The entertainment industry is the biggest propaganda machine on earth. The punishment industry uses this to its advantage. We talk to the homie Kendrick Sampson, an actor making abolitionist media and working to get police off of studio sets. We also talk to Dre, an incarcerated filmmaker creating films from prison.
Check out our episode notes below for links to resources and some of the other points discussed in this episode.
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Check out some of the stats about the depictions of law enforcement in the Color of Change report “Normalizing Injustice” and in this 2020 Quartz report.
Keep up with the work Kendrick Sampson’s organization BLD PWR is doing to bring about real change in the entertainment industry, through initiatives like Hollywood 4 Black Lives.
Read about the film Dre is trying to make from behind bars at his GoFundMe page.
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