Friend,

We just wanted to send a quick note letting you know that you can now listen to “Wake-Up Call: Part II” – the latest episode of Season Four of our acclaimed podcast, Sounds Like Hate – wherever you get your podcasts.

LISTEN NOW

Part II of “Wake-Up Call” continues the story of a racial reckoning at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. This episode opens on Matriculation Day at the institute, the start of school for first-year students. In years past, this introduction to college life – “hell week” – would have included pretending to be Confederates killing Union soldiers in a battle reenactment and marching past a looming statue of General Stonewall Jackson. But with the statue gone and new Black leadership, sweeping changes are afoot.

Racial justice protests in 2020 spearheaded by some VMI students and alumni prompted a state-ordered independent investigation that documented a culture of racism and sexism at the school. What has changed at VMI since then? Have the changes gone far enough in addressing systemic racial inequality? And will the new governor, Glenn Youngkin, threaten VMI’s progress?

To learn more, listen and subscribe to Sounds Like Hate today on your podcast platform of choice. You can also listen at SoundsLikeHate.org.

In solidarity,

Your friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center

Was this message forwarded to you? Sign up to receive SPLC updates. Make a recurring donation to the SPLC and become a Friend of the Center. Make a donation in someone else's honor and send them an eCard. Make a planned gift to the SPLC and become a Partner for the Future. Take advantage of corporate matching gift opportunities and find out if your employer will match your donation to the SPLC.

Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
334.956.8200 // splcenter.org
Copyright 2022