Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

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The Rev. Mark A. Thompson has spent most of his life as a political, civil rights & human rights activist and organizer. He not only has been a part of every major social justice movement & event over the past 35 years, he has also been a radio broadcaster for three decades, and he has spent over 10 years as a television commentator, as well. Mark, hosts Make It Plain, a political, human rights and non-mainstream news podcast. Mark’s lifelong social justice activism intersects with his years of experience broadcasting the news and issues of the day. Newsmakers, politicos, policy-makers, entert...

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Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

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Feb 2, 2026

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Episodes

Trump Arraigned 04.04.2023

MIP's live coverage of Trump's arraignment, including Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's press conference, and guests, David Cay Johnston, unauthorized Trump biographer and Mark Sumner of Daily Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

MLK and "Holy Week: The Story of a Revolution Undone" 04.04.2023

On the 55th anniversary of MLK's martyrdom, Vann Newkirk discusses his in-depth podcast on MLK's last campaign. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"Fox News returns to the barricades for an indicted Donald Trump" 31.03.2023

Media Matters Senior Fellow Matt Gertz joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

GOP Has Lost Three Elections In A Row Promoting Conspiracy Theories 30.03.2023

Markos joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Biden Administration on African American Studies Ban and the ACA Anniversary 24.03.2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on the Florida ban, and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure on the 13th anniversary of the ACA. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"We're in a win-win situation watching [Republicans] tear each other apart." 16.03.2023

Markos joins for this week's Thursday Kos . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chad Stone on the Feb. 2023 Jobs Report 15.03.2023

The Chief Economist of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Div. III Final Four-bound Swarthmore College alum joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The 2024 Election And Beyond 13.03.2023

Rev. Mark moderates T]\the 2023 20th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Ubuntu Plenary with an Introduction by Dr. Forrest Harris, President of American Baptist College, and with Panelists. Pastor Michael McBride of Live Free USA; Bishop Leah Daughtry of The House of the Lord Churches; Rev. Terry Melvin, President of the Coalltion of Black Trade Unionists; Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO of the Fe...

WRITTEN OUT: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala 09.03.2023

Stanford African Historu Professor Joel Cabrita on her new book, WRITTEN OUT: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala  , chroniclng the life of a prolific writer in the 50s and 60s, the second Black woman to obtain a degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and one of the co-founders of Eswatini’s first political party in 1960. Despite Twala’s significant achievements, her obsc...

Fox's Lies To Its Own Audience, the China Committee and Trump vs. DeSantis 02.03.2023

Markos joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Deaths In Custody 01.03.2023

Dr. Roger Mitchell is a national expert on deaths that occur while in the custody of law enforcement and has served as an expert in many high-profile cases. He currently is the Chairman of the pathology department at Howard University College of Medicine and is the Speaker of the House of Delegates for the National Medical Association which has a membership body of 50K Black Doctors. Dr. Mitchell...

What This Tuesday Night Meant For Democrats 23.02.2023

Markos joins for Thursday Kos as Democrats win Tuesday in VA, WI, KY, and NH, and Biden visits Ukraine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships" 22.02.2023

Author Rob Wipond and forced treatment survivor Cindy Hadge of the Wildflower Alliance join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Biden Administration On Teachers Of Color And A New Executive Order On Equity and Inclusion 17.02.2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on first-ever Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program grants to recruit more teachers of color, and White House Domestic Policy Council Dep. Director Chiraag Bains on President Biden's new Executive Order,  Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircl...

Poll: Most Americans Don't Want Trump Or Biden in 2024, And Most Disagree With DeSantis' African American Studies Ban 16.02.2023

Markos Moulitsas joins #ThursdayKos with the latest Civiqs poll . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Success of Biden's SOTU Speech 09.02.2023

Markos Moulitsas joins for Thursday Kos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Biden's SOTU and the January Jobs Report 08.02.2023

The Democrats Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's SOTU speech, and the Center on Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the January 2023 jobs report. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

SOTU Preview 07.02.2023

Keisha Lance Bottoms, Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement, Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President for Infrastructure Implementation preview of the President’s State of the Union address tonight. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DeSantis Bans AP African American Studies 31.01.2023

American Federation of Teachers Secretary-Treasurer and immediate past president of the Florida Education Association on the banned course, and the myriad of other issues Florida's students, parents and teachers face which DeSantis ignores. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Riders Come Out At Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in the Oakland Police Department 30.01.2023

Twenty-one years of investigative journalism by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham has resulted in their new book on the history of brutality, racism and corruption on the part of the Oakland police. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

"Muzzled by DeSantis, Critical Race Theory Professors Cancel Courses or Modify Their Teaching" 27.01.2023

Daniel Golden of ProPublica joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Media's "Trump Hangover" 26.01.2023

Daily Kos is unspared from media layoffs as Markos shares on this week's Thursday Kos. Also, the latest on U.S. and German equipment headed to Ukraine. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

How Roe Came To Be 24.01.2023

Professor Felicia Kornbluh on the role her mother, Beatrice Kornbluh, played in establishing Roe, and on the role her neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, played in ending sterilization abuse disproportionality victimizing African American, Latina and Indigenous women, as told in her new book, A Woman’s Life Is A Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Repro...

HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona 20.01.2023

Secretary Fudge joins to discuss the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which continues the work of MLK and the realization of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Secretary Cardona joins to discuss the Education Department's milestones at the halfway point of the Biden Harris Administration. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Did Republicans Actually "Win?" Or Would They Have Served Themselves Better Remaining In The Minority? 19.01.2023

The turmoil in the House, and the inability to govern begs the question. Also Santos's pathology, Hunter Biden, the difference between Trump's classified docs and Biden's, and the latest on Ukraine. Markos Moulitsas joins for the first Thursday Kos of 2023! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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