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News Beat presents This Week In Social Justice, streaming live Fridays at 1 p.m. ET. - usnewsbeat.com/facebook or usnewsbeat.com/youtube Today’s special guests: Marcus Ferrell is the former deputy campaign manager for Stacey Abrams and national Black outreach director for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. Ferrell is going to break down the results of the election, particularly the massive turnout among Black Americans in Georgia, which a Democrat hasn’t won since Bill Clinton in 1992. President-elect Joe Biden is likely to win Georgia once the state completes its recount. Craig McClain, PhD, is an evolutionary marine ecologist, deep-sea explorer, climate change researcher, chief editor at Deep Sea News and executive director and associate professor at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. He joins us to discuss his 2012 article “How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline,” which chronicles the fascinating history of the South’s so-called “Black Belt,” from ancient plankton to fertile soil to slave-worked cotton fields to crescent-shaped Democratic voting block slicing through blood-red GOP country. Support the show: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=EYkdQRkbZ6vNTGfNSGWZjx7_15orqqDl8vkmrAg3TkxLprft1OguFwxlheC3tAkNd-KVPG&country.x=US&locale.x=US See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.