CALL & RESPONSE: Police Brutality and the Movement for Black Lives
Today’s episode of Call & Response will cover Police Brutality and the Movement for Black Lives with special guests Patrisse Cullors, Clayton English and Melina Abdullah.
The show will be live-streamed on Funny Or Die’s and Blavity’s channels on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch everyday at 12PM PT/3 PM ET. Tune into the stream below!
Call & Response is a new show designed to respond to the changes and activism of our time. Each day, Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle invite their favorite Black creators — activists, comedians, musicians, actors, visual artists, and more — to riff on current events, discuss the present momentum, and speak about their work and struggles.
About Today’s Guests:
Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel):
Founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles
Professor, Pan-African Studies California State University
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Clayton English (@ClaytonEnglish):
Stand-Up Comedian & Activist
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Patrisse Cullors (@OsopePatrisse):
Co-Founder Black Lives Matter,
Artist, Political Strategist, & Founder of Reform LA Jails
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About Call & Response:
Each day, Baron and Mike invite their favorite creators — comedians, musicians, actors, visual artists, novelists, educators, philosophers, and more — to riff on current events, explore ways to utilize the momentum, and speak about their respective professions, work, and struggles.
Funny Or Die has partnered with Blavity Inc. to create this show with the intention of responding to our time through discourse and laughter.
Last year, Funny Or Die partnered with creators Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle to produce the Comedy Central TV show The New Negroes. The show’s mission was to highlight, promote, and amplify talented Black voices — both new and established — in comedy, hip-hop, and culture.
Baron, Mike, and FOD believe this mission has always been important.
Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle shared some clips from their show, The New Negroes, to give us a taste of what’s to come on Call & Response:
in this song by me and the legend @MFDOOM we explore the psychological oppression that forms as a result of being constantly racially profiled as a black male in America and how that oppression can be passed down generationally. #CallandResponsehttps://t.co/QvHDBgr7mk
— Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle) June 10, 2020
More details will be released between now and next week’s launch of CALL & RESPONSE. Check back on FOD’s socials and this article for updates!
Published at Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:12:00 +0000