*NOTE* This episode was recorded before the historical events on July 21, 2024!

You may remember Ben Cole from his appearances on this podcast in 2020. He lived in Germany then and lives in the Washington, DC area (affectionately known as the DMV to include those areas of Maryland and nearby).

He's here today to give us his perspective on life in his part of the US, life in academia as he works on his PhD, what drives him to the polls, and why black people should vote in 2024.

Go to https://www.votefromabroad.org to get your overseas ballot and register to vote.

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Meet Khary in South Africa and hear his perspective on how and why black men vote in US elections, moving people to the polls and more.

See what the Biden Administration is doing in your State: https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/state-fact-sheets/

Register to vote and/or request your absentee ballot from: https://www.votefromabroad.org

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Angela and Adrianne are back with new and familiar guests, compelling reasons to vote even though you live outside of the US, and insight into what Black voters are experiencing and thinking on the ground in America, and around the world.

Tune in, share, and get yourself together to vote. Start at Vote From Abroad. If you are Stateside go to I Will Vote.

Vote From Abroad votefromabroad.org
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Angela and Ben talk about the verdict in the Chauvin Trial.

Read the Statement by Angela Fobbs, Global Black Caucus Chair, and Julia Bryan, Democrats Abroad Global Chair: https://www.democratsabroad.org/justice_has_been_delivered

Take action now - contact your senators today and demand they support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act:https://www.democratsabroad.org/support_the_george_floyd_justice_in_policing_act

Request your absentee ballot for the NJ and VA elections: https://www.votefromabroad.org/

Ben and Angela talk about the recent police killings and brutality on African Americans. Don't worry, it's not graphic.

Here a few link on the subject:

Chicago Police Torture: Explained
https://theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/chicago-police-torture-explained/

Speaking of trauma: the race talk, the gun violence talk, and the racialization of gun trauma
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0320-z

Crime, Corruption and Cover-upsin the Chicago Police Department
https://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/273/2018/10/ac_policecorruptionb6e6.pdf

Mapping Police Violence
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

Behind the Police Podcast
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-behind-the-police-63877803/

Headlong: Running from COPS Podcast
https://www.stitcher.com/show/running-from-cops-headlong-season-3

Angela and Ben talk about Georgia voter suppression and more.

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This is the first of our Hidden Figures Series. In this series we will talk to African American women who may nothave been the first in there field but started careers in a time where women's opportunities where just starting to open up. This episode, Angela talks with Lynn Keeys, a DA member living in South Africa, about her life as a diplomat.

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