About this episode

John discusses recent ICE shootings and interviews experts on racial healing and media survival in a divided society.

John discusses the Trump administration ordering ICE to immediately suspend most vehicle stops nationwide following a pair of high-profile fatal shootings of motorists within less than a week. In Maine, an ICE officer shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero , a 26-year-old Colombian national, during an enforcement operation on Pool Street. Also, in Texas, agents in unmarked vehicles initiated a traffic stop and fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while he was driving his construction crew to a job site. Then, John interviews the founder of the Turquoise & Lavender Institute for Transformation and Healing and a nationally recognized leader in racial healing and spiritual transformation - Catherine Meeks, PhD . They talk about her new book " Bridging the Rivers of Difference: A Proclamation of Unity in Resistance ". Next, John welcomes back former MSNBC host, award winning Journalist, host of the Joy Reid show on YouTube, and author of the Substack Joy’s House - the one and only Joy Reid . They talk about the survival of media and religion in this Trumpian world of division and hate. Then winding it up, comedians Rhonda Hansome and Keith Price team up to joke…

People in this episode

Host: John Fugelsang

Guests: Catherine Meeks, PhD, Joy Reid

Topics covered

• ICE shootings
• racial healing
• media survival
• Trump administration
• spiritual transformation
• comedy

Keywords

• ICE
• shootings
• Trump
• racial healing
• media
• spirituality
• comedy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Turquoise & Lavender Institute for Transformation and Healing

Books & works: Bridging the Rivers of Difference: A Proclamation of Unity in Resistance

Places: Maine, Texas

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