Police Chief Speaks on Arrest in Case of Black Woman Found Hanging in Mississippi

There has been an arrest in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney joins Victor to share the latest in the investigation and address nationwide alarm about Fortune's death given the state’s racial history. Plus, Victor speaks to Emerson Villaran Calles, who has lived in the U.S. for more than two decades but decided to "self-deport" this week ahead of the expected expiration of temporary protection from deportation for immigrants from El Salvador. Texas is moving forward with a rewrite of social studies lessons that critics, including Muslim students, say is anti-Islamic. The Republican chairman of the Texas State Board of Education, Aaron Kinsey, joins Victor to respond. Amid nationwide concern about Islamophobia around the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Victor shares the story of Muslim 9/11 victim and hero Mohammad Salman Hamdani. The father of a murder victim in North Carolina shared the story of his son Shemar in a Senate campaign ad, but he now says he feels misled by the GOP ad-creators. Ronald Hayes joins Victor to discuss. And for our Art is Life series this week, Victor explores how the Black workers who toiled in a swamp to build a garden are being honored decades after they were shunned from the place they helped create during Jim Crow segregation. Norfolk Botanical Garden Historian Martha McClenny Williams shares the history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices