Activism

Episode 60: White people activists

August 4, 2020 Simma Lieberman Everyday Conversations on Race, Race, racism

  In this conversation on race, LeRon Barton asks.  “Why are white people interested in helping out now? Where were you ten/  twenty years ago?” We wonder  what is making white folks come out now? Is it because they saw the very public  murder of George Floyd?  Did they understand the systemic racism and murder…

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Episode 54: The Racial Impacts of COVID-19

May 21, 2020 Simma Lieberman Covid 19, Diversity, Everyday Conversations on Race, pandemic, Politics and Culture, Race, White supremacy

Teri Yuan and Carole Copeland Thomas join me for this conversation on race to talk about race, racism and the COVID 19 pandemic. Teri talks about her experience as a Chinese-American and her perspective on the escalation of racist attacks against Asians who are being blamed by some for Covid-19. Carole shares her history, information…

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