Tavis Smiley

Dr. Cornel West, scholar, leading public intellectual, author, and special contributor, shares his thoughts on Trump receiving the FIFA Peace Prize, his colonial style peace deal with African nations, and more. 

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Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and Director of the Center for Urban Journalism at Morgan State University, Leonard Pitts Jr., gives his analysis on the upcoming Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship, the New York Times lawsuit against the Pentagon, and other trending political news.

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Dr. Willie James Jennings, author and Yale Divinity School professor, takes us inside Yale Divinity School’s new “eco-theological” residence hall and marks 15 years since the release of his seminal text, “The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race.”

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Oliver Chi, city manager of Santa Monica, California, shares details about the reparations paid to the family of Silas White, the Black entrepreneur whose Ebony Beach Club was seized by the city in the 1950s.

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Dr. Cornel West, scholar, leading public intellectual, author, and special contributor, shares his thoughts on Trump's mischaracterizations of Black immigrants, why empathy is the new Christian battleground, and more.  

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Award-winning talk show host and Founding Director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice at Loyola University Maryland, Dr. Kaye Wise Whitehead discusses the upcoming 160th anniversary of the end of chattel slavery this Saturday and how we can prepare for the 100th anniversary of Black History commemorations.

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U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) gives an update on the pushback against the ICE detention center in her suburban Chicago district and explains how she flipped a traditionally Republican seat.

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University of Michigan professor, award-winning cultural translator, and author Marcus Collins shares his thoughts on America staring down the erasure of Black history and progress this year, the White House’s new media bias tracker, and more.

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Joshua Clark Davis, historian at the University of Baltimore and author of “Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back,” explains how newly unveiled photos of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reveal the depth of NYPD surveillance.

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Briahna Joy Gray, political strategist and host of the “Bad Faith” podcast, looks ahead to the 2026 midterms as progressive democratic socialists and centrist Blue Dogs prepare to tussle in the primaries.

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