Scholar, leading public intellectual, author and special contributor, Dr. Cornel West, talks about new developments in Gaza, the racist roots of redistricting, and more.

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Physician scientist Dr. Robert Drummond joins Tavis to unpack the latest move by Trump HHS secretary RFK Jr. to cancel $500 Million dollars for vaccine research.

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Executive Vice President of the National Wildlife Federation and Founder/President of Revitalization Strategies, Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, talks about the EPA’s decision to abandon science and the law as it guts regulation of climate pollution.

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Willa Robinson, retired owner of Willa’s Books, and Ryan Sorrell, founder of the Kansas City Defender, tell us how her iconic store will live on as a local newsroom and public archive.

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Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee chair and co-host of “The Weeknight” on MSNBC, is back to explain why the current threat to the Voting Rights Act is coming from inside his own party.

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Mondaire Jones, U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner, reflects on today’s 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and shares why he co-authored the John Lewis Act when he served in Congress.

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Professor of African American Studies at UCLA and writer Marcus Anthony Hunter gives his analysis about the future of the Voting Rights Act at 60. Rodericka Applewhaite, former Director of Black Media for the Biden-Harris adminstration and now VP of Media Relations at Focal Point Strategy Group, is back to reflect on a profoundly different political landscape since her time inside the White House.

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Marique Moss, Afro-Indigenous educator, cultural strategist, and small business owner, takes us inside her delicious debut book, “Sweetgrass and Soul Food: A Memoir in Poems,” which even comes with its own soundtrack!

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Basil Watson reveals the inspiration behind his sculpture of escaped slave and South Carolina lawmaker Robert Smalls, which will become the first statue of a Black individual in the State House.

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Associate Professor and Founding Director of The Race, Politics, and Policy Center at George Mason University, Dr Michael K. Fauntroy talks about Trump's attack on diversity and Black leadership at George Mason University and the Voting Rights Act at 60 years old. 

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