Juneteenth 2022

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR)

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR), is a national and international award-winning progressive, an intergenerational roundtable discussion of independent journalists from around the country. LTAR features rigorous analysis of news coverage, and the role race plays in politics, life, and society. LTAR is available on Audioport and PRX, and currently airs twice monthly on KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR.LTAR is also available on Soundcloud and all podcast outlets.
The roundtable line-up features LaNita Duke, award-winning multimedia producer for Grassroots News NW. Dianne Johnson is a professor and journalist from Texas. Althea Billings, a journalist and radio producer in Portland, OR. Rev. Cecil Prescod is a talk-show host in Portland, OR. Nia Gray is the host of The Faith Report in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And Mary Li, a proud bureaucrat reporting from Portland, OR.
On this edition of LTAR we celebrate Juneteenth 2022 - Juneteenth, an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War, which has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s.
President Biden signed legislation last year that made Juneteenth, which falls on June 19, a federal holiday, after interest in the day was renewed during the summer of 2020 and the nationwide protests that followed the police killings of Black Americans including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
This we open with President Biden’s statement. And remember we are celebrating Juneteenth in the midst of an anti-history sentiment that is sweeping across America. Therefore, we also ask our panelists Why is it important to teach history? Why are right-wing actors and white nationalists motivated to attack accurate history and teachers? What will the impact be on the next generation if the "anti-history" movement succeeds?
And we acknowledge that Juneteenth 2022 is being celebrated as The House Jan. 6 committee focused their second public hearing on those closest to former President Donald Trump, who told him it was too premature to declare victory on election night in 2020 — and how Trump used his premature declaration of victory to push baseless claims that he won the election.
"This morning, we'll tell the story of how Donald Trump lost an election and knew he lost an election, and as a result of his loss decided to wage an attack on our democracy, an attack on the American people, by trying to rob you of your voice in our democracy — and in doing so, lit the fuse that led to the horrific violence of Jan. 6, when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol, sent by Donald Trump to stop the transfer of power," Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson said.