Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

Markos joins for this week's Thursday Kos.

The Chief Economist of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Div. III Final Four-bound Swarthmore College alum joins.

Rev. Mark moderates T]\the 2023 20th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Ubuntu Plenary with an Introduction by Dr. Forrest Harris, President of American Baptist College, and with Panelists. Pastor Michael McBride of Live Free USA; Bishop Leah Daughtry of The House of the Lord Churches; Rev. Terry Melvin, President of the Coalltion of Black Trade Unionists; Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; and the Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher, Pastor of Memphis Abyssinian Baptist Church.

Stanford African Historu Professor Joel Cabrita on her new book, WRITTEN OUT: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala , chroniclng the life of a prolific writer in the 50s and 60s, the second Black woman to obtain a degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and one of the co-founders of Eswatini’s first political party in 1960. Despite Twala’s significant achievements, her obscurity exists today due to the calculated plagiarizing and silencing of her work by white academics.

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.

Dr. Roger Mitchell is a national expert on deaths that occur while in the custody of law enforcement and has served as an expert in many high-profile cases. He currently is the Chairman of the pathology department at Howard University College of Medicine and is the Speaker of the House of Delegates for the National Medical Association which has a membership body of 50K Black Doctors.Dr. Mitchell is the Former Chief Medical Examiner for Washington DC.  He recently served as Chairman and lead author among a group of nationally recognized forensic pathologists tasked with making recommendations for the Definition, Investigation, Postmortem Examination and Reporting of Deaths in Custody for the medical examiner/coroner community.

Markos joins for Thursday Kos as Democrats win Tuesday in VA, WI, KY, and NH, and Biden visits Ukraine.

Author Rob Wipond and forced treatment survivor Cindy Hadge of the Wildflower Alliance join.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on first-ever Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program grants to recruit more teachers of color, and White House Domestic Policy Council Dep. Director Chiraag Bains on President Biden's new Executive Order, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.

Markos Moulitsas joins #ThursdayKos with the latest Civiqs poll.