American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Revolutionary Grace Lee Boggs In this episode, we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS. Produced by Grace Lee, the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last...
Disability: Our Culture Ourselves
Disability People with disabilities or disabled people? “Disability: Our Culture Ourselves”— in this episode we discuss disability, culture and identity from the perspective of disability communities themselves. Seattle based activist Dorian Taylor talks about the specific challenges disabled people face while accessing public transportation and Professor Sara Acevedo discusses the powerful ways that common language and...
The End of Time: Aging in America
POC end-of-life Care “The End of Time: Aging in America”—in this episode we’ll take a close look at why people of color have less access to basic comfort care at the end of life. Recent studies show fewer minorities use hospice and palliative services compared to whites. Language barriers and cultural traditions often present big obstacles for Asians, Latinos, and other ethnic minorities, in addition to poverty and lack of...
Re:Work Radio. Trafficked, the Journey of Lester Ramos
Labor Trafficking: One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking: compelling people to work through fraud, force, or coercion. The International Labor Organization estimates 20.1 million people are trapped in forced labor globally, in industries including agriculture, construction, domestic work, and manufacturing. Who does this happen to? And how does it happen? In this episode, Re:Work...
Bad Math: the Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Like this program? Please support our work. Click here and support our non-profit journalism. Thanks! Artificial Intelligence When we think of Artificial Intelligence we often think of intelligent robots who act and think like humans -the walking, thinking, feeling machines that we see in the movies. The advent of that kind of intelligent robot is so far off in the future, that we often don’t recognize the...
70 Million: In Miami, Jailing Fewer, Treating More
70 Million Much like the rest of the country, jails in Miami-Dade County double as de facto mental health facilities for people with mental health issues cycling through the criminal justice system. But Miami-Dade’s Criminal Mental Health Project has taken the lead in addressing the needs of this population. Now it is a national model for how to tackle the interplay between mental illness and criminal justice, while driving down...
