A side-by-side of protests from the civil rights motion, versus protests of the twenty first century.
Jackie Lay
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Jackie Lay
A side-by-side of protests from the civil rights motion, versus protests of the twenty first century.
Jackie Lay
To the informal observer, it would seem to be the U.S. has been spent years and years in a continuing state of protest, from the Ladies’s March in 2017 to the racial uprisings in 2020 to the No Kings protests earlier in the summertime. However some are beginning to marvel: How efficient are any of these protests? In relation to reaching lasting social change, do any of them work?
So on this week’s present, we’re speaking to Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, the writer of a brand new ebook known as, A Protest Historical past of america. In it, she goes by way of a number of hundred years of resistance in america to assist readers perceive what types of protest have labored previously, and what classes folks can take from these protesters.
We additionally discuss to Lex McMenamin, the information and politics editor at Teen Vogue, about what they’ve noticed whereas protecting latest protests — and what a “win” would possibly appear like at this time.
This episode was hosted by B.A. Parker. It was produced by Xavier Lopez and edited by Leah Donnella. Our engineer was Jimmy Keeley.