Make It Plain with Mark Thompson

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