Miscellaneous
Sam and Deepa discuss protests across the world. In the United States, demonstrations against police brutality were spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and in Hong Kong by the increasingly totalitarian reach of Beijing. Although these are difficult subjects to talk about in objective terms, we hope you may find our perspectives helpful in making sense of recent events. We conclude with our "picks of the week(s)," pandemic version. Show Notes: Statement from the DePauw Africana Studies faculty: https://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/34617/ Jim Mattis Statement: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6991-mattis-statement/5ce1ea06ba0f4fc8eeb3/optimized/full.pdf#page=1