Tavis Smiley

Michael Edison Hayden, former spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center and author of the new text Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town, tracks the surge of white nationalism from Berkeley Springs, WV, all the way to the White House.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and director of the Center for Urban Journalism at Morgan State University, Leonard Pitts, Jr. shares his analysis about faith in America and other trending political topics.

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Jamie Kitman, contributing editor to Car and Driver and author of the Picture Car Confidential column, on America’s renewed interest in electric vehicles as gas prices go up and up.

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Katrina Parks, director of the series Route 66 Women: The Untold Story of the Mother Road, part of a new exhibit at the National Museum of Transportation titled “Roads, River, Rooms, Reels,” reflects on the 100th anniversary of the transformative highway and the role that Black women played in its iconography.

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Shira Lauren Feldman, senior director of constitutional litigation at Brady, explains why the Department of Justice refuses to rule out a Second Amendment right to nuclear weapons.

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Author, scholar, leading public intellectual, and special contributor, Dr. Cornel West, shares his insights on the latest with the Iran war, and more.

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Professor, philosopher, and legal analyst Tim Golden on the firing of Pam Bondi, and other trending political topics.

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Clara Ester, who was a 19-year-old college student when she witnessed the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lorraine Hotel on April 4, 1968, after attending his final speech the night before, reflects on her unique experience that fateful week.

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Trina Greene, CSU Fullerton professor and founder of Parenting for Liberation, contrasts recent pro-spanking arguments by Charles Barkley and Stephen A. Smith with the nonviolent teachings of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.

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This year, Kentucky could vote for a real colonel. Current Kentucky House Minority Floor Leader and retired Air Force Col. Pam Stevenson explains why she is running for the U.S. Senate seat left open by its longtime occupier, Mitch McConnell.

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