Ben & Jerry's and Vox Are Launching a Podcast Exploring America's Racist History

The show will look at how slavery and oppression continue to shape the lives of Black Americans

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Ben & Jerry’s has partnered with Vox to create a podcast that will examine America’s history of systematic racism—and how the injustices of slavery continue to affect Black Americans today.

With America facing a reckoning on racial inequality in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, the politically outspoken ice cream brand said there was a need for an “honest look at the American history that has allowed and encouraged white supremacy to thrive for the last 400 years.”

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