For today’s episode, Lilada interviewed Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson about his activism and why he thinks there is still cause for hope. Along the way they talk Serena Williams, police brutality, the school-to-prison pipeline, Colin Kaepernick, and much more.
DeRay Mckesson is the author of On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (Viking, 2018) and host of the podcast Pod Save the People. He is coming to Madison for a ticketed event at the Orpheum Theater on Thursday, September 27 at 7:30pm.