It’s Freedom Summer 2024! We’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer 1964, and kicking off our annual Critical Race Theory Summer School in the locus for the recent attacks on racial justice and democracy: Nashville, Tennessee. 
Host, Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by CRT Summer School contributors, Tennessee Representative Justin Jones; Superintendent for CRT summer school and celebrated educator, radio host, and film producer—Kaye Wise Whitehead; and Tim Wise, a groundbreaking anti-racist thinker, author and educator who is also a senior fellow with the AAPF. They discuss Project 2025, the attacks on our democracy, and why Tennessee is the tip of the spear in the fight to keep democracy alive.

Join us in person and online for CRT Summer School 2024: Register now for CRT Summer School 

Hosted by: Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)

Featured Guests:
Rep. Justin Jones (@brotherjones_) 
Kaye Wise Whitehead (@kayewhitehead)
Tim Wise (@timjacobwise)

Senior Producer Nicole Edwards
Associate Producer Madison Belo
Mixing by Sean Dunnam 
Episode art by Ashley Julien
Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Intersectionality Matters!

African American Policy Forum

60. Tennessee: Tip of the Spear in the Fight for Democracy

JUL 10, 202449 MIN
Intersectionality Matters!

60. Tennessee: Tip of the Spear in the Fight for Democracy

JUL 10, 202449 MIN

Description

It’s Freedom Summer 2024! We’re celebrating the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer 1964, and kicking off our annual Critical Race Theory Summer School in the locus for the recent attacks on racial justice and democracy: Nashville, Tennessee.

Host, Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by CRT Summer School contributors, Tennessee Representative Justin Jones; Superintendent for CRT summer school and celebrated educator, radio host, and film producer—Kaye Wise Whitehead; and Tim Wise, a groundbreaking anti-racist thinker, author and educator who is also a senior fellow with the AAPF. They discuss Project 2025, the attacks on our democracy, and why Tennessee is the tip of the spear in the fight to keep democracy alive.


Join us in person and online for CRT Summer School 2024: Register now for CRT Summer School 


Hosted by: Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)


Featured Guests:

Rep. Justin Jones (@brotherjones_

Kaye Wise Whitehead (@kayewhitehead)

Tim Wise (@timjacobwise)


Senior Producer Nicole Edwards

Associate Producer Madison Belo

Mixing by Sean Dunnam 

Episode art by Ashley Julien

Music by Blue Dot Sessions


Follow us on X (twitter) and Instagram , or via aapf.org