Daily Border Crossings

Anika and Yolande Kwinana are founding members of Arlington for Justice, a nonprofit in Arlington, VA, that bills itself as an organization that works to bring a new era of public safety to the neighborhoods there by seeking reform of Arlington’s criminal justice system. The couple sat down with me virtually and shared what the Arlington for Justice is all about. More than that, though, was the ca...

Listen to Alexandra Bailey, an organizer and candidate running to be the Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for 2F08 in Ward 2 of DC who also just completed planning, organizing and executing a successful 6-week race education series teaching participants about becoming antiracist. Here, she gets candid and personal, sharing about her life growing up biracial, challenges she faced in both public a...

It's part 2 of my interview with the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III, pastor of the historic Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago -- one of his many titles, including scholar, leader, teacher and filmmaker among other roles. On this episode, we learn about the huge impact on Dr. Moss’s life, sermons, and teachings made by his sister Daphne; what his life was really like as leader of Trinity during P...

Renowned and gifted speaker, author, and advocate for justice, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III joins Daily Border Crossings and talks Covid 1619 “the original pandemic,” what children should do and parents should NOT do when interacting with police, and offers his keen insight on the world today. In part 1 of a 2-part interview, Dr. Moss addresses the racial protests and white people’s roles in them, respo...

Protests against racism and in support of Black lives continue around the globe. What does this mean at the local level? I talk with Sophie and Brooke, 2 white 20-something protesters on why now; college professor Kamille Bostick’s responds to a protester’s striking disappointed admission about needing to unlearn many things including particularly inaccurate information a teacher taught her about...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Daily Border Crossings (DBC) hosted by me, Samantha Fletcher. DBC is a show that takes a look at what it’s like to feel like you’re crossing a border each day when you show up at a place. It could be work, school, college, a place you volunteer, maybe even your neighborhood. Each day when you arrive, you feel like you have to leave so much of yourself outsi...