The "Facing Race: Stories & Voices" podcast features an array of thinkers and advocates sharing formative memories illustrating the many paths and experiences in racial justice work. Tune in here or subscribe on iTunes. This podcast was produced by Race Forward’s Jay Smooth, Rebekah Spicuglia, and Chevon Drew, with interviews recorded by StoryCorps. Learn more at www.storycorps.org. For more of these conversations, join us at our upcoming Facing Race conference November 10-12 in Atlanta, Georgia. Register at facingrace.raceforward.org. The conference is presented by Race Forward, publisher of Colorlines.
Podcasts
In this episode, Race Forward Executive Director Rinku Sen, and our founder, and Former Executive Director Gary Delgado share stories
In this session, social justice educator Lutze Segu (@FeministGriote), and Johnathan Fields discuss the effects of social media on racial justice movements.
In this episode, Janna Zinzi tells our Race Forward Senior Research Associate Tara Conley about what it's like to grow up in a multiracial family when one side of that family clings to racist notions of relationship norms.
In this session, Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance tells Kai Wright about the ways that women in her family inspired her to fight for the rights domestic workers, while making space for self care.
In this episode, former Colorlines staffer Aura Bogado speaks with Chief Thomas Dardar, principal Chief of the United Houma Nation in Louisiana.
In this session, Franchesca Ramsey tells our former Race Forward producer Kat Lazo all about the origins of the classic Chescaleigh video "Sh*t White Girls Say," and what she has learned from her work tackling race issues in the treacherous waters of YouTube.
In this episode, Melinda Weekes-Laidlow, former managing director of Race Forward, speaks to Bishop Tonyia Rawls of the Freedom Center for Social Justice, on how Rawls has found surprising common ground with church leaders in her work on LGBTQ issues.
In this discussion, Akiba Solomon talks to Larry Fellows III, a young St. Louis resident who was so affected in the first days after Michael Brown's death in 2014, he left his day job to help build the growing movement in Ferguson and eventually helped found Millennial Activists United.
In this session, author Jeff Chang tells Race Forward's Jay Smooth about his Hawaiian roots, and how reggae and liberation movements for people of color helped shape his sociopolitical views. Rate and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes at http://
In this discussion, Glenn Harris of the Center for Social Inclusion speaks to Race Forward's Terry Keleher on his family's experience with institutional racism through the Tuskegee Experiment, and how this led to his innovative work for racial equity within the system.
In this episode media technologist Deanna Zandt talks to Malkia A. Cyril, founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice.
In this session former Colorlines reporter Carla Murphy interviews Indian-American activist Pramila Jayapal. Pramila talks poignantly about finding her place in the USA as a teenage immigrant from India, and how 9/11 led her to a new career as immigrant rights advocate.
This week former Colorlines reporter Jamilah King talks to the queer, black-mixed race, trans-activist Parker T. Hurley, about on forging your own path to home and family as a queer person of color.
In this conversation with former Colorlines staffer Julianne Hing, racial justice and civil rights activist Linda Sarsour tells how her activism is informed by her family and Palestinian roots, and how her Muslim faith resonates in all areas of her life.