Amna Nawaz:
As America was gripped by nationwide calls for racial justice, Ziwe s work caught on. Hundreds of thousands tuned in.
Do you think that these conversations resonated in a certain way, caught on the way they did because of what we were going through as a country?
Ziwe:
So, I think that the racial uprisings of 2020 really allowed discussing race to be at the forefront of American media. And so that opened people up to having these really intense conversations that ultimately are long overdue.
Amna Nawaz:
Ziwe:
I think, ultimately, it has to be funny. I want people to laugh, because I m a professional comedian.
4 May 2021
During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” Senior National Correspondent Amna Nawaz on Tuesday, former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams stated that, “as a partisan,” she is worried that the various voting laws passed in several states could cause Democrats, who are “over-representative of communities of color, of communities that are disadvantaged and marginalized” to lose in the 2022 midterms, and that if we respond to changing demographics by restricting voting, that says that American democracy “is not safe, it is not sound, and it is not resilient.”
Nawaz asked, “What do you think the impact of those laws could be when you look ahead specifically to the midterm elections? Are you concerned that Democrats could actually lose control of the House and Senate as a result of those?”
There is a growing fight over voting access in the U.S. and Georgia is at the center of the conflict, with Democrat Stacey Abrams as a driving force behind change in the state. On Tuesday, Abrams was honored at the National Democratic Institute s Madeleine K. Albright Celebration for Women s Risk-Takers. She spoke to Amna Nawaz about the challenges of maintaining a healthy democracy. Read more
Apr 30, 2021 5:54 PM EDT
On April 15, a 19-year-old opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, killing eight people. The shooting ended when the man killed himself.
Authorities haven’t identified a motive behind the shooting, but when they released the names of the victims, four were recognized as part of the city’s Sikh community. Police also said that about 90 percent of the employees who worked at the FedEx warehouse are also a part of the local Sikh community.
The shooting echoed the familiar pangs of tragedies that Sikhs have experienced in the U.S., including a 2012 shooting, when a gunman opened fire inside the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six.
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