Brown v. Board of Education is the landmark case that ended segregation in schools, but there was another case involving a child plaintiff that laid the groundwork for the famous Supreme Court decision.
View the story above, taken from our June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
Follow the story of Ty Lunderman, an Oglala Sioux rancher in one of the poorest counties in the nation, an Indian reservation by the name of Pine Ridge, and how one community-built nonprofit organization called Lakota Funds is helping him keep his family ranch alive.
You can watch his story above, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
After the school shooting that shook the nation to its core in 2018, one of the Parkland survivors, X Gonzalez, is still fighting for lawmakers to address the issues that took the lives of their classmates and so many other students in recent years.
View their story above, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
Linda Sarsour, famous Muslim activist and community organizer, takes us along on her journey to how she got to where she is right now, from her father’s Brooklyn bodega to the frontlines of the 2017 Women’s March.
Watch her story above, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
She is a former WNBA star and now co-owner of the Atlanta Dream. Renee Montgomery talks about how her passion for sports and community organizing is a continuation of what other trailblazers have done.
View her story above, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
When legal and public pressure wasn’t enough to stop an oil pipeline from cutting through Native American land, groups began protesting at the construction site. Tara Houska was one of many arrested and wrote a letter from jail.
View her story above, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
Nashlie Sephus, 35, is a computer scientist and AI researcher who dreams of transforming her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi into a tech hub. Her dream is about to come to life, thanks to her successful nonprofit the Bean Path.
View her story above, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
To Dan Schulman, CEO of PayPal, diversity within his company is important, but after the killing of George Floyd, he was even more determined to show PayPal’s commitment to inclusivity and fighting racial injustice. From providing hundreds of millions of dollars in grants in support of Black-owned businesses to increasing diversity on PayPal’s board and leadership team, Schulman discusses the changes he has pushed for in the past two years. Watch the story here, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
Roberto Clemente is widely regarded as one of the best baseball players of all time. But it’s what he did off the field that holds him in high regard in the United States and in Latin America. View his story above, taken from the June 8, 2022 Matter of Fact Listening Tour: “Trailblazers, Troublemakers and Dreams.”
Stand-up comedian Margaret Cho sat down with Soledad O’Brien to discuss how comedy helps her discuss difficult issues like racism.
This conversation is part of the fourth and final leg of the Matter of Fact Listening Tour “Trailblazers, Troublemakers & Dreams,” which will explore difficult issues surrounding race and equity through discussions with a diverse collection of accomplished individuals representing a panoply of fields.
“With standup comedy, you can really be anybody,” Cho said. “When I first started as a comedian, I was the only Asian-American woman.”
Cho has been doing comedy since 1984.
“I think when you’re Asian-American you imitate your parent’s voices as a way to distinguish yourself as like, I’m not Asian, I’m Asian-American,” Cho said.
Cho said she believes that is a common thing amongst immigrants and the mockery is actually a kind of enjoyment and celebration of where they come from and who they are.
Cho explained how talking about racism in comedy is a big way of talking about enormous issues in a small message.
“To me, it’s a pointed way to talk about racism, and the spectrum of it without making a huge TED talk of it,” Cho said.
“Trailblazers, Troublemakers & Dreams” will stream live Wednesday, June 8, at 7 p.m. EST.
Wednesday’s digital-first presentation will be streamed live on MatterOfFact.tv, the Very Local phone & TV app, and other Hearst consumer-media digital platforms.