In February 1968, Harry Belafonte hosted the Tonight Show, for an entire week - and his guests included Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.  Also: Aretha Franklin.  Joan Walsh, National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation, talks about the new documentary, “Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show” – it’s streaming now on Peacock.

 

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There’s a huge movement in Europe supporting Black Lives Matter.  Gary Younge describes some key examples and comments on the effort to address racism in Britain, France, and elsewhere in Europe – and on the English falling back on the argument that racism there is “better” than in the US. Gary lives in London and is a member of the Editorial Board of The Nation.

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Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus--she represents Seattle in the House--talks about how she went from being an investment banker as a young immigrant to a lifelong organizer.  Her new book is "Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change.” 

 

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Katie Porter, the new member of Congress who flipped a longtime Republican district in California’s Orange County, talks about the defending the postal service and about ending student loan debt.  (Watch her full conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel HERE: https://www.thenation.com/events/katie-porter-covid-politics/ ) 

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Changing our broken criminal justice system-radically: Jody Armour, who teaches law at USC and is a prominent defender of Black Lives Matter has a new book out, with the provocative title “N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law.”

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 Tom Frank, author of the classic “What’s the Matter with Kansas,” talks about Trump’s phony populist appeal – and whether Joe Biden, the guy from working-class Scranton, can win back the working-class white men who turned to Trump last time around.  Tom’s new book is “The People, NO: A Brief History of Anti-Populism. 

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David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU, says we need less punishment and more justice from the police and the courts.  One key way to achieve that is to reduce enforcement of misdemeanors, which currently leads to millions of avoidable arrests, especially of people of color – and many cases of police violence against them. 

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Trump’s unfortunate childhood: Amy Wilentz talks about Donald, Fred Junior, Marianne, Elizabeth, and little Robert - described in the new blockbuster bestseller by Mary Trump, daughter of Donald’s brother Fred Jr., “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”

 

 

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How Roy Cohn gave us Donald Trump: Ivy Meeropol talks about her new documentary on Roy Cohn, “Bully. Coward. Victim.” It’s playing now on HBO on demand. 

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Zoë Carpenter reports from Portland on the ominous developments there involving federal agents in camouflage in the streets attacking protesters—over the objections of local and state officials—which Trump says he will take to other Democratic cities.

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