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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Black Lives Matter and the Power of Peaceful Protests, Echoes of Colonialism & Supporting African American Businesses | 7.12.21
Description: Santa Fe's Rachel Kleinfeld is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the founder of The Truman Security Project. She's also a member on the National Task Force on Election Crises. We talked to Kleinfeld last October about her research and work on reducing the possibility of violence surrounding our elections. She also spent a few extra minutes with correspondent Russell Contreras to discuss why nonviolent expression is the most effective type of protest in charged times like these, given the Black Lives Matter movement and upcoming midterm elections in 2022.
Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez is a...