MTV’s Elect This’s Ask box is open for Tumblr and Elect This’ second IssueTime. Two years have passed since Ferguson, has anything really changed? A panel stacked with experts on police brutality and racial justice activist will be answering your burning questions on topics we’ve all been thinking about since Ferguson, like reforming officer training, dealing with institutional racism, and improving relationships between communities of color and the police. Join us in discussion on how far we still have to go (allies included) in the fight toward racial equality since protests in Ferguson shocked the nation two years ago. We’ll be accepting questions until Wednesday, August 24 and publishing the responses here on Saturday, August 27.
Panelist bios:
Jamil Smith
Jamil Smith is a Senior National Correspondent for MTV News. Previously, Jamil was a Senior Editor at New Republic, as well as the host of the magazine’s first podcast, INTERSECTION. He also served previously as a producer for MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “Melissa Harris-Perry,” and won three Sports Emmy Awards during his six years with NFL Films.
Elle Hearns
Elle Hearns is a revolutionary organizer, freedom fighter. She has spent a lifetime being committed to making sure that marginalized voices are centered and reflected in social justice movements. Elle served as a lead organizer of The Movement for Black Lives convening held in Cleveland, Ohio while also consulting on the Movement for Black Lives policy platform. Elle is currently an organizing coordinator for the Black Lives Matter Global Network. Elle’s writings have been featured in TruthOut, Huffington Post, and Ebony. Her remarkable work has been chronicled by several publications including Time, CNN, MTV, The New York Times, Alternet, Democracy Now, The Daily Dot, Fusion, Essence Magazine, and The Washington Post.
Andre C. Anderson
Andre is the Special Assistant to the President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) 2016-17, tasked with working to engage national community dialogue and working with others to usher in methods designed to build trust and legitimacy from lessons learned from the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Andre is most known for serving as the Interim Police Chief for Ferguson in the wake of the Mike Brown JR shooting. During his tenure, he led a new approach to civil unrest which eased tension and created better relationships in the community. He introduced and led modern day evidence based community policing, and was the lead policing expert to negotiate with the Department of Justice Consent Decree levied as a “Pattern or Practice of Discriminatory Policing.
Rashad Robinson
Rashad is the Executive Director of Color of Change the United States’ largest online racial justice organization. As a force driven by over one million members, Color of Change moves decision makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people, and for all people. Rashad has developed winning strategies to change the rules of many fields affecting Black people’s lives: employment and the economy, voting and politics; news and entertainment; and criminal justice.
Martese Johnson
Martese Johnson is a Strategist at Sylvain Labs, and a recent graduate of the University of Virginia. He is a South Side, Chicago native and the first in his family to graduate from a four-year university. In his third year of college at UVA, Martese fell victim to excessive force by Alcoholic Beverage Control officers near his campus. Since state investigators dropped the charges against him, Martese has spent much of his time advocating for minorities who experience police brutality and various other forms of social injustice. Martese has appeared on various media outlets (CNN, CBS, ABC, etc.) and spoken at the National Urban League and Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conferences.
Holly Fetter
Holly is passionate about organizing young people to leverage their resources in support of social movements. Holly was awarded the Tom Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy which enabled her to work at the Ford Foundation in the program area that funds social movement infrastructure. She designed and taught a course on whiteness as an undergraduate, created a platform to field questions from curious white people (TokenWhiteFriend@gmail.com), and serves as a consultant and commentator for MTV.
future will be performing this year at the 2016 vmas.
watch the show sunday 8/28, and stay tuned for more surprises.
The VMA Red Carpet in 1996 #throwback
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the department of justice announced that the federal government is looking to end contracts with 13 private prisons across the country.
private prisons have been known to give out more infractions, keeping inmates in jail longer. inmates who are released from private prisons have a higher likelihood of returning to prison on a new charge. and let’s not even get into the amounts of cheap labor given to companies from private prisons.
the next president will either continue disinvestment from private prisons or maintain the status quo. do the candidates’ stances on private prisons affect how you’re going to vote in november?
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This is how we started the day in the Bay, so you can imagine how the rest of the day went. We’ve teamed up with @damonandjo and @frappuccino for the ultimate Summer Wander List and this time, we’re in San Francisco! See what other cool places to hit up before the end of summer 👉 summerwanderlist.mtv.com
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