Black America

Voulette Mansour, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement joins the show to discuss the new People’s Arms Embargo campaign to stop the flow of F-35 fighter jet parts to the Oakland International Airport. The airport operates as a major hub for shipments of military cargo to Israel, which has...

Red Onion State Prison: where six men set themselves on fire as a desperate form of protest. Since 1998, watchdog groups have documented shotgun attacks, electroshock torture, pervasive racism, and naked force-feedings in the Virginia prison — but families of the incarcerated men report little has changed. Now activists are...

Amanda Seales’s viral Jubilee Surrounded episode drew millions of views and ignited fierce debate about the politics of Black America. But the real conversation runs deeper. BT’s Eugene Puryear sits down with Amanda to break down the myth of rising Black conservatism, the limits of identity politics, the power of...

Ben Becker, Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, joins the show to discuss the escalation of Trump’s mass deportation war is also an escalation of his war on political dissent. Trump is setting the stage to invoke the Insurrection Act, and Becker will discuss how Los Angeles is the testing ground for...

Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass decried the National Guard deployment to LA but most of the violence is coming from their own cops. Kei Pritsker explains why across America police are looking more like standing armies, reviewing the program called 1033 that arms them to the teeth with military grade...

Trump’s return is not just a political comeback—it’s a warning. As the tendency towards fascism gains strength in the U.S., what does that mean for the world’s most powerful empire? And what kind of resistance can actually stop it? On this episode of Dispatches, Rania Khalek is joined by Eugene...

Professor Jared A. Ball, host of the podcast iMiXWHATiLIKE and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, joins the show to discuss the centennial of Malcolm X’s birth. He discusses Malcolm’s revolutionary fight for Black liberation, his critique of capitalism and imperialism, and the ongoing effort to...

Alec Karakatsanis, a civil rights lawyer and founder of Civil Rights Corps, joins the show to discuss his groundbreaking new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. Karakatsanis explains how the police and the corporate-owned media team up to distort public perception of crime, spreading fear, fueling...

In his address to Congress yesterday, Trump declared war on immigrants, civil rights reforms, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Panama, social service programs, and more. Meanwhile, the Democrats only put up nominal, performative resistance — in keeping with their “play dead” strategy. Brian is joined by Dr. Nazia Kazi, a professor of...

Congressional Rep Jamaal Bowman joined Rania Khalek to discuss the bipartisan AIPAC-funded campaign to push him out of office, his evolution on Palestine, his views on the Biden administration and what comes next.