Markos joins for Thursday Kos. (The medium first to report on the GOP's Taylor Swift obsession. ;-) )Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Monifa Bandele, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer atMomsRising, on her organization's 2024 priorities.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Christine Linke Young, Deputy Assistant to the President for Health and Veterans Affairs, on the ACAJoelle Gamble, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, and Kirabo Jackson, Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, on the Consumer Price IndexBen Miller, Deputy Undersecretary at the Department of Education, on student loan debtAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos joins for the first Thursday Kos of 2024!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition.For these books and others, including, Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition, Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt and Odu Ifa:The Ethical Teachings, please visit www.sankorebooks.com.For more on Kwanzaa and Dr. Karenga, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org and www.MaulanaKarenga.org.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition.For these books and others, including, Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition, Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt and Odu Ifa:The Ethical Teachings, please visit www.sankorebooks.com.For more on Kwanzaa and Dr. Karenga, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org and www.MaulanaKarenga.org.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition.For these books and others, including, Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition, Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt and Odu Ifa:The Ethical Teachings, please visit www.sankorebooks.com.For more on Kwanzaa and Dr. Karenga, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org and www.MaulanaKarenga.org.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition.For these books and others, including, Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition, Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt and Odu Ifa:The Ethical Teachings, please visit www.sankorebooks.com.For more on Kwanzaa and Dr. Karenga, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org and www.MaulanaKarenga.org.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorneys Adam Levitt and Diandra “Fu” Debrosse Zimmermann of DiCello Levitt on how the only 48% of Black and only 56% of Latino mortgages were approved by Navy Federal Credit Union while White borrowers were approved at a rate of 77%.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tennessee House Minority Leader Karen Camper joins to discuss the Biden-Harris Administration Safer States Initiative and new executive actions to reduce gun violence. Also Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare Jessica Schubel joins to discuss record Affordable Care Act Enrollment, and how there's still time to enroll for 2024!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition.For these books and others, including, Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition, Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt and Odu Ifa:The Ethical Teachings, please visit www.sankorebooks.com.For more on Kwanzaa and Dr. Karenga, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org and www.MaulanaKarenga.org.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition.For these books and others, including, Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition, Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt and Odu Ifa:The Ethical Teachings, please visit www.sankorebooks.com.For more on Kwanzaa and Dr. Karenga, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org and www.MaulanaKarenga.org.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition.For these books and others, including, Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition, Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt and Odu Ifa:The Ethical Teachings, please visit www.sankorebooks.com.For more on Kwanzaa and Dr. Karenga, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org and www.MaulanaKarenga.org.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chad Stone, CenterOnBudget.org's Chief Economist, on the latest jobs report. Tom Perez, Senior Advisor to the President Biden and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, on jobs and economic development for African Americans. And James Kvaal, Department of Education Undersecretary, on $93 million in grant awards to 20 colleges and universities to support research and development at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), and to improve completion rates for underserved students.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On December 12, Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicare call center workers at Maximus, the federal government’s largest call center contractor, traveled from across the country to rally and protest outside of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Workers demanded that HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and the Biden Administration require livable wages of $25 per hour on federal call center contracts, ensure workers have access to affordable health care, and to investigate Maximus’s low road employment practices.After the rally, the workers, members of the Communications Workers of America Union (CWA), were rebuffed when they tried to deliver a petition to the HHS main entrance. Rev. Mark Thompson joined the workers in nonviolent disobedience and arrest on Independence Avenue, in front of HHS.Rally speakers included:CWA President Claude CummingsRep, Bennie Thompson (D-MS)Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay HenryACA and Medicare Call Center Worker Katherine CharlesRep. Greg Casar (D-TX)Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA)Rep, Cori Bush (D-MO)ACA and Medicare Call Center Worker Adriana LewisAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on the debate, Kevin McCarthy's resignation, and how voters are reacting to the Israel/Hamas War.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A conversation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, including, in order of appearance:Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, UCLA (Moderator)Rep. Barbara LeeRep.Jamaal BowmanRep. Jamie RaskinRep. Cori BushRep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, represented by Legislative Director Krystal WilliamsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hundreds marched on the U.S. Mission to the United States November 8, 2023 to demand the U.S. support a ceasefire in Gaza. Speakers included (in order of appearance);Rev. Mark Thompson, EmceeRev. Adrienne Thorne, Senior Minister, Riverside ChurchRev. Stephen A. Green, Co-Founder, Faith for Black Lives, Pastor, St. Luke's AME HarlemImam Suhaib WebbCarmen Perez-Jordan, CEO and President, The Gathering for JusticeMarwa Janini,Executive Director, Arab-American Association of New YorkRev. Dr. Jaqui Lewis, Senior Minister for Public Theology and Transformation, MiddleChurchLinda Sarsour, Founder, MPower Change, Co-Founder, Until FreedomRev. Jamal Bryant, Co-Founder, Faith for Black Lives, Pastor at New Birth Missionary Church, AtlantaTamika D. Mallory, Co-Founder, Until FreedomDr. Cornel West, US Presidential CandidatePastor Michael McBride, Co-Founder, Black Church PAC, Executive Director, LiveFree USARev. Dr. Iva Carruthers, General Secretary, Proctor ConferenceRev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry, National Presiding Minister Emeritus, House Of The Lord ChurchecElena Stein, Director of Organizing Strategy Jewish Voice For PeaceAhmad Abuznaid, Executive Director, US Campaign for Palestinian RightsMysonne Linen, Hip Hop Artist, Co-Founder, Until FreedomRev. Dr. Willie Francois, Senior Pastor, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Pleasantville, NJLaTosha Brown, Co-Founder, Black Voters Matter Rev. Dr. Samuel Cruz, Senior Pastor, Trinity Lutheran ChurchNupol Kiazolu, Activist and OrganizerKimberly Bernard, Warriors In The GardenNialah Edari, Co-Founder, Freedom March NYCKiara Williams, Warriors In The GardenJeannie J. Park, Warriors In The GardenDerrick "Dwreck" Ingram, Warriors In The GardenAyanna Gregory, Artist, Activist, Performs"Ceasefire"written & composed  by Nabil Ince, Phillip Joubert, Bishop Dwayne Royster, Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan, Jr., Rev. Mark Thompson, and Ayanna Gregory, and performed by Ayanna Gregory and Common HymnalAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chad Stone, Chief Economist of the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities, joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

SEIU 512's Athena Jones on what Election Day in Virginia mens for home care workers.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On October 24, 2023, he family of Jawan Dallas and community members testify before the Mobile, Alabama City Council to demand the release of the July 2 Mobile police body cam footage of his fatal tasing. During the city council hearing, Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine discloses publicly for the first time that the officers involved in Jawan Dallas' death are back on the street. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jawan Dallas died after a Mobile, Alabama Police officer tased him July 2, 2023. His mother, Christine Dallas, and the entire community have been demanding the body cam footaget to no avail. A Justice for Jawan Rally was held at Bethel AME Church in Mobile, Monday, October 23.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Democratic freshman Congreswoman from Texas's 30th district describes the chaos before the House Speaker election, and the post-election chaos sure to come.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for this week's Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bishop William J. Barber, II leads a compelling voter registration teach-in in Biloxi, Mississippi, Saturday, October 21, 2023Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for this week's Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chad Stone, Chief Economist of the Center On Budget, on the September 2023 Jobs Report and his beloved Phillies, and Joelle Gamble, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, on protecting consumers from Junk Fees. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For Indigenous People's Day, Rhonda LeValdo of Not In Our Honor joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Assistant Democratic Leader (D-SC) on what led to Kevin McCarthy's ouster. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos makes the case on this week's Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Small Business Administrator Isabella Guzman, Assistant and Senior Advisor to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Tom Perez and OMB Associate Director Jacob Leibenluft answer questions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached a tentative settlement, SAG-AFTRA is still in these streets. WGA Member Teri Jackson and SAG-AFTRA Members Jerome Brooks and Lee Cox bring us up to date.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Until Freedom's September 18, 2023 Louisville event in memory of Breonna Taylor to mobilize voters to prevent incumbent Kentucky Attorney Daniel Cameron--who would not charge the cops who killed Ms. Taylor--from becoming Governor. The Town Hall features a panel including Carla Wallace of SURJ, City Council candidate Shameka Parrish-Wright and Until Freedom's Linda Sarsour and Angelo Pinto with remarks from Mysonne Linen and Tamika Mallory.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The revolutionary and humorous columnist and commentator Michael Harriot joins to discuss his new book on sale today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bishop William J. Barber, II of Repairers of the Breach, Bishop Frank Madison Reid, III of the 11th Episcopal District of the AME Church, The Very Rev. Kate Moorehead Carroll of St. John Episcopal Church of Florida, the Rev. Dr. James T. Morris, President of the Florida Council of Churches, Bishop Rudolph W. McKissick, Jr., Senior Pastor of the Bethel Church and the Rev. Alvin Jackson and others lead a March to Jacksonville City Hall in memory of Angela Carr, A.J. Laguerre and Jerald Gallion on September 16, 2023. The three were victims of a racist hate killing at a Jacksonville Dollar General Store on August 26, 2023.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On September 15, 2023, Bishop William J. Barber, II of Repairers of the Breach, Bishop Frank Madison Reid, III of the 11th Episcopal District of the AME Church, March For Our Lives Activist David Hogg and others March to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' to deliver a letter demanding he and other Florida electeds cease and desist from hateful rhetoric that may have contributed to the racist hate killings of Angela Carr, A.J. Laguerre and Jerald Gallion on August 26, 2023.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

September 15, 2023 marks 60 years since the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, in which four little girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson (age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14), were killed. Addie Mae's sister, Sarah, survived the bombing, and she told her story on Make It Plain, September 19, 2013.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A diverse group of clergy led by Bishop William J. Barber, II, Founder of Repairers of the Breach, and Bishop Frank Madison Reid, III, Presiding Prelate of the 11th Episcopal District of the AME Church, held a press conference Thursday, September 7, 2023 to respond to the racist hate killings that took the lives of Angela Michelle Carr, Anolt Laguerre and Jerrald Gallion on August 26 at the Jacksonville Dollar General. The clergy called for a period of fasting and prayer and will support the students in the state of Florida delivering a letter to Governor Ron DeSantis demanding that he and other politicians cease and desist from sowing racial hatred witt their rhetoric and policies, and also demanding DeSantis resign.Clergy also announced a march in Tallahassee, September 16, the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham, when four little girls were killed, Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins for #ThursdayKos, and Chad Stone joins for the August Jobs Report.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Katherine Clark and Camille Wade are both customer service representatives for Maximus.Maximus operates the largest federally-contracted call centers in the country under a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is operated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Maximus workers handle tens of millions of Obamacare/Affordable Care Act and Medicare calls under a $6.6 billion federal contract. These customer service representatives are predominantly Black and Latina women, at ten call centers mostly located in the South. Maximus workers have been facing unacceptable labor practices for years including low pay, unaffordable health care, unfair layoffs, harsh attendance policies, and significant racial inequities within its workforce. These challenges become even more pressing during the open enrollment period, and particularly following recent layoffs affecting nearly 800 workers.Workers are calling on Maximus for more affordable healthcare, a living wage of at least $25 per hour, and the freedom to organize a union free from employer intimidation. Workers are putting Maximus on notice that they are prepared to go on strike during the open enrollment period unless Maximus addresses their demands.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Terri Carmichael-Jackson, Executive Director of the WNBA Players Association, and David Foster, General Counsel of the National Basketball Players Association, participate in a Town Hall moderated by Rev. Mark at the 52nd Annual Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Convention on May 25, 2023.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In time for the 60th Anniversary of the March On Washington, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, the Chief of Race, Wealth and Community for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, joins to discuss his latest report on MLK's distant dream. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos and Rev. Mark analyze the GOP debate on this week's Thursday KosAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Representing the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Tennessee Representative comments on the Tennessee Legislature's Special Session, and the Cabinet Member addresses the accomplishments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and righting the historic wrongs of highways which split African American communities. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Media Matters Senior Fellow Matt Gertz on his latest. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A friend asked me should we be celebrating the incident in Montgomery? I decided to pose the question to one of the greatest teachers of nonviolence in history--the Rev. James M. Lawson. More than anyone else, he educated, organized and mobilized nonviolent troops for the Civil Rights Movement and for Dr. King, in the way Joshua prepared Moses' troops. We owe him a listen on this matter.And please share your thoughts and reactions via email at makeitplainmail@gmail.com, or via the video on social media: @MakeItPlain on Twitter and TikTok, Make It Plain on Facebook and YouTube and LinkedIn and @ministter on Instagram.☥ † MFrom the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University:"When Lawson and King met in 1957, King urged Lawson to move to the South and begin teaching nonviolence on a large scale. Later that year, Lawson transferred to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and organized workshops on nonviolence for community members and students at Vanderbilt and the city’s four black colleges. These activists, who included Diane Nash, Marion Barry, John Lewis, Bernard Lafayette, and James Bevel, planned nonviolent demonstrations in Nashville, conducting test sit-ins in late 1959. In February 1960, following lunch counter sit-ins initiated by students at a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, Lawson and several local activists launched a similar protest in Nashville’s downtown stores. More than 150 students were arrested before city leaders agreed to desegregate some lunch counters. The discipline of the Nashville students became a model for sit-ins in other southern cities. In March 1960 Lawson was expelled from Vanderbilt because of his involvement with Nashville’s desegregation movement.Lawson and the Nashville student leaders were influential in the founding conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), held April 1960. Their commitment to nonviolence and the Christian ideal of what Lawson called “the redemptive community” helped to shape SNCC’s early direction (Lawson, 17 April 1960). Lawson co-authored the statement of purpose adopted by the conference, which emphasized the religious and philosophical foundations of nonviolent direct action.Lawson was involved with the Fellowship of Reconciliation from 1957 to 1969, SNCC from 1960 to 1964, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) from 1960 to 1967. For each organization, he led workshops on nonviolent methods of protest, often in preparation for major campaigns. He also participated in the third wave of the 1961 Freedom Rides. In 1968, at Lawson’s request, King traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to draw attention to the plight of striking sanitation workers in the city. It was during this campaign that King was assassinated on 4 April 1968."Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Also, what's Putin up to in Africa? Markos joins for #ThursdayKos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney Judith Browne-Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project, Adrianne Shropshire, Executive Director of the Black PAC, and Attorney Donald Temple join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hermon Johnson, Rev. Darryl Johnson and Reena Evers-Everette, the daughter born to Medgar and Myrlie Evers in Mound Bayou, MS discuss the Mound Bayou Museum in a historic African American city and its first annual gala. Even if you can't attend, pls GIVE moundbayougala.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Community Justice Action Fund Executive Director Greg Jackson says his organization has joined Everytown, Giffords, Moms Demand Action, Brady and March for Our Lives in endorsing Biden Harris.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dobbs reversal of Roe consistently brings Democrats wins at the polls. Markos Moulitsas joins for #ThursdayKosAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Center Budget's Chief Economist, Chad Stone, joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rev. Mark moderates the 114th NAACP National Convention Closing Plenary Panel with Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Sheryl Underwood.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Meek Mill, historian Henry Louis Gates, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and NAACP President Derrick Johnson engage in a panel discussion moderated by Fox Sports' Joy Taylor at the 114th NAACP Convention in Boston.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Senate Democrats held the annual African American Media Roundtable on a wide range of issues on July 12, 2023Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's re-election; Dems fundraising; Bidenomics; unemployment; three 2024 first-in-the-nation primaries with African American women as state chairs; the VP's visit to FL today to slavery as a "personal benefit;" Affirmative Action; Trump's mounting legal woes and Jim Clyburn's birthday today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Live from Chicago, at the 17th Annual Netroots Nation, MIP is joined by a number of guests including Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, Carol Joyner of Family Values Action, Delinda Bryant of the Albany Voters Coalition, Bo Shuff of DC Vote, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and member of Moms RisingAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Joelle Gamble, Deputy Assistant to the President and the Deputy Director at the National Economic Council, and Chad Stone, Chief Economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities both join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was the Keynote Speaker at the National Newspaper Publishers Association 2023 Convention and he expounded on topics in his new book, Break The Wheel: Ending The Cycle of Police Violence.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A Make It Plain tradition. Frederick Douglass's "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?"Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On Day One of the National Newspaper Publishers Annual Convention (NNPA)--the convention of all the African American newspapers--a panel discussion on Engaging the Next Generation Through Culture: Building Pathways between The Black Press & The Next Generation Through Education addressed solving the national issue of literacy to reach the next  generation, and provided publishers and attendees with solutions to reach an untapped market –  schools – to engage a younger demographic of readers, journalists/contributors, and consumers. Afterwards, NNPA President, the Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. held a Fireside Chat on the Black Press State of Emergency Response through Hip Hop, Education and Literacy.Panelists included: Chelsea Lenora White – Houston Forward Times Business Manager Jarren Small – CEO of Educational Entertainment and Reading with A Rapper and the Reading With a Rapper Team Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday KosAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Poor People's Campaign Moral Poverty Action Congress held a panel entitled, "Poverty Kills: The Moral Mandate for Ending Poverty in America," on Juneteenth 2023. Moderated by the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, panelists included:Dr. David BradyDr. Valerie WilsonDr. Gregg GonsalvesValerie Eguavoen andJonathan Wilson-HartgroveAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

AFL-CIO Chief Economist and Howard University Economics Chair Dr. William E. Spriggs joined Make It Plain for the final time May 8, 2023, before his passing, June 6, 2023.Ever the teacher, he compared African American unemployment to the NBA not allowing Black players. And he wished for Affirmative Action to continue.Bill was a revolutionary on behalf of labor rights, civil rights, economic justice, education and freedom. And a beloved, faithful friend.God will certainly seat Bill at His Right Hand. Let us all pray for his immediate family, his AFLCIO and Howard families, and for ourselves, as he had no peer.Àṣẹ ☥ & Amen † 🙏🏿Rev. Mark ThompsonAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona joins to discuss student debt and Affirmative Action before SCOTUS, and also on access to affordable high speed internet for students. And Markos for Thursday Kos on Trump before Federal Court.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney Elie Mystal and US Intelligence veteran Malcolm Nance preview Trump's arraignment today and his imminent trial. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In an emotional interview which originally aired in 2013 during the 50th year commemoration of Medgar Evers martyrdom, NAACP Chairman Emeritus Myrlie Evers recounted the climate in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963, her husband's relationship with Dr. King, the details of her husband's assassination and, announced for the first time publicly, the NAACP's apology for denying her husband protection."This is something that I have just revealed publicly in this 50th Anniversary, where representatives from the NAACP national office were visiting {Jackson, MS], and some of the leaders asked for support, financial support to help hire someone or ones to be with Medgar to better secure his safety. And I know the quote from memory from that time, and it was, 'We have better things to do with our money than to pay someone to be with him.' That I will never forget. That I have not revealed until this time and this moment. And I'm glad that I have the strength to say it, because it speaks to the difficulty that we as people had during that particular time and how everybody did not think the same way. I know Medgar, in his fatigue, came home that night after that discussion, and sat down and cried. He was very hurt by it, but he had made his decision. And the message was that the national NAACP did not care about him. They just wanted more memberships and what not. Being his wife and the mother of his children, I asked God to help me relieve that from my heart. But up until this point I have never been able to let go of that," she says.She described an NAACP Board luncheon in Jackson. "At that luncheon that was held with the Board members, [NAACP President Ben Jealous] put his speech aside, and he stood there and he said, 'I have an apology to make.' And he apologized to me and my daughter and other family members for what the Association leadership, top leadership said to Medgar and the way they treated him. And how very shortly after that, just a few days, he was taken from us. I don't think there was a dry eye in the place at that time. Because people didn't know. It's something only a few of us knew. I never wanted to hurt the organization in any way."Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Media Matters Senior Fellow Matt Gertz joins to discuss his latest piece. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos forecasts turbulence in the Republican Primary on Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Coverage of the rally and testimony at Atlanta City Council Hearing before vote to approve Cop City.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jina Krause-Vilmar, CEO of Upwardly Global, joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Executive Associate Director of the White House Office on Managment and Budget joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Keisha Deonarine, NAACP Director of Opportunity, Race, and Justice, on NAACP’s advocacy to address the spread of domestic terrorism following the mass shooting in Buffalo last May, and on racially motivated hate crimes and white supremacy are on the rise including recent attacks in Allen and Brownsville, TX.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Media Matters President Angelo Carusone on the aftermath of the Fox News Channel settlement with Dominion. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The unemployment rate for African Americans in April 2023 fell below 5% for the first time in history. White House Economic Council Deputy Director Joelle Gamble, Center On Budget Chief Economist Chad Stone and AFL-CIO Chief Economist & Howard University Economics Professor William Spriggs all join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Prof. Carl T. Bogus on his much awaited book revealing the real reason the Founders wrote the Second Amendment was to quell slave rebellions, not necessarily to preserve individual liberties.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's installment of Thursday Kos, Markos of Daily Kos discusses Roe being the GOP's undoing, the NC Supreme Court and Tucker Carlson's texts.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Scott Dworkin of the Democratic Coalition on Biden's re-election campaign.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Deputy Chair of the White House National Economic Council joins to discuss the debt limit. And Adrian Shropshire of BlackPac.com joins to talk Biden's re-election.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jaime Harrison, Chair of the Democratic Party, joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Chief Economist for the Center on Budget explains the numbers to us. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This Town Hall explores the controversial Cop City proposed for Atlanta. Panelists include the Rev. Keyanna Jones; Georgia NAACP State Conference President Gerald Griggs; Color of Change Senior Campaign Director Kyle Bibby; journalist George Chidi; and co-moderated by Kiddada Grey of Community First Solutions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jeffery Robinson, founder and executive director of The Who We Are Project, discusses his collaboration with Tom Hanks on the new animated documentary “How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

MIP's live coverage of Trump's arraignment, including Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's press conference, and guests, David Cay Johnston, unauthorized Trump biographer and Mark Sumner of Daily Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On the 55th anniversary of MLK's martyrdom, Vann Newkirk discusses his in-depth podcast on MLK's last campaign.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Media Matters Senior Fellow Matt Gertz joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on the Florida ban, and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure on the 13th anniversary of the ACA.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for this week's Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Chief Economist of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Div. III Final Four-bound Swarthmore College alum joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rev. Mark moderates T]\the 2023 20th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Ubuntu Plenary with an Introduction by Dr. Forrest Harris, President of American Baptist College, and with Panelists. Pastor Michael McBride of Live Free USA; Bishop Leah Daughtry of The House of the Lord Churches; Rev. Terry Melvin, President of the Coalltion of Black Trade Unionists; Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; and the Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher, Pastor of Memphis Abyssinian Baptist Church.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Stanford African Historu Professor Joel Cabrita on her new book, WRITTEN OUT: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala , chroniclng the life of a prolific writer in the 50s and 60s, the second Black woman to obtain a degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and one of the co-founders of Eswatini’s first political party in 1960. Despite Twala’s significant achievements, her obscurity exists today due to the calculated plagiarizing and silencing of her work by white academics.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Roger Mitchell is a national expert on deaths that occur while in the custody of law enforcement and has served as an expert in many high-profile cases. He currently is the Chairman of the pathology department at Howard University College of Medicine and is the Speaker of the House of Delegates for the National Medical Association which has a membership body of 50K Black Doctors.Dr. Mitchell is the Former Chief Medical Examiner for Washington DC.  He recently served as Chairman and lead author among a group of nationally recognized forensic pathologists tasked with making recommendations for the Definition, Investigation, Postmortem Examination and Reporting of Deaths in Custody for the medical examiner/coroner community.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos as Democrats win Tuesday in VA, WI, KY, and NH, and Biden visits Ukraine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Author Rob Wipond and forced treatment survivor Cindy Hadge of the Wildflower Alliance join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on first-ever Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program grants to recruit more teachers of color, and White House Domestic Policy Council Dep. Director Chiraag Bains on President Biden's new Executive Order, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins #ThursdayKos with the latest Civiqs poll. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Democrats Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's SOTU speech, and the Center on Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the January 2023 jobs report.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Keisha Lance Bottoms, Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement, Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President for Infrastructure Implementation preview of the President’s State of the Union address tonight.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

American Federation of Teachers Secretary-Treasurer and immediate past president of the Florida Education Association on the banned course, and the myriad of other issues Florida's students, parents and teachers face which DeSantis ignores. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Twenty-one years of investigative journalism by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham has resulted in their new book on the history of brutality, racism and corruption on the part of the Oakland police.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daniel Golden of ProPublica joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daily Kos is unspared from media layoffs as Markos shares on this week's Thursday Kos. Also, the latest on U.S. and German equipment headed to Ukraine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Professor Felicia Kornbluh on the role her mother, Beatrice Kornbluh, played in establishing Roe, and on the role her neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, played in ending sterilization abuse disproportionality victimizing African American, Latina and Indigenous women, as told in her new book, A Woman’s Life Is A Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Secretary Fudge joins to discuss the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which continues the work of MLK and the realization of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.Secretary Cardona joins to discuss the Education Department's milestones at the halfway point of the Biden Harris Administration.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The turmoil in the House, and the inability to govern begs the question. Also Santos's pathology, Hunter Biden, the difference between Trump's classified docs and Biden's, and the latest on Ukraine.Markos Moulitsas joins for the first Thursday Kos of 2023!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Eight Akron police officers are currently under investigation for the June 27, 2022 killing of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old African American young man. Officers fired more than 90 times at Jayland and his body was hit by 46 bullets.On Jan. 14, 2023 during MLK JFJ (#JusticeForJayland) weekend in Akron, OH, Rev. Mark moderated two panels on Where Do We Go From Here with Justice for Jayland Walker, Police Accountability, Police Violence, Black-on-Black Nonviolence, Trauma, Loss and Healing? The second panel included Bishop William J. Barber, founder of Repairers of the Breach ad the Poor People's Campaign; Dr. Lathardus Goggins, Principal Consultant at Applied Academic Solutions; Dr. Curtis Williams, II of the Minority Behavioral Health Group; Pastor Lori Porter of Love Akron; Pastor Kyle Early of the Cleveland Police Commission; Rev. Raymond Greene of Freeodom BLOC; Bishop Joey Johnson of Love and Justice Akron; Margo Sommerville, Akron City Council President; and Kenneth Brooks, youth activistAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Eight Akron police officers are currently under investigation for the June 27, 2022 killing of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old African American young man. Officers fired more than 90 times at Jayland and his body was hit by 46 bullets.On Jan. 14, 2023 during MLK JFJ (#JusticeForJayland) weekend in Akron, OH, Rev. Mark moderated two panels on Where Do We Go From Here with Justice for Jayland Walker, Police Accountability, Police Violence, Black-on-Black Nonviolence, Trauma, Loss and Healing? The first panel included Jayland Walker family attorney Bobby Dicello; Until Freedom Founder Tamika Mallory; Akron NAACP President Judi Hill; Dr. Ciarra Dennis- Morgan of the Minority Behavioral Health Group; youth activist Lauren Goggins; Kaysie Anderson, of the Akron Public School Scholar Board; and the rapper, Mysonne.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lewis V. Baldwin joins on MLK Day to discuss his latest book on Dr. King. Dr. Baldwin is an award-winning author who has written many books on the Black Church and on Martin Luther King Jr., including There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.; To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.; and Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Baldwin is professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Guzman and Center On Budget Chief Economist Chad Stone both join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga, creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text titled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture joins.Dr. Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach.An activist-scholar, he is chair of the organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies; and also, co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, BCCLA.Dr. Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including:Essays on Struggle: Position and AnalysisKawaida and Questions of Life and StruggleMaat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African EthicsIntroduction to Black Studies, 4th EditionHusia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient EgyptOdu Ifa: The Ethical TeachingsHe is currently writing a major work on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X, entitled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.Dr. Karenga is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and service including the Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work of African World Culture and The C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies, and the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Black Studies, all from the National Council for Black StudiesHe is also the subject of the book by Dr. Molefi Asante entitled, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga, creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text titled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture joins.Dr. Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach.An activist-scholar, he is chair of the organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies; and also, co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, BCCLA.Dr. Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including:Essays on Struggle: Position and AnalysisKawaida and Questions of Life and StruggleMaat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African EthicsIntroduction to Black Studies, 4th EditionHusia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient EgyptOdu Ifa: The Ethical TeachingsHe is currently writing a major work on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X, entitled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.Dr. Karenga is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and service including the Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work of African World Culture and The C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies, and the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Black Studies, all from the National Council for Black StudiesHe is also the subject of the book by Dr. Molefi Asante entitled, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga, creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text titled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture joins.Dr. Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach.An activist-scholar, he is chair of the organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies; and also, co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, BCCLA.Dr. Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including:Essays on Struggle: Position and AnalysisKawaida and Questions of Life and StruggleMaat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African EthicsIntroduction to Black Studies, 4th EditionHusia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient EgyptOdu Ifa: The Ethical TeachingsHe is currently writing a major work on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X, entitled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.Dr. Karenga is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and service including the Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work of African World Culture and The C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies, and the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Black Studies, all from the National Council for Black StudiesHe is also the subject of the book by Dr. Molefi Asante entitled, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga, creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text titled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture joins.Dr. Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach.An activist-scholar, he is chair of the organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies; and also, co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, BCCLA.Dr. Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including:Essays on Struggle: Position and AnalysisKawaida and Questions of Life and StruggleMaat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African EthicsIntroduction to Black Studies, 4th EditionHusia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient EgyptOdu Ifa: The Ethical TeachingsHe is currently writing a major work on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X, entitled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.Dr. Karenga is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and service including the Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work of African World Culture and The C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies, and the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Black Studies, all from the National Council for Black StudiesHe is also the subject of the book by Dr. Molefi Asante entitled, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga, creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text titled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture joins.Dr. Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach.An activist-scholar, he is chair of the organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies; and also, co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, BCCLA.Dr. Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including:Essays on Struggle: Position and AnalysisKawaida and Questions of Life and StruggleMaat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African EthicsIntroduction to Black Studies, 4th EditionHusia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient EgyptOdu Ifa: The Ethical TeachingsHe is currently writing a major work on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X, entitled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.Dr. Karenga is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and service including the Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work of African World Culture and The C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies, and the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Black Studies, all from the National Council for Black StudiesHe is also the subject of the book by Dr. Molefi Asante entitled, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga, creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text titled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture joins.Dr. Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach.An activist-scholar, he is chair of the organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies; and also, co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, BCCLA.Dr. Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including:Essays on Struggle: Position and AnalysisKawaida and Questions of Life and StruggleMaat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African EthicsIntroduction to Black Studies, 4th EditionHusia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient EgyptOdu Ifa: The Ethical TeachingsHe is currently writing a major work on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X, entitled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.Dr. Karenga is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and service including the Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work of African World Culture and The C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies, and the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Black Studies, all from the National Council for Black StudiesHe is also the subject of the book by Dr. Molefi Asante entitled, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Maulana Karenga, creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text titled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture joins. Dr. Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of AfricanaStudies at California State University—Long Beach.An activist-scholar, he is chair of the organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies; and also, co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, BCCLA.Dr. Karenga is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including:Essays on Struggle: Position and AnalysisKawaida and Questions of Life and StruggleMaat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African EthicsIntroduction to Black Studies, 4 th EditionHusia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient EgyptOdu Ifa: The Ethical TeachingsHe is currently writing a major work on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X, entitled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.Dr. Karenga is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and service including the Paul Robeson-Zora Neale Hurston Award for Scholarly Work of African World Culture and The C.L.R. James Award for Outstanding Publication of Scholarly Works that Advance the Discipline of Africana and Black Studies, and the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service and Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Black Studies, all from the National Council for Black StudiesHe is also the subject of the book by Dr. Molefi Asante entitled, Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Elliott Kozuch, Senior Communications Strategist at NARAL ProChoice America, joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

ProPublica's Agnel Philip and Eli Hager discuss the Arizona Department of Child Safety investigating the family lives of 1 of every 3 Black children in Maricopa County.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As the Jan. 6 Committee make criminal referrals against Donald Trump, David Marchick, author of the book The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions, joins. He is also Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University, host of its Transition Lab podcast, and as former director of the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition and was involved in the Trump/Biden transition.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tania Haigh, founder of the KIDS TOO Movement and co-founder of Parents Against Child Sex Abuse (P.A.X.A.), Ashley Nation, Abuse Survivor and Dr. Holly Shilling, Licensed Psychologist, join to discuss educator sexual abuse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos, Civiqs and Host of The Brief, joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The monthly dialogue with Danielle Moodie, Host of WokeAF. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A report on a National Security Council media call on Griner's release, and Markos joins for Thursday Kos to discuss the Georgia Runoff.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Send that text to Black Voters Matter, and then forward the reply to everyone you know in Georgia!Also, the Center On Budget's Chief Economist, Chad Stone, joins to discuss the November 2022 Jobs Report.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Transportation Secretary on the rail legislation and pid sick leave for rail workers.Markos Moulitsas on the imminent GOP majority and the Georgia runoff.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

ProPublica's Max Blau on historic and ongoing environmental racism in the Alabama town that has been called--in addition to "Bombingham"--"The Pittsburgh Of The South."Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Author Patricia Turner, Professor of African American Studies and of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and Director of Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA, joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Democrats Director of Coalitions and Community Engagement, Brencia Berry, joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Media Matters Senior Fellow Matt Gertz joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daily Kos Political Director and Host of The Down Ballot podcast David Nir joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Media Matters President Angelo Carusone joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas on the Democrats' Midterm victories on Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Danielle Moodie, Host of WokeAF, and Rev. Mark discuss Election Day Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chad Stone, Chief Economist of the CenterOnBudget.org joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Terrance Woodbury of HIT Strategies joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daily Kos's Markos Moulitsas joins for Thursday Kos. Please visit here to help with GOTV for your Democratic candidates in these final days! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Chief Medical Advisor to the President renews his call for vaccinations, especially for African Americans ahead of his "retirement." Lolita Owens of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania on their recent strike and why they've endorsed Josh Shapiro for Governor of Pennsylvania.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jennifer Jones Austin, NYC Racial Justice Commission Chair, joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ishena Robinson, Senior Staff Writer for the Legal Defense Fund, discusses her essay.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The monthly collaboration between Danielle Moodie, host of Woke AF, and MIP continues!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos and Civiqs, joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Center On Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the September 2022 Jobs Report.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thursday Kos with the Founder of Daily Kos, Civiqs and the Host of The Brief podcast, Markos Moulitsas.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jackson, Mississippi residents Alice Johnson, Maria Valdez, Dr. Clementine Harris, Kathy Sykes and Daneka Samuel discuss the impact of the city's water crisis during the a Poor People's Campaign Moral Monday, September 26,2022.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos joins for Thursday KosAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Curator Janet Dees joins to discuss the exhibit at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts through Nov. 6.Conceived in 2016,A Site of Struggletakes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence and art by examining how American artists have grappled with anti-Black violence from the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of Black Lives Matter in 2013.The current national reckoning on racial violence continues to inform this project. The exhibition explores how art history can help inform the understanding of the deep roots of racial violence. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Janai Nelson, President and Director Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, on voting rights and reproductive rights.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Monifa Bandele of Moms Rising joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What we must do the get ready y'all! IWillVote.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lisa Sharon Harper, Obi Egbuna and Dr. Rosalea Hamilton of Jamaica's Advocates Network join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The monthly collaboration between Danielle Moodie, host of Woke AF, and MIP continues! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins for Thursday Kos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. William E. Spriggs, AFL-CIO Chief Economist and Howard University Professsor of Economics joins to discuss White House report. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Secy of Education Miguel Cardona and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chad Stone, Chief Economist at the Center on Budget joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's Thursday Kos, Markos discusses Democrats improved chances of keeping the House and winning additional seats in the Senate.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

All were topics at Netroots Nation! Chris Smalls of Amazon Labor and Brian Young of Action Network on unionizing Amazon; Robert Saleem Holbrook of the Abolitionist Law Center; Samantha Boucher of Shire; Erica Ford of Life Camp, Inc.; and Garnell Whitfield, whose mother was the eldest shooting victim in Buffalo all join from Pittsburgh.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

1Hood's Jasiri X, Fair Vote's David Daley and Equal Ground's Jasmine Burney Clark join from Netroots Nation 2022.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kevin Myles of Community First Solutions introduces us to panelists who took on this topic at Netroots Nation 2022, including Dr. Janay Cody, Sian Lewis and Kwesi Chappin. Black Nerd Excellence at its best!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mike Elk of Payday Report joins from Netroots Nation 2022Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos, for whom Netroots Nation was originally named, joins on the 20th Anniversary of Daily Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On the today's 135th anniversary of the iconic Pan-Africanist's birth, First Assistant President General Raymond Dugue of Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association joins to share Garvey's history and lasting influence.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Jeremy Christopher Kohomban, President and CEO of The Children’s Village and President of Harlem Dowling joins. These child welfare organizations collectively serve 15,000 children and families each year with community-based programs, family support services, and residential care.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thursday Kos with Markos Moulitsas, Founder of Daily Kos, Civiqs and host of The Brief podcast.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Howard University Law Professor Lisa Crooms-Robinson says, yes, it can. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyamo on Twenty-one corporations and 3 foundations' public and private investments in community development financial institutions (CDFIs), minority depository institutions (MDIs), and other local financial institutions; supporting entrepreneurship and minority-owned businesses; expanding inclusive and equitable access to credit and other financial services facilitating financial health; and making infrastructure investments that create more community wealth by preserving and expanding affordable rental housing and homeownership in underserved neighborhoods.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thursday Kos with Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos and Civiqs.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Coverage of yesterday's ribbon-cutting angd grand opening of the Jackie Robinson Museum.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daily Kos's Brandi Buchman reports in-depth.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The EmmettTillLegacyFoundation.com's Deborah Watts, Emmett Till's cousin, on the discovery of the 1955 arrest warrant for his accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham. Today would have been Emmett Till's 81st birthday.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Committee reveals more evidence of Trump's role in the seditious conspiracy.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thursday Kos with Markos MoulitsasAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Media Matters' Climate and Energy Program Senior Writer Evlondo Cooper joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Vice President Kamala Harris, NAACP President Derrick Johnson and HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge at the 113th NAACP Convention, discuss voting rights, student debt, home-ownership and Roe.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Center On Budget Chief Economist Chad Stone on the June Jobs Report and what fixing inflation will mean for ongoing job recovery.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The press conference immediately after the funeral for Jayland Walker--shot 60 times by the Akron Police. Speakers are Attorneys Robert DiCello, Paige White, Ken Arbano, Rev. Mark Thompson, Tamika Mallory, and Jayland Walker's cousin, Roddray Walker. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Former Oath Keeper Jason Van Tatenhove headlined yesterday's Jan. 6. Committee hearing. Also, does Trump's witness tampering provide unassailable grounds for the DOJ to prosecute?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

White House Domestic Policy Council Senior Advisor Stefanie Feldman joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Fortune Society Deputy CEO Stanley Richards on the work the organization does to re-enter the formerly incarcerated into society, and giving them a voice to improve the communities where they return.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Media Matters research director Julie Tulbert on mainstream media's failure to adequately report on the effects of Roe's loss.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The executive director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the vice president of advocacy and organizing at Planned Parenthood Federation of America discusses next steps after Roe's reversal and after mass civil disobedience last Thursday.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech is most prescient today. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Coverage of yesterday's march and civil disobedience action against SCOTUS and Jennifer Klein of the WH Gender Policy Council on Roe.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

At the Annual National Newspaper Publishers Convention (NNPA), celebrating 195 years of the Black Press, African American women newspaper publishers react to Roe.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daily Kos's Brandi Buchman on the bombshell testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

How the national atmosphere Trump created, on no greater display than in the in the Jan. 6. hearings, brought about the overturning of Roe. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daily Kos's Brandi Buchman joins Thursday Kos with the latest on the Jan. 6 hearings.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kevin Myles and Kiddada Grey of Community First Solutions on the rent and eviction crises the news cycle is ignoring. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Nabil Ince of Common Hymnal on the newly released, "H.R. 40 Reparations Song," co-written by your host, Rev. MarkAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oscar Sanchez of the Southeast Environmental Task Force makes the closing Mass Poor People's and Low Wage Workers Assembly and Moral March on Washington. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos and host of The Brief on how inflation and the Jan. 6 investigation may affect the November elections, and the latest on Ukraine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Martin Luther King, III, Parkland parents Patricia and Manuel Oliver, Live Free's Pastor Michael McBride, Life Camp's Erica Ford, and two families, including a mom ready to move to Africa to escape gun violence at Saturday's March For Our Lives on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The House Jan 6 Committee held its first hearing in prime time last night. OMGAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's Thursday Kos, Markos contrasts Rep. Liz Cheney to "weenie" Dems on the Jan. 6 Committee. Also, the latest on Hill gun violence negotiations and how the arrival of weapons for Ukraine is not without its challenges.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Homeland security expert Dr. Donnell Harvin on gun violence and a possible looming race war.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Igor Volsky of Guns Down America on definite steps President Biden can take to end gun violence. Igor also share his thoughts on the war as a native Ukrainian. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Center On Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the May 2022 jobs report, and the COVID jobs recovery contrasted with that of the Great Recession.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Founder of Daily Kos, Civiqs and Host of The Brief on the impact og gun violence on the electorate and the latest on Ukraine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Grazell R. Howard, Chair of The Black AIDS Institute, the only black domestic “think and do” tank focusing on HIV/AIDS, and CoFounder and Chief Strategist of ATIRTEC, a COVID-19 Testing and Solution Company, discusses the "Talk About It, Be About It" initiative, a series of community conversations and events focused on addressing prevalent health conditions among Black Women, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and others in the leadership of Until Freedom organized a farmer's market yesterday for the community of Buffalo still reeling from the mass hate shooting at the neighborhood grocery that is still closed because of law enforcement's investigation. Here is a community trying to recover. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

JustLeadershipUSA's President DeAnna Hoskins on reentry, ending the carceral state and repealing the Thirteenth Amendment’s conditional exception permitting involuntary servitude for incarcerated people..Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Poor People's Campaign Mobilization Tour for June 18 makes it final stop in Memphis, Tennessee. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

National Urban League President Marc Morial on the 46th edition of the report and the National Equality Index. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bishop WIlliam J. Barber, II and the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis lead a mobilization march in Los Angeles leading up to June 18. Rev. Mark's son, Menra Mapfumo, an aspiring broadcaster himself, spoke with participants about poverty, and particularly about the crisis of homelessness in LA.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's Thursday Kos, Markos reacts to Buffalo, analyzes Tuesday's primaries, considers the impact Roe might have in November and provides the latest updates on Ukraine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Secretary on accomplishments six months since the signing of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner on the recent Faith United to Save Democracy (FUSD) clergy meeting with the Pennsylvania Secretary of State and similar upcoming meetings in other states to ensure voter protections.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Buffalo activists Rev. Denise Walden-Glenn of Live Free's Voice Buffalo and Rana Ryan of Life Camp discuss the community's reaction to Saturday's hate crime.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons with the latest on the lawsuit for reparations & justice on behalf of survivors and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Recently, a Tulsa County District Judge ruled the lawsuit can proceed. Lessie Benningfield Randle, 107, Viola Fletcher, 107, and Hughes Van Ellis, 101, are the three known living survivors. Please visit JusticeForGreenwood.orgAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's Thursday Kos, Daily Kos's Mark Sumner shares the latest on Russia's inept military strategy against Ukraine, and Putin's persistence despite failure.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The economist and member of the WH Council of Economic Advisers describes the causes of inflation and what the WH aims to do about it.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Movement for Black Lives' Policy and Research Coordinator, Dr. Amara Enyia on how the drug war sustains mass incarceration and over-policing.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Center on Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the April Jobs Report. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While the world prepares to watch the Kentucky Derby tomorrow, Emily Bingham discusses why we need to discard the Derby's and the state's racist anthem in her new book, My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life And Reckoning Of An Iconic American Song.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In today's episode of Thursday Kos, Markos Moulitsas on how opposition parties usually gain in midterm elections, but the GOP's war on Roe has made Democrats the opposition party. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Research Director of the 2.5 million member organization weighs in on the leaked SCOTUS draft decision to reverse Roe. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The President of the National Organization of Women reacts to the leaked draft of the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Black Eagle on his new memoir, Radio Active: A Memoir of Advocacy in Action, on the Air and in the Streets.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The DNC Chair on how Democrats are meeting the challenges they face in the midterms.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This Thursday Kos, Markos discusses the peril Biden finds himself in with the youth electorate as evidenced by the latest Civiqs poll. And he also offers the latest insight on Putin's war.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The mobilization tour for the June 18 Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls made its latest stop in Philadelphia this week.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Rosalea Hamilton of the Advocates Network on Jamaica's demand for reparations in the context of William and Kate's recent offensive royal charm offensive in the Caribbean. Dr. Hamilton also discusses removing the Queen as Head-Of-State and the CARICOM dispute over the Head of the Commonwealth.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Niambi Hall Campbell Dean of the Advocates Network on the Bahamas demand for reparations in the context of William and Kate's recent offensive royal charm offensive in the Caribbean.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Independent journalist Brian Dolinar discusses his latest piece on states using pandemic aid to fund law enforcement and the carceral system.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's Thursday Kos, Daily Kos and Civiqs Founder Markos Moultisas on increased WH aid to the Ukraine and midterm Democratic messaging..or lack thereof. State Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-MI) serves as a model teacher for Democratic messaging.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The great-grandchildren of Ida. B. Wells, Michelle and Dan Duster, discuss her legacy as Congress finally passed anti-lynching legislation.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Philadelphia Inquirer's Layla A. Jones breaks down the origins of local tv news stereotyping of African Americans as contained in her investigative piece, "Lights. Camera. Crime."Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Workers Circle's CEO Ann Toback tells the story of Eastern European Jews in the nineteenth century who emigrated to the U.S. to escape persecution, only to find persecution of African Americans, women and laborers in America, too. Inevitably, they joined in solidarity with the suffrage, civil rights and labor movements and are directly involved in the ongoing work to preserve and expand voting rights.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Happy Jackie Robinson Day! It's been 75 years since Jackie Robinson broke America's color barrier. Della Britton, President and CEO of the Jackie Robinson Foundation describes the work of the Foundation, the upcoming opening of the Jackie Robinson Museum and the indefatigable 99-year-young Rachel Robinson.She also discusses the role Jackie Robinson played in making it possible for Barack Obama, Sr. to study in the U.S.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

MIP's weekly episode of Thursday Kos begins with tributes to media critic Eric Boehlert from Joy Reid, Host of The Reid Out on MSNBC, and the Kos in Thursday Kos and Daily Kos himself, Markos Moulitsas.Markos also discusses the latest developments in the Ukraine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bharat Ramamurti of the White House Economic Council on the March Jobs Report, the jobs deficit for African America Women and inflation.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

CenterOnBudget.org's Chief Economist Chad Stone shares his take on the monthly jobs report.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In West Virginia, Rockwool, a factory that produces insulation, is polluting the air and water, causing cancer and asthma, and stands atop an historic African American burial ground with its billowing 21story smoke stacks within blocks of four schools and two daycares. Rockwool, also, still has four factories operating in Russia in contravention of the current sanctions. And Joe Manchin knows all about Rockwool, yet is silent. Longtime activists Stewart Acuff, Ruth Hatcher, scientist Dr. Catherine Jozwick, apiarist (bee farmer) Jennifer King and cattle farmer Susannah Buckles tell the Rockwool story while on the Poor People's Campaign Moral March on West Virginia.For more info. www.toxicrockwool.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week's Poor People's Campaign Moral March on West Virginia continues the day Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed to the Supreme Court by the US Senate. The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, the Rev. Robin Tanner, Jean Evansmore, Shailley Gupta Barnes, Danyelle Holmes and Lauren Zehyoue react. Pam Garrison reminds us what the West Virginia struggle is all about. And Shailley Gupta Barnes explains the Poor People’s Pandemic Report findings.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Those were the compelling words used by the Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Chief of Staff, to describe Dr. King's speech, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence," April 4, 1967 at the Riverside Church in New York--one year to the day before Dr. King's crucifixion.Red Letter Christians organized clergy, including Rev. Mark, and activists to read "Beyond Vietnam" at Riverside 55 years later, in a moving tribute to MLK to commemorate his martyrdom, and in consideration of his unfinished work today.In order of appearance:Rev. Michael McBride Rev. Traci BlackmonShane ClaiborneRev. Michael W. WatersLisa Sharon HarperCarlos RodriguezRev. Todd YearyRev. Cece Jones-DavisDiana OestreichRev. Dr. Shakeema NorthErich KussmanBishop Herbert Daughtry Britt WhiteBishop Leah Daughtry Gabby Wilkes Andrew Wilkes Rev. Mark ThompsonAaron NiequistRev. Liz TheoharisRev. Sharon RisherDr. Ron DanielsJemar TisbyPhillip JoubertStephen Green Rev. Leslie CallahanRev. Bernice KingAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Donna Haskins grew up in poverty in one of the most racially segregated cities in America with seemingly all the odds stacked against her. She was sexually assaulted at 13, and when she had an abortion, she thought she could never fulfill her dream of becoming a nun. Later in life, in a crisis about her identity as a Black woman and on the brink of suicide, she hears a sermon that shook her to her core and permanently changed her course. Dr. Onaje X.O. Woodbine is today’s guest, author of "Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World," where he introduces us to Donna Haskins and her transformed life as a prophet. Dr. Woodbine worked with Donna for four years to document her life’s work, dedicated to helping others without accepting a dime, her Afro-Caribbean roots, and how it all intertwines with her Christianity. And if you want to believe in miracles, listen to the incredible story of Donna’s visions that brought a woman the family she thought she’d never have. Buy the book here: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/take-back-what-the-devil-stole/9780231197168 Executive Producer: Adell Coleman Producer: Brittany Temple Distributor: DCP Entertainment For additional content: makeitplain.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mark Thompson sits amongst a panel of women at the NAACP convention in Detroit. With Canada serving as their back drop they discuss the all to real fears of deportation, asylum, and safe spaces for those that don’t belong here according to Trumps Presidency. They also discus the importance of removing hate speech, and how they’re not only empowering each other but their various communities to restore peace amongst diverse communities. It is now more important than ever to call out hatred and promote love and community. They elaborate on how we can do just that. Host: Mark Thompson Panelist: Patrice Lawrence- National Policy Advocacy Director of UnDocuBlack Queen Yonasda Community Activist Fatima Tiko Community Activist Tiffany Dena Loftin Youth and College Division Director NAACP #getwoke Subscribe to the Make It Plain LIVE Daily Call-in Show Mon-Fri 7-9a ET at makeitplain.com  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Rev. Kaji Douša, Pastor of Park Avenue Christian Church in NY and Co-Chair of the New Sanctuary Coalition on her ministry with immigrants and asylum seekers. During a recent trip to the border, Rev. Douša was detained and interrogated by Customs and Border Protection. She has since been placed on a watchlist. She has filed a federal lawsuit alleging her First Amendment Rights and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act have been violated.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

93 year old, Mildred Roxborough recounts her life of service to the NAACP for the past seven decades . She has worked with amazing Civil Rights Leaders such as Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, Dr King, Thurgood Marshall and many more. #getwoke Subscribe to the Make It Plain LIVE Daily Call-in Show Mon-Fri 7-9a ET at makeitplain.com  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy