Happy Black History Month! We explore some of the historical reasons why Austin’s African American community has been shrinking as the rest of the city grows, and we learn about ways to support our African American neighbors and friends. Plus, we embarrass ourselves trying to answer questions from the citizenship test and shake our heads at all the ways sex ed let us down.

THIS WEEK’S GUEST:

Dr. Kazique Prince, Senior Policy Advisor to Mayor Steve Adler, public education advocate, diversity equity and inclusion consultant:
https://twitter.com/drkjprince?lang=en

SH*T TO DO:

Support the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition:
https://www.texascjc.org/

Donate to TCJC through Amplify Austin:
https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/texascjc

Advocate with TCJC at the Women’s [in]Justice Day Rally:
https://www.facebook.com/events/384727915437554/
https://www.texascjc.org/provide-dignity-incarcerated-women

Educate yourself with TCJC's (new “One Size Fails All” four-part report):
https://www.texascjc.org/one-size-fails-all

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CORRECTION
In this episode, our guest stated that the author of "Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck, placed a deed restriction on his property preventing people of color from owning it. A listener contacted us to say she could find no evidence of this, and we also have not been able to verify this claim and our guest also could not locate the original source. However, he did provide this information: "The data also showed disparities in two rural Northern California communities: in Chico, when Latinos did apply for such loans, they were nearly 2.5 times more likely than whites to be denied. In Salinas, they were 1.7 times more likely to be denied. The analysis compared applicants with similar incomes, loan amounts and purchasing neighborhood, among other factors" (US News).

Austin ISD adopts broad sex-ed standards that start in earlier grades:
http://www.kut.org/post/austin-isd-adopts-broad-sex-ed-standards-start-lessons-earlier-grades

Ali Wong's hilarious bit on HPV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7A_1C4hY3U

Transgender Education Network of Texas Lobby Day this coming Thursday, March 7:
https://transtexas.networkforgood.com/events/10564-transgender-education-network-of-texas-lobby-day

Cornyn less popular than Cruz in Quinnipiac poll:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/431645-cornyn-less-popular-than-cruz-in-texas-poll

Recruit Kim Olson!:
https://twitter.com/RecruitKimOlson

MJ Hegar, Wendy Davis consider challenging John Cornyn in 2020:
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/12/mj-hegar-senate-john-cornyn-texas/

BONEHEAD ALERT! We failed to mention Sema Hernandez who has officially announced that she is running against Cornyn:
https://twitter.com/semahernandez

How Beto and Castro could run for Senate and President (the LBJ law):
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/26/texas-has-two-for-one-option-for-julian-castro-beto-orourke

63% of Texans couldn’t pass citizenship test (you can take the quiz we took here!):
http://www.kut.org/post/could-you-pass-us-citizenship-test-well-63-percent-texans-couldnt

The African American portion of the population in Austin is shrinking while our other populations are growing:
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/african-americans-are-moving-to-austin-again-but-many-dont-feel-welcome_20180312075956555/1031513090

The truth about being a black woman in a liberal city:
https://medium.com/s/story/a-black-woman-in-a-liberal-city-a2447c6049f3

Organizations and individuals people can connect with if they want to support the African American community in Austin:

Six Square, Austin’s Black Cultural District:
https://www.sixsquare.org/
https://www.facebook.com/SixSquareATX/
https://twitter.com/SixSquareATX?lang=en

NAACP Austin: http://www.naacpaustin.com/
NAACP Austin President Nelson Linder: https://www.facebook.com/nelson.linder

The Austin Justice Coalition:
https://www.austinjustice.org/
https://www.facebook.com/austinjusticecoalition/
https://twitter.com/AtxJustice?lang=en
Austin Justice Coalition’s Executive Director Chas Moore: https://twitter.com/igiveyoumoore  

MEASURE Austin:
https://www.measureaustin.org/about.html
https://www.facebook.com/measureaustin/
https://twitter.com/MeasureAustin?lang=en
MEASURE Austin’s Founder Meme Styles: https://twitter.com/memeofaustin

Counter Balance: ATX:
https://www.counterbalanceatx.org/
https://www.facebook.com/counterbalanceatx/
https://twitter.com/BalanceAtx?lang=en

Fatima Mann: https://twitter.com/barefootemprss

For the other white people out there -- get the “Me and White Supremacy” workbook by Layla F. Saad to begin dismantling white supremacy in your own life. It’s 28 days of prompts to help us recognize the ways we benefit from white privilege and how it harms people of color. Once we start waking up to these inequities we can start to undo them. The workbook is free, but her work is so important and valuable! Considering donating if you can. https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/
Layla Saad on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laylafsaad/

Jail is a terrible place to have a period:
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/02/jail-california-tampons-menstruation-paula-canny-sanitary-pads/

Ava DuVernay’s “13th”
https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741

Mentor a child whose parent is incarcerated:
https://seedlingmentors.org/

“Let the people vote” for Medicaid expansion rally on Monday at the Capitol; come join us!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2422118514474286/