SNV Special Interview: Kansas City Defender
An episode of the Socialist News and Views podcast, hosted by Nicholas Shillingford, titled "SNV Special Interview: Kansas City Defender" was published on October 24, 2024 and runs 35 minutes.
October 24, 2024 ·35m · Socialist News and Views
Summary
Special Interview Recorded (10/22/2024) and Uploaded (10/24/2024) (NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios Here----->(https://youtu.be/CSHaTnd0DXo?si=CIQF6DvUEjyl9KgP) In this special we speak with Ryan Sorrell, Founder and Executive Editor of The Kansas City Defender (https://kansascitydefender.com/), a radical, Black, and abolitionist non-profit digital news and community media organization out of Kansas City Missouri. I first met Sorrell at Socialism 2024 (https://socialismconference.org/) in Chicago in August/September of this year. Links to items related to the discussion in this special: When KC Cops Murder Black People, Local Media Are Co-Conspirators: https://kansascitydefender.com/kansas-city/when-kc-cops-murder-black-people-local-media-are-co-conspirators/ Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-launch-operation-relentless-pursuit Why Are Mayors Inviting Trump’s Federal Agents Into Their Cities?: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/operation-relentless-pursuit/ “Camouflaged Goon Squads”: Outrage, Legal Challenges in Portland as Federal Agents Snatch Protesters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J30j2h45r3U Why police violence is a media problem: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2020/06/09/why-police-violence-is-a-media-problem/ Kansas City Bishop Says Black Women Being Killed & Missing from Prospect Avenue: https://youtu.be/Mf-RZCBxWY0?si=IscqqjDOQU-7mTjk Letter From The Editor: We Will Not Be Silenced – Black Kansas Citians, We Got Yall’s Back: https://kansascitydefender.com/opinion/letter-from-the-editor-white-media-hypocrisy/ Kansas City Police Dismissed a Black News Site’s Reports of Missing Women. Then One Showed Up.: https://capitalbnews.org/kansas-city-kidnapped-woman-escape/ KCPD Said Missing Black Women Reports In KC Were “Completely Unfounded.” Less Than A Month Later, One Escaped After Being Kidnapped From Prospect & Tortured in a Basement For Over A Month: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/black-woman-kidnapped-prospect-excelsior-springs-serial-killer/ A ‘media organizer’ built an abolitionist newsroom in Kansas City. Is he a journalist? He’s not yet sure.: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/kansas-city-defender-radical-black-press-ryan-sorrell/ The ‘Mother’ of Notting Hill Carnival: Claudia Jones: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/public-engagement/blackhistory/snapshots/claudiajones/ Claudia Jones (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Jones Claudia Jones’ Letter from Ellis Island (1950): https://oldestvocation.com/claudia-jones-letter-ellis-island/ How early U.S. newspapers brokered slavery: https://journalistsresource.org/race-and-gender/newspapers-brokered-slavery/ March 16, 1827: Freedom’s Journal Established: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/freedoms-journal-established/ Ida B. Wells (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells Exposing the “Thread-Bare Lie”: How Ida B. Wells Used Investigative Journalism to Uncover the Truth About Lynching: https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-stories/ida-b-wells/exposing-the-thread-bare-lie-how-ida-b-wells-used-investigative-journalism-to-uncover-the-truth-about-lynching KC Tenants: https://kctenants.org/ KC Tenants Makes Monumental Statement with First-Ever Rent Strike: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/local-organization-makes-monumental-statement-with-first-ever-rent-strike/ KC Tenants Union continues the longest rental strike in city history: https://youtu.be/SLvaqm1I7b4?si=UJLXf3yLYCNevtpy KC’s Latest Attempt to Build An $800 Million Human Caging Facility Must Be Stopped: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/kc-council-approves-800-million-jail-amid-school-crisis/
Episode Description
Special Interview Recorded (10/22/2024) and Uploaded (10/24/2024)
(NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios Here----->(https://youtu.be/CSHaTnd0DXo?si=CIQF6DvUEjyl9KgP)
In this special we speak with Ryan Sorrell, Founder and Executive Editor of The Kansas City Defender (https://kansascitydefender.com/), a radical, Black, and abolitionist non-profit digital news and community media organization out of Kansas City Missouri. I first met Sorrell at Socialism 2024 (https://socialismconference.org/) in Chicago in August/September of this year.
Links to items related to the discussion in this special:
When KC Cops Murder Black People, Local Media Are Co-Conspirators: https://kansascitydefender.com/kansas-city/when-kc-cops-murder-black-people-local-media-are-co-conspirators/
Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-launch-operation-relentless-pursuit
Why Are Mayors Inviting Trump’s Federal Agents Into Their Cities?: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/operation-relentless-pursuit/
“Camouflaged Goon Squads”: Outrage, Legal Challenges in Portland as Federal Agents Snatch Protesters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J30j2h45r3U
Why police violence is a media problem: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2020/06/09/why-police-violence-is-a-media-problem/
Kansas City Bishop Says Black Women Being Killed & Missing from Prospect Avenue: https://youtu.be/Mf-RZCBxWY0?si=IscqqjDOQU-7mTjk
Letter From The Editor: We Will Not Be Silenced – Black Kansas Citians, We Got Yall’s Back: https://kansascitydefender.com/opinion/letter-from-the-editor-white-media-hypocrisy/
Kansas City Police Dismissed a Black News Site’s Reports of Missing Women. Then One Showed Up.: https://capitalbnews.org/kansas-city-kidnapped-woman-escape/
KCPD Said Missing Black Women Reports In KC Were “Completely Unfounded.” Less Than A Month Later, One Escaped After Being Kidnapped From Prospect & Tortured in a Basement For Over A Month: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/black-woman-kidnapped-prospect-excelsior-springs-serial-killer/
A ‘media organizer’ built an abolitionist newsroom in Kansas City. Is he a journalist? He’s not yet sure.: https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/kansas-city-defender-radical-black-press-ryan-sorrell/
The ‘Mother’ of Notting Hill Carnival: Claudia Jones: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/public-engagement/blackhistory/snapshots/claudiajones/
Claudia Jones (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Jones
Claudia Jones’ Letter from Ellis Island (1950): https://oldestvocation.com/claudia-jones-letter-ellis-island/
How early U.S. newspapers brokered slavery: https://journalistsresource.org/race-and-gender/newspapers-brokered-slavery/
March 16, 1827: Freedom’s Journal Established: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/freedoms-journal-established/
Ida B. Wells (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
Exposing the “Thread-Bare Lie”: How Ida B. Wells Used Investigative Journalism to Uncover the Truth About Lynching: https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-stories/ida-b-wells/exposing-the-thread-bare-lie-how-ida-b-wells-used-investigative-journalism-to-uncover-the-truth-about-lynching
KC Tenants: https://kctenants.org/
KC Tenants Makes Monumental Statement with First-Ever Rent Strike: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/local-organization-makes-monumental-statement-with-first-ever-rent-strike/
KC Tenants Union continues the longest rental strike in city history: https://youtu.be/SLvaqm1I7b4?si=UJLXf3yLYCNevtpy
KC’s Latest Attempt to Build An $800 Million Human Caging Facility Must Be Stopped: https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/kc-council-approves-800-million-jail-amid-school-crisis/
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