Today on Sojourner Truth:
According to widespread media reports, two people are dead and one wounded at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, against the police killing of unarmed Black man Jacob Blake Jr. In Louisville, Kentucky, 68 people were arrested last night, calling for justice in the police killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor. In Pasadena, California, Anthony McClain, a young Black man was shot in the back and killed while fleeing from police. For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Caree Harper, the attorney representing the McClain family.
Hurricane Laura is now predicted to make landfall in Texas and Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. It is going on a similar path to Hurricane Rita, which devastated the area in 2005. August 29 is the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We speak with Monique Harden, the Assistant Director of Law and Policy and the Community Engagement Program Manager at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice.
Across the United States, the COVID-19 virus continues to take its toll. Nursing homes have been hit especially hard. Now, it has emerged that COVID-19 is especially deadly in private equity-backed nursing home chains. Our guest is Patrick Woodall, a senior researcher at Americans for Financial Reform, a national coalition of over 200 community, civil rights, labor, and consumer groups that works to hold wall street accountable and make the financial system work for everyone.
