Tavis Smiley

Marc Morial, former New Orleans mayor and now president of the National Urban League, tells us why Black America is in a State of Emergency with the Trump administration.

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John E. Jacob, former president of the National Urban League and author of his new memoir, “I Will F.E.A.R. No Evil,” takes us back to 1980 when candidate Ronald Reagan addressed the Urban League’s convention, two days after his seminal Philadelphia, Miss. speech.

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Former U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) joins Tavis from the studios of WVON in Chicago to talk about the new memorials and walking tour honoring the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, which he found with Fred Hampton.

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Public intellectual, professor and author Dr. Cornel West, shares his thoughts about Vice President Kamala Harris' announcement, starvation in Gaza and more.

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Founder of Repairers of The Breach and Moral Mondays, Bishop William Barber, talks about the latest about the Texas redistricting controversy and their latest moral movement campaign.

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Connie Rice, civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Urban Peace Institute shares her analysis about Former Vice President Kamala Harris announcing she won't run for governor of the Golden State and what it means for California and the country.

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Cllr. Dr. Lilian Seenoi-Barr, who became Northern Ireland’s first Black mayor in the city of Derry last year, shares the good, the bad, and the ugly part of being Black in the occupied territories controlled by the British government.

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Des Lee, musician and author of “My Saxophone Saved My Life: The Miami Showband Massacre and My Quest for Answers" tells us how he survived the Miami Showband Massacre 50 years ago this Thursday (July 31, 1975) and connects the dots to the far-right gangsters burning racist bonfires in Northern Ireland this month.

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Ernie Suggs, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter and author of "The Many Lives of Andrew Young," talks about Ronald Reagan historic “states rights” speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi 45 years ago; where the presidential candidate appealed to white supremacists, mere miles from the murder site of civil right workers, Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman.

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Mark Barabak, political columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is back with details on Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)’s redistricting plan and his state’s summer of discontent.

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