Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson

Katherine Clark and Camille Wade are both customer service representatives for Maximus. Maximus operates the largest federally-contracted call centers in the country under a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is operated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Maximus workers handle tens of millions of Obamacare/Affordable Care Act and Medicare...

Terri Carmichael-Jackson, Executive Director of the WNBA Players Association, and David Foster, General Counsel of the National Basketball Players Association, participate in a Town Hall moderated by Rev. Mark at the 52nd Annual Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Convention on May 25, 2023. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

In time for the 60th Anniversary of the March On Washington, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, the Chief of Race, Wealth and Community for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, joins to discuss his latest report on MLK's distant dream.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos and Rev. Mark analyze the GOP debate on this week's Thursday Kos Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Representing the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Tennessee Representative comments on the Tennessee Legislature's Special Session, and the Cabinet Member addresses the accomplishments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and righting the historic wrongs of highways which split African American communities. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

A friend asked me should we be celebrating the incident in Montgomery? I decided to pose the question to one of the greatest teachers of nonviolence in history-- the Rev. James M. Lawson . More than anyone else, he educated, organized and mobilized nonviolent troops for the Civil Rights Movement and for Dr. King, in the way Joshua prepared Moses' troops. We owe him a listen on this matter. And...

Also, what's Putin up to in Africa? Markos joins for #ThursdayKos. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney Judith Browne-Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project , Adrianne Shropshire, Executive Director of the Black PAC , and Attorney Donald Temple join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hermon Johnson, Rev. Darryl Johnson and Reena Evers-Everette, the daughter born to Medgar and Myrlie Evers in Mound Bayou, MS discuss the Mound Bayou Museum in a historic African American city and its first annual gala. Even if you can't attend, pls GIVE moundbayougala.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Community Justice Action Fund Executive Director Greg Jackson says his organization has joined Everytown, Giffords, Moms Demand Action, Brady and March for Our Lives in endorsing Biden Harris. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dobbs reversal of Roe consistently brings Democrats wins at the polls. Markos Moulitsas joins for #ThursdayKos Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Center Budget's Chief Economist, Chad Stone , joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rev. Mark moderates the 114th NAACP National Convention Closing Plenary Panel with Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Sheryl Underwood. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Meek Mill, historian Henry Louis Gates, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and NAACP President Derrick Johnson engage in a panel discussion moderated by Fox Sports' Joy Taylor at the 114th NAACP Convention in Boston. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Senate Democrats held the annual African American Media Roundtable on a wide range of issues on July 12, 2023 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's re-election; Dems fundraising; Bidenomics; unemployment; three 2024 first-in-the-nation primaries with African American women as state chairs; the VP's visit to FL today to slavery as a "personal benefit;" Affirmative Action; Trump's mounting legal woes and Jim Clyburn's birthday today! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...

Live from Chicago, at the 17th Annual Netroots Nation, MIP is joined by a number of guests including Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, Carol Joyner of Family Values Action, Delinda Bryant of the Albany Voters Coalition, Bo Shuff of DC Vote, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and member of Moms Rising Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/p...

Joelle Gamble, Deputy Assistant to the President and the Deputy Director at the National Economic Council, and Chad Stone, Chief Economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities both join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was the Keynote Speaker at the National Newspaper Publishers Association 2023 Convention and he expounded on topics in his new book, Break The Wheel: Ending The Cycle of Police Violence. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A Make It Plain tradition. Frederick Douglass's "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?" Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On Day One of the National Newspaper Publishers Annual Convention (NNPA)--the convention of all the African American newspapers--a panel discussion on Engaging the Next Generation Through Culture: Building Pathways between The Black Press & The Next Generation Through Education addressed solving the national issue of literacy to reach the next  generation, and provided publishers and attendees...