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On September 15, Ben & Jerry’s, Vox Media, and The Who We Are Project will launch a podcast examining the lesser-known history of racial injustice. The new show is called “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism In America.”
Who We Are will show the hidden ways legal discrimination and state-sanctioned brutality continued long after slavery ended, profoundly limiting Black Americans’ ability to gain access to jobs, housing, education, and health care; or to create and accumulate wealth.
The podcast, based on Jeffery Robinson’s presentation of the same name, will look at a history written from the perspective of those who sought to justify owning other humans as property and then treating them as inferior after the enslaved humans were “freed.” As executive producer and legal authority, Robinson will provide surprising insights for the 6-episode podcast. Robinson is a deputy legal director of the ACLU and the director of the ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality. He spent nine years researching his multi-media “Who We Are” presentation, which will soon be released as a documentary.