Singer-songwriter Jim Keaveny could be a character out of a Mark Twain novel, born on the Missouri River before traveling through the country with a railroader's restlessness. Ostensibly, he's settled in the hard yet beautiful Texas desert where he lives off-the-grid in a house he built with his bare hands, surviving on rainwater he can't waste, but his picaresque lifestyle still takes him around the world.
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One year after the racial justice protests following the police murder of George Floyd, how much closer are we to the goals stated by the marchers in Asheville and Western North Carolina?
That s the topic of this episode of The Porch, a production of the BPR news team. Our guests include -
TeLor Allen, who helped organize racial justice marches in Murphy
Reporter Joel Burgess of the Asheville Citizen-Times, who discusses the city s response to Black AVL Demands call for a 50% cut to the city s police department budget, with that money then invested in Asheville s Black community.
(The Porch theme song in The Vibes by Audiobinger. Other music featured in this episode includes A Long Road Travelled by Squire Tuck)
In this episode of BPR News Presents: The Porch -
We feature an episode of WUNC s podcast Tested titled An American Coup which looks at the only violent overthrow of a government in U.S. history, which occurred in 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina
Western Carolina University political scientist Dr. Chris Cooper gives us a civics lesson on what it takes to remove and/or discipline sitting members of Congress, plus how an impeachment trial of President Trump can go on even when he is no longer in office
Asheville therapist Omileye Achikeobi-Lewis talks about vicarious trauma that a person can feel watching or listening the news about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol