In The Thick
689 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsJournalists tell you what you’re missing from the mainstream news. Co-hosted by award-winning journalists Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela, IN THE THICK has the conversations about race, identity and politics few people are discussing or want to discuss.
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A Warning Come True
October 30, 2018 21:46 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBAfter a week marked by the threat of pipe bombs, a synagogue in Pittsburgh was attacked by an antisemitic domestic terrorist who murdered 11 worshippers. Maria and Julio talk about this tragedy and the role of hate with Brentin Mock, Pittsburgher and staff writer for CityLab and Mike German, fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program. ITT Staff Picks Brentin Mock's point of view on what the neighborhood where it happened means to Pittsburgh...
ITT EXTRA: The Rage Factor
October 26, 2018 20:04 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBPipe bombs sent in the mail to journalists and high profile Democrats, the migrant caravan and what this all means for the midterms elections that are rapidly approaching. It's been another intense week and Maria and Julio talk all about it with one of our ITT All-Stars, Terrell Jermaine Starr, senior reporter for The Root. ITT Staff Picks How the caravan became a key piece of Trump's electoral strategy, according to The Independent. From Al Jazeera, "Fake news, racism and bombs...
Midterms 2018: Young Folks Be Voting
October 23, 2018 21:43 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBWe start our ITT midterm elections countdown with a focus on the younger generation. Julio speaks to Sarah Audelo, executive director of the Alliance for Youth Action and two youth organizers that have been organizing in their communities and are raising their voices this election season: Yatziri Tovar, from Make The Road Action, and Gariyana Williams, from YO Save Our Streets. ITT Staff Picks FiveThirtyEight's analysis on the young vote in the Midterm Elections. Gen Z activists...
ITT EXTRA: The Enemy of the People Speaks Out
October 19, 2018 19:28 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBAfter another chaotic week of U.S. politics, Maria and Julio catch up on the latest. They talk about the Central American migrant caravan, Senator Elizabeth Warren's DNA test to prove her Native American heritage and the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the dangers that journalists are facing worldwide. ITT Staff Picks: Check out the Democracy Now! roundtable with Native American commentators, that Maria and Julio mentioned. Julio's recent article for NBC's Think on t...
Planet Earth's Deadline
October 16, 2018 21:29 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBWe have 12 years left to reverse the effect of climate change, according to the latest report from the United Nations. Maria and Julio talk with Justine Calma from Grist and award-winning writer Meera Subramanian about this new data and the consequences of climate change for communities of color. ITT Staff Picks Which countries are doing well (and which are failing) to control their emissions? From The Washington Post. Justine Calma explains the dire situation of communities of ...
Love and Race in World War II
October 12, 2018 21:38 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBIn the book Enemies in Love, journalist and Columbia University professor Alexis Clark narrates the romance between an African-American nurse and a German prisoner of war during WWII. Maria and Julio talk to Alexis about how the challenges of this era are still relevant today. ITT Staff Picks From the Smithsonian.com: How Black nurses in World War II were relegated to take care of Nazis. Alexis Clark's interview with NPR's Code Switch. The two battles that Black soldiers exper...
ITT EXTRA: Out of Many, One!
October 10, 2018 22:40 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBMaria and Julio talk about the aftermath of the Kavanaugh SCOTUS confirmation, the rise of a populist in Brazil and the conviction of a Chicago police officer for shooting and killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald four years ago. ITT Staff Picks An analysis of why many white women didn't believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, from Rewire.News. This is the tent city built in Texas for the migrant children, from The New York Times. From The Chicago Tribune, the story of the father and ...
LIVE From NYC With Jose Antonio Vargas
October 04, 2018 17:47 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBMaria and Julio talk to In The Thick All-Star Jose Antonio Vargas in this unique, live episode as part of the PEN Out Loud series in New York City. In a very intimate conversation about mental health and the immigrant community, Maria, Julio and Jose Antonio get personal. The live audience also shared their experiences, anxieties and advice. This show was possible thanks to collaboration with PEN America and The Strand bookstore. ITT Staff Picks A researcher explains the mental h...
Look at Me
October 01, 2018 18:24 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBBy confronting Senator Jeff Flake and telling her story of sexual assault, Ana María Archila has become an icon in the midst of the Kavanaugh nomination debate. Maria and Julio talk to Archila about the behind the scenes of her action in Capitol Hill and discuss her next steps. ITT Staff Picks “It was the elevator pitch that altered the trajectory of American history.” Read this op-ed from Philly.com about Maria Gallagher and Archila’s action. Here’s Why White Women Are Abandonin...
ITT EXTRA: Heroic Actions
September 28, 2018 22:31 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBDuring the nomination process for the next Supreme Court Justice, on Thursday we witnessed courage when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony against Brett Kavanaugh. Maria and Julio reflect on what this moment meant for women and all victims of sexual abuse in the country. ITT Staff Picks Check out this thread of tweets by sociologist Nicole Bedera on adolescent sexual violence. From Vox: the Kavanaugh hearing showed how little has changed since Anita Hill. The Kavanaug...
The Hurricane That Never Left Puerto Rico: Part II
September 25, 2018 20:45 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBOne of the most contentious issues has been determining the number of the people who died because of Hurricane Maria. Julio traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico for the anniversary of the tragedy to speak with Omaya Sosa, investigative reporter and co-founder of the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, the media institution that has been leading the reporting on the death count on the ground for the past year. ITT Staff Picks The Centro de Periodismo Investigativo worked to find the ...
The Hurricane That Never Left Puerto Rico: Part I
September 20, 2018 21:28 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBA year ago, Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico. The past 12 months have brought disorganized recovery efforts, an estimated thousands of deaths and an island that refuses to let go of its resiliency. In The Thick is dedicating a two-part special series to honor this tragic anniversary. In Part 1, Maria and Julio talk to two Puerto Rican journalists: Arelis Hernández, from The Washington Post, and Bianca Padró Ocasio, from The Orlando Sentinel, who've both been covering the impact...
The Stolen Sisters
September 18, 2018 20:08 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBThe #MMIWG (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) movement has been gaining momentum in the U.S. and Canada, as Indigenous women call for an end to targeted violence. Maria and Julio speak about this widespread issue with Annita Lucchesi, a Southern Cheyenne cartographer who has built the largest database of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and Jenni Monet, an independent journalist and tribal member of the Pueblo of Laguna. ITT Staff Picks The Intercept on how ...
Technology v. The People
September 11, 2018 20:18 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBAlgorithms, social media and technology are increasingly becoming a risk for communities of color. Maria and Julio talk about zeroes and ones with Surya Mattu, researcher with The MIT Center for Civic Media, and Jazmine Ulloa, reporter for the Los Angeles Times. ITT Staff Picks How online trolls are using immigration as political wedge for midterms, Jazmine's latest for the Los Angeles Times. Machine bias in the court system, ProPublica's investigation that Surya was a part...
ITT EXTRA: The "Anonymous" Resistance
September 07, 2018 20:18 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBIt's another intense week in Washington, D.C., and Maria and Julio are back to break down the latest. They talk about the chaotic Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, what the end of the Flores Agreement means for minors crossing the border and, of course, the New York Times op-ed on resistance within the White House. ITT Staff Picks Of course, here it is in case you haven't read it already, the NYT's piece "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Adminis...
Surviving Hate in the USA
September 04, 2018 11:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBJulio and Maria talk with Arjun Singh Sethi, a civil rights lawyer, writer and law professor who interviewed 13 survivors of hate crimes and edited their testimonies for his new book American Hate: Survivors Speak Out. ITT Staff Picks Why does the U.S. fail at gathering hate crime stats? ProPublica explains. HuffPost's story on the tragedy of the Jabara family and the rise of Islamophobia. America Ferrera writes about Jeanette Vizguerra in the latest 100 Most Influential Peopl...
The LGBT Community Is the Fabric of America
August 31, 2018 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this rebroadcast episode from earlier this year, Maria and Julio are joined by Shelby Chestnut, National Organizing and Policy Strategist with Transgender Law Center, and Verónica Bayetti Flores, freelance writer and co-host of Radio Menea. They discuss the LGBT rights movement and how the media can do a better job of covering the LGBT community. ITT Staff Picks: Check out Latino USA's Interview with the stars of FX's 'Pose.' Read about The New York Times' coverage of LGBT...
The Case of Immigration Activist Ravi Ragbir
August 28, 2018 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBBack in February, Maria and Julio sat down with immigration activist Ravi Ragbir, who had endured what a federal judge called an "unnecessarily cruel" detainment and was threatened with a scheduled deportation. Since then, Ravi has been granted a stay from a New Jersey judge. But earlier this month, he was back in court in New York, fighting to be granted a second stay in hopes of preventing his new scheduled deportation date, September 7, 2018. With the recent updates to Ravi's cas...
The Legacy of the Biggest Immigration Raid
August 24, 2018 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBIn 2008, ICE agents descended on a small rural town in Iowa for their largest operation in the history of the United States. As a result, the population of Postville was slashed almost in half and its economy collapsed. Maria and Julio talk to Almudena Toral and Ronny Rojas, two of the journalists behind a new documentary from Univision detailing the aftermath of the raid. ITT Staff Picks Watch the full documentary on Postville, at the Univision site for free (available in Englis...
Charlottesville: One Year Later
August 21, 2018 17:49 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBA year after the tragedy of Charlottesville and just days after the Unite The Right 2 Rally, Julio talks with returning ITT guest Mike German, a former FBI agent who once infiltrated white supremacy groups undercover. ITT Staff Picks The Atlantic on how white nationalists are winning. Unite The Right 2 could be called a failure, but it's not time to claim victory, according to a former NYPD officer. Pop Culture Collab puts the focus on white nationalism, rather than white supre...
ITT EXTRA: Debating How to Reunite Immigrant Families
August 17, 2018 18:57 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBMaria and Julio talk about the work of Michael Avenatti (Stormy Daniels' attorney...and future 2020 presidential candidate, maybe?) to reunite immigrant families. His clients are parents who have been deported, and whose kids are still in the U.S., so his approach is to send the kids back to their home countries to be reunited. This is a controversial strategy that has been criticized by many long-time immigration lawyers. They also call up immigration attorney, Amy Maldonado, for h...
The Chaos Is Real
August 14, 2018 21:55 - 37 minutes - 34 MBMaria and Julio catch up with all-star Terrell Jermaine Starr, senior reporter at The Root, and Jane Coaston, senior politics reporter at Vox. They talk the latest with conspiracy theories, Paul Manafort's white male hubris, Unite the Right 2 and how Omarosa's drama could threaten cybersecurity. ITT Staff Picks: Jane's latest for Vox about what the Unite the Right 2 rally tells us about white supremacy in the United States. Terrell's coverage of the Paul Manafort trial for The...
ITT EXTRA: This Place Is a Snake Pit
August 10, 2018 20:59 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBMaria and Julio talk about the role of POC journalism in the Trump era including the latest revelations on the death toll in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, the National Association of Black Journalists' latest resolution and the silent departure of one of the few Latinx in The White House. Want more? - If you don't know her, you should absolutely read this New York Times obituary of Ida B. Wells (published recently to compensate for a racist oversight for not publishing...
The Antidote to Hate
August 07, 2018 22:49 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBMaria and Julio catch up with immigration organizers Cristina Jiménez, executive director of United We Dream, and Grecia Lima, national political director of The Center for Community Change. They talk about the latest court decision on DACA, the recent white supremacist rally in Portland and The Washington Post's problematic coverage of white minorities in rural Pennsylvania. Want more? The Nation explains the movement to divest from companies that are making money out of immigrat...
ITT EXTRA: The Trumpocalypse
August 03, 2018 21:44 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBThis week, the American Immigration Lawyers Association reported that a migrant toddler died shortly after being released from an ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas. There are 11,000 kids are living in these detention facilities across the country. Maria and Julio talk with immigration attorney, Amy Maldonado about the immigration detention centers and what she calls our immigration "kangaroo courts." Want more? The Intercept's story on the two Brazilian boys represented by A...
Flexin' Our Grit Muscles
July 31, 2018 22:40 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBMaria and Julio talk about the news with two all-stars: Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar on WGBH Radio, and Gabby Rivera, writer, artist, activist and our resident nerdberger. They discuss midterm elections, the latest on immigration policy and the spike of racist hate crimes in the United States. Want more? According to the ACLU, migrant parents were forced to sign papers that they couldn't read (from The Hill). From WBRU, Could Democrats Be Thwarted again in these Midter...
Flexin' Our Grit Muscles
July 31, 2018 22:40 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MBMaria and Julio talk about the news with two all-stars: Callie Crossley, host of Under the Radar on WGBH Radio, and Gabby Rivera, writer, artist, activist and our resident nerdberger. They discuss midterm elections, the latest on immigration policy and the spike of racist hate crimes in the United States. Want more? According to the ACLU, migrant parents were forced to sign papers that they couldn't read (from The Hill). From WBRU, Could Democrats Be Thwarted again in these Midterms? Bad ...
ITT EXTRA: Nicaragua's Crisis Explained
July 27, 2018 18:14 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBIt all started with deadly, violent protests against the Nicaraguan government, but did it really? In this special ITT EXTRA, Julio catches up with Latino USA producer Sayre Quevedo to hear the behind the scenes of his reporting for his latest explainer. Want to read more? The crisis in images, from the BBC. Nicaragua is near a catastrophe, according to The Washington Post. The New York Times explains the increasingly important role of the church in the protests. For informat...
#121: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Revolution
July 24, 2018 21:32 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBFour weeks ago, no one knew her name, but now she gives hope for progressives across the country (and around the world). Julio and Maria talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about why she decided to run for Congress and what the future will bring for her and the Democratic Party. Want to read more? Are Alexandria's endorsements of Democratic insurgents paying off? How some Democrats are rethinking their own party. Learn more about what Alexandria mentioned: that 60% Puerto Ricans we...
Rosa Clemente on Puerto Rico, Me Too and Hip Hop
July 20, 2018 17:24 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBShe was the first Latina to run for vice president with the Green Party in 2008, but Rosa Clemente has long been organizing for political and social change. Maria and Julio talk to Rosa about her organizing work, the rap industrial complex and her independent reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Want to read/watch more? Rosa talks to Rolling Stone about why she didn't participate in the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Watch the mini-doc Puerto Rising, made by R...
#120: Time to Take Comrade Trump Seriously
July 17, 2018 21:31 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBJulio catches up with all-star guests Raquel Cepeda, filmmaker and author, and Wajahat Ali, TV host and contributor to The New York Times, about all the latest threats to U.S. democracy. They talk about the meeting between Trump and Putin in Helsinki, the rise of the Abolish ICE movement and what might happen with the new SCOTUS nominee. We also find out "Where's Maria?" who was –literally– on the road reporting. Want to read more? In the press conference, Putin gave Trump a soc...
ITT EXTRA: A Neuroscientist's Warning of Family Separation
July 13, 2018 21:25 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBWe've seen the crying and suffering of children being torn apart from their parents at the U.S. border, but what is happening in these kids' brains and what is the neurological long-term impact of trauma? Maria calls up a badass neuroscientist from UCLA, Dr. Gina Poe, to understand the science behind the trauma of family separation. Want to read more? A list of the organizations helping children separated from the families, compiled by The Texas Tribune. Read the letter of the A...
#119: The New Battle for Reproductive Rights
July 10, 2018 19:56 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBDonald Trump has nominated Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court and many are fearing that this will lead to an overturn of Roe v. Wade. Maria and Julio talk to Tannia Esparza, executive director of the organization Young Women United, and Regina Mahone, VP/managing editor of Rewire.News about the impact of reproductive rights restrictions on women of color. Want to read more? What will happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned? The Washing...
The Power of Baring Broken Hearts
July 06, 2018 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBPati Navalta Poblete went from being a columnist and journalist to being in the news when her son died due to gun violence in 2014. Maria and Julio speak with Pati about how she has turned her grief into activism and her memoir A Better Place. Want to read more? From The Mercury News, 'In wake of her son’s murder, Pati Navalta Poblete charts a course to peace.' Visit the site of the Robby Poblete Foundation, which Pati founded on her son's name. From Vox, 'America’s unique gun...
#118: You Mad? The Politics of American Rage
July 03, 2018 23:11 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBMaria and Julio meet up at Aspen Ideas Festival with Dr. Brittney Cooper (aka Professor Crunk), associate professor at Rutgers University and co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective blog and Dr. Michael Kimmel, founder and director of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University. They explore why everyone seems to be mad as hell, how anger has transformed our politics, and why race and gender matter when it comes to rage in the Trump era. Want t...
ITT EXTRA: Mexico's Outrage Election
June 29, 2018 22:36 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBThis Sunday July 1, Mexicans will choose thousands of political positions, from mayors to the new president. Maria and Julio talk with Mexican journalist León Krauze about what to expect from the front-runner and if this election can really change the future of the country. Want to read more? Dissent magazine's profile on Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the front-runner. El Universal explains (in English) why voter turnout will be a key factor. The NY Times writes about Mexican di...
#117: It's a Muslim Ban
June 26, 2018 21:23 - 15 minutes - 14 MBWhile immigrant families are still separated after Trump's zero tolerance policy, the Supreme Court upheld his travel ban. María and Julio talk with ITT All Star Wajahat Ali, op-ed contributor for The New York Times, about what this decision means and what we can expect in the future. Want to read more? Mother Jones' Must-Reads From Justice Sotomayor’s Dissent on Trump’s Travel Ban. Vox on How Trump's Travel Ban became normal. The SCOTUS blog analysis of the decision. For infor...
NPR's Lulu García-Navarro and the State of Democracy in Latin America
June 22, 2018 11:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBShe has worked as a correspondent in Israel, Syria and Libya, but Latin America is very much in her heart. Lulu García-Navarro, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, joins María and Julio to talk about the elections in Colombia and Mexico, and why we should pay more attention to Brazil. Want to read and see more of Lulu? The Washingtonian profiled Lulu in this piece. Lulu interviews John Moore, one of the most interesting photographers reporting on the drama of families separate...
#116: Undermining Our Own Democracy
June 19, 2018 21:37 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBThe government keeps defending its policy of separating migrant families at the border and the Supreme Court makes a decision that will impact voting rights for the next election. Maria and Julio discuss the latest headlines with In The Thick All Stars, Jamilah King, race and justice reporter with Mother Jones, and Jamil Smith, senior writer with Rolling Stone. Want to read more? Jamil Smith's Rolling Stone article about the SCOTUS voting rights decision Jamilah King's Mother ...
ITT EXTRA: It's Never JUST About Fútbol
June 15, 2018 17:10 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBMaria and Julio sit down with Alicia Rose DelGallo, editor and co-founder of ProSoccerUSA.com to discuss fútbol (aka soccer)! They chat about the politics of the World Cup, diversity in U.S. soccer and whether or not pro players are using their platform to speak up for justice. Want to read more? From The Guardian, an article about diversity in the MLS and around the coaching system in the U.S. Megan Rapinoe's "Why I Am Kneeling" piece Also from The Guardian, the story of Miguel ...
#115: Zero Tolerance
June 12, 2018 21:38 - 36 minutes - 33 MBMaria and Julio talk about the damaging effect of separating parents and their children at the U.S.-Mexico border. They are joined by Sandy Santana, executive director of the national legal non-profit Children’s Rights, part of a group of organizations challenging this policy. Also with them, Tina Vasquez, immigration reporter at Rewire.News. Want to read more? Tina's article on how Jeff Sessions’ policy follows up on what happened during the Obama administration. American Aca...
ITT EXTRA: Active Dehumanization
June 08, 2018 21:21 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBIn our weekly news roundup, Maria and Julio share the latest about the Hurricane Mara death count in Puerto Rico. They also discuss immigration news that's not making the front pages: from the largest recent workplace raid under Trump at an Ohio company to the story of Pablo Villavicencio Calderón, who was detained by ICE after delivering pizza to a military base in Brooklyn. They end the show by reflecting on the death of Anthony Bourdain. For information regarding your data priv...
#114: LIVE From Chicago, the Immigration Detention Machine
June 05, 2018 18:02 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBIn the final part of In The Thick's LIVE series at DePaul University, Maria and Julio discuss the immigration detention machine. According to the Prison Policy's 2018 report, there are 34,000 immigrants detained by ICE, 13,000 more people in federal prison for criminal convictions related to federal immigration laws and 13,000 immigrants being held pre-trial by U.S. Marshals. David Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Mount Holyoke College, and immigration att...
Gabby Rivera: Caring About POC Joy
June 01, 2018 19:07 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBMaria and Julio sit down with queer Latinx writer Gabby Rivera, who wrote AMERICA featuring Marvel's first Latina lesbian superhero, America Chavez. They chat about why representation matters, celebrating POC joy and how Maria may just be Gabby's madrina. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
#113: LIVE From Boston, Invisible Latinos
May 29, 2018 21:45 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBMaria and Julio are joined by Marcela García, columnist and editorial board member with The Boston Globe, and Betty Francisco, founder of FitNation Ventures and Latina Circle, LIVE from The Podcast Garage. Looking at access to educational, economic and political power, they discuss how visible or invisible is the Latino community is in the Boston area. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informatio...
ITT EXTRA: Propaganda, Politics and Primaries
May 25, 2018 21:13 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBMaria and Julio check in on the week's news before the long weekend. They chat about President Trump's latest "immigration roundtable" on Long Island this week that conflated MS-13 with immigration, and the ACLU's publishing of government documents that allegedly show that the CBP abused and mistreated unaccompanied immigrant children during the Obama administration. And they catch up on this week's electoral primaries and what the wins and losses could mean for the 2018 midterm ele...
#112: White Supremacy Fantasy
May 22, 2018 21:02 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBMaria and Julio catch their breaths from all the incredible live shows and catch up on some major headlines with all-star Terrell Jermaine Starr, senior reporter at The Root, and María Peña, reporter with La Opinión. Terrell explains how Trump is fulfilling his white supremacy fantasy with his rhetoric and actions taken towards the Russia probe and immigration policy. And María Peña, who just returned from reporting in Jerusalem, gives important context to the Israeli-Palestinian co...
ITT EXTRA: Reckless Power
May 18, 2018 21:47 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBMaria and Julio chat about two headlines from this week—Trump's recent derogatory comments about immigrants and the latest fatal school shooting in Texas. Then they dig into the sexual misconduct allegations against author Junot Díaz, breaking down the complexity of the intersection of race, immigration status and gender in the Me Too movement. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
#111: LIVE From Chicago, Latino Incarceration in the Trump Era
May 15, 2018 20:35 - 34 minutes - 32 MBIn part two of In The Thick's LIVE series at DePaul University, Maria and Julio continue the conversation about Latinos and mass incarceration. Despite making up 19 percent of the U.S. prison population, mass incarceration is often talked about in terms of the black-white binary. How does mass incarceration impact Latino communities, and especially so under the Trump administration? Prison reform activist Luis “Suave” Gonzalez, HuffPost national reporter Roque Planas and civil righ...
ITT EXTRA: Heart-Sinking Sounds
May 11, 2018 22:30 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBMaria and Julio find pieces of hope and joy amidst heart-sinking sounds of the latest news, from DACA to undocumented journalists being detained by ICE. Julio raps a little Public Enemy while they breakdown the latest headlines of white people calling 911 on people of color. And they chat about Childish Gambino’s powerful music video of his new song “This Is America.” For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-ou...