Tavis Smiley

Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, Executive Vice President of the National Wildlife Federation and Founder and President of Revitalization Strategies, talks about the risk of celebrating Juneteenth with no environmental justice protections.


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Marc Lamont Hill, co-host of “Upfront” on Al Jazeera English and “The Joe Budden Podcast,” is back to celebrate four years of “Tavis Smiley,” which he helped kick off as the very first guest on the very first episode.


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KBLA Talk 1580 hosts Jesse Jackson Jr., Adrianne Shropshire, and Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey, give their activist analysis of Juneteenth in the Trump era, energizing Black voters, and other trending socio-political topics.

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Corinna Barrett Lain, University of Richmond law professor and author of “Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection,” looks at where we are with the state-sponsored act of violence known as the death penalty.

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Retired Superior Court and author of “Her Honor: My Life On The Bench. . . What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It,” Judge LaDoris Cordell shares her thoughts about Juneteenth, the judicial branch under Trump, and other political topics.

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Comedian Ali Siddiq talks about his newest comedy special "Rugged," streaming now on YouTube, and why Vulture declared him to be stand-up comedy's most prolific storyteller.

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Susan Sturm, Columbia Law School professor and Founding Director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change, takes us inside her new text “What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions.”

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Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, talks about her new memoir "Remember, You Are a Wiley," and her keynote address at this weekend’s Empowerment Congress for Juneteenth.

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Philip Kadish, professor of American studies at Pace University in New York City, talks about his debut book “The Great White Hoax: 200 Years of Selling Racism in America.”

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Actor, author, and Co-Founder of the LA Women’s Theatre Festival, Adilah Barnes, talks about theatre in the time of Trump and why stories about Black people and women must be told.

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