

As Florida battles “wokeness” in education, the Teach the Truth tour encourages students to learn their history. This week, Trymaine Lee takes Into America on the tour bus to speak with founder Dr. Marvin Dunn. They visit historic sites related to the Ocoee Massacre, the lynching of Willie James Howard, and the Black town of Rosewood, which was destroyed a hundred years ago by a white mob.

17/03/2023

MSNBC's Trymaine Lee first spoke with Hannah L. Drake in September 2020, the day after a grand jury declined to charge any officers for their involvement in botched raid where Breonna Taylor was shot in her own home.

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One former Louisville police officer, Brett Hankison, was charged with first-degree wanton endangerment. He was accused of firing into nearby apartments and endangering Taylor's neighbors... and later acquitted.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said in 2020 that two other LMPD officers, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, would not face any charges. The next day, Hannah Drake gave Trymaine her reactions.

Now is a Republican candidate in the 2023 election for Kentucky governor. He was endorsed by former Pres. Donald Trump.

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16/03/2023

The Louisville Metro Police Department committed sweeping civil rights abuses against Black people, women, and people with disabilities, according to a Department of Justice report released last week.

Breonna Taylor's killing was not the beginning or the end of problems with the LMPD or the Louisville Metro Council. Black residents were not surprised to read the DOJ findings. This week we caught up with Hannah Drake, a poet and activist who helped to push Breonna's Law to ban no-knock warrants in the city of Louisville, and then in the state of Kentucky.

09/03/2023

In just a few years, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from Brooklyn brownstone living to downtown pop art icon, and he faced skepticism every step of the way. Now his art is ubiquitous. You can see that signature crown on t-shirts at Uniqlo and baseball hats at Target. But his art, the actual paintings, are hard to find at public museums.

To mark , here's our episode on the man behind the art... and the legacy behind the man. Basquiat's friend and bandmate, the artist-filmmaker Michael Holman, took us back to 1979, and the Canal Zone Party where he first met a teenage phenom named Jean-Michel. How Basquiat Earned His Crown

Last year Basquiat's younger sisters Lisane and Jeanine curated an exhibition in New York called Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure. This month they head to Los Angeles, with the show opening March 31 at The Grand LA.

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08/03/2023

Today is a good day to remember the singer-actor-dancer-icon Josephine Baker. In 2021, she became the first Black woman, first American, and first entertainer inducted into the Panthéon in Paris. We talked about her story to mark the occasion in our episode “Le Petit Problème Noir.”

Like so many other Black American creatives, Baker escaped the violent racism of life in 1920s America to seek refuge in Paris. The freedom she found helped her become an international sensation.

Baker eventually became not only a French citizen, but a decorated hero in the French Resistance during World War II. She also continued to speak out against racism in her home country, and was the only woman on the official speakers list at the 1963 March on Washington.

Trymaine Lee talked about the significance of the Panthéon honor with Ricki Stevenson, a Black American whose own move to Paris in the 1990s was inspired by Baker, and who has been fighting for more recognition for Baker here in the States. And we talked with French journalist, filmmaker, author, and activist Rokhaya Diallo about French universalism since Baker's time, and what racism in France looks like today.

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28/02/2023

23/02/2023

Part 4 of Street Disciples: Politics, Power and the Rise of Hip-Hop

We cover a lot of material in this new ep, out today:
The boom of the hip-hop artist-CEO-mogul. Lauryn Hill battles The Bling Era. Big money power leads to the Vote or Die movement. One election later (some) rappers rally behind America's first hip-hop president, Barack Obama. Corporations smooth out political messages, Kanye's Katrina moment, and the Ferguson Uprising.

feat. appearances by Lil Kim, The Fugees, Puff Daddy / Diddy, Big Pun, BG, Juvenile, Jay-Z, Beyonce, more Nas, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, Lil Wayne, Jeezy, Kendrick Lamar, and the new cereal from Snoop.

Trymaine Lee is joined by: rapper Master P, stic of the hip-hop duo dead prez, rapper & activist Tef Poe, Vote or Die’s Alexis McGill Johnson, political organizer Rosa Clemente, and writers Joan Morgan and Nelson George.

16/02/2023

Violence heaped upon Black America in the 80s & 90s led to a golden era of hip-hop. And a new sound: gangsta rap.

Trymaine Lee gets into it with Professor Daddy-O of Stetsasonic, Death Row Records co-founder (and Snoop Dogg bff) The D.O.C., writer Nelson George, journalist Davey D, Uncle Ralph McDaniels of Video Music Box, HOT 97 pioneer Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love, & MUCH more https://link.chtbl.com/obvkRMCh?sid=facebook