Voting Rights, Black Twitter, The Cure for Hate

Civil Rights Filmmaker Takes on Voter Suppression in “After Selma” (0:29) Guest: Loki Mulholland, Emmy-winning Documentary Filmmaker of “After Selma,” Executive Director of The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation Voting is a right of citizenship in the United States – one it’s easy for many of us to take for granted. But it took a series of constitutional amendments to extend voting rights to all Americans. First was the 15th Amendment passed after the Civil War, giving black men the vote. It wasn’t until 1920 that women got the vote – we’re coming up on the 100th anniversary of that. But racial discrimination in the South kept many black men and women from voting until the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. And so today, it looks like it’s working. But a new documentary about voter suppression in America today called “After Selma” shows that it’s not. Scientists Lured Fish Back to Dying Coral Reefs with Loudspeakers (21:58) Guest: Tim Gordon, Marine Biologist, PhD Student, University of Exeter The world’s coral reefs are in dire straits. Extreme heat killed off half the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2017. Those damaged areas of coral became like a ghost town. But if fish could be drawn back to the reef, their very presence could trigger other parts of the coral ecosystem to come back, too. Marine biologist Tim Gordon has struck on an ingenious strategy to lure fish to patches of dead coral – sound.  The Power of Black Twitter (33:29) Guest: Meredith Clark, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia There’s a subset of Twitter that’s come to be known in recent years as “Black Twitter.” University of Virginia media studies professor Meredith Clark is writing a book about what it is and why it matters. A White Supremacist’s Journey Out of Hate (50:36) Guest: Tony McAleer, Author, “The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion” Major cities in the US have seen a surge in hate crimes targeting Jews in recent months, including a s