Coming up on today’s show:
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.
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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