Threats leveled against Black women organizers and politicians w/ Oakland CM Carroll Fife & Melina Abdullah KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks

Last week, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife went public with some of the voicemails and threats she has been receiving as a result of the public work she does as an activist and councilmember. While the threats were shocking to some degree, Black women who do work in the public space often live with these kinds of threats, hateful e-mails and attacks. We speak with Carroll Fife, a longtime community organizer and an Oakland City Council Member, representing District 3, elected in 2020. We are also joined by Melina Abdullah, a professor and the chair of pan-African studies at Cal State Los Angeles, as well as the co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Grassroots.
Follow Carroll Fife on Twitter: www.twitter.com/carroll_fife
Follow Dr Melina Abdullah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocMellyMel
Follow Dr Melina Abdullah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/docmellymel/
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