Cover to Cover – January 9, 2024
A celebration of the art of poetry and prose with Jack Foley, Nina Serrano, Jovelyn Richards and Jennifer Stone
Featured Episode
Renée Camila gets intimate with Sambucus (Elderberry and Elderflower): exploring their folklore, magic, and medicine. The last 20 minutes will open up to live call-in questions. Follow us on Instagram @theherbalhighway.
They shut down the Las Vegas strip, when the casinos were operated by the mafia, and waged a grassroots fight against racism and poverty. The struggle of African American poor mothers for welfare rights in Nevada is a story with lessons for our times of punitive austerity. Historian Annelise Orlick has documented one of the … Continued
Thom Hartmann Program – January 9, 2024
The Thom Hartmann Radio & TV Program covers US politics and political news commentary, science, culture, and economics.
Guest: Ryan Grim is DC bureau chief for The Intercept, co-host of the show Counter Points and Deconstructed, and author of the books “We’ve Got People,” “This Is Your Country On Drugs,” and his latest, “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.”
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – January 9, 2024
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Deaths in Custody – A Public Health Emergency; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist David Solnit
Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. We don’t know how many people die in custody each year, whether in an encounter with police on the … Continued
A Look At National Politics Ahead; Cheuk Kwan Writes Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
0:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation 0:33 — Cheuk Kwan is author of “Have You Eaten Yet: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World”
Democracy Now 6am – January 9, 2024
On today’s show: Profit Over Safety: Boeing Supplier Ignored Safety Warnings Before Jet Door Blowout, The Lever Reports “Complete Hypocrisy”: Activist Bree Newsome Bass on Biden Fighting Racism While Funding Gaza Genocide “The Cost of Inheritance”: Meet the Descendants of Enslavers and Enslaved Fighting for Reparations
Background Briefing (5am) – January 9, 2024
Why Boeing’s 737 Max is Grounded and is a Flying Turkey We begin with the grounding of the fleets of Boeing 737 Max aircraft after a door blew off one in mid-flight and look into how a storied American company was taken over by numbers-crunchers and still has a disastrous CEO in charge who ignored … Continued