In this episode, Race Forward’s Director of Root Solutions for Public Safety Alex Frank talks with John Pineda — Deputy Director and founding member of the MILPA Collective — about how communities from Minneapolis to Los Angeles are redefining public safety. Together they reflect on the lasting impact of state control, surveillance, and militarization, and the ways communities have responded through cultural organizing, resilience, and healing.

As we build momentum for the 2025 Just Narratives for Multiracial Solidarity convening, this November in St. Louis, we’re honored to lift up an episode of the Solidarity is This Podcast, originally produced by Solidarity is This, an initiative of the Building Movement Project. This episode–hosted by Adaku Utah–explores the vital work of building multiracial solidarity in a moment of growing backlash against racial justice.

In this episode of Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast, Minister JaNaé Bates, co-executive director of ISAIAH, a multi-racial, state-wide, nonpartisan coalition of faith communities fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota joins host jaboa lake, Race Forward Senior Director of Impact Evaluation, Learning, and Research for a compelling conversation on the legacy of resistance that shaped—and continues to shape—the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd.