Today on the show: Ethical police and equitable policing. The showdown over a union at Amazon. A Congressional victory for supporters of reparations. Is there racial bias in facial recognition technology? And an exit from the Afghanistan quagmire? All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with genocide survivor Claude Gatebuke on Rwanda’s long crisis of political repression; and WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with two conversations: one with musician and WPFW programmer Rusty Hassan on the virtues of live jazz, and another with the Rev. Dr. William Barber on ending the Senate filibuster.

Last week, News Director Askia Muhammad talked with Imani Countess: Director of the U.S. Africa Bridge Building Project, and a leader of the movement to boycott apartheid South Africa. Their conversation focused on the calls for boycotts against Georgia-based companies, after state Republicans passed a bill restricting the vote.

Today on the show: Voter ID laws, the filibuster, and the illusion of democracy. We’re still haunted by genocide. A fond remembrance of a much loved educator and labor leader. And April is Jazz Appreciation Month as well as National Poetry Month, so we celebrate Jazzoetry. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Extremism in the military ranks. Boycotts can be a tool to bring about social change. Coronavirus restrictions are easing, and mass shootings are ticking back up. The first ban on the use of solitary confinement. Strong organizing can overcome attempts at voter suppression. And far-right extremism is a problem in the military ranks. All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Aunna Dennis, Executive Director of Common Cause Georgia, on a wave of voter suppression bills; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with economist Sarah Anderson on inequality and policy tools to fix it; and WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with civil rights activist Becky Monroe on hate crimes.

Today on the show: In-your-face voter suppression in Georgia. Fighting back against hate crimes. Wealth tax and pay inequality. And the successful fight to eliminate the death penalty in Virginia. All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts. Reporter Amara Evering talks with Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Dr. Laura Tohe on the significance of confirming the US’s first Native cabinet secretary. WPFW News Director and Monday Morning QB Host Askia Muhammad discusses decades of discrimination against Black farmers with former USDA employee and labor leader Lawrence Lucas; and a novel reparations plan with Evanston Alderman Robin Rue Simmons.

Today on the show: Trump’s Supreme Court could rewrite our legal future. A small town takes a big step toward reparative justice for Black residents. Black farmers will get paid in the Biden pandemic relief package, but don’t celebrate too soon. A campaign urges a national moratorium on utility shut-offs during the pandemic. And the first Native American Interior Secretary will now oversee this country’s trail of broken treaties. All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features two extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with activist, writer, and media strategist Raquel Willis about the exclusion of trans women from mainstream feminist discourse; and reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with Africa expert Temi Ibirogba about the economics of kidnappings in Nigeria and the broader question of closing civic space on the continent.