Attica Scott

12/29/20 • 26 min

Attica Scott is the only Black woman legislator in the red state of Kentucky and she has used the tools of law and peaceful protest to seek justice for the death of Breonna Taylor. Along the way, she's battled and overcome COVID-19, which has disproportionately affected the black community.

In our last episode of season one, we talk about getting into “good trouble” and how love of family and the joy of science fiction keep her grounded.

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In our last episode of season one, we talk about getting into “good trouble” and how love of family and the joy of science fiction keep her grounded.

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What Juneteenth means (and what it doesn't)

We're back! And this season we're talking about the language of race — how specific words and phrases carry more than their share of weight when we’re talking, and when we think we’re listening.

In this first episode, we cover something we're hearing a lot about this week in particular: Juneteenth. Some honor Juneteenth and others wonder what it is, knowing only that it vaguely has something to do with Black people and slavery. It’s both complicated and it isn’t, and Derrick White, Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, helps us understand it.