Rhythm & Rights, Steph Jacques
A mix of music, our rights, repro rights, Bravo, and conversation
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The Pivot (opens the original)
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Ryan Clark got pulled off air mid-broadcast. We all saw. What came after was him betting on himself and trusting God. This is what catches my attention and what I’m digesting and taking with me.They ( we know the they) didn't even let him finish the segment.In July, Ryan Clark was doing the job he'd done for eleven years. I mean he is one of the most trusted voices at the network, and yet during a commercial break they pull him aside and tell him it's over. They didn’t wait until after the show,
The Loophole (opens the original)
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Let me tell you the smartest evil thing this country ever pulled.After reconstruction fell, the south wanted the Black vote gone. Problem was, it was sitting right there in the constitution where they could not touch it. the fifteenth amendment. the vote shall not be denied on account of race. plain as that. nobody repealed it. nobody could.So they did something worse than repeal it. They worked out how to kill the Black vote without ever writing the word black on a single page.You have to sit w
The First Black Vote (opens the original)
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In 1870 mississippi, the state that had just handed the confederacy its president, sent a Black man to the united states senate.His name was hiram revels. He took one of two mississippi seats that had sat empty since 1861, when the men holding them walked out to go join the confederacy. One of those men was jefferson davis. Read that twice. The state that gave the confederacy its president turned around and sent a Black minister to washington to help run the country davis went to war to break.
She Is So Thankful (opens the original)
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I’ll say this part first. I liked House of Stassi. I like reality tv. I listen to the podcast sometimes. It premiered July 29 on freeform, dropped on Hulu the next day, and it’s good television. The gimmick actually works. It’s a meta-docuseries, she breaks the fourth wall, she narrates her own crash-outs to the camera, she calls out the old vanderpump rules machine for protecting the men. Critics have pointed out that the format fixes the thing that made reality tv feel fake. I watched it. I en
who counted. (opens the original)
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Before there was a vote, there was a count.In the summer of 1787 a room full of men in philadelphia sat down to build a government. One of the first questions they had to answer was about power. How much does each state get. The answer came down to population. Bigger population, more seats in congress, more votes for president. So before they could divide the power, they had to decide who counted as a person.Many of the men in that room owned people. The southern states they spoke for held hundr
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