Our Body Politic Presents: the Podcast "Into America" on Banned Books and the Trauma of Witnessing George Floyd’s Death, Plus a Special Roundtable on Covid

Our Body Politic continues our month-long series 'Our Body Politic Presents' with 'Into America' - a podcast about being Black in America, told by people who have the most at stake. Host Trymaine Lee speaks with his 9-year-old daughter Nola and author and illustrator Jerry Craft about banned books and Critical Race Theory. Also, from Minneapolis, Cup Foods clerk Christopher Martin, witness to the murder of George Floyd, opens up to Trymaine about moving forward from trauma. On our weekly roundtable 'Sippin the Political Tea', Farai is joined by former Obama White House Health Policy Director Dr. Kavita Patel, and Dr. Bernard Ashby, Florida State Lead for the Committee to Protect Health Care. They examine the latest on COVID and Omicron, the impacts on mental health, and the Biden Harris administration's response.

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Created and hosted by award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, Our Body Politic is unapologetically centered on reporting on not just how women of color experience the major political events of today, but how they're impacting those very issues. Weekly episodes feature in-depth conversations about the economy, health, politics, education, the environment, and the most prescient issues—because all issues are women's issues. Tune in every Friday everywhere you listen to podcasts, and on public radio stations around the country.