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May 4, 2018
Photo courtesy Human Pictures / Equal Justice Initiative Written by Jackson Bird. This week we’re reflecting on the opening of the National Memorial for Peace & Justice and the cultural amnesia of a certain rapper. What we’re checking out… We’ve had our eyes on the opening of the National Memorial for Peace & Justice, colloquially referred to […]
June 26, 2015
Edited by Mara Meyers This week we’ve got lasting thoughts and actions from the tragic shooting in Charleston, a hilarious video flipping the gender equation in Hollywood, and a big step towards equality from the Supreme Court. What we’ve been checking out… The Supreme Court just ruled that same sex couples can get married anywhere […]
March 18, 2015
Like we needed another reason to love FRESH Speaker Jay Smooth. Last night, Jay was on All In with Chris Hayes discussing the latest Starbucks campaign, “Race Together” that has brought on a lot of criticism over the last few days. And then, this happened (at time stamp 5:20): CBS Sunday Morning‘s Nancy Giles began teasing him for co-opting blackness […]