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August 06, 2019
Pod Save The People
Clean the Grill. Start Fresh.

In This Episode

DeRay, Clint, Brittany and Sam discuss detention centers for immigrant children, ways Black WWII veterans were denied benefits from the GI Bill, how a school in DC founded by nuns gained profits from selling enslaved people, and a lawsuit to change how governors are elected in Mississippi. Comedian Gastor Almonte joins DeRay to talk about his album, ‘Immigrant Made.”’

Show Notes

  • USA Today: Lawsuit calls Mississippi’s way of choosing governors racist
  • History: How the GI Bill’s Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans
  • Reveal News: N.C. shut down a group home last year. The US just gave it a contract to house migrant children
  • Gastor Almonte
  • Washington Post: An elite D.C. girls’ school thought its founding nuns taught slaves to read. Instead, they sold them off for as much as they could.