Roundtables on Race

Season 2: Race and Voting Rights
Episode 6: Trusting the Process

In the season finale of "Roundtables on Race," our season-long look at the intersection of race and voting rights culminates in a conversation about building trust in the system in which we cast our votes. Host the Rev. Kathy Walker is joined by Justice Bob Orr, current Republican and former justice of the NC State Supreme Court, and Mayor Jennifer Roberts, a current Democrat and former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. Together, they are working as part of the Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution program by undertaking the “The North Carolina Network for Fair, Safe, and Secure Elections,” otherwise known as the “Trusted Elections Tour," a bi-partisan effort to explain the election process, answer questions and provide appropriate ways to resolve any questions or disputes. Most importantly, the tour is intended to ensure everyone is able to vote and can trust that their vote counted and mattered.

Season 2: Race and Voting Rights
Episode 5: The Role and Impact of the Courts

Among the many facets related to race and voting rights, one element front and center in today’s headlines is the role and impact of the courts. Historically and today, court decisions have had - and continue to have - a clear and decisive impact on a person's ability to vote, especially people of color. In this episode, host the Rev. Kathy Walker is joined by two guests who are actively involved in this work with tremendous insight to share: returning guest Professor Irving Joyner, award-winning professor of law at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law and legal commentator for local, state and national media; and Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of the bestselling and award-winning books White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.

Season 2: Race and Voting Rights
Episode 4: The State of Voting on College Campuses

Young adults have always had a significant presence in the voting process and social justice movements, and that presence is only increasing, with young adult voter turnout reaching record levels in 2018. With 2022 midterm elections approaching, we take a look at the state of voting on college campuses and the issues on the forefront of voters' minds. Host the Rev. Kathy Walker is joined by the Rev. Kevin Matthews, who for more than 15 years has served as the Episcopal chaplain for St. Mary’s House in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Carmen Liñero-Lopez, program manager for the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition's Ask Every Student Initiative.
(And thank you for understanding the technical glitches we encountered during recording happen!)

Season 2: Race and Voting Rights
Episode 3: Facts and Myths of Voter Suppression

Following Episode 2's exploration of the systemic issues that might interfere with a person's right to vote, in this third installment of our look at race and voting rights, we discuss the more overt aspects of voter suppression – what those efforts are, some of the misinformation around them, and what each of us can do to help ensure everyone with the right to vote is able to do so. Host the Rev. Kathy Walker is joined by Karen Brinson Bell, executive director for the NC State Board of Elections, and Professor Rebecca Theobald, assistant professor of research at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs and the head of the GeoCivics project.

Season 2: Race and Voting Rights
Episode 2: Barriers and Impact Factors

In this second episode of our season-long look at race and voting rights, we take a look at some of the systemic barriers and impact factors related to race and voting. Host the Rev. Kathy Walker is joined by Professor Irving Joyner, professor of law at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law and legal commentator for local, state and national media; and Kevin Briggs, a research fellow with The Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations.

Season 2: Race and Voting Rights
Episode 1: Historical Context and Contemporary Trends

Roundtables on Race is back for its second season, taking a look at Race and Voting Rights. In the season premiere, host the Rev. Kathy Walker leads a discussion that takes a look back at the history of voting rights and how it compares with contemporary trends. She is joined by guests Professor Michael Bitzer, professor of politics and history at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina; a contributor to OldNorthStatePolitics.com and the co-author of The New Politics of the Old South and The Future Ain't What It Used to Be; Professor Robert Korstad, emeritus professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University, and Professor Jemes Leloudis, associate dean for Honors and the Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Professors Korstad and Leloudis are the co-authors of Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina.

Season 1: Race and the News Media
Episode 6: Addressing the Past

In the Season One finale of “Roundtables on Race,” the Rev. Kathy Walker discusses news outlets that are examining their past and future,
especially around race-related news coverage. She is joined by two guests who
are leaders in organizations that are proving to be leaders themselves in
addressing past actions: Dave DeWitt, feature news editor for WUNC, North
Carolina Public Radio and NPR affiliate in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area,
co-host of the podcast “Tested,” and member of WUNC’s Inclusion Diversity
Equity Accountability (I.D.E.A.) committee; and Sewell Chan, editorial board
chair and editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, and soon-to-be
editor in chief for the Texas Tribune.

Season 1: Race and the News Media
Episode 5: The Audience

In this week’s episode of “Roundtables on Race,” the Rev. Kathy Walker hosts a conversation on the relationship between news media and us, the audience and the consumers of information. She is joined by guests whose expertise in this field is unparalleled: Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of both the American Press Institute and the Media Insight Project; Jeffrey Gottfried, senior researcher at Pew Research Center; and Jacob Nelson, assistant professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and author of Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public.

Season 1: Race and the News Media
Episode 4: Setting the Tone

In this episode of "Roundtables on Race," host the Rev. Kathy Walker explores the media's role and responsibility in "setting the tone," especially in respect to potential conversations news reports can encourage. She is joined by guests Paul Cuadros, an award-winning investigative reporter, author and professor at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media; Ralph Shaw, morning host at WTOB radio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, whose decades-long career includes time as a news director, assignment editor, reporter, news anchor and contract news correspondent in both radio and television; and Skip Foster, former president and publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat, during whose 30-year career he was often called a consummate newsman.

Season 1: Race and the News Media
Episode 3: Representation in the Newsroom

In this episode of "Roundtables on Race," host the Rev. Kathy Walker discusses representation in the newsroom and the difference it makes in reporting. She is joined by two guests whose careers in the news have ranged from the local to the national. Bervette Carree is the news director at ABC11-WTVD in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina. Her nearly 20-year career has included time as an executive producer at NBC and CBS affiliates as well as lead producer at CNN and HLN in Atlanta. Adrian Walker is an associate editor and columnist at the Boston Globe, whose 30-year career includes being an integral part of the Globe’s 2017 Pulitzer-finalist team and their series on race in the Boston area. (And if you noticed a similarity in name with our host, yes, there is a relation – Kathy and Adrian are siblings!)

Season 1: Race and the News Media
Episode 2: The Making of a Journalist

In this episode of "Roundtables on Race," host the Rev. Kathy Walker explores training and what goes in to the making
of a journalist. She's joined by two guests who have a
deep knowledge of and a hand in educating budding journalists: Dr. Tracy Everbach, professor at the University of North Texas' Mayborn School of Journalism and author of Testing Tolerance: Addressing Controversy in The Journalism and Mass Communication Classroom; and Dean Susan King, dean of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media and former reporter and news anchor whose career included serving as a White House correspondent for ABC News and reporting for CBS, NBC and CNN, as well as hosting the “Diane Rehm Show” and “Talk of the Nation” for National Public Radio.

Season 1: Race and the News Media
Episode 1: A Look at History

Welcome to Roundtables on Race, the podcast that seeks to explore the relationship between race and the many facets of our society. With your host, the Rev. Kathy Walker, we’re excited to begin our season of exploration of race and the news media. It’s not just the first episode of the season, but our very first episode of the podcast, and we’re glad you’re on this journey with us.

In this episode, we start our conversation on race and the news media with a look back at the historical context. By gaining a deeper understanding of how people of color have been portrayed in the past, we’ll be better able over the course of this season to see how historical actions have influenced – and continue to influence – the news media today. We’re delighted to be joined today by two guests with a wealth of knowledge on this topic: Dr. Trevy McDonald, associate professor and the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media; and Professor Andrew Rojecki, professor of communication and political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-author of the award-winning The Black Image in the White Mind.

Welcome to "Roundtables on Race," the podcast that seeks to explore the relationship between race and the many facets of our society.

In our pilot episode, we explore how to have difficult conversations no matter what the topic. Host the Rev. Kathy Walker is joined by the Most Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church (known to many as the "Royal Wedding Preacher"), the Rev. Charles Robinson, founder of The Project for Deeper Understanding, and Father Christian Anderson, co-host of "A Priest and a Rabbi."