COVID WATCH PART 1 (feat. Lauren Garcia + Natalie del Castillo)
NEW EPISODE ALERT: This week on Race Capitol, we are kicking off the year with our very first COVID WATCH episode - all about community care...
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WE KEEP US SAFE PT. 2 (Feat. Yaya Ogaldez & Sarandon Elliot)
For our last episode of 2021: We are talking about mutual aid with Yaya Ogaldez of Richmond Mutual Aid and Sarandon Elliot of UVA Mutual Aid...
FROM RVA TO CVILLE: SOLIDARITY FOREVER
This week on Race Capitol, we are in dialogue with Lisa Woolfork, Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Christina...
No Cops. No Colonies. No Casinos.
This week on Race capitol, we are talking about the casino; exploring the legacy of wealth extraction, colonialism, and big shiny developmen...
Fire to the Prisons II: Meditations on Blackness, Captivity, and Freedom
NOTE TO LISTENER: Following the recording of this episode, it was brought to our attention that Marquis Bey had previously demonstrated a pa...
Surveillance State: Policing Public Housing in RVA
This week on Race Capitol, co-hosts Nomi Isaac and Kalia Harris talk to community organizers about increased surveillance + policing in publ...
REEFER REVOLUTION (part 4): Legalization in Virginia
This week on Race Capitol, we talked with the #LegalizeItRight coalition of Virginia about the new laws around simple possession of marijuan...
Justice For Orlando
Content Warning: Descriptions of police violence Jennifer Carter, mother of Orlando Carter, Jr. joins host Chelsea Higgs Wise to discuss her...
Take Back the Land! : Land, Gentrification, and the Umoja Village Shantytown
Evictions and housing insecurity aren’t new issues in this country; since the beginning of European colonization of the Amerikas, displaceme...
Fire To The Prisons: Igniting the Plantation Through Inside-Outside Solidarity
The movement for the abolition of slavery, which includes the dismantling of prisons and policing, has never had a shortage of prisoner resi...
Canaan: when i read your letter, I feel your voice, with Nastassja Swift
For the week of June 9, 2021 Race Capitol interviews @nastassjaebony , an artist from Virginia who has a must-see production, Canaan: when I...
Free the People: From RVA to Palestine (feat. Michael Kamel, Siona Peterous and Noura Erakat)
This week on Race Capitol, we talk about solidarity from #RVA to #Palestine with journalist Siona Peterous and filmmaker and photographer Mi...
Whats the Tea on CRB? (feat. Jewel Gatling & Angela Fontaine of RVA Civilian Review Board Taskforce)
This week on Race Capitol, we spill the tea on the CRB! We talk with Jewel Gatling + Angela Fontaine of the Richmond Civilian Review Board T...
Maroon Grove Freedom Farm- Solidarity with Sussex
This week on Race Capitol, Juniper (@wetland_maroon) from Maroon Grove Freedom Farms discusses their call to action this Thursday at Sussex...
Remembering Marcus-David Peters 3 Years Later
This week on Race Capitol, we revisit audio from our very first episode in 2018 -- talking about justice for Marcus-David Peters. This Frida...
Change The Game, Lady Burrs State Bball Champs
This week, Race Capitol interviewed the West Catholic Lady Burrs Girls Basketball team, the 2020-2021 PIAA Class AAA Girls Pennsylvania Stat...
JUSTICE FOR BLACK LIVES RVA: PART 2
The movement for Black lives and liberation is more than just a Chauvin verdict. Throughout the summer, calls for justice extended far beyon...
Richmond Gentrification with Damon Harris
Damon Harris of Tealhouse Company joins Chelsea Higgs Wise to discuss what he sees is stopping Black homeowners, renters and eager home buye...
Protect Our Web (feat. UR Black Student Coalition Coordinating Committee)
This week on Race Capitol, co-host Chelsea Higgs Wise interviewed four members of the UR Black Student Coalition Coordinating Committee who...
environmental injustice II
Caring for the land is resistance to whiteness. The accelerating climate catastrophe calls upon us to reestablish a relationship to the Eart...