What does the right to free press protect? What’s the difference between illegal and unethical attacking of the press? Suzanne Nossel, Chief Executive Officer of the leading human rights and free expression organization, PEN America joins us to discuss the threats to free press and the importance of defending speech rights. www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

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First Amendment Protections and Press Attacks

Why is this president different from past presidents, and how is democracy under threat due to this presidency? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative journalist, David Cay Johnston, joins us to discuss the issues of the Trump presidency.  www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

David Cay Johnston on Donald Trump: Unfit for Leadership

Join us every week leading up to November 3rd for a deep dive into all of the seriously political moments from the past four years. Scholars and organizations from across the country share what they've been tracking about the current administration and what you need know about the upcoming election. www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Seriously Trump Series Trailer

What role does race play in capital punishment in the United States? Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Robert Dunham, joins us to sort through the facts of the death penalty in the U.S. Robert has served as a leading capital appellate lawyer in Pennsylvania, and shared how race, innocence, and geography are all culprits in a flawed criminal punishment system.  www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Capital Punishment: Flawed and Discriminatory

How is Wall Street involved in police brutality settlements? Maurice B.P. Weeks, Co-Executive Director of the Action Center on Race and Economy, joins us to explain how taxpayers foot the bill for police misconduct and how big banks accumulate millions of dollars in interest for issuing police brutality bonds. www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Who Profits from Police Violence?

Why do we have monuments celebrating the people who rebelled against their own country? It’s been estimated that over half of the confederate statues erected in courthouse squares were erected between 1902 and 1912, well after the Civil  War. Dr. Eric Foner, a notable professor, and historian joins us this week as we explain how, why, and when confederate statues and symbols have come to populate the American landscape.  www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Monuments to White Supremacy, Not Southern Pride

Merrick Rosenberg has discovered a pattern that demonstrates the power of personality in presidential campaigns. This pattern is so consistent, it has held strong for 22 consecutive elections going all the way back to 1932. Using this original model, Merrick can predict how the Democratic candidate will perform against Donald Trump in November. Merrick and Quay talk through our most recent Presidential elections to uncover what we can expect in the fall.  His book, Personality Wins: Who Will Take the White House and How We Know will be available everywhere on July 7th.  www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Personality Wins with Merrick Rosenberg

How are black Americans targeted in drug sentencing? How has American policing and sentencing excluded Black people from the cannabis industry? Chris Miller, Global Activism Manager at Ben and Jerry’s joins us this week to explain why new cannabis legislation is essential not only to answer those questions but for creating a more just and equitable cannabis world in the future. www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

More Arrests, Fewer Owners. POCs & Cannabis

In this Seriously America MiniCast, we join our fellow #PodcastersForJustice. These abbreviated episodes provide you with information to create immediate, actionable change in our society. Host Quay Garrett Emmons walks you through casting a timely, informed, and necessary vote. Join us in supporting the movement by donating to Black Lives Matter.www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

#PodcastersForJustice How to Vote

In this Seriously America MiniCast, we join our fellow #PodcastersForJustice. These abbreviated episodes provide you with information to create immediate, actionable change. In this episode, host Taylor Carnes offers tangible action items to locate, examine, and contest important city budgets.Join us in supporting the movement by donating to Black Lives Matter.www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

#PodcastersForJustice How to Review a Budget

We speak with Dr. Briana DeCuir, one of the co-founders of Shared Harvest Fund and myCOVIDMD.myCovidMD safely connects residents to resources in real-time, by real people. They help under-resourced communities get free testing and access to telehealth services during the Coronavirus Public Health crisis.www.seriouslyamericashow.comFollow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

A Conversation with Dr. DeCuir, co-founder of myCOVIDMD

What are Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and how do they mislead expecting people? How are black and brown communities especially at risk of being targeted by these centers? This week, Candace O’Brien from YellowHammer Fund in Alabama joins us to talk about how CPCs target vulnerable populations with false advertising of reproductive care.  www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Fake Clinics, Crisis Pregnancy Centers & Coercion

Why are black mothers more likely to experience maternal mortality in the United States? Dr. Declerq, Professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health has investigated the challenges associated with defining the American mortality rate as well as America’s outlier status as a poor provider of maternal protection. He joins us this week in part two of our reproductive justice series to talk about how healthcare missteps and systemic failures leave American mothers with grim birth outcomes, and how we could attempt to reverse the trend.  www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

The Worst Rates of Maternal Deaths in the Developed World

How has the government-sanctioned forced reproductive sterilization? Since the 1930s, over thirty state eugenics boards approved the coerced sterilization of over sixty thousand Americans. This week, author of “Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare”  and Rutgers associate department chair and professor, Johanna Schoen, joined us to explain how state governments forcibly took reproductive rights from our most vulnerable citizens. www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

From Coerced Sterilization to Forced Birth

Why does environmentally triggered illness disproportionately affect black and brown people? This week we look into a plastics company’s plan to introduce nearly 800 tons of air pollution a year near a historically black community. A team of lawyers at Earthjustice join us from the front lines of the Formosa Plastics fight. www.seriouslyamericashow.comAbout this episode, and transcript. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Environmental Bias, Right in our Backyards

A show about the people, politics, and profits that form a system of oppression in America. Remember that time the government legally blocked black homeownership? Guess which country has the worst maternal death rates in the developed world? The federal minimum wage hasn't been raised in 10 years. Seriously? Join Taylor & Quay as they consult experts who offer simple explanations to complex topics.

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