Sojourner Truth Radio: August 9, 2017 – Inside Kenya's Election | The Data on Affirmative Action

Sojourner Truth Radio

Violence has broken out in Kenya after the opposition candidate in the country's presidential election has claimed massive voter fraud. Raila Odinga, in his fourth presidential run, challenged incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta in Tuesday's vote. A local human rights commission has said it has found discrepancies between results announced by the governments election commission and paper forms signed at a polling station. Adding to the tension: last week, a senior election official in charge of voting technology, Christopher Msando, was found tortured and killed. Here to discuss this with us is Assumpta Oturu, host of "Spotlight Africa" on Pacifica Radios KPFK. In our continued coverage of the Department of Justice's new attacks on affirmative action on the basis of reverse discrimination against white and Asian American students, our guest is Loyola Law School professor Kimberly West-Faulcon, author of a new article in the UCLA Law Review on the subject. For this week's "Campaigners for Black Lives," we are joined by the founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, Janaya Khan "also known as Future. We focus on the growing international movement of Black Lives Matter.