Episode 9 - Meghan Linsey on Taking a Knee for Justice, Anti-Racist Solidarity and Progressive Country Music

This September, singer/songwriter Meghan Linsey, the 2015 runner-up on "The Voice" took a knee as she sang the final note of the national anthem before the Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks game in Nashville. Meghan and her boyfriend and guitar player, Tyler Cain, joined players across the NFL that day in this form of protest, in response to Donald Trump criticizing football players for speaking out against police brutality and racial injustice. On this episode, I'll speak with Meghan about the responsibility of artists to speak out in these dangerous times, the importance of white allyship to people of color, and how her experiences growing up around racism heightened her awareness to the need to resist.