AUDIO: ‘Black Lives Matter Is a Re-Humanizing Project’
A cross-generational conversation with a Black Lives Matter founder and a trauma doctor, who is trying to redefine public health in terms of human wholeness, deals with the culture and society the movement is trying to create.
Political art on a wall in Washington, D.C. (Ted Eytan / CC BY-SA 2.0)
A cross-generational conversation between a Black Lives Matter founder and a trauma doctor, who is trying to redefine public health in terms of human wholeness, deals with the culture and society the movement is trying to create.
The conversation is hosted by Krista Tippett, who leads the podcast “On Being,” and appears here in its two-hour unedited version. Find the abridged version here.
Guest Patrisse Cullors is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, director for truth and reinvestment at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and a mixed-media and performance artist. Robert K. Ross is president and CEO of the California Endowment, as well as a physician and public health expert who studies how childhood trauma shapes the lives of troubled and chronically ill Americans.
—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
With an uncertain future and a new administration casting doubt on press freedoms, the danger is clear: The truth is at risk.
Now is the time to give. Your tax-deductible support allows us to dig deeper, delivering fearless investigative reporting and analysis that exposes what’s really happening — without compromise.
Stand with our courageous journalists. Donate today to protect a free press, uphold democracy and unearth untold stories.
TD Interview
Marc Cooper, Dig Curator and former translator to President Allende, speaks to KPFK Radio's Suzi Weissman about the complex historical forces at work today in Chile.
Dig Scape
Will microdosing finally bring them home?
The class war that gave rise to his campaign is the fault of a long line of corporate Democrats like Joe Biden, and voters know it.
A new book shows how the activist's positions on issues like the Vietnam War and environmental justice helped move civil rights leaders left.
Intelligence expert William Binney discusses the revelation that a widely used encryption service has been in government hands for decades.
“The way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them.”
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.