CALL & RESPONSE: Police Brutality and the Movement for Black Lives

Guests include Patrisse Cullors, Clayton English, & Melina Abdullah. Stream live right here at 12pm PT/3pm ET!

Today’s episode of Call & Response will cover Police Brutality and the Movement for Black Lives with special guests Patrisse Cullors, Clayton English and Melina Abdullah.

The show will be live-streamed on Funny Or Die’s and Blavity’s channels on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch everyday at 12PM PT/3 PM ET. Tune into the stream below!

Call & Response is a new show designed to respond to the changes and activism of our time. Each day, Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle invite their favorite Black creators — activists, comedians, musicians, actors, visual artists, and more — to riff on current events, discuss the present momentum, and speak about their work and struggles.

About Today’s Guests:

Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel):

Founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles

Professor, Pan-African Studies California State University

Clayton English (@ClaytonEnglish):

Stand-Up Comedian & Activist

Patrisse Cullors (@OsopePatrisse):

Co-Founder Black Lives Matter,

Artist, Political Strategist, & Founder of Reform LA Jails

About Call & Response:

Each day, Baron and Mike invite their favorite creators — comedians, musicians, actors, visual artists, novelists, educators, philosophers, and more — to riff on current events, explore ways to utilize the momentum, and speak about their respective professions, work, and struggles.

Funny Or Die has partnered with Blavity Inc. to create this show with the intention of responding to our time through discourse and laughter.

Last year, Funny Or Die partnered with creators Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle to produce the Comedy Central TV show The New Negroes. The show’s mission was to highlight, promote, and amplify talented Black voices — both new and established — in comedy, hip-hop, and culture.

Baron, Mike, and FOD believe this mission has always been important.

Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle shared some clips from their show, The New Negroes, to give us a taste of what’s to come on Call & Response:

in this song by me and the legend @MFDOOM we explore the psychological oppression that forms as a result of being constantly racially profiled as a black male in America and how that oppression can be passed down generationally. #CallandResponse https://t.co/QvHDBgr7mk

— Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle) June 10, 2020

This is @LangstonKerman. Got a MFA.
White people had to call him “Master”
Been on :@insecurehbo @BlessThisMessTV @southsidechi @ShermansShow

I agree: it’s frustrating to have to BE POLITICAL when it would be cool to just BE.https://t.co/AUyRH6nO9t

— Baron Vaughn (@barvonblaq) June 10, 2020

#CallAndResponse
The thing I like about @silkyjumbo is her pacing. You never know exactly where she’s gonna go which is exactly why she’s always ahead of you.

Also. Damn she can write.https://t.co/lo719f12gd

— Baron Vaughn (@barvonblaq) June 10, 2020

She keeps you on your toes from the get-go, @dulcesloan is a gifted presence on the stage.

If you ever thought “Intersectionality?! How will I ever understand a word with THAT MANY LETTERS…?!”
…watch this.#CallAndResponse #Karen https://t.co/AKFUpj7nC2

— Baron Vaughn (@barvonblaq) June 10, 2020