ArchCity Defenders and Action St. Louis present the premiere collaborative podcast, "Under The Arch." Your hosts Blake Strode, Executive Director of ArchCity Defenders, and Kayla Reed, Director of Action St. Louis, explore the issues facing our community and the people working to transform them.
This week’s episode is a special live recording from the national conference Lawyering for Liberation: Defending Black Lives, Building Black Power, hosted in St. Louis. Our hosts speak with Michael Jones, senior policy advisor and member of the Missouri State Board of Education, Jamala Rodgers, revolutionary writer and co-founder of the Organization for Black Struggle, and Tef Poe, St. Louis rapper and Build Director for Black Men Build. Our guests talk about St. Louis’s unique position in the history of Black resistance and why it has been a recurring frontier in the battle for Black liberation in America, as well as what they’ve learned from their time in movement politics and the lessons they would pass on to the current youth.
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