Season 2, Ep. 4: The Nature of The Threat Series On Education: Meet Me In The Trap: It’s Going Down!
We discuss a social media flare-up between UTLA and Hood Digest. Our guest is LAUSD Board President Mónica García.
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Season 2, Ep. 3: The Nature of The Threat Series On Education: Anniversary!
Our guest is Dr. Manuel Pastor who knows everything there is to know about California’s politics, race, demographics and social justice movements!
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Season 2, Ep. 2: The Nature of The Threat Series On Education : Money, Money Money, Money!
We continue our conversation on the importance of public education. Our guest is Dr. Pedro Noguera who speaks on the importance of investing in public education, holding elected officials and other leaders accountable and the teachers strike.
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Season 2 – Ep. 1: The Nature of The Threat Pt. 1
Public education is incredibly important for our communities – it’s also incredibly controversial. We kick off our next series to dissect the history of public education and the fight for education justice.
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Episode 6: Vota Vato
Voting season is upon us again and voting is important! But, do you know who & what to vote for? More importantly, do you know why voting is a life and death matter?
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Episode 5: Huggin’ On My Mama From a Jail Cell
We continue our Black Love, Brown Pride Series by discussing the mass incarceration the ways it harms African American & Latino families and communities. Our guest is Ivette Alé, Statewide Co-Coordinator of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), a statewide coalition working to shift money away from prisons towards human services.
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Episode 4: Black Lives Matter, Los Angeles
We continue our Black Love, Brown Pride Series by discussing organizing in the era of high-profile police killings of unarmed African Americans and other people of color. Our guest is Dr. Melina Abdullah, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at Cal State Los Angeles and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Los…
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Episode 3: Black Love, Brown Pride Chapter 1
We kick off this series discussing Black/Brown relations including tensions and love. We open up with our experiences with racial tensions and life-changing experiences. Please send us your own by email thehooddigest@gmail.com and we may read your story as part of our series! Meet Rob & Emilee McGowan who provide personal and professional services in the…
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Episode 2: Why You Always Hatin’?
On this Episode 2: we talk about Teach For America in Los Angeles, we discuss giving back to the community with Let’s Give, and the need to address tensions between Mexicans, Central Americans & our haters!
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Episode 1: Chronic 2018
Meet co-hosts Elmer and La Mikia, Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson talks marijuana, and La Mikia wins a car.