Guests:

Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian Muslim American author, award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist.  She has been at the forefront of major civil rights campaigns including calling for an end to unwarranted surveillance of New York’s Muslim communities. She was the National Co-Chair of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, dubbed the largest single day protest in US history.

Samer Araabi is a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon.

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Khury Petersen-Smith is Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.

Samer Araabi is a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon.

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Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color- blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue water offer hope for a life beyond the current conditions. But blue is also the color of deep melancholy and heartache, echoing Louis Armstrong’s question, \”What did I do to be so Black and blue?\” In Black in Blues, celebrated author Imani Perry uses the world’s favorite color as a springboard for a riveting emotional, cultural, and spiritual journey-an examination of race and Blackness that transcends politics or ideology.

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Guest: Dr. Rebecca Hall is a scholar, activist, and author of the acclaimed graphic novel, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the powerful story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.

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On today’s episode, we explore George McCalman’s book The Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen. McCalman is an artist and creative director based in San Francisco. Our conversation revolves around the process he went through to narrow his list of historical figures from 500 to 145, his artistic process, and what it meant for him to orient himself around Black history in the US as a young Grenadian immigrant.

Among the figures featured in the book are James Baldwin, Madeline Anderson, Colin Kaepernick, and the first Black person to travel into space, Guion S. Bluford.

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Civil rights leader and political candidate Reverend Jesse Jackson died this week at the age of 84.  We speak with Walter Riley, a civil rights lawyer and an activist who has spent decades in Oakland defending protesters and challenging police misconduct. His political organizing work dates back to the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow south.

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On today’s show, we discuss the SAVE America Act, which was recently passed by a narrow vote in the House of Representatives. We speak to Portia Allen-Kyle, a civil rights attorney, public policy expert, and racial justice advocate, with experience in voting rights, civic participation, and equity-focused policy work.

Next, we go to Los Angeles, where LA city council member Nithya Raman has announced her mayoral candidacy against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. We speak to Jill Cowan, LA-based reporter for The New York Times and writer of the publication’s “California Today” newsletter.

Finally, we turn our attention back home in the Bay Area. We’ll speak with Jennifer Friedenbach, a housing and homelessness advocate and the Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco, to discuss the Bay Area homeless sweeps in preparation for the 2026 Super Bowl.

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On today’s show, we discuss the We Can’t Wait campaign for educators.  We speak with Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, an Oakland educator, racial justice advocate, and President of the Oakland Education Association (OEA). She teaches at Oakland Unified School District and is a leading voice for educational equity, including helping advance Oakland’s Reparations for Black Students policy. Learn more about the campaign https://wecantwait.info/

Next, we go to San Francisco, where teachers are striking for improved working conditions. We speak with Ryan Alias, a San Francisco public school English teacher at Balboa High School and a member of the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) bargaining committee, where he has been an active voice in the union’s 2026 contract negotiations and strike actions for fair contracts and better conditions for both educators and students.

Finally, we turn our attention to the Kaiser Nurses’ strike.  We’ll speak with Iris Henderson, a Registered Nurse and lactation specialist at the Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center. She is a member of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP). She has been on the front lines of recent strike actions, advocating for safer staffing and stronger protections for patients and healthcare workers.

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On this episode, we speak with Phyllis Bennis, co-director the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), her work focuses on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and the US-United Nations relations.  She is the author of several books including her latest, Understanding Palestine & Israel.

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