Sojourner Truth Radio
1,518 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod is a news & public affairs program that airs Tuesday through Friday on KPFK Radio from 7 to 8 AM (PST), and nationwide on Pacifica Radio networks.
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Sojourner Truth brings you news and views on local, national & international policies and stories that affect us all. We draw out how those of us most impacted -women, communities of color and other communities are responding. We also discuss the inter-relationship between art and politics.
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Episodes
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis On The Season Of Non-Violent Moral Action
July 15, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Across the Western Hemisphere, Indigenous environmental activists are under attack. They face violence and repression as they continue to defend their water and lands from right-wing governments and extractivist multinational companies. In Chile, the Indigenous Mapuche people have been leading the charge when it comes to defending protected environmental areas from occupying forces. Back in June, Mapuche land rights defender Alberto Curamil was seriously injured in ...
Earth Minute: Heat Wave & Climate Change
July 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.56 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Since Cuba's 1959 Revolution, the United States has attempted to undo what the Revolution was hoping to achieve. The U.S. tried invasion, economic boycotts, several assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, and propaganda. Now, thousands of protesters have hit the streets in Cuba. What's going on? This, at the same time as turmoil in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. Our guest on Cuba is Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas P...
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 14, 2021 - Cuba Protests, Voting Rights, Belgium Hunger Strike
July 14, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Since Cuba's 1959 Revolution, the United States has attempted to undo what the Revolution was hoping to achieve. The U.S. tried invasion, economic boycotts, several assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, and propaganda. Now, thousands of protesters have hit the streets in Cuba. What's going on? This, at the same time as turmoil in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. Our guest on Cuba is Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas P...
Laura Carlson On Cuba Protests
July 14, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Since Cuba's 1959 Revolution, the United States has attempted to undo what the Revolution was hoping to achieve. The U.S. tried invasion, economic boycotts, several assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, and propaganda. Now, thousands of protesters have hit the streets in Cuba. What's going on? This, at the same time as turmoil in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. Our guest on Cuba is Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas P...
Benoit Martin On Belgium Hunger Strike
July 14, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 8.62 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Since Cuba's 1959 Revolution, the United States has attempted to undo what the Revolution was hoping to achieve. The U.S. tried invasion, economic boycotts, several assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, and propaganda. Now, thousands of protesters have hit the streets in Cuba. What's going on? This, at the same time as turmoil in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. Our guest on Cuba is Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas P...
Barbara Arnwine On Voting Rights & The Supreme Court
July 14, 2021 00:00 - 13 minutes - 12 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Since Cuba's 1959 Revolution, the United States has attempted to undo what the Revolution was hoping to achieve. The U.S. tried invasion, economic boycotts, several assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, and propaganda. Now, thousands of protesters have hit the streets in Cuba. What's going on? This, at the same time as turmoil in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. Our guest on Cuba is Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas P...
News Headlines: July 14, 2021
July 14, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 6.93 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Since Cuba's 1959 Revolution, the United States has attempted to undo what the Revolution was hoping to achieve. The U.S. tried invasion, economic boycotts, several assassination attempts of Fidel Castro, and propaganda. Now, thousands of protesters have hit the streets in Cuba. What's going on? This, at the same time as turmoil in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. Our guest on Cuba is Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas P...
Aminah Elster & Alex Makulit On Sex Worker Rights & Forced Sterilizations
July 13, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Misinformation and jockeying for power. The latest on the situation in Haiti and the U.S. response following the assassination of Haiti's President, Jovenel Moise. It has been almost a week since Moise was assassinated in his home, yet many questions remain up in the air. What were Colombian ex-military members doing in Haiti? How did the assailants get through a fortified compound, defended by Haitian security forces, with no other deaths? Our guest is journalist a...
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 13, 2021 - Haiti Crisis, Sex Worker Rights & Forced Sterilizations
July 13, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Misinformation and jockeying for power. The latest on the situation in Haiti and the U.S. response following the assassination of Haiti's President, Jovenel Moise. It has been almost a week since Moise was assassinated in his home, yet many questions remain up in the air. What were Colombian ex-military members doing in Haiti? How did the assailants get through a fortified compound, defended by Haitian security forces, with no other deaths? Our guest is journalist a...
News Headlines: July 13, 2021
July 13, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 6.42 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Misinformation and jockeying for power. The latest on the situation in Haiti and the U.S. response following the assassination of Haiti's President, Jovenel Moise. It has been almost a week since Moise was assassinated in his home, yet many questions remain up in the air. What were Colombian ex-military members doing in Haiti? How did the assailants get through a fortified compound, defended by Haitian security forces, with no other deaths? Our guest is journalist a...
Kevin Pina On Crisis In Haiti
July 13, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Misinformation and jockeying for power. The latest on the situation in Haiti and the U.S. response following the assassination of Haiti's President, Jovenel Moise. It has been almost a week since Moise was assassinated in his home, yet many questions remain up in the air. What were Colombian ex-military members doing in Haiti? How did the assailants get through a fortified compound, defended by Haitian security forces, with no other deaths? Our guest is journalist a...
News Headlines: July 9, 2021
July 09, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. This week, we focus on the latest news in Haiti and Afghanistan. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, Dr. Gerald Horne, and David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The ongoing crisis in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Heads of government of CARICOM have issued a...
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 9, 2021 - Roundtable On Haiti & Afghanistan
July 09, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. This week, we focus on the latest news in Haiti and Afghanistan. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, Dr. Gerald Horne, and David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The ongoing crisis in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados's Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Heads of government of CARICOM have issued a...
Margaret Kimberly On The Terrible Origins Of July Fourth
July 07, 2021 00:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The controversial President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in his home last night. His wife was injured and is hospitalized. A team of assassins, some of whom reportedly spoke English with a U.S. accent, as well as others who spoke Spanish, were reported to carry out the hit. One of the team were allegedly identified as U.S. DEA, which media is reporting was a ruse, a false claim. Our guest is Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. ...
Earth Minute: Byhalia Pipeline
July 07, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.52 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The controversial President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in his home last night. His wife was injured and is hospitalized. A team of assassins, some of whom reportedly spoke English with a U.S. accent, as well as others who spoke Spanish, were reported to carry out the hit. One of the team were allegedly identified as U.S. DEA, which media is reporting was a ruse, a false claim. Our guest is Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. ...
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 7, 2021 - Haiti Assassination, Fourth of July, Child Tax Credit
July 07, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The controversial President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in his home last night. His wife was injured and is hospitalized. A team of assassins, some of whom reportedly spoke English with a U.S. accent, as well as others who spoke Spanish, were reported to carry out the hit. One of the team were allegedly identified as U.S. DEA, which media is reporting was a ruse, a false claim. Our guest is Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. ...
News Headlines: July 7, 2021
July 07, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The controversial President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in his home last night. His wife was injured and is hospitalized. A team of assassins, some of whom reportedly spoke English with a U.S. accent, as well as others who spoke Spanish, were reported to carry out the hit. One of the team were allegedly identified as U.S. DEA, which media is reporting was a ruse, a false claim. Our guest is Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. ...
Adam Ruben On Child Tax Credit Week Of Action
July 07, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutes - 9.24 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The controversial President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in his home last night. His wife was injured and is hospitalized. A team of assassins, some of whom reportedly spoke English with a U.S. accent, as well as others who spoke Spanish, were reported to carry out the hit. One of the team were allegedly identified as U.S. DEA, which media is reporting was a ruse, a false claim. Our guest is Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. ...
Pierre Labossiere On Assassination Of Haiti's Jovenel Moise
July 07, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The controversial President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in his home last night. His wife was injured and is hospitalized. A team of assassins, some of whom reportedly spoke English with a U.S. accent, as well as others who spoke Spanish, were reported to carry out the hit. One of the team were allegedly identified as U.S. DEA, which media is reporting was a ruse, a false claim. Our guest is Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. ...
Tina Gerhardt On Surfside Condo Collapse
July 06, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The latest challenge to search teams at the collapsed condo in Surfside, Florida, is Tropical Storm Elsa. Following the June 24th 12-story collapse, thus far 28 people have reportedly died as we go on air. Eleven are injured and 117 people remain unaccounted for. Are environmental factors that possibly were connected to the collapse being investigated? The condo was on a barrier island. What are barrier islands and what environmental role do they play? What is the d...
Fariha Huriya On Pennsylvania Prisoner Hunger Strike
July 06, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The latest challenge to search teams at the collapsed condo in Surfside, Florida, is Tropical Storm Elsa. Following the June 24th 12-story collapse, thus far 28 people have reportedly died as we go on air. Eleven are injured and 117 people remain unaccounted for. Are environmental factors that possibly were connected to the collapse being investigated? The condo was on a barrier island. What are barrier islands and what environmental role do they play? What is the d...
David Comissiong On Hurricane Elsa In Barbados
July 06, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutes - 14.6 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The latest challenge to search teams at the collapsed condo in Surfside, Florida, is Tropical Storm Elsa. Following the June 24th 12-story collapse, thus far 28 people have reportedly died as we go on air. Eleven are injured and 117 people remain unaccounted for. Are environmental factors that possibly were connected to the collapse being investigated? The condo was on a barrier island. What are barrier islands and what environmental role do they play? What is the d...
News Headlines: July 6, 2021
July 06, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The latest challenge to search teams at the collapsed condo in Surfside, Florida, is Tropical Storm Elsa. Following the June 24th 12-story collapse, thus far 28 people have reportedly died as we go on air. Eleven are injured and 117 people remain unaccounted for. Are environmental factors that possibly were connected to the collapse being investigated? The condo was on a barrier island. What are barrier islands and what environmental role do they play? What is the d...
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 6, 2021 - Barbados Hurricane, Surfside Condo Collapse, Prison Strike
July 06, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The latest challenge to search teams at the collapsed condo in Surfside, Florida, is Tropical Storm Elsa. Following the June 24th 12-story collapse, thus far 28 people have reportedly died as we go on air. Eleven are injured and 117 people remain unaccounted for. Are environmental factors that possibly were connected to the collapse being investigated? The condo was on a barrier island. What are barrier islands and what environmental role do they play? What is the d...
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 2, 2021 - Roundtable On Voting Rights, Insurrection, China & More
July 02, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne. As the nation prepares its independence from the UK, our panelists weigh in on the latest Supreme Court blow to voting rights in the United States. This, as Nancy Pelosi sets up a house panel to investigate the January 6 insurrection. Given the attacks on voting rights and the denial of many in the GOP of what happened on January 6, is the insurrection continuing in state l...
Earth Minute: Indigenous & Climate Activists Against Fossil Fuels
July 01, 2021 17:42 - 1 minute - 2.11 MBEarth Minute: Indigenous & Climate Activists Against Fossil Fuels by Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 1, 2021 - Dr. Paul Oquist Exposes Sanctions On Nicaragua
July 01, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 26.5 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: In 1979, the people of Nicaragua overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. The Somoza family dictatorship ruled Nicaragua from 1937 until 1979, when the Sandinista National Liberation Front liberated the country from their rule. Upon taking power, the Sandinistas vowed to free their country from the grip of U.S. hegemony and prioritize the needs of poor people ahead of foreign corporations. Since then, the people of Nicaragua have faced constant at...
News Headlines: July 1, 2021
July 01, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: In 1979, the people of Nicaragua overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. The Somoza family dictatorship ruled Nicaragua from 1937 until 1979, when the Sandinista National Liberation Front liberated the country from their rule. Upon taking power, the Sandinistas vowed to free their country from the grip of U.S. hegemony and prioritize the needs of poor people ahead of foreign corporations. Since then, the people of Nicaragua have faced constant at...
News Headlines: June 30, 2021
June 30, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.01 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Over the past century, Black landowners in the U.S. South have lost over 12 million acres of farmland, mostly from the 1950s onward, according to The Atlantic. Joe Brooks, the former president of the Emergency Land Fund, a group founded in 1972 to fight the problem of dispossession, estimated that about 6 million acres was lost by Black farmers between 1950 to 1969 alone. This represents an average of 820 acres a day, an area the size of New Yorks Central Park wiped...
Sojourner Truth Radio: June 30, 2021 - Black & Indigenous Farmers
June 30, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: Over the past century, Black landowners in the U.S. South have lost over 12 million acres of farmland, mostly from the 1950s onward, according to The Atlantic. Joe Brooks, the former president of the Emergency Land Fund, a group founded in 1972 to fight the problem of dispossession, estimated that about 6 million acres was lost by Black farmers between 1950 to 1969 alone. This represents an average of 820 acres a day, an area the size of New Yorks Central Park wiped...
News Headlines: June 25, 2021
June 25, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.8 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne. The infrastructure compromise. On Thursday, June 24, U.S. President Joe Biden reached an infrastructure deal with a bipartisan group of senators. The deal allocates roughly $579 billion in new investments in roads, broadband internet, electric utilities and other projects. However, the plan only incorporates part of the total $4 trillion economic proposal Biden has put fort...
Sojourner Truth Radio: June 25, 2021 - Roundtable On Infrastructure & Critical Race Theory
June 25, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne. The infrastructure compromise. On Thursday, June 24, U.S. President Joe Biden reached an infrastructure deal with a bipartisan group of senators. The deal allocates roughly $579 billion in new investments in roads, broadband internet, electric utilities and other projects. However, the plan only incorporates part of the total $4 trillion economic proposal Biden has put fort...
Sojourner Truth Radio: June 24, 2021 - For the People Act, Child Tax Credit, Climate Solutions
June 24, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: New freedom riders are descending on Washington DC, even as the Rev. William Barber, joint coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other religious leaders, were arrested during civil disobedience. Their cause? The right to vote. On Tuesday, June 22, the Republican Party blocked opening debate on the For the People Act, a key voting rights bill put forward by the Democrats. All members of the...
News Headlines: June 24, 2021
June 24, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.63 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: New freedom riders are descending on Washington DC, even as the Rev. William Barber, joint coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other religious leaders, were arrested during civil disobedience. Their cause? The right to vote. On Tuesday, June 22, the Republican Party blocked opening debate on the For the People Act, a key voting rights bill put forward by the Democrats. All members of the...
Barbara Arnwine On For The People Act: What's Next?
June 24, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: New freedom riders are descending on Washington DC, even as the Rev. William Barber, joint coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other religious leaders, were arrested during civil disobedience. Their cause? The right to vote. On Tuesday, June 22, the Republican Party blocked opening debate on the For the People Act, a key voting rights bill put forward by the Democrats. All members of the...
Earth Watch: Jason Davidson On Climate Solutions
June 24, 2021 00:00 - 7 minutes - 7.06 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: New freedom riders are descending on Washington DC, even as the Rev. William Barber, joint coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other religious leaders, were arrested during civil disobedience. Their cause? The right to vote. On Tuesday, June 22, the Republican Party blocked opening debate on the For the People Act, a key voting rights bill put forward by the Democrats. All members of the...
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro On Child Tax Credit
June 24, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: New freedom riders are descending on Washington DC, even as the Rev. William Barber, joint coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, along with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other religious leaders, were arrested during civil disobedience. Their cause? The right to vote. On Tuesday, June 22, the Republican Party blocked opening debate on the For the People Act, a key voting rights bill put forward by the Democrats. All members of the...
Sojourner Truth Radio: June 23, 2021 - Pt. 2 of Third Reconstruction Assembly
June 23, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 26.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, Part 2 of our Poor People's Campaign on the Third Reconstruction. On Monday, June 21, thousands of poor people, low-wage workers, campaigners and faith leaders from across the United States gathered online for a mass assembly organized by the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The assembly, which simultaneously featured a socially-distanced rally in North Carolina, called for the realization of the Third Reconstruction. The Third Reconstructio...
News Headlines: June 23, 2021
June 23, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, Part 2 of our Poor People's Campaign on the Third Reconstruction. On Monday, June 21, thousands of poor people, low-wage workers, campaigners and faith leaders from across the United States gathered online for a mass assembly organized by the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The assembly, which simultaneously featured a socially-distanced rally in North Carolina, called for the realization of the Third Reconstruction. The Third Reconstructio...
Earth Minute: Pride Month 2021
June 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 2.36 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, Part 2 of our Poor People's Campaign on the Third Reconstruction. On Monday, June 21, thousands of poor people, low-wage workers, campaigners and faith leaders from across the United States gathered online for a mass assembly organized by the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The assembly, which simultaneously featured a socially-distanced rally in North Carolina, called for the realization of the Third Reconstruction. The Third Reconstructio...
News Headlines: June 22, 2021
June 22, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MBOn Monday, June 21, thousands of poor people, low-wage workers, campaigners and faith leaders from across the United States gathered online for a mass assembly organized by the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The assembly, which simultaneously featured a socially-distanced rally in North Carolina, called for the realization of the Third Reconstruction. The Third Reconstruction draws from the transformational history of the First Reconstruction following the U.S. Civi...
Sojourner Truth Radio: June 22, 2021 - Third Reconstruction Assembly, Poor People's Campaign
June 22, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 26.5 MBOn Monday, June 21, thousands of poor people, low-wage workers, campaigners and faith leaders from across the United States gathered online for a mass assembly organized by the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The assembly, which simultaneously featured a socially-distanced rally in North Carolina, called for the realization of the Third Reconstruction. The Third Reconstruction draws from the transformational history of the First Reconstruction following the U.S. Civi...
News Headlines: June 18, 2021
June 18, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.99 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne. Juneteenth is now a national holiday. A step forward, many say. But is it also an opportunity for Republicans who voted for it to hide their ongoing attempts to chip away at the hard-fought rights of Black people. What about the attempts to suppress and in some cases criminalize the teaching of Black and Brown history in schools and universities across the United States? B...
Sojourner Truth Radio: June 18, 2021 - National & International Roundtable
June 18, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne. Juneteenth is now a national holiday. A step forward, many say. But is it also an opportunity for Republicans who voted for it to hide their ongoing attempts to chip away at the hard-fought rights of Black people. What about the attempts to suppress and in some cases criminalize the teaching of Black and Brown history in schools and universities across the United States? B...
News Headlines: June 16, 2021
June 17, 2021 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.64 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth Special. Our guests are Danny Glover, Barbara Arnwine and Dr. Robin Kelley. On Tuesday, June 15, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday. The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday. It is expected to easily pass the House, which would send it to President Joe Biden for his signature. The Senate passed the bill under a unanimous consent agreement that expedites the process for consideri...
Dr. Robin Kelley On Juneteenth
June 17, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth Special. Our guests are Danny Glover, Barbara Arnwine and Dr. Robin Kelley. On Tuesday, June 15, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday. The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday. It is expected to easily pass the House, which would send it to President Joe Biden for his signature. The Senate passed the bill under a unanimous consent agreement that expedites the process for consideri...
Barbara Arnwine On Juneteenth
June 17, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutes - 9.42 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth Special. Our guests are Danny Glover, Barbara Arnwine and Dr. Robin Kelley. On Tuesday, June 15, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday. The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday. It is expected to easily pass the House, which would send it to President Joe Biden for his signature. The Senate passed the bill under a unanimous consent agreement that expedites the process for consideri...
Sojourner Truth Radio: June 17, 2021 - Juneteenth Special
June 17, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth Special. Our guests are Danny Glover, Barbara Arnwine and Dr. Robin Kelley. On Tuesday, June 15, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday. The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday. It is expected to easily pass the House, which would send it to President Joe Biden for his signature. The Senate passed the bill under a unanimous consent agreement that expedites the process for consideri...
Danny Glover On Juneteenth
June 17, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutes - 11 MBToday on Sojourner Truth, our annual Juneteenth Special. Our guests are Danny Glover, Barbara Arnwine and Dr. Robin Kelley. On Tuesday, June 15, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make Juneteenth a federal holiday. The bill would lead to Juneteenth becoming the 12th federal holiday. It is expected to easily pass the House, which would send it to President Joe Biden for his signature. The Senate passed the bill under a unanimous consent agreement that expedites the process for consideri...
Earth Minute: G7 Summit 2021
June 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBToday on Sojourner Truth: The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, joint coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, joins us to discuss their anti-poverty efforts as well as a congressional resolution which calls for the Third Reconstruction of the United States. He also discusses an upcoming virtual March on Washington. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting. This follows Biden's trip to Europe for a meeting of the world's Western ...