Tavis Smiley

Blair Underwood, the multifaceted, award-winning actor, director, and producer, goes inside his new text A Soldier’s Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood and reflects on his distinguished career.

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Gloria Purvis, senior fellow with the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University and host of The Gloria Purvis Podcast, contemplates the potential impact of the battle between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo on Black members of the Catholic Church.

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Algernon Austin, director of Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, returns with the latest economic data on Black folks, including their report Advancing Black Workers in the South: An HBCU Research Initiative and their “Majority Agenda” policy package.

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Progressive Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb returns with an update on his campaign for Congress and shares how the party can move forward from the infighting between centrist and progressive Democrats.

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Nationally syndicated columnist and writer of the Navarrette Nation on Substack, Ruben Navarrette, gives his analysis about the political impact of Trump’s feud with the Pope and other newsworthy topics

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Martin Luther King III is back to reflect on his father’s assassination 58 years ago this month, his speech “The Other America,” and the new push to increase homeownership in Black communities, as we highlight the signing of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

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Matt Duss, executive vice president of the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy advisor for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), gives his take on the political death of a far-right European dictator, the Coalition of the Unwilling when it comes to Iran, and other top stories of the week.

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Susannah Heschel, professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College and daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, discusses the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement on her life and how those lessons can be applied today.

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This week we celebrate Black Maternal Health with Dr. Donna Adams-Pickett, renowned OB/GYN and founder of the Augusta Women’s Health and Wellness Center in Georgia, highlighting the urgent need for awareness, advocacy, and action around maternal health disparities.

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Arwa Mahdawi, columnist for The Guardian, author of Strong Female Lead: Lessons from Women in Power, and creator of the viral satirical website Rent-A-Minority, shares her thoughts on how we can remove Trump from office if we can’t use the 25th Amendment, and other political topics.

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