Welcome to our first Happy Hour episode of the fall semester! Your palate cleansing podcast is here to provide some fresh insight on the relationship between the SF State Black Students’ Union and the Golden Gate Xpress, social media slactivism, and how we experience reporting from certain identity roles. Join hosts Malakai Wade (@malakaiwade) and shaylyn martos (@shaylynmartos) in our second part of a conversation with Xpress reporters Nia Coats and Whitney Papalii about their recent work and personal experiences. We find our happiness through sharing our passions with people we respect. Change begins with necessary conversation, and results from organized action. Find this week’s stories and background below! Nia’s stories: Black entrepreneurs make way for racial equity in cannabis industry https://goldengatexpress.org/93667/city/entrepreneurs-of-color-make-way-for-racial-equity-in-cannabis-industry/ Black Invincibility: The Myth https://goldengatexpress.org/93062/latest/opinion/black-invincibility-the-myth/ Whitney’s stories: BSU fundraiser unites campus groups to support Black businesses https://goldengatexpress.org/93745/campus/bsu-fundraiser-unites-campus-groups-to-support-black-businesses/ SF State’s Black Student Union raises money for local Black-owned businesses https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eqGCDIH8HaTtOsfU-x6ucG-a69m1lV6ULu_LJy1hm4I/edit Black Residents United in Housing hosts its first meeting of the semester to welcome back students https://goldengatexpress.org/90911/campus/black-residents-united-in-housing-hosts-its-first-meeting-of-the-semester-to-welcome-back-students/ Background research (optional!): SFSU Resource Guide, collected by the BSU https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x87NkMmRoyiEYnxWk0uI05d-HAk5Et-ogfZrNAwB0zk/edit#gid=0 Fighting inequity in the face of COVID-19 https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/06/covid-fighting-inequity Gater article from 1967 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U7OACXHB3pruVF9ivULeDtaR266grrBh/view?usp=drivesdk ‘We still have a long way to go,’ say 1968 SF State activists https://goldengatexpress.org/85419/latest/news/we-still-have-a-long-way-to-go-say-1968-sf-state-activists/ The fight for Ethnic Studies continues https://goldengatexpress.org/89909/latest/news/the-fight-for-ethnic-studies-continues/ Promises unfulfilled for College of Ethnic Studies https://goldengatexpress.org/78322/latest/news/promises-unfulfilled-for-college-of-ethnic-studies/ Bitch Media’s Editor in Chief Evette Dionne tweets about identity roles https://twitter.com/freeblackgirl/status/1277617851902255104 Overcoming systemic racism begins in our own newsrooms https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/overcoming-systemic-racism-begins-in-our-own-newsrooms/