For your homework this week, we have texts to help you delve into the topics we discussed in our Saturday and Sunday shows.
Rather than letting a conservative super-PAC use Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a scare tactic, and the black church as a divisive tool, we decided to try to understand the theological tradition that Jeremiah Wright operates in as a thinker and preacher. Learn more by reading a book by our guest Dwight Hopkins, "Introducing Black Theology of Liberation."
On Sunday, we gathered a compelling panel of young women. These young ladies will be voting in the 2012 election for the first time, and we wanted to know what was important to them. Learn more by reading "A Little F'd Up: Why Feminism is Not a Dirty Word," by one of our three amazing student guests, 19-year-old Barnard College student Julie Zeilinger.
We also highlighted the compelling case of Clarence Aaron, a prisoner serving three life sentences who continues seeking a presidential commutation. Read the ProPublica report, written by our guest Dafna Linzer, which originally drew our attention -- as well as our blog post from earlier this week (which includes video from a 1999 PBS documentary that featured Aaron).
We were also excited to discuss the NAACP's decision to support marriage equality today. Learn more about America's oldest and most influential Civil Rights organization by reading the definitive text by Patricia Sullivan, "Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement." And former Senator and presidential candidate Bill Bradley joined us to talk about his new book, "We Can All Do Better."
Speaking of fascinating guests, remember that we'll be welcoming Margaret Cho back to #nerdland next weekend. See you then!
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These gals were amazing!! Further-- a much more relaxing and enjoyable show, minus a jerk.
I think we need not worry about our future with young women such as these brilliant young minds ready to take the reins.
I can't wait to get the book... or check out the blogs!
First let me say that i support women's right's and always have, though I'm not always sure what that means. I have to admit that I wasn't interested in the last show since the feature was not very inclusive of other groups. I have a daughter myself and six sisters and the idea that feminists views are naturally inclusive of others because women are somehow naturally more empathic is ludicrous This, I think, is one of the foundational problems with feminism, it's narrowness and it's inability to tie together in ways that speak to a broader audience; it's issues. Personally, I think this is a fundamental failing of the democrats in general. Look at it this way; while the voices of feminists has a place in the narrative Melissa brings to us, the black-male nationalist voice has been stricken from the dialogue; this is clear. On the show, it is seldom that any man, much less a black man, gets an opportunity to critique feminism or anything else unless his voice has a predictably feminist tone; For instance, Melissa praised a preacher who said some nonsense about men (ALL MEN, of course) not treating women and children as if they were property; which came off as insulting and patronizing and ultimately alienating. And of course any man who critiques feminism, because it perfect and without failings, is immediately labeled a jerk or is said to hate women. I have watched your show many times and have almost never heard any real criticism of anything feminism stands for or has done. In my view this hurts the credibility of the show and of feminism. The truth is that their are many women who are brutal, mean, abusive but one would never know it listening to feminists. I love Margaret Cho and i'm sure we hear about how much she likes bears and how much of fag hag she is, but as a man of color whose ex just lost her job of 38 years and who may loose the house she struggled to buy just as the last of our three children in seven is graduating from college,I have better things to do.