Episodes
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
Leid Stories - 07.02.15
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
Activist Attorney’s Case Against Obama: He’s A ‘Race Traitor’
In a June 29 article in the political journal CounterPunch, Thomas Ruffin, an activist and attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C., makes the case that President Barack Obama is “a race traitor.”
Ruffin’s provocative article is the focal point of Leid Stories’ discussion today.
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Leid Stories - 07.01.15
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
A Burning Faith: Black Churches, White Supremacy
Hillary Clinton’s Storied “Struggle to Fit In” with Obama
Federal investigators probing a fire that destroyed Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, S.C., last night reportedly believe arson was not the cause. The church was burned 20 years ago by Klansmen, and Mount Zion AME’s razing, the seventh Black church in the South to be destroyed by fire in recent weeks, has revived a history of white-supremacist terrorism against African Americans.
Leid Stories discusses the history of white-supremacist attacks on Black churches.
The ongoing sanitization by the media of the political history of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues. A Reuters story today reports that the presumptive Democratic nominee “struggled to fit in with Obama’s White House” as secretary of state. The story, typical of major-media coverage of Clinton and her campaign, deliberately omits historical perspective on how she got the Cabinet position in the first place, which might have had something to do with her storied “struggle to fit in.” Leid Stories explains.
Tuesday Jun 30, 2015
Leid Stories - 06.30.15
Tuesday Jun 30, 2015
Tuesday Jun 30, 2015
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions 2015: ‘Not All Settled Law’
The U.S. Supreme Court has wrapped up its term with a bumper crop of history-making decisions. The court may have settled several controversial matters of law, but it also has triggered questions about the politicization of the justices and their seemingly limitless authority as the last word on laws enacted by Congress and presidential action.
Josh Blackman, an assistant professor of law at the South Texas College of Law and an expert on constitutional law, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the intersection of law and technology, discusses key decisions of the court’s term.
Author of Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare, Blackman deconstructs the court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act.