Today on the show: In the COVID wars, teachers and nurses are concerned about staffing levels and their workplaces. Poet Sonia Sanchez and the birth of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. The case for voting rights protection did not begin, nor did it end, with the Senate vote last week -- so we celebrate Fannie Lou Hamer. All that, and more!

Today on the show: A Christian pastor warns Christian white nationalism is tearing the nation at its seams. On this holiday celebrating his birth, we remember the radical voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We check the radical history of the great March on Washington. All that, and more!

Today on the show: On top of COVID, anxiety, stress and grief among children. The faith community on the “watch” for freedom. The untold stories of enslaved Native Americans. How data privacy can be a weapon against extremism. And a Soul Music treasure found in a D.C. basement. All that, and more!

Today on the show: We take a Monday-Morning look at the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection as that anniversary approaches this week. A freshman Congress-member’s lament about some of her colleagues who supported the insurrectionists. A new Black internet portal has picked a fight with the industry’s giants. Original words and song from D.C.’s Gala Hispanic Theater. And the Texas immigration system is rife with civil rights violations against arrestees. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Criminal charges against Donald Trump? Living with nature, for better health. 2021 was a breakthrough year for reparations. Remembering the “Blood of Emmett Till.” And a conversation with our future? We chat with Monday Morning QB’s young reporters. All that, and more!

Today on the show: A salute to revolutionary Black author bell hooks. Would you believe? Yet another lawsuit against the Black-led D.C. Metropolitan Police Department brought by Black women. Hundreds forcefully evicted from homeless encampments just in time for winter. The Biden administration’s asylum policy is looking more and more like the Trump administration asylum policy that preceded it. And can diplomacy be revived with Iran? All that, and more!

Today on the show: There’s a huge undercount of Black joblessness, and that’s a problem. Meanwhile, millions of people walked off their jobs this year. A “shadow” immigration system in Europe. And remembering the poet laureate of Hip-Hop and a civil rights icon. All that, and more!

Today on the show: The infrastructure legislation and its impact. Quietly Latin America is removing its shackles imposed by the U.S. Pandemic-panic pushed gun sales. And what do folks on the street want from the Biden administration, this holiday season? All that, and more!

Today on the show: It took two months to arrest them, but only hours of deliberation for a jury to convict the killers of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. A poet reminds us that brutality against Black people happens a lot Down South. In South Africa, where their own scientists first discovered the Omicron Variant of COVID19, people complain of punishment instead of praise for their quick scientific discovery. And it’s hard to tell the punitive Biden immigration policy from the punitive, old Trump policy. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Kyle Rittenhouse, the new American folk hero. Fewer protections of voter rights today than in the 1960s. Book-banning is spreading all over the country. All that, and more!