Questions from an email highlight the relevancy of MLK Day and Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy, advice to would-be elected officials as more candidates declare for municipal elections, and the confirmation hearings for Trump Cabinet appointments continue. 

Reviewing Jack Smith’s 174 page report on efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to head the Pentagon, faces grilling in first Senate confirmation hearing.

Exclusive interview with educator, author, and documentarian Thelma Straight on her documentary "Road Scholars":

In 2009, twelve at-risk Black adolescent boys hit the road armed only with an audio tape recorder to interview older African American men from all walks of life in the hopes that their own lives might change. Leading the way was Thelma Straight, a teacher who received an oral history grant. Her mission? To help keep the youngsters from becoming another statistic.  In 2023, “Road Scholars” reunited some of these younger and older participants to talk about navigating the world as Black men. Their conversations offer hope, inspiration, and a possible roadmap for change.   

Updates on California's wildfires and debate on if a conflict resolution lifeline (talk/text) would be helpful in resolving "beef" before escalations into violence following a week of numerous cases involving young people engaging in gunplay. 

Exclusive interview with D'Monterrio Gibson, the former FedEx driver shot at by father and son, Gregory and Brandon Case, following the dismissal of the case following a mistrial declared after an investigator was cited for failing to produce crucial evidence and discovery and more recently fired from the Brookhaven Police Department.

Discussing the concepts of "Alpha" and "Masculine" men after motivational speaker Lisa Nichols' account of her husband's breakdown of the terms and the world braces as Donald John doubles and triples down on possible military intervention in the proposed US acquisitions of Greenland and the Panama Canal. 

Revisiting D'Monterrio Gibson's interview recounting his experience after a Lincoln County judge dismissed all charges against the two white men who prosecutors accused of shooting at Gibson, a Black FedEx driver, while he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., in January 2022. The charges against Gregory Case and his son Brandon Case included attempted murder, conspiracy and shooting into a motor vehicle. 

Recounting the hours of the January 6, 2021 Insurrection as Congress prepares to certify the 2024 election and outlining the disparity in reporting practices when it comes to terror attacks, most recently in  the New Years attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.

New details as authorities uncover the histories of Matthew Livelsberger, the active duty Special Forces who is said to have killed himself before the Tesla Cybertruck he had rented exploded in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, and Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the Army veteran who used a Ford F-150 Lightning and firearms in his attack on the French Quarter in New Orleans. 

Information on both New Years Day attackers, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring 35 more, and Matthew Alan Livelsberger, who rented a Tesla Cybertruck and used it in an explosion outside Las Vegas' Trump International Hotel.