Civil Rights and Wrongs for June 16, 2020

Our guest this week on Civil Rights and Wrongs is Charlotte Moore, author and film producer.  Her film “Black Bodies” is now playing (on-demand) at Alamo Drafthouse, and features the stories of sixteen Black people from Austin.  It is billed as “a raw, bare-bones, no-frills exploration into what it means to exist in the world as a Black person today.”  Charlotte also talks about her recent essay in Austin Monthly magazine titled, “It’s Time to Take a Long Look in the Mirror, Austin.”  Commenting on the recent protests, Charlotte observes: “Our cities and our country are on fire — a blaze of systemic racism that has been stoked in Austin and beyond for centuries.”  Join Bob Dailey and regular guest, Jim Harrington, founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project, and head of Proyecto Santiago at St. James Episcopal Church.  We will also hear from Austin Sanders, staff writer for the Austin Chronicle, regarding the June 11 meeting of the Austin City Council.  Council approved a series of resolutions that constitute a package of police reforms, not the least of which is a comprehensive reallocation of funds to social services and criminal justice diversion programs.