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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Oakland cafe refuses to serve cops A cafe named Hasta Muerte in the Fruitvale neighborhood is refusing to serve police officers. The cafe owners posted on Instagram: “We know in our experience working on campaigns against police brutality that we are not alone saying that police presence compromises our feeling of physical & emotional safety.” That attitude has led to protests against the owners, and a renewed discussion about the role of police in the community.
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Why is the U.S. so tied to Saudi Arabia? Reports of Jamal Khashoggi’s torture inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul are disturbing, but the Trump administration is still siding with the Saudis. We talk about how Saudi Arabia became so important to the U.S.
Don't @ Me with Justin Simien
The ‘Moral Correctness’ Debate How political is black art, and how much can black people critique it? A recent New York Times piece by Wesley Morris suggests that black art in this day and age is being critiqued for its politics rather than for its quality. Justin sits down with writers Chuck Hayward and Jarrett Hill to discuss.
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Spying in LA Has the CIA taken over local policing? Activist Jamie Garcia discusses how technologies launched by the CIA, NSA and the Pentagon to spy on terrorists are radically altering crime-fighting in Los Angeles and local communities in a “predictive policing” program that ends up targeting black and brown communities.