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0:08 – To kick off Black History Month, Nunu Kidane, founder and director of Priority Africa Network, and Gerald Lenoir, founding executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, discuss the African Diaspora Dialogues – workshops aimed at building and strengthening ties between new Black immigrants and existing African American communities. 0:34 – We … Continued
0:08 – A new Human Rights Watch report documents the cases of 138 Salvadorians killed after being deported from the United States. We’re joined by co-authors Elizabeth Kennedy and Alison Parker. 0:34 – California Gov. Gavin Newsom posthumously pardoned civil rights icon Bayard Rustin, convicted for having sex with men. We speak with John D’Emilio, a … Continued
0:08 – Donald Trump delivered a far-right-wing State of the Union address Tuesday night to the House of Representatives, and it was reminiscent of a game show. Mitch Jeserich, host of Letters and Politics, joins us to discuss. 0:34 – Carmen Maria Machado is the author of a new memoir bending genres and perspectives, about … Continued
0:08 – As technological problems delay results from the Iowa caucus, we hear reactions from John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation, and Rashad Robinson (@rashadrobinson), spokesperson for Color of Change PAC. Iowa is not representative of the racial makeup of the United States, Robinson points out — and neither is New Hampshire, where … Continued
0:08 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich), host of Letters and Politics, gives an update on impeachment. KPFA is broadcasting impeachment proceedings every day live from 10 a.m. until the evening. 0:34 – We kick off our series of local election debates with a debate on San Francisco’s Proposition E, a proposal on this year’s ballot to cap office … Continued
0:08 – John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation joins us to provide an update on the impeachment investigation ahead of today’s debate and vote in the Senate on whether to call witnesses. His latest book is The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism. 0:33 – Dr. Gregory Carr, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of … Continued
0:08 – Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) is the Peabody Award-winning cohost of the acclaimed WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc., which investigates how President Trump’s business works and who might be profiting from his administration. She joins us to talk about her new book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power. 1:08 … Continued
0:08 – Across what’s called “Canada,” First Nations peoples are fighting for their land, water and way of life as multibillion-dollar corporations attempt to build pipeline projects on unceded territories. Members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation are resisting the Coastal GasLink pipeline, facing arrests while defending their ancestral territories. We speak with Molly Wickham, the spokesperson … Continued
0:08 – President Trump is set to unveil his so-called “peace” plan for the Middle East, which was created without any input whatsoever from Palestinians. Thousands have taken to the streets of Gaza ahead of the announcement. For more we speak to Khury Petersen-Smith of the Institute for Policy Studies. He researches U.S. empire, borders, … Continued
0:08 – Last week, news broke that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ phone had been hacked in 2018 after he received a WhatsApp message from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We speak with the two U.N. investigators who reviewed the forensic analysis: U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kaye, author of Speech Police: The … Continued
