In the days leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump we’re discussing the legacy of President Barack Obama. Sheri Parks and E.R Shipp join Tom to review some of President Obama’s most poignant moments. How has the president used empathy to shape conversations around contentious issues like gun control, race, and policing?
Plus, an exploration of First Lady Michelle Obama's time in the White House.
Dr. Sheri Parks is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and author of Fierce Angels: Living with a Legacy from the Sacred Dark Feminine to the Strong Black Woman.
E.R. Shipp is a Pulitzer Prize winning commentator, columnist for the Baltimore Sun and Associate Professor and Journalist in Residence in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University.
On Mondays here on Midday, we read the names of people who lost their lives to violence in Baltimore City. We stand in witness to their untimely deaths, and we remember their families and friends in their hour of grief. A researcher named Ellen Worthing has been compiling a list of Baltimore homicide victims for the past 15 years. We are indebted to her for the data she posts on her blog, "chams page.” We also consult the Baltimore Sun’s list of homicides, which they have been compiling since 2007.
Thirteen people have already been victims of homicide in our city since Friday Jan 13. These are the people who were killed in Baltimore last week:
- Jeffry Douglas, 47
- Chris Pennington, 32
- Cody Boyd, 26
- Shawn Bae, 27
- Dominique Thaniel 37
- Dominque Hall, 24
- Desean Mcelveen, 17
