The Parley in All Blue with Mark Dawson

Ep. 22 Black Farmers Lives Matter with Kali Holloway

Episode Summary

On this week's episode of the Parley in All Blue Podcast, Mark sits down with Kali Holloway. Kali Holloway is a monthly columnist for both The Nation and The Daily Beast. Her writings have also appeared in The Guardian, Salon, TIME, Huffington Post, The National Memo and numerous other outlets. She co-curated the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017 summer performance and film series “Theater of the Resist.” She is the former Director of the Make it Right Project, a national initiative dedicated to taking down Confederate monuments and telling the truth about history. She also was a Senior Writer and the Associate Editor of Media & Culture at progressive news site AlterNet. Before that, she was a producer on the short film DJ Mojo: Music is Life, a producer and the outreach director on the PBS documentary The New Public; Director of Outreach and Audience Engagement for the HBO documentary Southern Rites and the Emmy-nominated film Brooklyn Castle; and Outreach Consultant on the award-winning documentary The New Black; she is currently producing Sunset and the Mockingbird about jazz pianist Junior Mance.

Episode Notes

On this week's episode of the Parley in All Blue Podcast, Mark sits down with Kali Holloway. Kali Holloway is a monthly columnist for both The Nation and The Daily Beast. Her writings have also appeared in The Guardian, Salon, TIME, Huffington Post, The National Memo and numerous other outlets. She co-curated the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art 2017 summer performance and film series “Theater of the Resist.” She is the former Director of the Make it Right Project, a national initiative dedicated to taking down Confederate monuments and telling the truth about history. She also was a Senior Writer and the Associate Editor of Media & Culture at progressive news site AlterNet. Before that, she was a producer on the short film DJ Mojo: Music is Life, a producer and the outreach director on the PBS documentary The New Public; Director of Outreach and Audience Engagement for the HBO documentary Southern Rites and the Emmy-nominated film Brooklyn Castle; and Outreach Consultant on the award-winning documentary The New Black; she is currently producing Sunset and the Mockingbird about jazz pianist Junior Mance. 

Highlights from the episode:

 

Resources: How Thousands of Black Farmers Were Forced Off Their Land By: Kali Holloway

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