Chip Mitchell, reporter for WBEZ in Chicago, talks about how Chicago’s violent crime rate is plummeting with the help of street outreach workers in spite of a violent Fourth of July weekend.

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Associate Professor and Founding Director of The Race, Politics, and Policy Center at George Mason University, Dr Michael K. Fauntroy shares his thoughts about the impact of Trump’s big bill on Black America and other trending political topics.

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Journalist, opinion columnist, and host of KBLA Talk 1580’s Conversation Live: Altadena Rising, James Farr talks about life and recovery six months after the L.A. Wildfires.

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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ has been signed into law. What does that mean? Jesse Jackson Jr. and Nii-Quartelai Quartey join Tavis Smiley to discuss.

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Emmy-winning TV host and news anchor, fatherhood influencer, and the sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, Shannon LaNier, joins Tavis for a one-on-one.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, poet and University of Oklahoma English professor, shares her new book, “Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings,” which explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history.

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Everett B. Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, updates us on his union’s fight to protect its 800,000 members from the Trump administration’s unprecedented cuts and attacks.

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Galen Druke, host of GD Politics and formerly of the influential 538 podcast, breaks down the numbers in the NYC mayor’s race and tells us why Democrats need their own Donald Trump.

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Mike Sargent, co-founder of the Black Film Critics Circle, shares his summer movie picks and reflects on the juggernaut that is “Sinners."

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Lisa White, Director of Education and Outreach at the UC Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley, breaks down fact vs. fiction for the Jurassic Park franchise and her work as a social justice dinosaur expert.

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