Welcome to ‘This Week in Social Justice’ Livestream - Ep1: Drug Decriminalization
Every Friday at 1 p.m. ET, the News Beat crew will be livestreaming via its Facebook and YouTube pages, among others, a new, extraordinary, enlightening, dynamite show in the vein of its sonic blend of hard-hitting journalism+hip-hop podcast: 'This Week in Social Justice.'
Besides tackling critically important social justice, civil liberties and human rights issues, each episode features special guests and artists, easily digestible rundowns of current events and happenings, historical retrospectives, a 'Question of the Day' for viewers to weigh in on, and of course, some good, old-fashioned Manny Faces antics and humor.
In this inaugural episode, 160 years to the very day of Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 (listen to the episode to find out why this is even remotely relevant), Team News Beat examines criminal justice reform measures on the ballot this election cycle, including some really funky New Jersey news.
Guests include Miriam Krinsky, executive director of nonprofit Fair and Just Prosecution, and Grey Gardner, a staff attorney at the nonprofit Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for drug reforms and an end to the racist, U.S.-led War on Drugs.