Podcasts

Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, associate professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and author of Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, discusses the latest State Department report, Cuba: The Capital of 21st...

Jen Bendery, senior politics reporter covering Congress and the White House for HuffPost, talks about trending political stories.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.Listen on Spreaker ↗

Are you hopelessly attracted to the mirror image of patterns you claim you want to escape? And beneath that: What if the person you call “my type” is simply someone unusually qualified to recognize, tolerate, reinforce, or worship the version of you that you have...

Director and writer Victor Gabriel and foster care reform advocate Jarrett Harper talk about their new L.A. Times Short Doc "I Got My Brother," which explores the foster care to prison pipeline through the eyes of formerly incarcerated Jarrett and his brother...

breaking news reporter at The Hill, is back with the latest stories from Washington and an update on the un-enrollment scandal at her alma mater, Howard University. Become a supporter of this podcast:...

Nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate and writer of the Navarrette Nation at Substack, Ruben Navarette shares his analysis of trending political topics. Become a supporter of this podcast:...

Vincent Jones and Al Reynolds unpack a whiplash news day — Nolan Wells' inconclusive autopsy and AI agents that are starting to act like they don't need our permission.

Mike McIntire follows the money behind America's gun culture in his new book Ricochet — an industry that profits every single time.

Atima Omara on The Instigators — the roadmap Black women have written for saving democracy, and why it's required reading before the midterms.

Germar Reed breaks down LAPD's Flock camera retreat, ICE's Medicaid data grab, France's kids' social media ban, and the NJ noncitizen voter story — real data versus manufactured panic.

Germar Reed breaks down LAPD's Flock camera retreat, ICE's Medicaid data grab, France's kids' social media ban, and the NJ noncitizen voter story — real data versus manufactured panic.

William Godwin and Isaac Wilson break down the Paramount-Warner freeze, Google's ICE censorship, and the fight for Black power from Maryland to South Carolina. Then we say his name: 18-year-old Nolan Wells.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jose Antonio Vargas returns with the updated Dear America — proof that telling the truth about who belongs here was never safe, and he did it anyway.

What if the face you call “me” is only the mask God wears while experiencing limitation? Carl Jung warned that the persona can become so convincing that consciousness forgets the deeper Self beneath it. Paramahansa Yogananda described the human being as a wave of the...

Civil rights icon and former Chicago alderwoman Dorothy Tillman breaks down her ten principles for building a nonviolent movement and why it takes strategy to endure the struggle of advancing civil rights.Become a supporter of this podcast:...

National Urban League (NUL) President Marc Morial talks about the NUL Annual Conference coming up in Nashville next week, the fight against redistricting, and the upcoming March on Washington for voting rights.Become a supporter of this podcast:...

Marcus Anthony Hunter, professor, founding chair of the Department of African American Studies at UCLA, and author of Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation, gives his analysis of trending political topics.Become a supporter of this podcast:...

Michael D. McCarty Internationally acclaimed storyteller, former Black Panther presents African American and International folktales, historical tales, stories of science, spiritual stories as well as stories of the brilliant and absolutely absurd things he has done...

Sharon Kyle is the publisher of LA Progressive, a digital magazine that reaches over 2 million readers annually and covers a wide array of social justice issues, including civil liberties, civil rights, immigration, education, racism, and health care. She elaborates...