Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

Rep. Val Demings (D-FL10), who served as a Manager in the House Impeachment hearings, spoke with Mark this morning about today's House vote on the historic $2 trillion dollar coronavirus stimulus bill. Despite the importance of getting this bill passed, she also touched on why we'll need more legislation going forward, the danger of the Trump administration downplaying the pandemic, why we should be prepared to see confirmed case numbers continue to rise, and some insight on the inaction of her home state's governor, Ron DeSantis. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: Subscribe to the Make It Plain Daily Show Mon-Fri 7-9a ET at makeitplain.com 

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Jennifer Epps Addison is the President and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Action, where they utilize a network of grassroots organizations across 34 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico, in the fight to break up the status quo and reinvent the structures of our society. At CPD and CPDA, they believe in universal housing, fundamental transformations of immigration processes, and uprooting the legal system—and they also believe in electing Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the next president. This episode has the potential to get you fired up! Listen to hear about their incredibly thoughtful process of choosing to endorse Sen. Sanders, as well as a look inside all of the tireless work they do at the community level to change this country. Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: Subscribe to the Make It Plain LIVE Daily Call-in Show Mon-Fri 7-9a ET at makeitplain.com 

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Jerry Mitchell is an award-winning investigative reporter and author of Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era.” Jerry sits down with Mark to discuss this incredible historical examination and shares details from decades of research and time spent covering racially charged trials in the Deep South. That includes time spent time with infamous Klansman Byron De La Beckwith while he was jailed ahead of his trial for assassinating civil rights activist Medgar Evers, a time when he convinced a source to leak him the transcript of a sealed interview with convicted murderer and white supremacist Sam Bowers, and how some of the pushback to his work comes in the form of death threats from klansmen. 

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Mark took a trip to Capitol Hill to meet with nearly HALF of Senate Democrats, for what was a productive round-table discussion between lawmakers and African American journalists. No topic was off limits in this intimate conversation, including discussion on the Coronavirus outbreak (made worse for Americans by Trump's incompetent mishandling, according to Sen. Schumer), the disparities in our health care system, problems and proposed changes to our criminal justice system, the 2020 election, reparations, and more. Senators in attendance: Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Ben Cardin, Sen. Bob Casey, Sen. Chris Coons, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Mazie Hirono, Sen. Doug Jones, Sen. Tim Kaine, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen. Patty Murray, Sen. Gary Peters, Sen. Jacky Rosen, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Tina Smith, Sen. Chris Van Hollen Journalists: Mark Thompson (DCP Entertainment), Jonathan Capehart (Washington Post), Yamiche Alcindor (PBS), Joshua Jamerson (Wall Street Journal), Deborah Berry (USA Today), Jamila Bey (BET), Maya King (Politico), Errin Haines (19th), Clyde McGrady (Roll Call), Kadia Goba (Buzzfeed), Donna Owens (Essence), Stacy Brown (NNPA), Eva McKend (Spectrum News), Tia Mitchell (AJC) 

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The seed of Linda Sarsour's activism was planted when she was a young child and, for the first time in her seven years of life, faced with the realities of racial profiling in America. From there, it has been an evolution from a young truth-teller in the Bronx to finding herself on a national stage with the Women’s March. Listen to her tell the stories of her upbringing in New York, gain an understanding of the Palestinian military occupation and how it inspired her family’s migration to America, learn about the personal experiences that inform her activism and how she knows that justice is impossible without intersectionality. 

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Are you seeking a way to get involved in media, technological, economic, and criminal justice? Then this is the episode for you. Technology is embedded in our culture, and Color of Change recognizes its intersections and power in politics. Mark sits down with Arisha Hatch and Heather McGhee from Color of Change to talk about how the organization uses their online community of more than 1.5 million people to push for change in both the public and private sectors, forcing companies and politicians to disconnect from white supremacist groups and stop their suppression of activist movements. 

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Ari Melber is usually the one asking the questions, but this time, Mark turns the mic on him. The legal analyst and host of MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber” joins Mark to discuss the Trump administration’s erosion of the constitution, the rule of law, and pressing candidates like Bloomberg on their controversial backgrounds. 

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PART TWO of a two-part series featuring an incredible panel discussion, moderated by Mark Thompson, titled “The Power of the March: MLK and a Legacy of Activism.” The second half of the panel brings us the rhymes of Professor Lyrical, the history of protests and organized labor, and an analysis on the power of protests today. Featuring: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton; Denise Rolark Barnes, Publisher of The Washington Informer and chairman of Washington Informer Charities; Dr. Eric Arnesen, GWU Professor of Modern American Labor History; Professor Lyrical, Associate Professor at the University of the District of Columbia 

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PART ONE of a two-part series featuring an incredible panel discussion, moderated by Mark Thompson, titled “The Power of the March: MLK and a Legacy of Activism” This powerful panel explores the importance and effectiveness of marching and organizing, marked with personal stories, historical revelations, and a discussion on how to tell and report on important stories from within communities of color in a way that the mainstream media does not. Featuring: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton; Denise Rolark Barnes, Publisher of The Washington Informer and chairman of Washington Informer Charities; Dr. Eric Arnesen, GW Professor of Modern American Labor History; Professor Lyrical, Associate Professor at the University of the District of Columbia 

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How did our democracy get whittled down into two extreme parties? Lee Drutman says it’s complicated, but he’s able to break it down for us in this week’s podcast episode as he digs into the chapters and research from his book, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America." He thinks there’s no going back to what used to be, but that doesn’t mean we can’t plan for a different future with multiple, diverse parties. Listen to this week’s episode to gain an understanding of how the parties divided, how it helped Trump get elected, and the innovative ways we could potentially transform what Drutman calls our antiquated election system. 

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