“They knew that if they got an all-white jury, I had a 99.9 percent chance of being convicted, even without any evidence,” said Rev. Edward Pinkney, the Benton Harbor, Michigan, community leader who served 30 months of a possible ten-year sentence for allegedly tampering with election documents. Pinkney now faces a year on parole, but he plans to hold a protest at the Berrien County courthouse on July 11 “to let them know I’m back,” and will picket the Whirlpool Corporation, which has long dominated the politics of his mostly Black home town.
Biden’s final executive order commuted sentences for thousands, but “collateral consequences” remain a risk.
As a U.S. Senator, Marco Rubio was a consistent war hawk and imperialist. Now as Secretary of State he poses great danger to the world.
In this week’s segment, we will discuss Donald Trump’s efforts to end constitutionally protected birthright citizenship. But first, we will hear about Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada who…
El Jones joins us from Halifax to discuss the legacy of Justin Trudeau, who recently resigned as leader of his party after 10 years as Canada's prime minister. We’ll discuss his foreign…
Thomas Wolf, Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center, joins us to discuss the implications of Trump’s executive order, which denies citizenship to children of undocumented people and…
