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Listeners in case you missed our pop up livestream stream with the amazing, multi faceted performer, Michelle Alexander, here it is! We thank Michelle for stopping by the studio, playing some music and sharing about her journey as an artist! We always love adding bonus content for you all whenever we can. More on this pop up livestream from host, Mitch Hampton: "This very brief popup livestream is the occasion of my meeting old friend and New England Conservatory classmate Michelle Alexander after close to twenty years. I thought it might be fun to talk a little and record it for my podcast. Michelle Alexander like me is a pianist and we compare notes on our different journey in art and music." #art #music #journies #podcast @necmusic Journey of an Aesthete Podcast

Daniel and Michelle looked at each other like that and I insisted they keep doing it for me to get a screen grab. See, love is beautiful! What are the 4Q’s? Name your favorite films of all time (limit 3) Name a film you think is underrated Name a film you think is overrated Name a lesser-known film that you think people should seek out In this episode we find out what films inspire Michelle Alexander & Daniel David Stewart. Their film “Blow Out” took home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film, Arthouse/Experimental at the Sherman Oaks Film Festival in 2019 and the great news is that you can watch “Bow Out!” right now in Season 3 Episode 2 of the Discover Indie Film TV Series on Amazon Prime Video! You can learn more about them at michellealexander.ca and @danieldavidstewart on Instagram. Comments are blocked on this website. To discuss Discover Indie Film podcasts or TV episodes, visit the Facebook Page . You can listen to the podcast using the media player below or on iTunes , Spotify , Google Play , SoundCloud , or Stitcher . Here are Daniel’s 4Qs answers: Favorites: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Holy Motors (French), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Underrated: Phoenix (2014). The Separation Overrated: Boyhood Seek Out: Take Shelter Here are Michelle’s 4Qs answers: Favorites: Waiting for Guffman, Get Out, Being John Malkovich Underrated: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Overrated: Ready or Not? Seek Out: Rubber (2010) Podcast

Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. Alexander is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Stanford Law School. Following law school, she clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Prior to entering academia, Alexander served as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she coordinated the Project’s media advocacy, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and litigation. The Project’s priority areas were educational equity and criminal justice reform, and it was during those years at the ACLU that she began to awaken to the reality that our nation’s criminal justice system functions more like a caste system than a system of crime prevention or control. She became passionate about exposing and challenging racial bias in the criminal justice system, ultimately launching and leading a major campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement known as the “DWB Campaign” or “Driving While Black or Brown Campaign.” In addition to her nonprofit advocacy experience, Alexander has worked as a litigator at private law firms including Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, in Oakland, California, where she specialized in plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits alleging race and gender discrimination. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship, which supported the writing of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" (The New Press, 2012), and that same year she accepted a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. She currently devotes much of her time to freelance writing; public speaking; consulting with advocacy organizations committed to ending mass incarceration; and, most important, raising her three young children—the most challenging and rewarding job of all. In this plenary address from the 2016 AAR Annual Meeting, Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas (Goucher College) interviews Alexander, and the women converse in turn about racial (in)justice, the election, and religion's role in U.S. politics. The session is introduced by 2016 AAR president, Serene Jones. This plenary was recorded during the 2016 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, on November 20.

Lots of us, both Black and white, who live in the north and the far west, actually believe that the gains of the civil The Rev. Bishop Raymond Ruffen-Blanchette rights movemen MIchelle Alexander, MD t actually did the deal, and that now we live in a country where racism is pretty much under control and that the situation is getting better every year. For about ten years now, New York Theological Seminary (NYTS) has lead a pilgrimage to the American South, to give northerners the experience of being in a racist zone, that’s not – while some important victories have been won – significantly more enlightened or democratic (or safe, or fair, or uplifting…..) than it was in the 1950s. The tour included students, faculty and clergy plus some individuals who just wanted to be part of it. Organized by The Rev. Dr. Eleanor Moody Shephard and The Rev. Dr. Peter Heltzel, both of NYTS, the trip covered some of the most important sites of the Civil Rights movement and present-day struggle. Back in April, I went to Peter Heltzel’s birthday party, which turned out to be on the evening of the day they returned to New York. I spent some time with two people who had been on the trip, and they were absolutely breathless with excitement about what they learned and how they could see it affecting their lives. Well, Lovers – these two are my guests today. Michelle Alexander, MD is a physician in New York, and Bishop Dr. Raymond Ruffen-Blanchette is one of New York City’s most active progressive clergy. Both of them came back with a whole new vision. Let’s go, Lovers. And after you hear it, send the link to your friends. Follow Us

Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, and has served as the director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California. Her book is “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Michelle Alexander — Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow.” Find more at onbeing.org.