A More Perfect Union with Nii-Quartelai

When someone in L.A. has a mental health crisis, who shows up? Mayor Karen Bass explains why she ordered an outside review of how LAPD responds. 

Tasha Mack is in the building. Wendy Raquel Robinson talks “The Varnell Hill Show,” the “Martin” spinoff now streaming on Paramount+, and keeping Tommy Davidson’s Varnell in line.

Pull up a chair, baby. VirginiaDella’s founders bring grandma’s gumbo-and-peach-cobbler energy to a warm conversation about legacy and the women who raised us.

Nolan Wells’ mother corrected the record about her son. Richard Fowler and Black Men Vote’s Michael Bland explore why words matter, and the push to mobilize 100,000 Black men before Election Day.    

Bishop Joseph Tolton and Richard Fowler go from Havana to the drive-thru. They cover the U.S. seizure of Cuba-bound fuel, a lawsuit accusing McDonald’s of AI price-fixing, and three Black college students facing federal charges over posts about Trump.

Director Sheldon Candis talks “They Fight,” his Hulu drama starring André Holland and Wendell Pierce. It’s the true-story-inspired tale of a formerly incarcerated coach, a gym full of young D.C. boxers, and the power of a second chance.    

Your light bill shouldn’t be bankrolling Silicon Valley. K.J. Bagchi reveals four rules that could stop AI data centers from wrecking your electric bill.

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. unpacks the Jeffries–Kushner meeting shaking up House Democrats. BAJI’s Nana Gyamfi then tells the heartbreaking story of a Haitian honor student who died after losing TPS, and of Cuban immigrants deported to Africa.

Peace photographer John Noltner has sat with people on every side of the line — from the border to the Supreme Court steps. What he's learned about actually bridging the gap.

Ashley Kahn on Paul Simon's Graceland — the anti-apartheid boycott he defied, and the true, complicated story of Ladysmith Black Mambazo's role in it.

Germar Reed unpacks Meta's $1.4 trillion addiction trial, nearly 400 federal datasets that quietly vanished, and why betting markets could throw the midterms into chaos.

Vincent Jones and Al Reynolds on Angie Nixon's underdog Senate upset in Florida, the Karmelo Anthony judge recusal, the Buss family's Lakers drama, and the $40 trillion debt bomb nobody's talking about.

Danielle Brooks and director Walter Thompson-Hernández on "If I Go Will They Miss Me" — a Black story already generating serious awards buzz

Zaire Calvin lost his sister and his home in the Eaton Fire. Now he's fighting to keep what's left of a historic Black community from disappearing for good.

Our kids created "teen takeover" on TikTok. Dr. Kevin Beckford and Yasmin Salina (Co-Founders, The Hustler Guild) break down how it got turned into a crime panic pointed straight at Black and Brown youth.

Nearly 30 years later, the questions still won't die. Rich Staropoli previews the new special reopening Princess Diana's case.

Civil Rights Attorney Todd Belcore and former NYC Deputy Mayor Tiffany Raspberry on Trump's renewed birthright citizenship push, a bombshell DOGE audit, and cops selling surveillance tech to your city council.

Eric Goode takes us inside Monsters of God, his new HBO docuseries on the underground world of exotic reptile smuggling.

Donavan McKinney's stunning primary upset puts Detroit a step closer to Black congressional representation. Vincent Jones and Al Reynolds break it down.

"From Presence to Power" Author Rashad Robinson on the difference between visibility and leverage — and what it actually takes to win, not just be seen.

Dr. Wes Bellamy unveils the Langston Institute's first annual report on Black men and boys: a stalled HBCU pipeline, a labor market where they're the only group losing ground, and the real math behind 77 cents on the dollar. 

Author CC Rice on how unprocessed trauma lives in your voice, your posture, and the way you show up in every room.

LA County Fire has an answer: SCE equipment sparked the blaze that killed 19. NAACP Pasadena President Brandon Lamar and James Farr unpack the report — and its eerie echo in Spokane's raging wildfires. 

Data scientist Germar Reed connects U.S. intelligence in Cuba, AI creeping into campus life, and the legal gray zone nobody's ready for: who's liable when an algorithm hacks you.

Live from Bethesda Temple Church — philosopher, professor, activist, and a moral conscience for America, Dr. Cornel West. He weighs in on rising healthcare costs, the Nolan Wells case, Destination Crenshaw, and the news that matters most to our community right now.