Efforts to end racial injustice. The Lawyers Committee for civil rights under law. Were one of the nations leading National Civil Rights Organization founded in june of 1963. For the past 56 years for help protect the and other vulnerable communities across the country. What are your thoughts of what happened in atlanta at the shooting at the wendys restaurant. Another tragedy. This is a moment you would expect Law Enforcement would be on their best behavior in the wake of the tragedy of the killing of george floyd and Breonna Taylor and with the marches and protests happens across the country, its fair to say that Law Enforcement is under a microscope. You truly would expect the very best when it comes to how theyre engaging with communities, with africanamericans. This is most unfortunate, a most unfortunate and avoidable tragedy. What we understand is that this man was in his car, may have been asleep at the wheel. Isnt clear whether we would have been to deply Law Enforcement. Ther
Nancy pelosi. The president is in japan on state business and see nemesis is girding for the impeachment fight. More and more democrats and at least one republican are rearing to have. In the meantime, the speaker seems set on a strategy, engage, embarrass, and repeat. Go aheading t goading the commander in chief and going after a sensitive topic, his manliness. Like folks say, it takes a woman. Im going to be very calm because i dont want them going out to the press and saying i was anything but calm. I was extreme calm, very much like i am right now. And of us the sad when i watched nancy all moving, the movement and the hands and the craziness. And i watched. Thats a person thats got some problems. I pray for the president of the united states. I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. Joining me now to help score this fight, sophia nelson, former house government reform and Oversight Republican Committee counse
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Crystal Wilkinson is
Kentucky’s new poet laureate, the first Black woman to have this title in the state.
Wilkinson grew up in Indian Creek in Casey County. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, and over her career she has focused a lot of her writing on Black women and their experiences in Appalachia.
She recently spoke with Inside Appalachia’s co-host Caitlin Tan. Wilkinson began by reading a poem that is an ode to tobacco and her grandfather. The poem is featured in her soon-to-be-released collection of poems, ‘Perfect Black.’ The following has been lightly edited for clarity.