Breaking Down Barriers

Morgan Ankeny

I want to introduce topics that may be hard to talk about—providing legal insight, and historical insight to create a more well-rounded understanding of social justice issues.

Épisodes

  1. 31/05/2023

    Voting Rights and POC Voting Suppression

    Today's episode is about when Black individuals gained the legal right to vote, the voting impression that took place, and the constitutional context that allowed these racist ideologies to take over. I also introduce ideas from MLK and Malcolm X had how they discussed the importance of equitable voting to our democracy. We will examine an ongoing legal case, Merrill v. Mulligan, which is regarding voting rights. It shows the racialized effects of redrawing voting districts and how it strips POC from their legal right to voting rights. Finally, we will look are House Bill 1020 in Mississippi legalizing voter suppression. If any of these topics sound interesting to you, come along with me to Break Down Barriers in your mind. Email me with any episode ideas or suggestions: Morglynankeny@icloud.com Research sources used for today's episode: “Ballot or the Bullet” Malcolm X https://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/mx.html “Letter From Birmingham Jail” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf Lectures on Liberation Angela Davis https://archive.org/details/AngelaDavis-LecturesOnLiberation https://www.jstor.org/stable/40041766 https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6-e6CAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=voting+rights+people+of+color&ots=4_dfNilATk&sig=KJl3bZlaSSPAP3w4voYqy11qMOA#v=onepage&q=voting%20rights%20people%20of%20color&f=false https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/hlr108&div=15&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/voting-rights-act-and-the-election-of-nonwhite-officials/5F457521EA4DA1B18C0EAD13DD18B6D4 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2012.725037 https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/cwrlrv48&div=30&g_sent=1&casa_token=&collection=journals https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rz7qCQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=voting+rights+people+of+color&ots=C1jnoUAHyQ&sig=tuWALLiTB2MfCE_dDWl9_fWm6MM#v=onepage&q=voting%20rights%20people%20of%20color&f=false http://mattbarreto.com/mbarreto/courses/law/davidson_briefhistory.pdf https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/voting-rights-act#:~:text=This%20act%20was%20signed%20into,as%20a%20prerequisite%20to%20voting. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0896920514563089 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,48&q=voter+suppression+in+the+united+states https://www.aclu.org/cases/thomas-v-merrill-and-milligan-v-merrill http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1020IN.htm https://www.wapt.com/article/will-mississippi-governor-sign-house-bill-1020/43667697# https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/jackson-residents-sue-public-officials-calling-h-b-1020-a-violation-of-the-mississippi-constitution/ https://time.com/5876456/black-women-right-to-vote/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/grandfather-clause https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/15th-amendment#:~:text=Passed%20by%20Congress%20February%2026,men%20the%20right%20to%20vote. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/gerrymander-explainer.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705930/ https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/live-updates-u-s-supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-merrill-v-milligan/

    33 min
  2. 24/05/2023

    Intersectional Oppression Infiltrates the Court Room

    This podcast is about what intersectionality, where it comes from, and how it disadvantages people. I also cover two different court cases representing how intersectional oppression even infiltrates courtrooms. I also discuss different domains of power under intersectionality. Come along and break down barriers in your mind. Email me if you have questions or topics you would like to see being covered: Morglynankeny@icloud.com Sources:https://www.kuow.org/stories/with-racial-bias-rulings-wa-supreme-court-starts-hard-discussions https://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/976724.pdf https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/justices-unanimously-expand-protections-against-racism-in-wa-civil-cases/ https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf https://retrospectjournal.com/2021/02/14/the-combahee-river-collective-and-intersectionality-in-the-age-of-identity/ https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination https://isreview.org/issue/91/black-feminism-and-intersectionality/index.html https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/ https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kimberle-w-crenshaw https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/intersectionality_patricia-hill-collins/11428301/#edition=26201211&idiq=47242106 https://gradfeministtheory2017.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/intersectionality-the-four-domains-of-power/ https://www.aclu.org/bio/kimberle-crenshaw https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcop.20225 https://www.ywboston.org/2017/03/what-is-intersectionality-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-me/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUfabu85cqc&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality-more-two-decades-later https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kimberle-w-crenshaw https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268580918791974d https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/collins/patricia-hill

    27 min
  3. 21/04/2023

    Declaration of independence created Prison labor

    Today I am going to demonstrate how the Declaration of Independence, along with other legal instruments, set up biases that enable oppression and eventually lead to prison labor. If you are interested come on this journey with me. Email me: Morglynankeny@icloud.com Sources: Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union Inc., 433 U.S. 119 Richard Lilgerose and Harold Mortis v. Colorado Department of Corrections https://www.cpr.org/2022/02/15/prisoners-allege-forced-labor-violates-states-anti-slavery-law/https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript https://www.denverpost.com/2022/02/16/colorado-inmates-lawsuit-forced-work/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9204996/ https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.journals/ijotcc14&div=13&start_page=46&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=0&men_tab=srchresults https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/nyuls43&id=7&men_tab=srchresults# https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/nyuls43&id=8&men_tab=srchresults https://www.jstor.org/stable/41555136?seq=3 https://newporthistory.org/directors-note-what-does-liberty-mean-in-america-today/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/27878943?searchText=all+men+are+created+equal&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dall%2Bmen%2Bare%2Bcreated%2Bequal%26efqs%3DeyJjdHkiOlsiYW05MWNtNWhiQT09Il0sImRpc2MiOltdfQ%253D%253D&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-6744_basic_search%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A4f033c9bdc5655599c39c8c62a922f5d&seq=4 https://www.jstor.org/stable/776043?searchText=life+liberty+and+the+pursuit+of+happiness&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dlife%2Bliberty%2Band%2Bthe%2Bpursuit%2Bof%2Bhappiness%26efqs%3DeyJjdHkiOlsiYW05MWNtNWhiQT09Il0sImRpc2MiOltdfQ%253D%253D&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-6744_basic_search%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Ad0989982afcccbb4632bdc13d99096e6 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1921691 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2253558?seq=3 https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/160696/1/lis-wps-024.pdf https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights/what-does-it-say https://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/brief-history/declaration-of-independence.html#:~:text=The%20Bill%20of%20Rights%20protects,punishment%20and%20compelled%20self%2Dincrimination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_States https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/07/24/united-states-ratification-international-human-rights-treaties#:~:text=The%20US%20has%20not%20ratified,the%20Rights%20of%20the%20Child. https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/08/ages-of-revolution-how-old-1776/ https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/19th-amendment-adopted https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement https://time.com/5876456/black-women-right-to-vote/ https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/19th-amendment#:~:text=%22The%20right%20of%20citizens%20of,this%20article%20by%20appropriate%20legislation.%22 https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/due_process

    30 min

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I want to introduce topics that may be hard to talk about—providing legal insight, and historical insight to create a more well-rounded understanding of social justice issues.