Bye Bye Bannon; Faith Community's Response to Charlottesville [guest host Ed Chung]
Aug 21, 2017 ·
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Ed Chung guest hosts today's show. He is the Vice President for Criminal Justice Reform at American Progress. Below are the topics he discussed, along with the guests he was...
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Ed Chung guest hosts today's show. He is the Vice President for Criminal Justice Reform at American Progress.
Below are the topics he discussed, along with the guests he was joined by.
1. What Steve Bannon departure means for Trump Administration going forward; Charlottesville Aftermath
Guest 1: Kira Lerner, a Political Reporter for ThinkProgress
Tweets: @Kira_Lerner
Guest 2: Sam Fullwood, a Political Reporter with ThinkProgress where he analyzes the influence of national politics and domestic policies on communities of color across the United States
Tweets: @SamFulwood
2. Faith Community’s Response to Charlottesville
Guest 1: Lisa Sharon Harper, Senior Fellow at the Auburn Theological Seminary
Tweets: @lisasharper
Guest 2: LaShawn Warren, Vice President of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress
Tweets: @lashawnywarren
Ed's Twitter handle is @EdChungTweets. Before working at the Center for American Progress, he served as senior adviser on criminal justice, policing, and civil rights issues for the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice.
In that capacity, Chung coordinated a national initiative for building trust between the justice system and the communities it serves, as well as the Obama administration’s violence reduction and second-chance efforts under the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.
Chung also held positions in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, including special counsel to the assistant attorney general and federal prosecutor with the Criminal Section, where he received the John Marshall Award for successfully prosecuting the first case under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.
The website for "The Center for American Progress" is www.AmericanProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @amprog.
(Image Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Below are the topics he discussed, along with the guests he was joined by.
1. What Steve Bannon departure means for Trump Administration going forward; Charlottesville Aftermath
Guest 1: Kira Lerner, a Political Reporter for ThinkProgress
Tweets: @Kira_Lerner
Guest 2: Sam Fullwood, a Political Reporter with ThinkProgress where he analyzes the influence of national politics and domestic policies on communities of color across the United States
Tweets: @SamFulwood
2. Faith Community’s Response to Charlottesville
Guest 1: Lisa Sharon Harper, Senior Fellow at the Auburn Theological Seminary
Tweets: @lisasharper
Guest 2: LaShawn Warren, Vice President of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress
Tweets: @lashawnywarren
Ed's Twitter handle is @EdChungTweets. Before working at the Center for American Progress, he served as senior adviser on criminal justice, policing, and civil rights issues for the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice.
In that capacity, Chung coordinated a national initiative for building trust between the justice system and the communities it serves, as well as the Obama administration’s violence reduction and second-chance efforts under the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.
Chung also held positions in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, including special counsel to the assistant attorney general and federal prosecutor with the Criminal Section, where he received the John Marshall Award for successfully prosecuting the first case under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.
The website for "The Center for American Progress" is www.AmericanProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @amprog.
(Image Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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