Episode: Desmond Meade and Dale Ho on Restoring the Right to Vote
Created: July 19, 2018
Duration: 25 minutes and 52 seconds
Overview: The 14th Amendment, ratified exactly 150 years ago, promises equal protection to everyone. But it’s also used to strip the right to vote from millions of Americans who have been convicted of felonies. How did this happen, and who’s affected? Desmond Meade talks to At Liberty about his campaign that could restore voting rights to a huge number of Floridians. We also hear from the ACLU’s Dale Ho, about why the Florida initiative could tip the scales — in a good way — for the rest of the country.
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Patrisse Cullors on a Lifetime of Activism and the Founding of Black Lives Matter
Podcast: American Civil Liberties Union – At Liberty
Episode: Patrisse Cullors on a Lifetime of Activism and the Founding of Black Lives Matter
Created: July 12, 2018
Duration: 28 minutes
Overview: On the eve of the five-year anniversary of the creation of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors discusses the life that led her to co-found one of the most consequential racial justice movements of our time. She talks about the evolution of the organization since its inception, what it’s like to live under surveillance, the books that inspired her, and more.
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Podcast: National Public Radio – Strange Fruit
Episode: Is There a “One-Drop Rule” of Sexual Fluidity?
Created: February 4, 2018
Duration: 46 minutes and 15 seconds
Overview: This week we talk to author and poet Kyla Jenee Lacey, whose essay, “Why I’m Open to Dating Bisexual Men,” was published last month on The Root. At first glance, it might seen biphobic that we even need a headline like that, but it’s apparently still A Thing. Or as Lacey says, “It’s 2018, in the year of our lord and savior Robyn Rihanna Fenty, and people are still 7-year-olds when it comes to sexual fluidity.” Lacey calls it the “one-drop rule” approach to sexual fluidity, and here’s how she describes it: “If a man has sex with one man and 100 women, we will still erroneously view him as gay and not bisexual, or sexually fluid, or even just a heterosexual man who experimented with a man and came to the conclusion that he didn’t like men. Women, on the other hand can have a whole bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate phase of having had sex with women and then turn around and reclaim their heterosexuality.”
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UPDATE – Looking for Marriage in all the Wrong Places
Episode: UPDATE – Looking for Marriage in all the Wrong Places
Created: September 6, 2018
Duration: 33 minutes and 8 seconds
Overview: In a unanimous decision, India’s Supreme Court struck down a long-standing ban on gay sex. In light of this, we’re revisiting an episode about same-sex love and dating apps for South Asians.
Looking for Marriage in all the Wrong Places
Episode: Looking for Marriage in all the Wrong Places
Created: June 20, 2018
Duration: 32 minutes and 16 seconds
Overview: Online matchmaking sites are making it easier than ever for couples seeking an arranged marriage to meet. Well…not all couples.
First Openly LGBT Coach in NFL History
Episode: First Openly LGBT Coach in NFL History
Created: August 31, 2017
Duration: 28 minutes and 59 seconds
Overview: San Francisco 49ers assistant coach Katie Sowers is a pro football pioneer. This season, she will become the NFL’s second full-time assistant female coach. She will also become the league’s first openly LGBT coach, male or female. “No matter what you do in life, one of the most important things is to be true to who you are,” Sowers, openly lesbian, told Outsports when asked why she is discussing her sexual orientation publicly for the first time. “There are so many people who identify as LGBT in the NFL, as in any business, that do not feel comfortable being public about their sexual orientation.”
Gay Teacher is the Ultimate College Football Fan
Podcast: Outsports
Episode: Gay Teacher is the Ultimate College Football Fan
Created: August 31, 2017
Duration: 28 minutes and 59 seconds
Overview: Chicago-area schoolteacher Andres Bauhs has a goal — to attend a game at all 130 FBS (Division I-A) college football stadiums across the country. At 65 stadiums and counting, he’s halfway there. His husband of five years, Olin, travels with him on most weekends, filling the role of dutiful videographer. Bauhs talks about the great traditions of college football but also what being gay means to his travels. “Being gay and tackling this quest has been an awkward experience for me at times,” he says. “Certain locations we descend upon make it challenging to perform a simple action like holding hands.”
Nicole Schneit of Air Waves – Brooklyn, NY
Podcast: Homoground
Episode: Nicole Schneit of Air Waves – Brooklyn, NY
Created: August 31, 2017
Duration: 28 minutes and 59 seconds
Overview: Lambda Legal, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.
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Immigration Reform
Podcast: Bipartisan Policy Center – What You Need to Know on Immigration
Episode: Immigration Reform
Created: Unknown
Duration: 23 minutes and 47 seconds
Overview: For our final installment of What You Need to Know on Immigration, BPC Immigration Director Theresa Brown and Press Secretary Jordan LaPier examine the question, “what ever happened to comprehensive immigration reform?” They discuss the failure of past comprehensive efforts and future opportunities for smaller reform pairings, the clash between policy and politics that makes compromise difficult, and the consequences of inaction on immigration.
Sanctuary Cities
Podcast: Bipartisan Policy Center – What You Need to Know on Immigration
Episode: Sanctuary Cities
Created: Unknown
Duration: 19 minutes and 16 seconds
Overview: Our fourth episode of What You Need to Know on Immigration covers so-called “sanctuary cities” and their place in the politics of immigration. BPC’s Theresa Brown and Jordan LaPier cover what exactly a sanctuary city is; the relationship between state, local, and federal law enforcement on immigration; and legal challenges to sanctuary cities (such as the high-profile “Kate’s Law” that recently passed in the House of Representatives).
