Kennesaw State University unveiled a first-of-its-kind housing facility for its homeless students last week. We speak with Marcy Stidum, director of the university’s CARE center, about the facility and the growing issue of homelessness in higher education.

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Then, August marks two years since a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The protests that followed changed the way we talk about race and policing. But it also revealed a larger and more troubling truth about race and class, says Marc Lamont Hill. He is a Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College and author of the new book, “Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond.” We speak with Hill about the book and the war waged on what he calls the “nobody” class. 

And finally,  Gwinnett County is the most diverse county in the Southeast, but the area is represented almost entirely by white officials. And now, a lawsuit by a coalition of voting rights groups alleges that minority votes are being weakened by unfair district lines.  We speak with a trio of local experts about how much political representation and race matter in multicultural communities. 

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