Podcast - Lola Adesioye

Episode 1: the UK government’s very weird “race report” and what it means and says about race and race relations in the UK.
– The trial of Derek Chauvin (the officer who killed George Floyd).
– A new book about the 2014 kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls.
– The controversy surrounding Lil Nas X’s “Montero” video — and more.

Episode 2: – National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman in Vogue
– Racism is a public health crisis, says the CDC
– The blue wall crumbles in the Derek Chauvin trial. Officers speak out against use of force against George Floyd. – A tribute to Midwin Charles
– Watch A Love Song to Latasha on Netflix this weekend.

Episode 3: – Should Europe return the artefacts it looted from Africa? As the world looks to return the Benin Bronzes, Lola talks culture and decolonization.
– A shout out to rapper DMX and a snippet of an interview with an Oscar-nominated writer-director and producer.

Episode 4: – the Derek Chauvin trial and conviction
-slave patrols, the history of policing and law enforcement in America and police reform.
– The Oscar-nominated short film Two Distant Strangers
– and my new fave song from rapper Common.