“Can only non-white people be terrorists?”
Coming up on today’s show:
- Over the weekend, a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent. Aryn Frazier was at the protests on Saturday, and watched much of the chaos unfold. She’s an undergraduate student at University of Virginia, and a 2017 Rhodes Scholar. She shares her experience today on The Takeaway.
- Unite the Right, the white nationalist group behind Saturday’s rally, publicly chose to organize in opposition to the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. After the violent rally, Lexington, Kentucky Mayor Jim Gray has decided to speed up the process to remove two of his city’s Confederate monuments. He explains his decision today.
A.D. Carson is a professor of hip hop at the University of Virginia, a position he moved into just this summer. When Carson was earning his Ph.D. at Clemson University, he worked actively with Clemson students, faculty, staff, and community members to raise awareness of historic and entrenched racism at the university, something he’s hoping to do as he joins the university of Virginia.
EclipseMob is a crowdsourced effort to conduct the largest-ever low-frequency radio wave propagation experiment during the 2017 solar eclipse. K.C. Kerby-Patel, an assistant professor in the Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and hardware team director for EclipseMob, discusses the group’s project ahead of next week’s total solar eclipse.
- Late last week, President Donald Trump continued to escalate his rhetoric against North Korea, saying the U.S. military was “locked and loaded” and prepared for engagement. The Takeaway explores dynamic between the U.S. and North Korea, and how it might evolve in the coming weeks, with Christine Wormuth, director of the Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council, and a former Undersecretary of Defense.
Andrea Ritchie has been studying police violence against women of color for more than two decades and has compiled an extensive database documenting incidents of police violence against women of color. She’s a police misconduct attorney and author of the new book “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.”
This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
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