Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives series, we are joined by Myesha Lopez, the daughter of Michael Thomas, a 61-year-old disabled Black man who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy in his living room in June 2020. The family disputes the law enforcement version of Thomas' death.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters joins us to discuss her concerns about the authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration and its wider implications.

Jackie Goldberg shares her analysis of U.S. General Attorney William Barr's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee as well as her thoughts on the new GOP economic stimulus proposal.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute, presented by the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives series, we are joined by Myesha Lopez, the daughter of Michael Thomas, a 61-year-old disabled Black man who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy in his living room in June 2020. The family disputes the law enforcement version of Thomas' death.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters joins us to discuss her concerns about the authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration and its wider implications.

Jackie Goldberg shares her analysis of U.S. General Attorney William Barr's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee as well as her thoughts on the new GOP economic stimulus proposal.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute, presented by the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives series, we are joined by Myesha Lopez, the daughter of Michael Thomas, a 61-year-old disabled Black man who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy in his living room in June 2020. The family disputes the law enforcement version of Thomas' death.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters joins us to discuss her concerns about the authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration and its wider implications.

Jackie Goldberg shares her analysis of U.S. General Attorney William Barr's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee as well as her thoughts on the new GOP economic stimulus proposal.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute, presented by the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives series, we are joined by Myesha Lopez, the daughter of Michael Thomas, a 61-year-old disabled Black man who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy in his living room in June 2020. The family disputes the law enforcement version of Thomas' death.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters joins us to discuss her concerns about the authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration and its wider implications.

Jackie Goldberg shares her analysis of U.S. General Attorney William Barr's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee as well as her thoughts on the new GOP economic stimulus proposal.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute, presented by the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives series, we are joined by Myesha Lopez, the daughter of Michael Thomas, a 61-year-old disabled Black man who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy in his living room in June 2020. The family disputes the law enforcement version of Thomas' death.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters joins us to discuss her concerns about the authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration and its wider implications.

Jackie Goldberg shares her analysis of U.S. General Attorney William Barr's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee as well as her thoughts on the new GOP economic stimulus proposal.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute, presented by the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

For our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives series, we are joined by Myesha Lopez, the daughter of Michael Thomas, a 61-year-old disabled Black man who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy in his living room in June 2020. The family disputes the law enforcement version of Thomas' death.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters joins us to discuss her concerns about the authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration and its wider implications.

Jackie Goldberg shares her analysis of U.S. General Attorney William Barr's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee as well as her thoughts on the new GOP economic stimulus proposal.

Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute, presented by the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Today on Sojourner Truth:

We remember and honor Rudolfo Anaya, one of the most influential figures in Chicano literature. He died on June 28, 2020, at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His first novel, Bless Me Ultima, has since become one of the most widely read Chicano novels and was later made into a film. He is also the author of Heart of Atzlan (1976), Tortuga (1979), Lord of the Dawn (1987), and Albuquerque (1992), among others. He also wrote non-fiction essays, poems and children's books. Several of his books have also been adapted into operas and plays. He has received over 20 prestigious awards for his work, including the NEA National Medal of Arts Lifetime Honor, 2001 and the National Humanities Medal in 2015, delivered by former President Barack Obama.

In early 2005, Superintendent Bob Conder of the Norwood School District in Grand Junction, Colorado, had banned Bless Me, Ultima after a group of parents objected to its contents. Condor had not read it, but claimed he had read enough to make the decision on the basis of the themes presented. Copies were removed from English classes at the school. The decision to ban Rodolfo's book was part of the attack on ethnic and Chicano studies across the U.S., especially in the Southwest. In protest of the decision, on February 5, 2005, students at Norwood School District formed a sit-in while reading passages from the middle of the school gymnasium. They had shirts with handwritten designs of Bless Me, Ultima on them. School officials in Texas, California, New York and Missouri also attempted to censor the book. Within the last 10 years, the growth of ethnic studies has gained traction in K-12 schools, partly in response to an Arizona law that banned the curriculum.

Our guests are Sarita Sol Gonzalez, Manuel Gonzalez and Jacob Chavez.

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable.

Our panelists tackle Trumps troops and federal officers that were unleashed on the City of Portland against largely white protesters standing for Black Lives. The forces now being sent to Chicago were drawn from the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Homeland Security. He has also threatened to send what amounts to his private army paid for by taxpayers to U.S. cities run by Democrats. What are the wider implications for what many are now saying is a police state. Is this a test run for what might be a controversy over the November election results?

We are just about 100 days away from election day. Donald Trump is falling in the polls and Joe Biden is leading in several swing states, is there a there there? Meanwhile, Biden revealed another part of his Build Back Better platform, entitled a Caregiving economy, but what does that mean? Trumps attack on vote by mail and continuing efforts to ramp up voter suppression, all this within the context of Covid-19 that continues its march across the U.S., leading to Trump basically cancelling the part of the GOP Presidential convention that was to be held in Jacksonville, Florida.

Also, reflections on the life and contributions of John Lewis and C.T. Vivian. Does their passing mark the true end of the civil rights era and firmly establishing the Black Lives Matter era?

Dr. Gerald Horne weighs in on the uptick of the U.S. cold war with China.

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

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable.

Our panelists tackle Trumps troops and federal officers that were unleashed on the City of Portland against largely white protesters standing for Black Lives. The forces now being sent to Chicago were drawn from the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Homeland Security. He has also threatened to send what amounts to his private army paid for by taxpayers to U.S. cities run by Democrats. What are the wider implications for what many are now saying is a police state. Is this a test run for what might be a controversy over the November election results?

We are just about 100 days away from election day. Donald Trump is falling in the polls and Joe Biden is leading in several swing states, is there a there there? Meanwhile, Biden revealed another part of his Build Back Better platform, entitled a Caregiving economy, but what does that mean? Trumps attack on vote by mail and continuing efforts to ramp up voter suppression, all this within the context of Covid-19 that continues its march across the U.S., leading to Trump basically cancelling the part of the GOP Presidential convention that was to be held in Jacksonville, Florida.

Also, reflections on the life and contributions of John Lewis and C.T. Vivian. Does their passing mark the true end of the civil rights era and firmly establishing the Black Lives Matter era?

Dr. Gerald Horne weighs in on the uptick of the U.S. cold war with China.

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

Today on Sojourner Truth:

As the nation mourns the passing of two civil rights icons, C.T. Vivian and Congress John Lewis, yet another civil rights leader, Charles Evers, has died. He was the brother of Medgar Evers, who was assassinated outside of his home in front of his family. C.T. Vivian's funeral takes place today on Thursday, July 23, in Atlanta, Georgia. Today, for our ongoing Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Dr. Roslyn Satchel, giving reaction from the perspective of Black Lives activists of the contributions of these civil rights icons. What has the Black Lives Matter movement of today gleaned from their predecessors?

For our weekly Earth Watch, we speak with Orin Langelle, photojournalist and the Strategic Communications Director for the Global Justice Ecology Project. We discuss how the struggle in Portland relates to the Pinochet-era in Chile and also attacks against the Mapuche people, who are Indigenous to Chile.

Protests continue in Portland, Oregon, despite the presence of what many now refer to as Donald Trump's private army. We speak with Portland-based activist Mic Crenshaw and for legal analysis, Marjorie Cohn. Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years.