Tavis Smiley

Speech, the two-time Grammy Award-winning founder of the iconic hip-hop collective Arrested Development, talks about their new album Adult Contemporary Hip Hop and why we need “life music” now more than ever.

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Roeshana Moore-Evans, founder and principal strategist of Equity Empowerment, takes us inside her former role as the inaugural Executive Director of the Harvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative.

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Sean Wynn, former president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, lays out the controversy surrounding the Ivy League institution’s slavery project.

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Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter, the husband-and-wife duo known as the Black country band The War and Treaty, share their latest single “Feels Like Home,” their upcoming tour dates, and what it’s like to open for The Rolling Stones. 

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Black marine biologist Candace Fields helps us celebrate SHARKFEST on the National Geographic channel with two special programs, “Investigation Shark Attack” and “JAWS @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story.”

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Laurence Rees, award-winning historian and documentary filmmaker, tells us why his iconic series “The Nazis: A Warning from History” is getting a fresh run on the BBC, and what it can still teach us about the possible and dangerous road ahead.

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Erica Smiley, executive director of Jobs With Justice, updates us on the struggle to build power for working people and address issues of inequality and poverty.

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Mary Sheffield, president of the Detroit City Council, shares why she’s the leading candidate in the Democratic primary for the next mayor of Motown.

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Pennsylvania State Democratic Rep. Chris Rabb is back to announce his run for Congress in the “Fresh Prince’s district,” and how he plans to win as a progressive without the Democratic establishment.

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Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University professor, is back to tell us what it’s like to win a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her best-selling book “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.”

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