Pod Save the People Folgen

This week DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss facial recognition technology, the link between guns and racism, Johns Hopkins ending legacy admissions, and the public perception of Martin Luther King, Jr. Then, DeRay sits down with Brittany Young, who uses the Baltimore dirt bike community to inspire interest in STEM. SHOW NOTES More about Brittany and her program The New York TImes - The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know ItThe Guardian - 'Dying of whiteness': why racism is at the heart of America's gun inactionSmithsonian - Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was KilledThe Atlantic - Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins

This week we've got DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam covering The Royal Family, racism in textbooks, poverty replacing the draft, restitution centers, and the marketing of drugs to jails. Then, DeRay sits down with 2019 MacArthur Fellow Saidiya Hartman to examine the complications in archiving black history. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/pharmaceutical-companies-are-marketing-drugs-jailers/604264/https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/09/17/student-loan-crisis-not-mideast-wars-helped-army-leaders-exceed-recruiting-goals-this-year/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-sharehttps://www.clarionledger.com/in-depth/news/local/2020/01/09/debtors-prison-miss-still-sends-people-jail-unpaid-debt/2742853001/https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/so-free-month-people?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=1000140https://burrow.com/PEOPLE

We're back! This week DeRay, Brittany, and Clint discuss IRS cheats, drug price increases, and the heartbreaking legacy of January 1 for enslaved people in the US. Then, DeRay sits down with three CEOs from various countrywide organizations within the Teach For All Organization. DeRay is joined by James Kassaga Arinaitwe from Teach for Uganda, Daniel Dotse, from Lead for Ghana, and Folawe Omikunle from Teach for Nigeria.https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/03/irs-reforms-free-file-program-can-now-compete-turbotax-h-r-block/2802945001/https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/01/04/annual-ritual-of-drug-price-increases-to-get-more-political-scrutiny-in-2020/#6b0e30121852https://time.com/5750833/new-years-day-slavery-history/https://www.grove.co/welcome/swaps-hiw/?offer=savethepeoplepod20swaps&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=or&utm_campaign=acq-podsavethepeople&utm_term=podsavethepeople&utm_content=2675https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/so-free-month?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=1000140For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople.