Imagining the Souls of Poor Folk & the Poor People'sCampaign
January 16, 2022
Host Jim Vrettos talks to Shailly Gupta Barnes, Policy Director at the Kairos Center at Union Theological Seminary, who coordinated and edited the Souls of Poor Folk 2018 Moral Audit report for the Poor People's Campaign. Additionally, Jim interviews David Rattray, owner, and editor of The East Hampton Star. David is also the co-founder of the Plain Sight Project -- a groundbreaking research study that has meticulously documented the history of slavery on the East End of Long Island and the Hamptons.
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The Radical Imagination
The Radical Imagination looks at radical alternatives of what the United States could be like, offering a safe space in which people can discuss what they imagine in order to transform the criminal justice system, economic system, political system, etc.; understanding that the same issues that...
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