6-19-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Juneteenth Redux
on Zencastr It's an encore presentation of last year's show about Juneteenth. Sadly not much has changed since. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Xsjocch8U
6-20-22 Nicole Sandler Show – It’s Juneteenth, Still Waiting for the Change to Come
Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) Today is a federal holiday. It's Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the day the last still-enslaved African Americans were made aware they had been emancipated. Freedom Day is how some refer to this day. And though that's a nice sentiment, it's still aspirational. Like many others I'm sure, I thought we had come further than we actually did. But then again, I'm a white woman. I know one thing, and that's that I can't know what it is like to be [...]
6-19-20 Nicole Sandler Show – It’s Juneteenth and we Visit with Rep Eric Swalwell
Download here or click below to play Today is Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day when the last group of slaves learned about the Emancipation Proclamation, 2 1/2 years after Lincoln signed it, finally ending slavery in America. It's time to make this day a national holiday. I'll ask Congressman Eric Swalwell about that when he joins me at the bottom of the hour to talk about his new book, Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump and give us his insights about being in the room where the impeachment inquiry and impeachment happened... Today's funny is yet [...]
6-19-20 What’s News
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6-19-19 Nicole Sandler Show – Juneteenth, Reparations and More
It's June 19 - Juneteenth - a holiday I learned nothing about as a child. But it's the anniversary of the day in 1865 on which slavery finally ended in the United States. I found a great article on Juneteenth in Teen Vogue of all places, and shared some of it on the show today. Follow the link to the whole thing, which I highly recommend. In what is likely not a coincidence, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is today holding hearings on reparations. I played the opening statements from author/journalist [...]