The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen 2/11/2015

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Part One:

Dr. Roy Poses – Editor of Health Care Renewal Blog* discussing: None Dare Call It Health Care Corruption (what does fmr. Gov. McDonald, Fmr Gov. Rick Perry, Fmr NY Assembly leader Sheldon Silver have in common?)
http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/01/none-dare-call-it-health-care-corruption.html

*Addressing threats to health care’s core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power. Advocating for accountability, integrity, transparency, honesty and ethics in leadership and governance of health care.

Part Two:

A conversation with Equal Justice Initiative Staff Attorney Sia Sanneh*, one of the authors of the just released report: Lynching in America, Confronting the Legacy
of Racial Terror.

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) today/Feb. 10 released Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, which documents EJI’s multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and World War II. EJI researchers documented 3959 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 – at least 700 more lynchings of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date.

Lynching in America makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation.
http://www.eji.org/node/1037

*Sia Sanneh is a Staff Attorney with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama. Since 2007, Sia has represented condemned prisoners, men and women sentenced to death, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. In addition, Sia helps to develop EJI’s race and poverty projects and works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. Sia is also a Clinical Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where she co-teaches the Capital Punishment Clinic.

Sia graduated magna cum laude from Columbia with a BA in history and also holds an M.A. from Columbia Teachers College. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she served as student director of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Sia graduated from St. Paul’s School (Concord, NH) in 1997; she was a Bishop John T. Walker Scholar and received the Rector’s Medal for school service.