The Conscience of America

Published: July 22, 2020, 1:58 a.m.

Julio is joined by guest co-host and ITT All-Star\xa0Wajahat Ali. They talk with two ITT All-Stars\xa0Andrea Gonz\xe1lez-Ram\xedrez, senior writer at GEN by Medium, and\xa0Ren\xe9e Graham, columnist for The Boston Globe, about the passing of civil rights leaders Reverend C.T. Vivian and Representative John Lewis. They also get into the actions of federal law enforcement in Portland, Oregon, the decision of the Washington football team to change its racist name, and the rising coronavirus cases \u2014 especially in Puerto Rico. ITT Staff Picks: - "Representative John Lewis never donned a military uniform, but he fought as hard as any soldier for a nation that never fought as hard for him,"\xa0writes\xa0Ren\xe9e Graham in her latest column\xa0for The Boston Globe. - Andrea Gonz\xe1lez-Ram\xedrez writes about the growing epidemic of domestic violence in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria\xa0in her year long investigation in GEN by Medium in partnership with Type Investigations for her Ida B. Wells Fellowship. - Rory Taylor writes for Vox\xa0about the "long history of entanglement, violence, and complicated feelings between Indigenous peoples and American football." Photo Credit: AP Photo/Noah Berger \xa0

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