Thursday: Controversy over Pope Francis canonization of Junipero Serra. We speak with Corrina Gould, co-founder of Indian People Organizing for Change. She is a member of the Chochenyo Ohlone people who are indigenous to what is now Northern California.

And growing Chinese/US tensions, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife arrive in Washington DC today. We discuss what is at stake in China/US relations, and what might be the outcome of this visit with Dr. Gerald Horne.

And for our “Weekly Earth Watch” we speak with Ruddy Turnstone, a GE trees campaigner with Global Justice Ecology Project.

A one-hour special on the Black Panther Party with exclusive interviews with BPP members Mohammed Mubarek who was in the party in LA and Michael McCarty who was in the Panthers in Chicago with Fred Hampton Sr. Hampton was assassinated as part of a FBI/Chicago Police operation.

Hear little known stories about Fred Hampton Sr., the informant who helped set Fred up, the shoot-out between Panthers and LAPD and more.

Also hear from Laurens Grant, producer of the brand new and controversial documentary film "Black Panther: Vanguard of the Revolution."

Today: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide. We speak with Jo-Ann Reid, National Correspondent for MSNBC about her brand new book Fracture. We discuss that despite the fact of having a Black President a racial divide is ever present in in the United States and how the impact of the differing approaches to race by President Obama and the Clintons. All this in the context of Ferguson, Baltimore and the BLM movement.

Journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal ill with Hepatitis C is being denied the treatment he desperately needs. We speak with Bret Grote the Legal Director of the Abolitionist Law Center in Pittsburgh PA.

And we return to our occasional series Cosmology on Sojourner Truth. MIT professor David Kaiser discusses whether or not the Universe is dying.

And Roxana Sandoval joins us in studio to discuss Hip Hop for Peace.

Journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal ill with Hepatitis C is being denied the treatment he desperately needs. We speak with Bret Grote the Legal Director of the Abolitionist Law Center in Pittsburgh PA.

And we return to our occasional series Cosmology on Sojourner Truth. MIT professor David Kaiser discusses whether or not the Universe is dying.

And Roxana Sandoval joins us in studio to discuss Hip Hop for Peace.

Journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal ill with Hepatitis C is being denied the treatment he desperately needs. We speak with Bret Grote the Legal Director of the Abolitionist Law Center in Pittsburgh PA.

And we return to our occasional series Cosmology on Sojourner Truth. MIT professor David Kaiser discusses whether or not the Universe is dying.

And Roxana Sandoval joins us in studio to discuss Hip Hop for Peace.

Journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal ill with Hepatitis C is being denied the treatment he desperately needs. We speak with Bret Grote the Legal Director of the Abolitionist Law Center in Pittsburgh PA.

And we return to our occasional series Cosmology on Sojourner Truth. MIT professor David Kaiser discusses whether or not the Universe is dying.

And Roxana Sandoval joins us in studio to discuss Hip Hop for Peace.

Our weekly roundtable: Excitement builds as the Pope is due to visit Cuba and the US. He plans on visiting Fidel, meeting with President Obama, as well as homeless people, immigrants and prisoners. He will also be the first Pope to address Congress and he speaks before the UN General Assembly.

Reaction to and analysis of the latest GOP Presidential candidates’ debate.

Also, an update on Syria, the refugee crisis and Russia’s latest moves as a broker to end the civil war in Syria.

Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, Tom Hayden and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Our weekly roundtable: Excitement builds as the Pope is due to visit Cuba and the US. He plans on visiting Fidel, meeting with President Obama, as well as homeless people, immigrants and prisoners. He will also be the first Pope to address Congress and he speaks before the UN General Assembly.

Reaction to and analysis of the latest GOP Presidential candidates’ debate.

Also, an update on Syria, the refugee crisis and Russia’s latest moves as a broker to end the civil war in Syria.

Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, Tom Hayden and Dr. Gerald Horne.

Our weekly roundtable: Excitement builds as the Pope is due to visit Cuba and the US. He plans on visiting Fidel, meeting with President Obama, as well as homeless people, immigrants and prisoners. He will also be the first Pope to address Congress and he speaks before the UN General Assembly.

Reaction to and analysis of the latest GOP Presidential candidates’ debate.

Also, an update on Syria, the refugee crisis and Russia’s latest moves as a broker to end the civil war in Syria.

Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, Tom Hayden and Dr. Gerald Horne.