California Balances the Scales And Trump’s Attacks on Black Culture
California Assemblymember Sade Elhawary (CA-57) joins Adrianne to discuss the California legislature’s effort to counter the power grab in Texas and the decision before voters in the November special election. Later journalist and political commentator Anoa Changa joins to talk about Trump’s latest attack on the Smithsonian and why we can’t yield to efforts to undermine our ability to learn our history and culture.Â
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Battleground Texas: The Fight to Protect and Expand Democracy
Resha Thomas, project director of the Texas Black Action Fund, joins Adrianne in a conversation about the Texas legislature’s racist gerrymandering scheme and its impact on Black political participation and the country as a whole.Â
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Tech Policy for Black Lives with Danielle Davis
Attorney Danielle Davis, Director of Technology Policy at The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, joins the show to discuss the need for technology policies, including those related to AI, that consider racial equity and the needs of Black communities. She also debunks the Trump administration's claim of "woke-free" AI policy as being fair and neutral.Â
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Texas Legislators Fight Back & GOP Apartheid Policy
Texas State Representative Charlene Ward Johnson joins to talk about leaving Texas to fight for fair representation and prevent Black communities from being disenfranchised by the mid-decade power grab underway. NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson also joins to contextualize the GOP's attempted apartheid policy.
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Voting Rights Act at 60 and Building Black Political Power
Valencia Richardson, legal counsel for voting rights at Campaign Legal Center, joins Adrianne in conversation about the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the current voting rights landscape. Later in the hour, movement strategist Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson joins the conversation for a look at the lessons from movement building that led to the historic act’s passage.Â
Questions about Black voters, their disengagement, lack of information, and support or lack thereof for Democratic candidates have once again taken center stage as Democrats, Republicans, and Independent candidates compete for this critical voting bloc.Will Black voters abandon Democrats in this election, move historic numbers of votes toward the Republican nominee, or will they continue a decades-long trend of overperforming for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot?The stakes have never been higher for Black America.Tune into The Black Pack hosted by veteran political strategist Adrianne Shropshire, every Friday from 4-6pm for a breakdown of the issues, rhetoric, polling, and more this election year.
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