Tavis Smiley

Professor of African American studies, award-winning talk show host and Founding Director of The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice at Loyola University Maryland, Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead talks about centering racial justice and preserving Black History in our fight for Democracy.

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Senior reporter at The Bulwark and Author of “Trust The Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America” talks about the rise of the right and their many personalities, along with trending political topics.

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Grammy-nominated singer Freda Payne reflects on her seminal anti-war song, “Bring The Boys Home,” and its impact on ending the war in Vietnam as we mark 50 years since the liberation of Ho Chi Minh City and the south from U.S. occupation.

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Thuy Williams was one of the babies brought to America during Operation Babylift 50 years ago this week. She shares the harrowing story of her journey from Ho Chi Minh City to Portland, Oregon, as the biological daughter of a Black GI and Vietnamese mother.

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Darrick Hamilton, director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification, and Political Economy at the New School talks about Trump’s Platinum Plan and whether it was a bait and switch move on Black America. 

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Former congressman and host of his signature radio program, Jesse Jackson Jr., offers his assessment about how Democrats can find their footing and navigate forward after Trump’s 100 days, and opines on the hotly contested race to fill the seat of the #2 Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. 

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DNC Chairman Ken Martin on how the party plans to move forward in spite of infighting within its ranks. 

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Former White House Counsel John Dean shares his assessment of President Trump's second 100 days.

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Founder of Repairers of the Breach and Moral Mondays, the Right Reverend Dr. William Barber, talks about his arrest Monday in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda as he and other faith leaders protested the Republican-led budget bill.

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CEO of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, on the Reagan era versus the Trump years, the future of the Black middle class, and how Black America can elevate - in spite of Trump.

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