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[NOTE: This is an edited version of a show that originally aired June 15, 2020. This version is intended for contest entry purposes. Click here to listen to the original.]
The recent police killings of Black people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others have sparked a movement unlike any in recent memory, as calls to defund the police and dismantle white supremacy have moved into the mainstream.
For three weeks, thousands of people have poured into streets across the country in support of Black Lives Matter, an organization and idea that just a few years ago received little widespread support.
The police killings of Black people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others this year have sparked a movement unlike any in recent memory, as calls to defund the police and dismantle white supremacy have moved into the mainstream.
But even as state and local governments in New York, Minneapolis and Louisville change how they police Black communities, many voices say it’s
white people who need to make change on an individual level. And that change needs to begin at home, with white children.
We know beginning this conversation can be difficult, but it is essential. To help break down the basics of how parents can to start talking about race with their white children, we’re joined by Jennifer Harvey, a professor of religion at Drake University who’s written a book called “Raising White Kids: Bringing up Children in a Racially Unjust America;” Chandra White-Cummings, an activist and lawyer who recently penned this op-ed in the