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Susan Burton & Kimberle Crenshaw: Hope After Prison
November 17, 2010
Hope is in short supply these days, particularly for those in America's packed prison system. California incarcerates more women than any other state, and when those women get out of jail they often have nothing more than $200 in their pockets and hope to go on. Susan Burton was one of those women once, and now she's founder and executive director of A New Way of Life Reentry Project, a nonprofit organization that helps formerly incarcerated women get their lives back together.
Fixing Health Care for Real & Susan Burton, CNN Hero
November 16, 2010
As Republican freshmen head to Congress, many of them are riding a wave of promises to repeal "Obamacare." As Jamie Court noted on our show last week, one of the most unpopular elements of the bill is the mandate that Americans purchase private health insurance. But Wendell Potter, former health insurance industry insider, notes that that is the part of the bill that is most popular with the insurance companies that bankrolled those same Republicans.
Kimberle Crenshaw: "Post-Racial" Politics and History
September 30, 2010
We hear a lot about "post-racial" politics these days--the election of Barack Obama supposedly has led us into a post-racial age, but have we really seen anything change? Not much, notes Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African-American Policy Forum, and it's not really new either. But a lack of a sense of history is another symptom of today's politics, and Crenshaw notes that even black elected officials and candidates sometimes fall victim.
Kimberle Crenshaw, Ann Jones, and the Cycle of War
September 29, 2010
We hear a lot about "post-racial" politics these days--the election of Barack Obama supposedly has led us into a post-racial age, but have we really seen anything change? Not much, notes Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African-American Policy Forum, and it's not really new either. But a lack of a sense of history is another symptom of today's politics, and Crenshaw notes that even black elected officials and candidates sometimes fall victim.
Decision to Boycott Durban II has Domestic Implications for Barack Obama
April 20, 2009
The New York Times today reports that the United States will not attend an international conference on the issue of racism, informally known as Durban II after the first world summit against racism held in South Africa eight years ago. The Obama administration's decision to withdraw, however, has angered many organizers and activists here in the United States. The marriage may not be over, says Kimberle Crenshaw, but the honeymoon certainly is.
The Honeymoon Is Over: Withdrawal from Conference on Racism Surprises Many
March 11, 2009
The Obama administration has decided not to attend the second international conference on racism in April. Many organizers and activists are disappointed, to say the least. The marriage may not be over, says Kimberle Crenshaw, but the honeymoon certainly is. Rev. Patricia Watkins, Executive Director of Target Area Awakening the Spirit of Leadership, Rami Nashashibi, Executive Director of the Inner City Muslim Network, Marcy Westerling, Executive Director of the
The F Word: Sobering Rain on Obama Parade
August 28, 2008
Not to rain on anyone's Obama parade, but today's conversation on GRITtv is sobering. From Jane Hamsher and Christy Hardin Smith and Baratunde Thurston we hear how hard it is to reverse a message once it has been rolled out. From our "colorblindness" panel we hear how reluctant the Obama campaign has been thus far to consciously head off the racist onslaught that's doubtless coming.

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