Civil Rights and Wrongs for March 16, 2021

Our guest this Tuesday is Fernando Torres-Gil, Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy at UCLA.  He served as the first-ever Assistant Secretary of Aging in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration, as well as the Vice Chair of the National Council on Disability in the Obama administration.  Recently he and Jacqueline Angel from UT’s LBJ School co-authored an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle titled, “The time is now for a new ‘New Deal.’”   We also have Jim Harrington with us again, retired founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project.  And Michelle Manning-Scott, associate producer of this program, joins us as well.  Austin Sanders, Staff Writer for the Austin Chronicle, reports a significant development in the case of Michael Ramos who was fatally shot by an APD officer in April last year.  Christopher Taylor was indicted and charged with first degree murder, possibly the first such instance in Austin history for on-duty use of force by a police officer.