Episode 28: America Disrupted - Vince Warren and Angela Glover Blackwell Reimagine Civil Rights
What is necessary to reimagine civil rights in America? Center for Constitutional Rights’ Executive Director Vince Warren and PolicyLinks’ Founder in Residence Angela Glover Blackwell are in conversation about what equity looks like in this moment in a special joint, cross-promoted edition of “The Activist Files” and “Radical Imagination,” the organization’s respective podcasts. Using the pandemic within a pandemic framework, Vince and Angela discuss COVID-19 and the need for police reform. They offer deep reasoning for a call for radical ideas and solutions because to reimagine civil rights requires a fundamental disruption of our nation’s foundation, from the Black/white paradigm and anti-Blackness to the colonial-based power grab of social control and the extermination killing of our country's establishment. Their analysis leads to a push for solidarity that is not afraid of the issues, solidarity that allows space to talk about and eliminate the problems, solidarity that is transformative. Resources: PolicyLinkRadical Imagination, Episode 2: Police Abolition. Host Angela Glover Blackwell in conversation with Jessica Disu aka FM Supreme and Rachel HerzingThe 1619 ProjectCharlene Carruthers, PBS, The Future of American PolicingSearching for the Uncommon Ground