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People United speaks with Chris Harris about the more frequent and longer bookings of black people into the Travis County Jail compared with other defendants.  Better known to KOOP listeners as a co-host of Hip Hop Hooray, Chris Harris is also a Data Analyst and Campaigns Coordinator for Grassroots Leadership.

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People United features journalist Sarah Kendzior on the threat of autocracy in democratic societies, with a focus on the situation in the United States.

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People United features historian Julia L. Mickenberg on her book American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream, a study of expatriate women from the United States in the 1920s and 1930s that were curious about, if eventually disillusioned with, the revolutionary potential of the early Soviet Union.

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People United features ecomomist James K. Galbraith on income inequality, public policy, and electoral politics in the Trump Era.

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People United hears about Youth Rise Texas, an organization that seeks to cultivate leadership skills of youth that have had to deal with the incarceration or deportation of someone close, from Giselle Garibay, Valeria Gonzales, Kymberlie Quong-Charles, and Silvia Zuvieta-Rodriguez.

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People United speaks with Anne Lewis about her film A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas), an experimental documentary on history, memory, and the struggle for racial and economic justice.

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People United features Margaret Moore reflecting on her first year as Travis County District Attorney.

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People United presents coverage of a panel discussion of CodeNEXT, the proposed revision to Austin's Land Development Code, in the context of gentrification and displacement on the city's east side.  Moderated by Alberta Phillips, the panel also featured Susana Almanza, Fred McGhee, Carmen Llanes Pulido, Jane Rivera, and Eric Tang.

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People United features environmental historian and educator Katie Pace on the historical role of floodplains in racial division and displacement in Austin, particularly Waller Creek's underacknowledged yet foundational status as a racial boundary.

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People United features physician Rachel Pearson and Texas Observer editor Forrest Wilder, discussing her memoir No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine.

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