Sojourner Truth Radio

Today on Sojourner Truth we kick off our Black History Month Coverage. We discuss challenges facing Black and Brown communities today including: on-going bomb threats against HBCUs; the latest on what is going on in Congress to protect certification of Presidential elections and community based work being done to encourage voters and to protect the vote; those on the right slamming President Biden’s announcement that he will select a Black woman to the US Supreme Court and the Dept of Justice has refused to reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 police killing of 12 year old Tamir Rice . Our first guest is Barbara Arnwine President and Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition. And racist and anti-Semitic vandalism at Queens College part of the City University of New York. Delany Hall is a building used by the SEEK Program and was recently vandalized. SEEK students while mixed race are primarily low income, ethnic and people of color students. SEEK Students and faculty alike are pressing t