Life On The Margins
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -For some people, power is the ability to speak as truly as possible. Not everyone has that power or the ability to act on it. Too often that opportunity has been denied to historically marginalized groups. Much of our media systemically pushes them and their stories to the edges of society. But we're proof that if you speak loudly enough, your voice can still triumph, even from the margins. Every single podcast will strive to spotlight, elevate and amplify stories not just about our marginalized communities, but from within, and alongside them.
Join us as we loudly trumpet Life On the Margins.
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Hosted By : Enrique Cerna // Jini Palmer // Marcus Harrison Green
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Presented in Partnership w/ Town Hall Seattle & The South Seattle Emerald
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Episodes
Ijeoma Oluo on "The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America"
December 16, 2020 17:38 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MB0:00 - Episode Introduction 1:10 - Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo 31:20 - Conclusion ____________________________________________________________ Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller. She’s the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. Named one of the The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 ...
Election 2020, The Day After
November 05, 2020 19:08 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB0:00 - Episode Introduction 7:49 - Conversation with Estela Ortega & Michele Storms 31:20 - Conclusion ____________________________________________________________ Florangela Davila has been a journalist since 1992. For 14 years she worked at The Seattle Times where she covered both news and features. She's been freelancing for KNKX since 2008, reporting and producing as well as helping coordinate the station's "Looking Back to Look Forward" documentary project. She's also a lecturer in ...
Taking Aim at Seattle's Gun Violence
October 09, 2020 22:08 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB0:00 - Episode Introduction 1:59 - Marcus Harrison Green's Personal Experience 5:43 - Conversation with Dominique Davis 35:11 - Conclusion ____________________________________________________________ Dominique Davis is Founder and CEO of Community Passageways, where he works to improve racial parity in schools, prisons and communities. He sits on the King County Juvenile Justice Equity Steering Committee where he works with King County Superior Court judges to address racial inequity i...
The Shooting of Jacob Blake: A Pro Sports Backlash
September 11, 2020 23:58 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB0:00 - Episode Introduction 1:30 - Discussing the Current Context 8:03 - Conversation with Kurt Streeter ____________________________________________________________ Kurt Streeter covers sports at The Times. He primarily writes features and essays, and has a particular interest in stories related to race, gender and social justice. Prior to coming to The Times in 2017, he was a senior writer for ESPN. He also covered the inner city for the Baltimore Sun and spent 15 years at the Los Ang...
Addiction & Change
August 18, 2020 18:52 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB0:00 - Episode Introduction 0:50 - Conversation with Erica C. Barnett ____________________________________________________________ Erica C. Barnett is a feminist, an urbanist, and an obsessive observer of politics, transportation, and the quotidian inner workings of City Hall. She has been a writer and editor since the time of electric typewriters, at publications such as PubliCola, the Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Shakesville, the Austin Chronicle, and many more. Right now, she is walking ...
Defund the Police Pt. III
August 14, 2020 22:36 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBListen to Ijeoma Oluo talk about the need to Defund the Seattle Police Department : HERE 0:58 - Episode Introduction 1:45 - Interview with Lorena Gonzalez 29:00 - Series Credits ____________________________________________________________ Lorena Gonzalez Born and raised in Washington's lower Yakima Valley to a Spanish-speaking migrant farmworker family, Councilmember González earned her first paycheck at the age of 8, alongside her parents and five siblings. She relied on scholarships...
Defund the Police Pt. II
August 07, 2020 21:14 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBListen to Ijeoma Oluo talk about the need to Defund the Seattle Police Department : HERE 0:05 - Episode Introduction 1:02 - Interview with TraeAnna Holiday 28:05 - Looking Forward To Part Three ____________________________________________________________ TraeAnna Holiday is a true Seattleite who has watched her city change in many ways. Through studying abroad and being displaced by gentrification, she's now fueled to tell her neighborhood's story through film and education. TraeAnna ...
Defund the Police Pt. I
July 31, 2020 19:59 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBListen to Ijeoma Oluo talk about the need to Defund the Seattle Police Department : HERE 0:00 - Episode Introduction 1:08 - Hosts Check In 14:12 - Interview with Carmen Best 46:47 - Analysis with Erica C. Barnett ____________________________________________________________ Erica C. Barnett is a feminist, an urbanist, and an obsessive observer of politics, transportation, and the quotidian inner workings of City Hall. She has been a writer and editor since the time of electric typewri...
Patty Murray on America's Pandemics: Covid-19 and Racism
July 30, 2020 14:14 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB0:00 - Episode Introduction 0:50 - Hosts Checking In 1:45 - Conversation with Marcus Harrison Green & Patty Murray 12:28 - Host Recap 15:51 - Tribute to John Lewis ____________________________________________________________ Patricia Lynn Murray is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Washington, since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Murray previously served in the Washington State Senate and is Washington's first female U.S. Senator. ___...
We the People
July 22, 2020 00:18 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBFind the "LIVE" video version of this episode : HERE 0:00 - Town Hall Episode Introduction 1:30 - Host Introduction 7:32 - Spoken Word from Jessica Rycheal 10:30 - Conversation with Dr. Julian Perez 37:00 - Spoken Word from Naa Akua 40:20 - Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo ____________________________________________________________ Jessica Rycheal is a Multi-disciplinary Storyteller and Creative Director from Macon, Georgia. Since relocating to Seattle in 2014, Jessica has carved spac...
Pandemic, Racial Justice and the Arts
July 01, 2020 17:56 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB0:00 - Episode Introduction 0:50 - Hosts Checking In 6:07 - Conversation with Reagan Jackson 26:56 - Conversation with Claudia Castro Luna 39:23 - Conversation with Stephanie Anne Johnson 53:19 - Host Recap ____________________________________________________________ Reagan Jackson is a writer, artist, activist, international educator and award winning journalist. She's been a regular contributor to the Seattle Globalist since 2013. Her self published works include two children's bo...
The Movement for Change
June 17, 2020 23:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MB0:06 - Episode Introduction 1:28 - Hosts Checking In 2:09 - Jini Palmer at CHOP 9:08 - Perspective of BLM King County Silent March 17:47 - Conversation with Elmer Dixon 41:16 - Meet Aileen Granstrom 44:56 - Host Recap 46:10 - Marcus Harrison Green's Crosscut Excerpt ____________________________________________________________ Elmer Dixon was born in Chicago and moved to Seattle at age 7 when his father took a job at Boeing. Dixon grew up in Seattle’s Central District, attending Ga...
It Can Happen Here, Too
June 07, 2020 23:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBFor more coverage of the Manuel Ellis story follow : South Seattle Emerald // https://southseattleemerald.com/ Life on the Margins Podcast // https://lifeonthemarginspodcast.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Marcus Harrison Green is the publisher and co-founder of the South Seattle Emerald, current columnist for Crosscut, a former reporter with the Seattle Times, a former Reporting Fellow with YES! Magazine, a past board member of the Western Washington C...
Rage, Riot, Racism : The Killing of George Floyd
June 05, 2020 20:59 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB0:16 - Episode Introduction 1:02 - Hosts Checking In 13:07 - Conversation with Dr. Ben Danielson 27:49 - The Story of Manuel Ellis 38:51 - Matt Chan's Commentary 40:52 - Host Recap ____________________________________________________________ Dr. Ben Danielson was born in Boston, was placed in and then, in his words, rescued from foster care and raised by his single mom in Washington, D.C., and rural Montana. He went on to attend Harvard University and then UW to study medicine. He ...
Coronavirus Racism
June 02, 2020 20:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MB0:01 - Announcing Special Weekend Edition 0:24 - Episode Introduction 1:15 - Processing Together 7:12 - Conversation with Kert Lin 27:54 - Community Opinion by Matt Chan 30:36 - Episode Recap ____________________________________________________________ Kert Lin is an Seattle Public School elementary teacher and a new father. Matt Chan knows that storytelling begins with the audience – an idea that has driven his 45 years of award winning success in the television industry. Chan ...
Slammed: Communities of Color and the Covid-19 Pandemic
May 19, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB1:09 - Episode Introduction 1:48 - Conversation with Matias Valenzuela 12:00 - Conversation with Jessica Esparza 25:55 - Episode Recap ____________________________________________________________ Matias Valenzuela is the Director of the Office of Equity and Social Justice for King County and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health & Community Medicine at the University of Washingon. Jessica Esparza works in the Intensive Care Unit at Central Washington Hosp...
The Better Angels of the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 05, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB0:33 - Episode Introduction 1:29 - "For Real Though?" 10:30 - Highlighting Garfield High School students Dylan & Eva Stepherson 12:09 - Conversation with Luis Rodriguez 23:45 - Tagging along with Maria Lamarca Anderson's meal delivery 29:08 - Episode Recap ____________________________________________________________ Luis Rodriguez owns The Station, a community coffee shop and activist hub which is located on Beacon Hill . Maria Lamarca Anderson by day works as the Director of Commu...
Racial politics and the Coronavirus Pandemic.
April 21, 2020 21:02 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB0:37 - Introducing the Life On The Margins Podcast 3:43 - Jini Palmer's personal experience with Coronavirus 8:05 - Interview with former Washington Governor Gary Locke 21:05 - Interview with Ijeoma Oluo 36:56 - Episode Recap ____________________________________________________________ Gary Locke graduated from Seattle's Franklin High School. He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout and is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He attended Yale ...