Women's Prisons vs. "Orange Is the New Black"

Yves shares the incredible story of artist, sculptor and activist Elizabeth Catlett.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Samantha is undertaking a new endeavor. We talk about the hopes and the worries of taking on a new mantle.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Laverne Cox explains how her show "Orange Is the New Black" portrays transgender women in prison and discusses the push for more LGBT data collection in government surveys. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for ...  عرض المزيد

In this clip Tamika and Mysonne speak with Topeka K. Sams the founder and executive of "The Ladies of Hope Ministries" who spoke about her background story being in federal prison where she witnessed firsthand the epidemic and disparity of incarceration on women, and afterwards w ...  عرض المزيد

Trevor breaks down America's long history of minimizing or erasing Black women who played leading roles in game-changing social justice movements. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn ...  عرض المزيد

When Karen Bethea-Shields was in college, she heard a judge say, “No way in the world a Black woman can get raped.” A few years later, in 1975, she helped successfully defend Joan Little—a Black woman—who became the first woman in the U.S. to be found not guilty of murder using t ...  عرض المزيد