Monday Morning QB

Today on the show: How the crisis in Ukraine has shaped diplomacy with Iran. The past and present of refugee politics. This year’s reenactment of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March and a renewed call for Voting Rights. All that, and more!

Today on the show: We once again tackle Ukraine, bringing you stories on Western sanctions targeting Russians and racism faced by people fleeing the violence in Ukraine. We’ll then turn to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and the systematic disadvantages of Black women in the legal field. And where do we draw the line on self defense and the use of deadly force? Thanks again to all wh...

Today on the show: Fury over the death of innocents resulting from no-knock warrants. Political prisoners, elderly political prisoners, elderly political prisoners with illnesses denied compassionate release. Is it time to increase taxes paid by the rich? And national Black Love Day got its start right here in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Trump v. Biden and the limits of the American presidency. There’s tension growing this Black History Month: bomb threats on HBCU campuses. Black teachers, even students harassed, leaving poets to wonder how to tell the truth? Thousands of Confederate namesakes are still around, continuing to represent their “Lost Cause” in granite and bronze. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Activists rally at the White House in opposition to the talk of war in Ukraine. New seditious conspiracy charges filed in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Is there support among millionaires for a global wealth tax? When reparations for slavery were paid in the U.S. And a fresh look at the late New York street artist and painter Jean Michel Basquiat. All that, and more!

Today on the show: In the COVID wars, teachers and nurses are concerned about staffing levels and their workplaces. Poet Sonia Sanchez and the birth of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. The case for voting rights protection did not begin, nor did it end, with the Senate vote last week -- so we celebrate Fannie Lou Hamer. All that, and more!

Today on the show: A Christian pastor warns Christian white nationalism is tearing the nation at its seams. On this holiday celebrating his birth, we remember the radical voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We check the radical history of the great March on Washington. All that, and more!

Today on the show: On top of COVID, anxiety, stress and grief among children. The faith community on the “watch” for freedom. The untold stories of enslaved Native Americans. How data privacy can be a weapon against extremism. And a Soul Music treasure found in a D.C. basement. All that, and more!

Today on the show: We take a Monday-Morning look at the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection as that anniversary approaches this week. A freshman Congress-member’s lament about some of her colleagues who supported the insurrectionists. A new Black internet portal has picked a fight with the industry’s giants. Original words and song from D.C.’s Gala Hispanic Theater. And the Texas immigration syste...

Today on the show: A salute to revolutionary Black author bell hooks. Would you believe? Yet another lawsuit against the Black-led D.C. Metropolitan Police Department brought by Black women. Hundreds forcefully evicted from homeless encampments just in time for winter. The Biden administration’s asylum policy is looking more and more like the Trump administration asylum policy that preceded it. An...

Today on the show: There’s a huge undercount of Black joblessness, and that’s a problem. Meanwhile, millions of people walked off their jobs this year. A “shadow” immigration system in Europe. And remembering the poet laureate of Hip-Hop and a civil rights icon. All that, and more!

Today on the show: The infrastructure legislation and its impact. Quietly Latin America is removing its shackles imposed by the U.S. Pandemic-panic pushed gun sales. And what do folks on the street want from the Biden administration, this holiday season? All that, and more!

Today on the show: It took two months to arrest them, but only hours of deliberation for a jury to convict the killers of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. A poet reminds us that brutality against Black people happens a lot Down South. In South Africa, where their own scientists first discovered the Omicron Variant of COVID19, people complain of punishment instead of praise for their quick scientific disc...

Today on the show: Kyle Rittenhouse, the new American folk hero. Fewer protections of voter rights today than in the 1960s. Book-banning is spreading all over the country. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Vaccine apartheid affects much of the world. The political showdown continues in Sudan. Life without parole challenged in a Pennsylvania court. In a Washington, DC court, Black female police officers with 200 years combined service sue the District for discrimination. And indigenous voices on climate change. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Yet another water crisis, in yet another mostly Black Michigan town. We’ve learned there’s a whole lot we haven’t yet learned about the insurrection on January 6th. A fight to reclaim a slave burial ground wins a court victory in Bethesda. All that, and more!

Today on the show: A new book from Chris Hedges; Black theater with Robert Hooks; revisiting the Critical Race Theory debate; and an archive piece navigating the uses of humor in politics. All that, and more!

Today on the show: COVID, robots, and job displacement. The indelible impact of the 10-year-old Occupy movement. The Latino struggle takes center stage -- it's Hispanic Heritage Month. 60 years since the student surge in Civil Rights leadership. And remembering Melvin and Melvin. All that, and more!

Today on the show: A virtual, rather than a celebratory Congressional Black Caucus anniversary last week. Disabled voters in Texas sue to block new voting restrictions. D.C. residents react to police violence. Grassroots efforts to restore unemployment benefits. And the pleasant intersection of baseball and poetry. All that, and more!

Today on the show: The largest Confederate statue in the country has come down. Federal unemployment benefits have come down. Disasters caused by those supposed to be delivering aid? And a huge, worldwide anti-racism conference which 9/11 made us all but forget. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Afghan evacuations continue as the deadline approaches with more attacks and deaths outside the Kabul airport safe perimeter. The suffering in Haiti, a massive earthquake, a deadly tropical storm: will relief efforts be effective? The Blood of Emmett Till, recalling yesterday’s 66th anniversary of that gruesome murder. All that, and more!

Today on the show: The Supreme Court reinstates the Trump-era policy expelling asylum seekers on the Southern border. How to react to the new refugee crisis caused by the fall of the Afghan government. A record number, more than 93,00 drug overdoses last year and Black people are suffering disproportionately. Climate warming means “code red for humanity.” And 58 years after the great March on Wash...

Today on the show: Civil rights marches for voting rights and black colleges. One West Virginia community blames drug manufacturers for the opioid crisis. The work of  prisoners is abused during the pandemic... But the work of our very own young broadcasters is something to take notice of and appreciate. All that, and more!

Today on the show: If you thought Republican voter suppression and gerrymandering was bad, sit down, it’s worse than that. The U.S. and China discuss climate diplomacy. A select committee meets to hear about income disparities. All that, and more!

Today on the show: The expiration of the pandemic eviction ban means many, many more people will be made homeless. Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, the “Axis of Decolonization” in the West. Terrible losses of life in Indian boarding schools. Balancing our hours on the job. All that, and more!