Episodes
Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/30/13
Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
Tuesday Jul 30, 2013
Monday Jul 29, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/29/13
Monday Jul 29, 2013
Monday Jul 29, 2013
Showdown in Tallahassee/The Democratic Party’s Notion of ‘Standards’ For two weeks now, The Dream Defenders, a group of young activists, have camped outside Gov. Rick Scott’s office in Tallahassee, Fla., insisting that he call a special legislative session to re-examine the state’s “Stand-Your-Ground” law. In a very brief meeting last week, Scott said he would not call a special session, and the camp-in continued. Leid Stories gives a report on the status of the protest. Plus, a pointed question: What does it say about the Democratic Party that it allows the likes of Anthony Weiner (candidate for New York City mayor) and Eliot Spitzer (candidate for New York City comptroller) to run under its banner?
Friday Jul 26, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/26/13
Friday Jul 26, 2013
Friday Jul 26, 2013
Courting Trouble: How the Court Manipulates Jurors’ Verdicts A second juror’s explanation of how the six-member panel arrived at its not-guilty verdict against George Zimmerman raises troubling questions. Identified as Juror B29, the lone nonwhite juror in an exclusive interview with Nightline’s Robin Roberts spoke of her agony in voting not guilty—even though she initially had voted for conviction on the second-degree murder charge. The law was very confusing, she said, but she felt pressured to “obey the law.” Juror B 37, the first juror to speak publicly after the verdict, related a similar story about how confusing the law was. Leid Stories tells why the jurors voted to acquit Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26 last year and why, as Juror B29 said, “he got away with murder.”
Thursday Jul 25, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/25/13
Thursday Jul 25, 2013
Thursday Jul 25, 2013
50 Years Since the Big March for Jobs, How Much Progress? Coming up on the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for economic and social justice, how much progress has been made? Leid Stories tackles the first part of the two-pronged mission of the march with a status report on the economy today. Dr. Algernon Austin of the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute discusses alarming shifts in the U.S. economy that have created almost unbridgeable gaps between rich and poor, and focuses particularly on the Obama administration’s policies.
Wednesday Jul 24, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/24/13
Wednesday Jul 24, 2013
Wednesday Jul 24, 2013
Say It Loud, Say It Clear, for the Whole Wide World to Hear! It’s Open Phones on Leid Stories, and you take the conversation where you want it to go. Opine, critique, explain, hypothesize—just make your point, being sure, to begin with, that you do have a point. But as usual, expect to be challenged – with love and respect, of course!
Monday Jul 22, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/22/13
Monday Jul 22, 2013
Monday Jul 22, 2013
Say, Whaaat? Obama Publicly Wrestles with Being Black In ‘Post-Racial’ America—and puts Trayvon Martin ‘In Context’ It’s been lauded as his most eloquent statement yet, both on “race relations” and on being a black man in America--the 17-minute “personal” speech President Obama made on July 19 ostensibly “addressing” the not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial. Say, whaaat? So, Leid Stories is starting the week off right. We’ll deconstruct the president’s speech to show the wide variance between what he said, what he meant, and what people believe they heard. It’s media literacy for people who value their brains!
Friday Jul 19, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/19/13
Friday Jul 19, 2013
Friday Jul 19, 2013
Zimmerman’s Natural Rights; Trayvon’s Civil Rights The jury’s favorable verdict for George Zimmerman confirmed an age-old truth about the criminal-justice system that explains the wide variance of outcomes for blacks and whites. Whites come before the court protected by their “natural” rights—the rights of real persons, no matter how guilty they may be. Blacks, on the other hand, have no such guarantees. The rights they allegedly have are largely construed to be “civil” rights— constitutional concessions grudgingly given. The system, especially in former slave states (as Florida is), hasn’t rid itself of Justice Roger’s Taney’s declaration in the Dred Scott decision: The black man has no rights that the white man (or system) is bound to respect. Leid Stories’ discussion today begins here.
Friday Jul 19, 2013
Thursday Jul 18, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/18/13
Thursday Jul 18, 2013
Thursday Jul 18, 2013
A Travesty of Justice…Yet Again! How Do We Break the Pattern? Leid Stories continues the conversation on the Zimmerman verdict, its genesis and its aftermath. The jury’s verdict touched off a number of protests nationwide. Yet, an all-too-familiar pattern is emerging—a flurry of activity in several quarters with established “leaders” at the forefront who have vested interests in maintaining a high profile. This hot-button issue is precisely what they need; it can open doors that have long been shut to them. How do we break the pattern of predictable behavior—a lot of noise that soon gives way to deafening silence and inaction? That’s the uncomfortable question Leid Stories poses today.
Tuesday Jul 16, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/16/13
Tuesday Jul 16, 2013
Tuesday Jul 16, 2013