** the audio isn't the best in this episode. Please bear with us, we're learning and getting better equipment!**
-Brief history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, Civil Rights Movement.
-How our current police force was formed and it's racist history.
-What does defunding the police mean?
-How have these protests helped so far?
-What can white people do right now to actually help?
-How do we keep the momentum after the protests stop?
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-abolish.html
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190326-what-is-epigenetics
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-13th-amendment-didn-abolish-slavery-article-1.2801218
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
https://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/g22779116/women-of-color-owned-skincare-brands/?slide=5
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black-people-die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0
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