Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

Rev. Mark moderates the 114th NAACP National Convention Closing Plenary Panel with Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Sheryl Underwood.

Meek Mill, historian Henry Louis Gates, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and NAACP President Derrick Johnson engage in a panel discussion moderated by Fox Sports' Joy Taylor at the 114th NAACP Convention in Boston.

Senate Democrats held the annual African American Media Roundtable on a wide range of issues on July 12, 2023

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's re-election; Dems fundraising; Bidenomics; unemployment; three 2024 first-in-the-nation primaries with African American women as state chairs; the VP's visit to FL today to slavery as a "personal benefit;" Affirmative Action; Trump's mounting legal woes and Jim Clyburn's birthday today!

Live from Chicago, at the 17th Annual Netroots Nation, MIP is joined by a number of guests including Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, Carol Joyner of Family Values Action, Delinda Bryant of the Albany Voters Coalition, Bo Shuff of DC Vote, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and member of Moms Rising

Joelle Gamble, Deputy Assistant to the President and the Deputy Director at the National Economic Council, and Chad Stone, Chief Economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities both join.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was the Keynote Speaker at the National Newspaper Publishers Association 2023 Convention and he expounded on topics in his new book, Break The Wheel: Ending The Cycle of Police Violence.

A Make It Plain tradition. Frederick Douglass's "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?"

On Day One of the National Newspaper Publishers Annual Convention (NNPA)--the convention of all the African American newspapers--a panel discussion on Engaging the Next Generation Through Culture: Building Pathways between The Black Press & The Next Generation Through Education addressed solving the national issue of literacy to reach the next  generation, and provided publishers and attendees with solutions to reach an untapped market –  schools – to engage a younger demographic of readers, journalists/contributors, and consumers. Afterwards, NNPA President, the Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. held a Fireside Chat on the Black Press State of Emergency Response through Hip Hop, Education and Literacy.

Panelists included:

Chelsea Lenora White – Houston Forward Times Business Manager 

Jarren Small – CEO of Educational Entertainment and Reading with A Rapper 

and the Reading With a Rapper Team