Tavis Smiley

Dr. Cornel West, scholar, leading public intellectual, author, and special contributor, opines on the moral cost of the shutdown strategy, the Trump-Epstein emails controversy and more.

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Professor of African American Studies at UCLA and author of "Radical Reparations: Healing The Soul Of A Nation," Marcus Anthony Hunter shares his commentary about how California's colorblind laws fail Black students and other trending political topics.

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C.J. Farley, journalist, author, and a former editor of the Harvard Lampoon, shares his new novel about AI, “Who Knows You By Heart: A Novel”.

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Eleven years old Bryce and his mother Adrienne share their hopeful story of Bryce's diagnosis with sickle cell disease as an infant to becoming a healthy pre-teen, thanks to a bone marrow transplant from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

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Dr. Cornel West, scholar, leading public intellectual, author, and special contributor, gives his post election day analysis, his take about the relevance of progressivism at this moment and more.

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David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee and former British foreign minister, is back with an update about Sudan, Gaza, and the world’s humanitarian hot spots.

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Vincent Intondi, Cornell University scholar, managing editor of the Nuclear Times, and executive director of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, reflects on the new Netflix film, "A House of Dynamite," in the context of his work on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons.

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India Walton, Buffalo, N.Y. activist and senior strategist at the Roots Action Education Fund, is back with her post-election assessment of how the Mamdani movement could power a progressive surge in 2026 - and beyond.

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USA Today Opinion Columnist and host of The Reconstruction Project on KBLA Talk 1580AM, John Wood Jr. discusses his launch of a citizen commission on immigration to find common ground and other trending political topics.

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Former MSNBC host and bestselling author, Chris Matthews, is back to talk about his new book, "Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Why Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters", his son RFK Jr. and the U.S. Senate defectors who have demoralized the Democratic base

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