2%.
On Michael Easter, and on my podcast, 2%. I break down the signs of Neville toughness,
“fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern worry. Put yourself through some hardships,”
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where you're banging your head against the wall, and it doesn't feel funny more, it's okay to quit.
If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar. You know, the cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be right. It wouldn't be that.
“There's a lot in life. Listen to things that on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.”
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Trap. Laura Scott's new police. As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
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“Hey, Iskadeja. This episode will tell the story of how one incredibly dark moment in our”
country's history sparked a 70-year movement that we're still feeling the benefits of today. But in order to tell that story, we're going to be discussing freshly motivated violence and murder. If you are someone you love has been affected by any of the things that come up in this episode, we left some links in the description that offer resources and support. Take care of yourself. Inmateel was a 14-year-old boy when he took a trip to visit his family and money Mississippi.
It was 1955. Much of the US was still in the era of Jim Crow segregation. It was a time when violent racism was the norm and where one small, bad encounter could ruin your life, which is what happened to him. After being accused of offending a white woman in a grocery store, he was abducted and lynched in a horrific case that shocked America. You've probably heard a story before, and high school lessons are Hollywood movies. You might have seen black and white photos
of him and assumed it happened a long time ago, but the past is not as distant as it seems. I am Marveille McCain Parker and I am the wife of Reverend Wheeler Parker, who is the last survivor and eyewitness of the kidnapping of Emmett Till. Not only was he an eyewitness to the kidnapping, but he and Emmett from the age of seven they grew up together. They were cousins and best friends. Emmett actually traveled to
Mississippi with Wheeler and Wheeler came home alone. Dr. Parker's husband lost his childhood friend to a racist lynching, but Emmett's murders sparked a movement, a movement that continues to inspire me and Nikki and our activism and justice work. The open casket funeral of Emmett Till in Robert's Temple Church of God and Christ is said to have been the catalyst that sparked the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks said when she refused to give her seat up on the bus that September of 1955
that hot day she refused to give up a seat. She thought about Emmett Till and she stayed in her seat and we know that that one act was the birth of the Montgomery bus boycott that brought Dr. Kina
Town that gave birth to the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement started with a few ordinary but deeply passionate organizers determined to
“fight against the status quo. Regular people like you and me and this episode I'll be talking to”
Dr. Parker about her remarkable life fighting for social change. And she'll share some of her top tips for how to rally your own community around the causes that you care about the most. I'm Kidija Hardaway from the teens at Novel and I Heart Podcast. This is the girl friends untouchable. Bonus episode five sparking a movement.
Dr. Parker is so lovely to see you and talk to you as always. Good morning, Kidija. It's
nice to see you this Monday morning and to have this opportunity to share with you.
“Dr. Parker has a long and story career. She's the executive director of the Emmett Till and”
maybe Till Mobley Institute. She graduated with a doctor from seminary school wrote a book about the impact of HIV and AIDS on African American women and spent her life mentoring activists like me. But if you ask her what shaped her commitment to social justice work, she'll tell you it was the
Till story and the pivotal role to play it in the civil rights movement. In 1955, her husband William Parker,
then a teenager and his friend Emmett Till traveled from Chicago to Mississippi visiting relatives for a summer vacation. The two boys were asleep when a group of men broke into the house they were standing during the middle of the night. They came in with a gun and a flashlight, put Emmett out of the bed and dragged him away. It was the last time William saw him alive. The aftermath of the lynching traumatized William. For all of these years, he said survivors
guilt, but he didn't want to talk about the story. It was such an unpleasant story to him and living with the guilt that he came home and Emmett didn't. It was not something that he felt he wanted to visit every day or every week publicly. He didn't want any fame and any claim. He said, "I'm not a hero, I'm a survivor." He sat back. He let Emmett tell the story. Emmett and Emmett tell his mother. But eventually, William decided to share his perspective.
He was convinced that he needed to write his book, tell the authentic story. William hadn't been asked by me before her death to ensure that the legacy of Emmett Till was told in perpetuity. Most things are catapulted by storytelling. In the case of Emmett Till, the story has been told in many different versions. I identify very much so with storytelling when it comes to the work I've done in Wine. County. It's pretty much what moves the needle. But I've also
found that people have very strong desires and the desire center around their ego and then want to tell their version of a story that may not even be true or even helpful toward moving the needle
“for the entire project. Can you talk about that a little bit and how you navigated that?”
I go was to make sure that the story was told truthfully because the people that were being featured on CNN and other news outlets, some of them weren't even born when the story happened and they told a distorted story. So we were just, I guess we were just forced to tell the true story because there were so many miles out there, painting the picture and it was false. So alongside other friends, family and supporters of the Till family, Dr. Parker made it a part of her mission to ensure
the true version of that story stayed alive. In 2021, we created what is called the Immethill and Mami Till Mobile Institute and it was created to ensure that the story of Immethill is told correctly
Truthfully and that the resources that would be made available in order to er...
national sites to the memory of he and his mom were brought to fruition. So as executive director
“of the Immethill and Mami Till Mobile Institute, we were successful in getting the sites dedicated”
as a national monument president Joe Biden signed a proclamation creating the Immethill and Mami Till Mobile National Monument with three sites. It is the first non-contiguous national monument in the United States. The three sites are one Robert's Temple Church of God and Christ in Chicago where Immethill and Mami Till Mobile was held. It is said that over 100,000 people passed by and viewed the mutilated body of the slain 14 year old boy and the courthouse in some of Mississippi where
the infamous trial was held and his confessed murderers were found not guilty by a jury of their peers. And the third site is Great Ballanting where Immethill was retreated. So we are working now to restore
the church to its 1955 facade. We've received $2.9,18 million grant to begin that work and that's
“ongoing. We've been able to acquire property. The property where Immethill had homestead and we”
have memorialized that site and we continue to advocate for the poor so busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. But they didn't achieve that by just making the right calls and waiting for change to happen. Dr. Parker and though she worked alongside spent years building up a community of people to join their calls, a feat that would inspire me and the other women of Kansas City when it came to the challenge of trying to take detective Roger Gouloucey down. And after the break, we'll look at ways
you can spark that kind of change in your community.
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anchor man, Saturday night live, and the big money players network, it's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had a lunch with him one day, and I was like,
“and dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just”
know the groundlings, I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that comes. Look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. Yeah. He goes, but there's so much lock and ball. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall, and it doesn't feel funny more, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would
not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right. It wouldn't be that. There's a lot in life. Yeah. Listen to things, Dad, on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. In 2023, former Bachelor Star Clayton Eckard found himself at the center of a paternity scandal. The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in
her story. This began a years-long court battle to prove the truth. You doctorate this particular test twice in selling, correct? I doctorate the test once. It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case. I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for. Some like the greatest disinfectant. They would uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg, a lesbian, I could imagine it.
My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is LoveTrap. Laura, Scottsdale Police.
As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at AmeriCorps County as Laura Owens has been
indicted on fraud charges. This isn't over until Justice has served in Arizona. Listen to LoveTrap podcast on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Laura Jones and I love playing music with people so much that my podcast called Playing Along is Back. I sit down with musicians from all musical styles to play songs together in an intimate setting. Every episode is a little different, but it all involves music and
conversation with some of my favorite musicians. Over the past two seasons, I've had special guests like Dave Grohl, Lavey, Mavis Staples, Remi Wolf, Jeff Tweedy, really too many to name. And this season, I've sat down with Olesia Cara, Sarah McLaughlin, John Legend and more. Check out my new episode with Josh Grobin. You even did the Phantom at that point.
Yeah, I was definitely the Phantom and that. That's so funny. So coming out with us in the studio and listen to playing along on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
When you see activists who have achieved incredible things like changing laws or sparking
“nationwide campaigns, it can be easy to think that you need to have it all figured out to make”
a meaningful difference. But you don't. You just got to start with what you've got. We don't need money to accomplish the things that we're trying to accomplish. I tell people when they come to me to ask me about, you know, how do we get funding? We want to do ABCD. I said, you get funding by doing ABCD and then people will find what you're doing. My husband and I, we financed the organization for many,
many years. We provided the office space and our building, all of the office equipment. I did all of the legal work. Somebody's got to incline their skills to help you accomplish your goal. You remind me so much of the Rosa Park story and how the NWCP got its footing, which in a lot of ways didn't have any income, but again, they knew that they needed to make a change and they organized and used their human capital to make that happen.
How do you pick a good team that supplies the incline donations or the incline service that we're talking about that gives up their elbow grease and the sacrifice of what they actually
“want to see come out of it. You look for key stakeholders. And for me, key stakeholders were people”
who lived in the community, worked in the community. They were stakeholders because their survival was dependent on the community surviving. A lot of times we try to bring in people who are not stakeholders, which means that they're not tied or linked to the issue or to the need. And so their human capital or their contribution could be fleeting. They had here today and gone tomorrow, but key stakeholders are people that are going to benefit. It's something Dr. Parker
also saw when she tried to create change in her town, Summit, Illinois. The target was to make my community aware of the resources that they were entitled to, that they weren't being able to access. And in challenging the elected officials to be fair in distributing the resources, in the black community, the churches, the anchor institution, in the black community. So we
began our first meeting with the pastors, made them aware of the problems and the issues we were
facing and the need for us to come together as a community. Our first community meeting, the meeting room could not hold all of the people that attended. We listened to the residents that we had created a agenda of issues that the community wanted to be heard about and that wanted to be answered. Then after we created the form of agenda items, then we asked them to prioritize, you know, everything we came through everything it wants. So now tell us, you know, let's prioritize
our needs and then let's begin to systematically address them with the powers that be.
“So you might start off with a very small nucleus of people as key stakeholders, but as you begin to move”
forward and people become proactive in wanting to be involved, you will bring on people.
A small group of people deeply invested in their community can be pretty powe...
Community mobilization usually it begins with an issue that there is something that needs to be addressed.
In order to mobilize a community, we found that as long as everything was going smooth, you know, people don't have time to attend meetings, but you let something happen. And everybody is ready to fight really. Mobilization helps you to be able to address the issue as a community, which will bring your elected officials to the table because we know that every four years, every two years, there's an election. So mobilizing is important as it relates to politics.
“That's how community mobilization paid off for my neighborhood. We now have senior housing.”
We got all of our new streets, new alleys, all of these resources were there, but they weren't being channeled to my neighborhood, which was the poorest neighborhood in the community. And of course, entitled to the resources, but they were going on the places. So community mobilization where there's unity there strength. And if you organize without anger and without animosity, you can become a mover and shaker. And that's what happened in my down. But what do you do when
you're trying to organize in the midst of a tense political climate like the one we're living through right now? How do you formalizes what the people you don't see eye to eye with? And a time when it feels more important than ever to fight for our civil liberties. That's after the break. Two percent. That is the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator
“available. I'm Michael Easter, an on my podcast, two percent. I break down the signs of mental”
toughness, fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern world. All be speaking with writers, researchers, and other health and fitness experts, and more to look past the in practical and way too complex pseudoscience that dominates the wellness industry. We really believe that seed oils were inherently inflammatory. We got it wrong. Many of the problems that we are freaked out about in the world are the result of stress. Put yourself through some hardships. And you will
come out on the other side. A happier, more fulfilled healthier person. Listen to 2 percent. That's
TWO percent on the I-Hart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up everyone? I'm Agobot and my next guest. You know from stepbrothers, anchorman, Saturday Night Live, and the big money players network. It's Will Ferrell. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with him one day and I was like,
“"Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know”
the groundlings. I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place that comes." Look for up and coming talent. He said, "If it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you." Which is really sweet. He goes, "But there's so much lock and ball." And he's like, "Just give it a shot." He goes, "But if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel funny anymore, it's okay to quit."
If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar. You know, the cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be. Right, it wouldn't be that. There's a lot in life. Listen to thanks dad on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, former Bachelor Star Clayton Eckard found himself at the center of a
paternity scandal. The family court hearings that followed revealed glaring inconsistencies in her story. This began a year's long court battle to prove the truth. "You doctor this particular test twice in silence, correct?" I doctor the test once. It took an army of internet detectives to crack the case. "I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for."
Some like the greatest disinfectant. They would uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. "Break a Westby and I can manage any." My mind was blown. "I'm Stephanie Young. This is LoveTrap." Laura, Scott Stelpoise.
As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at America for County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges. This isn't over until justice has served in Arizona. Listen to LoveTrap podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get
Your podcasts.
Hey, I'm Laura Jones, and I love playing music with people so much that my podcast
“called Playing Along is Back. I sit down with musicians from all musical styles to play songs”
together in an intimate setting. Every episode is a little different, but it all involves music and conversation with some of my favorite musicians. Over the past two seasons, I've had special guests like Dave Grohl, LaVe, Mavis Staples, Remi Wolfe, Jeff Tweedy, really too many to name. And this season I sat down with Olesia Cara, Sarah McLaughlin, John Legend, and more.
Check out my new episode with Josh Grohl and you even did the Phantom at that point. Yeah, I was definitely the Phantom of that. That's so funny. "Shall we stay with each night, each morning, say you love me, you know..." So come hang out with us in the studio and listen to playing along on the iHeart Radio app.
Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I have always been told when it comes to making change fundamentally.
It literally only takes two to three people, but when it comes to actually moving that forward, it takes the vote. It takes we the people. If I can't get the people to come out and vote and stand and measure for that, then we have nothing.
“I know in my community, I think only 30% of the population votes,”
and a very small percentage of that is black. How do we move the needle of voter registration and raise those percentages up across the country? That's what I asked Dr Parker. I'm a whole system of government is being challenged. I see no respect for the Constitution.
I see no respect for the Supreme Court. I see absolutely no respect for the separation of powers. And it's frightening to me. When you talk about voter registration and people getting out to vote, that is the biggest challenge to anybody that has ever run for office.
Because people will not go out and vote. They say that vote doesn't matter or I don't understand it. Why it's not important, especially for black people who, of course, 100 years ago,
“I think women couldn't vote and you know how long it took for our people to be able to vote in”
Mississippi in the south and the things that they had to go through in order to be able to vote and how many people lost their lives. I mean, my grandmother's church was burned down in the 60s because the civil rights workers were having meetings, they had trying to teach people how to register the votes. We got this right to vote through blood, sweat, and tears.
Me, Nikki, and other activists, I know, often talk about what it takes to pull people out of apathy and inspire them to action. For some people, it takes a personal connection or crisis. It's a multitude of things for Dr. Parker, like her past experience and personal connections, but one of the constants that keeps her fighting is her faith.
My husband and I are both third generation members of the Church of God in Christ.
So we were raised in a Pentecostal family. We were taught to live by the Gospels. But for him, he says that, you know, it was his faith in God that allowed him to survive the ordeal that he went through because on that night when Emmett was kidnapped, he prayed to God to spare his life and to allow him to live and that he would serve him. And he has kept that vow. He has kept that vow and that commitment to God.
I embrace his role in preserving the legacy of Emmett. Our faith in God helps us to endure the things that we've had to endure. The theme of our work with Emmett Till Story is love, forgiveness, and reconciliation. So, you know, the Bible tells us, and I'm on my soapbox right now. The Bible tells us that we have to love our enemy. And I say to my students,
"If we have to love our enemy, who's left to hate?" Nobody. Because we definitely love our brother and our sister and our mother and our father and our friends. He told us to love our neighbor as ourself. Then he tells us to love our enemy. I'm like, "My God, who can I hate?" He says, "Nobody." So, hate is not even on the table. Now, it's a challenge to love your enemy. But doesn't mean I want to go to dinner with him or take a vacation
With him.
and love is commanded of us. We have to dig deep within our soul and ask God to give us
“what he has told us. We can do. He said, "We can love our enemy." So, if he said, "We can do it."”
By God, we can do it. We can do it. And the closing of my interrogation or my speeches to visitors to the monument, I say that my husband and I are in the twilight of our life. And you know, we've got to work the work of him that sent us while his day, because the night coming with no man can work. And what I'm trying to do now is train younger women to carry on what I do and what I've done. I often wonder what the future of Kansas City Kansas will look like.
Most of the victims and survivors never got justice for what happened to them. And even the
idea of justice itself feels flawed. What does justice even look like when a woman has been killed,
“or a family has been destroyed by the actions of one man, who's not a liar to face the consequences?”
Dr. Parker doesn't know, but in the case of immature, it's his legacy that remains. In this year, we celebrate 70 years since his death, his murder in money, Mississippi, his kidnapping and money and his subsequent murder. We don't celebrate it because it's pleasant. It's an unpleasant event, but we celebrate his life because of what his life has contributed to all of America. I have a picture of Wheeler Holden, the hand of Emmett, the statue of Emmett
in Greenwood, Mississippi, which is about 18 feet. And he's holding his hand. And he said, "You're bigger in death than you would have been in life." I just hope that the women of Kansas City whose lives were cut short are looked back on in the same way. That the stories of their murders are used to shine a light on the loose-piece crimes, and that their ongoing investigation exposes corruption. I hope that by continuing to tell these stories will inspire the people of Kansas
City and beyond to fight back against the forces they seek to suppress and pray upon us.
Thank you, Dr. Parker, for all your work that you've done. It's truly amazing to see a lot of
it come to fruition. I greatly appreciate not just hearing the words, but being able to watch you, grow and expand knowledge and education around Emmett Till. To learn more about Dr. Parker's work and activism, visit www.doctormorevilleparker.net. What an inspiring conversation. I really admire Dr. Parker's lifelong commitment to fighting against social injustice and preserving the part of our country's history that can be difficult to
hear. It's more important than ever to fight back. So rally your community mobilized them around the issues you care about and get to work because no person, system, or form of repression is ever truly untouchable. When regular people like you and me come together to make a change. In the next and final episode of the Girl Friends Untouchable, I'll be having a conversation with the journalist to meritiary about house survivors, families, and activists can use the media to put a spotlight
on the injustice in their communities. Here's a sneak peek. You cannot adequately take care of yourself unless you take care of that person who's sharing their traumatic story because you can be traumatized
“by the traumatic stories of others and the best way to protect yourself from that is to support them”
in an ethical trauma-informed way. The Girl Friends Untouchable is produced by novel for iHeart Podcast. For more from novel, visit novel.audio. This episode was hosted by me, Kadija Hardaway. It was produced by Muhammad Ahmed in Rafaura Masrura. The editor is Joe Willer, the researcher is Ayanna Yusuf, production management from Sri Houston in Joe Savage. The fact checker is Bindal Fulton,
Sound design mixing and scoring by Daniel Kimpsen, with additional engineerin...
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“2%. That's the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator available.”
I'm Michael Ester, and on my podcast 2%, I break down the signs of Neville toughness, fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern worry. With yourself through some hardships, and you will come out on the other side, a happier war fulfilled healthier person. Listen to 2%, that's TWO% on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Jacob Oden, my next guest, it's Will Ferrell.
My dad gave me the best advice ever. He goes, just give it a shot, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall, and it doesn't feel funny more, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar. The cat just hang in there. Yeah, it would not be, right? It wouldn't be that. There's a lot of light. Listen to things that on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
In 2023, Bachelor Star Clayton Eckard was accused of fathering twins, but the pregnancy
“appeared to be a hoax. You doctored this particular test twice in silence, correct?”
I doctored the test once. It took an army of internet detectives to uncover a disturbing pattern. Two more men who'd been through the same thing. Greg Olespie and Ico Manchini. My mind was blown. I'm Stephanie Young. This is Love Trapped. Laura Scott's new police.
As the season continues, Laura Owens finally faces consequences.
Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This isn't iHeart Podcast.
