Your Call

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Murder in Big Horn, a three-part docuseries on Showtime featuring stories of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Montana.

Over the past decade, dozens of Indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations have been murdered or gone missing in Big Horn County. Native families and journalists unravel a violent crisis set in motion almost 200 years ago during colonization.

What will it take to end this epidemic?

On this edition of Your Call, historian Dan Berger discusses his new book, Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey, a new history of Black Liberation, told through the story of Zoharah and Michael Simmons, two activists who fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South in the mid 1960s. Berger shows how, in their lives, Black Power drives a global struggle for freedom and justice.

Berger writes, "I hope that readers use each deepening revelation to ask new questions of themselves and each other about the world we live in and the one we would like to inhabit."

On this edition of Your Call, journalist Alisa Quart discusses her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream.

The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. It’s the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will eventually succeed. Quart explains how we can free ourselves from these self-defeating narratives.

The EPA’s recent proposal to cut emissions for new cars and trucks would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the US to be electric by 2032.

Razing Liberty Square follows the redevelopment of a historic African American public housing project in Miami as residents fight a new form of racial injustice.

Journalists across the globe face a number of threats, including harassment, arbitrary detention, online attacks and disinformation campaigns.

We discuss a recent Mother Jones' investigation about the untold story of the private equity investors behind Mifeprex—and their escalating legal battle to cash in post-Dobbs.

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the expiration of pandemic era expansions to the social safety net, including increases to food stamps, the child tax credit, Medicaid, universal school lunches, and more.

Those programs have now ended even though 53 million working people in the US make just $24,000 a year, according to Brookings. Over 11 million children in the US live below the federal poverty line. Almost four million more children lived in in poverty in January 2022 without the monthly child tax credit, according to the Center on Poverty & Social Policy at Columbia University.

Average food stamp benefits have fallen to just $6 per day. Older adults have seen their monthly benefits fall from $281 to just $23, according to the Food Research & Action Center.

Over 17 million people could lose Medicaid coverage as states begin the disenrollment process, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

What will it take to make these benefits permanent?

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Lakota Nation vs. United States, a new documentary about the ongoing fight to reclaim Indigenous land.

The film chronicles the Lakota Nation’s quest for sovereignty, self-determination, and reclamation of sacred land stolen by the US government. The film focuses on the landmark 1980 Supreme Court case affirming that the Black Hills — the site of Mount Rushmore — were taken from them, necessitating compensation. That money has been refused as the land was never for sale.

On this edition of Your Call, we continue discussing the epidemic of gun violence in the United States.

The US now averages 50 fatal shootings and 92 non-fatal shootings per day, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

In Republican controlled states, it's easier than ever to publicly carry weapons without a permit or license. The opposite is happening in states run by Democrats. Last week, Washington became the tenth state in the country to ban assault weapons.