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The Protest Coverage Podcast
by NYC Protest Coverage
This is what a revolution sounds like. Each week, you'll hear from one or more members of the NYC Protest Coverage team as they give you an inside look at the Black Lives Matter protests that have become a worldwide movement.Follow us on Instagram at @nycprotestcoverage for striking photography, videography, livestreams and news.
Episodes
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Power Malu's Many Lives Lead Back to Community
In this episode of The Protest Coverage Podcast community organizer Power Malu takes us through his journey from boxing prospect and music video fixture to traveling the world and being a voice for the people looking to lead a healthy lifestyle.
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Fighting for Life: Prakash Churaman Part II
In Part II of our discussion with 21-year-old Prakash Churaman, we learn what his future goals are beyond his case and how he envisions a world where coercion of false confessions is eliminated by legal mandate.
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Fighting For Life: The Prakash Churaman Story
Prakash Churaman is fighting for his life. The 21-year-old was arrested when he was 15 on a murder charge and forced to wait behind bars for four years before his trial was completed in 2018. After being convicted, Churaman won his appeal and had the conviction overturned in June 2020, prompting...
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After The Hashtag: Toshira Garraway
In a new segment of The Protest Coverage Podcast co-host Amanda Fariah explores what happens after the news cycle has moved on from tragedy, after the story is no longer trending, after the hashtag disappears from our social media timelines. In our first installment of AFTER THE HASHTAG Amanda is...
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Power Malu: The Overthrow Community Fridge
Power Malu is a well-known organizer in New York City who has a wealth of experiences that led him to starting The Overthrow Community Fridge. In future episodes we will dive into Power touring the world, pioneering hip-hop television shows and how it all started with learning lessons from his...
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Trial of the Century: The World is Watching
On the first day of the Derek Chauvin trial proceedings, the people of Minnesota (with a little New York City sprinkled in) shared their thoughts with our Amanda Fariah and predicted whether or not justice will be served for George Floyd.
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Cries For Help: An Insider Account of the Genocide in Tigray
Organizer and Tigrayan native Wegahta Tessema helps unpack the situation in Ethiopia's northernmost region where hundreds are killed everyday and millions face starvation.
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Paying It Forward: Onika Williams, Organizer of DCBlackTransSupport Pt. 1
In this week's episode, we talked with an organizer in the Black Trans community in Washington D.C. Onika Williams has endured hardships most of us could never even imagine; from living in the foster care system and contracting HIV after being forced into sex work, to being stabbed by a member of...
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Mashup: A Look Back At Our First 20 Episodes
After recording 20 episodes, The Protest Coverage Podcast tkes a look back this week with clips from some of our most memorable moments. Listen back to clips from episodes featuring Dwreck Ingram, Chivona and Hawk Newsome, Vidal Guzman, Amanda Fariah and Lucy Baptiste from our trip to D.C.and...
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Victor and Nick: Coincidence or Retaliation
Northern New Jersey organizers Victor and Nick recount an incident with municipal police that appeared to end without issue, only to resurface a few days later. Victor explains how he deals with being profiled and Nick recounts how an interview with a reputable newspaper resulted in facing jail...
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No Farmers No Food: Jap Singh Stands With Indian Farmers
Jap Singh, an Indian American activist from the Sikh community in NYC, discusses what Sikh community is and the impact of the agriculture bills passed by the Indian parliament in September 2020. Jap also shares how his activism with BLM laid the foundation to organize Kissan protests here in NYC,...
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Hennessy Garcia: Unlearning Together
In this episode we sit down with Hennessy Garcia to discuss her journey to become an activist and organizer, the obstacles that she has navigated and how that pursuit of has shaped the person that she is today.
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Protests in Washington DC
On Dec.12 we made a trip to Washington D.C. in order to cover the MAGA Caravan Part 2 and subsequent counter-protest by Anti-Fascist and Black Lives Matter supporters. During our trip we witnessed a very different tone than the protests we have generally covered in NYC. In this episode we reflect...
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Making Them The Minority, ft. Gia Lisa
For this episode we thought it would be interesting to throw back to an interview we did back in June to hear what this whole movement started as. Gia Lisa has been a consistent voice within the BLM movement, and in these early days you can hear a a mixture of drive and uncertainty as Gia talks...
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Founder of Black Disabled Lives Matter, Jermaine Greaves
Jermaine Greaves, the founder of Black Disabled Lives Matter, shares his experience with attending protests as someone in a wheelchair. He also discusses how important it is for him to continue to fight to have a voice in the Black Lives Matter movement as it grows.
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No Act Is Small, ft. Jes Davis
Jes Davis is an actor and radical activist whose message is informed by every aspect of her life. She calls for a fundamental restructuring of society through highlighting her own personal experiences with racism in entertainment, education, and medical care.
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A World Without Prisons, ft. Vidal Guzmán
Activist and former Rikers island inmate Vidal Guzmán sheds light on why abolishing prisons will require as much philosophical change as it will legislative, and how difficult being reintroduced to society can be with systems punitive rather than rehabilitative. Follow us on Instagram...
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Thursday Church Service: Inside The Stonewall Protests, pt. 2
Last week, we introduced you to the Stonewall Protests, the weekly demonstrations that mark where the Black Lives Matter community in NYC plants its flag in the fight for Black queer and Black trans liberation. This week, Tom takes you on a deeper dive as organizer Qween Jean addresses outdoor...
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Thursday Church Service: Inside The Stonewall Protests, pt. 1
"This world that we're in today only exists on Thursdays. It only exists here." For many LGBTQ+ protesters in the Black Lives Matter movement, Thursdays have become church. Every week at 5 p.m., led by organizers Joel Rivera and Qween Jean, The Stonewall Protests meet at the Stonewall Inn in...
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How do protestors feel in anticipation of a Biden presidency?
Now that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are projected to be the President and Vice President-elects, where does that put the Black Lives Matter movement? Tom Ella heads down to Washington Square Park where thousands of New Yorkers gathered to celebrate the Democratic victory to gauge exactly how...
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Documentarian Ron Weaver on going deep undercover at Trump rallies
Documentarian Ron Weaver (@rw2productions) has been following Donald Trump across the country lately, occasionally posing as one of his supporters, in order to gain a better understanding of Trump's relationship with his audience. In this interview, Ron unpacks how his conversations with the...
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Rodrick Covington on protesting with love over hate
When Rodrick Covington isn't performing on Broadway, he can be found leading protests with the Unite NY organization. In this emotional interview with Editor-in-Chief Kevin Xavier, he discusses several breaking points that led to him taking an active role within the Black Lives Matter movement as...
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Musician Caanan Towns on how recent civil rights protests has influenced his songwriting
On today's episode we chat with musician Caanan Towns who recently wrote the song "So Many", where he describes his own perspective of societal racism and his frustration with how progress stemmed from the recent protests seems to have slowed in some ways.
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Chivona and Hawk Newsome on adapting to dwindling protest crowds
This is it. The third and final part of our sweeping interview with Chivona and Hawk Newsome, the sibling cofounders of Black Lives Matter Greater New York. Kevin Xavier and Tom Ella talk with the Newsomes about what the Black Lives Matter movement looks like in other countries, how they think…
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Chivona and Hawk Newsome on the blueprint of the fight for liberation
This is part two of three of our wide-ranging interview with Chivona and Hawk Newsome, the sister-brother duo that cofounded Black Lives Matter Greater New York.
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Emergency Episode: Allison and her father on surviving an SUV attack
In this emergency episode of the Protest Coverage Podcast, Managing Editor Tom Ella and Editor-in-Chief Kevin Xavier sit down with Allison, a 19-year-old girl who was struck by a speeding SUV during a recent "Justice Ride" cycling protest and hospitalized, and her father Stanley. Allison and her...
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Chivona and Hawk Newsome on breaking the police's "blue wall"
"I ain't voting until Black lives matter." That was ethos behind Chivona and Hawk Newsome, the sister-brother duo that cofounded Black Lives Matter Greater New York around their mother's kitchen table in December 2016, and their fight for Black liberation. Kevin Xavier and Tom Ella spoke with the...
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Dwreck Ingram on livestreaming an NYPD raid
If you’ve heard Dwreck Ingram’s name in the news lately, it’s likely because he livestreamed a five-hour NYPD raid of his apartment last month. Approximately 50 officers shut down his entire block, deploying dogs, a helicopter and even a drone, but apparently had no arrest warrant. Kevin Xavier…
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Intro to the Protest Coverage Podcast
Welcome to the Protest Coverage Podcast! In this quick introduction episode, Editor-in-Chief Kevin Xavier and Managing Editor Tom Ella chat about the Black Lives Matter movement, how each became involved in the protests, and the goal of NYC Protest Coverage. Subscribe today to hear our first...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is what a revolution sounds like. Each week, you'll hear from one or more members of the NYC Protest Coverage team as they give you an inside look at the Black Lives Matter protests that have become a worldwide movement.Follow us on Instagram at @nycprotestcoverage for striking photography, videography, livestreams and news.
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This is what a revolution sounds like. Each week, you'll hear from one or more members of the NYC Protest Coverage team as they give you an inside look at the Black Lives Matter protests that have become a worldwide movement.Follow us on Instagram at @nycprotestcoverage for striking photography,...
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