Tavis Smiley

Leading public intellectual, author, scholar, and special contributor Dr. Cornel West shares his thoughts on the humanitarian crisis surrounding Trump’s war with Iran and more.

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Eric Myricks, Democratic candidate for Idaho’s lieutenant governor, goes inside his state’s blue surge and explains why, even in a state with a Republican supermajority, Democrats are making inroads.

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U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), who helped bring down former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during her contentious hearing last month, returns to the studio with an update on the next pawns in the Trump administration who may be going, going, gone.

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Phyllis Bennis, activist, author, and director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, offers her thoughts on how Americans can stay hopeful amid the president’s recklessness and build a movement against a war mired in confusion.

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Jason G. Green, former special assistant to President Barack Obama and author of the new memoir Too Precious To Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility, explains why he left his senior role in the White House to care for his 95-year-old grandmother in her final days.

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Raquel Graham, CEO of Roq Innovation and host of Entrepreneuring with Raquel Graham on KBLA Talk 1580, shares her take on the economic effects of the war with Iran on business owners, how women-led savings clubs helped build the middle class, and more.

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Professor, philosopher, and legal analyst Tim Golden discusses the Mississippi and Georgia elections, the future of voting, and other trending political topics.

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Adolph Reed Jr., professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, returns to reflect on The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics, the title of his 1986 book about the late civil rights leader and former presidential candidate.

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Gary Dorrien, the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and author of the memoir Over from Union Road, explains why he is known as America’s leading champion of Christian socialism

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Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), returns with a warning about deported migrants who are being killed after returning to the dangers of their home countries and offers his tribute to Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr

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