Monday Morning QB

Today on the show: A Congressional Select Committee will look at the January 6th attack starting tomorrow. Despite a COVID surge, the Olympic Games are underway in Tokyo. Don’t get giddy about talk of a global tax to catch wealthy tax cheaters. Workers are being exposed to greater and greater extreme heat on the job. And rich guys are cooling their heels out in space. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Democrats from the Texas state legislature vow to camp in Washington to defeat voter suppression legislation back home. A look at the blood spilling in South Africa from an inside perspective. And we look at the political crisis in Haiti. All that, and more!

Today on the show: It’s Moral Monday, and non-violent direct action from the Poor People’s Campaign begins today. The evidence mounts -- children are being mistreated in border detention facilities. Should its racial impact be known, before a law is enacted? The Supreme Court does damage to voting rights. And after “an act of Congress” to provide COVID relief for struggling Black farmers, White fa...

Today on the show: The U.S. Cuban embargo condemned in the United Nations, 184-2. The Child Tax Credit may lift millions of children out of poverty. Voting rights groups urge corporations to cut their ties with ALEC--the American Legislative Exchange Council. All that, and more!

Joe Biden and the G-7 summit. Cops legally lie to suspects during interrogation. The Pentagon doesn’t tell the true story about the number of civilians it kills in global conflicts. Plus, reparations for past racial oppression, and a fight to teach the truth about race. All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with scholar and activist Phyllis Bennis on Benjamin Netanyahu's political future; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with urban policy expert Yonah Freemark on Biden administration plans to shrink the racial wealth gap; and reporter Ama...

Today on the show: The Supreme Court takes up LGBTQ+ rights and family equality. Closing the racial wealth gap. Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu may be following the Trump playbook on handling defeat. New COVID 19 hate crimes legislation. Plus, a local expansion among the national labor organizing revival. All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features two extended interview cuts: WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with scholar and activist Phyllis Bennis on how Israel benefits from conflict in Gaza; and reporter Amara Evering with Dr. Michael Coyle on the concept of carceral logic -- in our politics and in our personal lives.

Today on the show: Another ceasefire holds after another bloody shooting war in Gaza. Workers, once seen as expendable, now seen as essential, are still struggling for dignity. As the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop approaches police forces wrestle with the responsibility of cops to intervene to stop bad conduct. And is detention the only way to deal with mi...

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Dr. Kerith Conron on a wave of anti-trans state legislation; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with economist Elise Gould on disappointing jobs numbers; and WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with civil rights attorney Jim Freeman on how racis...

Today on the show: The Nakba, the day 73 years ago which Palestinians remember as "the catastrophe." The greatest terrorism threat in this country is now posed by white extremists. Efforts to dismantle the pandemic safety net after one disappointing jobs report. And this has been a record year for anti-transgender legislation. All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with tenants rights leader Paulette Matthews on displacement from DC's Barry Farm community; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with reporter Alexia Fernandez Campbell on labor rights enforcement problems; and reporter Amara Evering with...

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Chris Bangert-Downs with activist Pauline Muchina on vaccine access at the WTO; WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with foreign policy expert Dr. Diana Ohlbaum on President Biden's bloated military budget; and reporter Amara Evering with lawyer and scholar R...

Today on the show: Bloated Pentagon spending is racist as well as wasteful. Counting prison inmates in the census where they are incarcerated. The adultification of Black girls who are yet children. And can the World Trade Organization free covid vaccines from U.S. strangulation? All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Columbus-based organizer Kiara Yakita on the killing of Ma'Khia Bryant; WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with T.R.I.G.G.E.R. Project CEO Tia Bell on preventing neighborhood violence; and reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with journalist Haro...

Today on the show: Legislators declaring civilian open season on protestors. Violence interrupters call for peace in the streets. Reaction to Derek Chauvin’s conviction in the murder of George Floyd. And tension boils over again when Ma’Khia Bryant is killed by a cop. All that, and more!

Today on the show: Ethical police and equitable policing. The showdown over a union at Amazon. A Congressional victory for supporters of reparations. Is there racial bias in facial recognition technology? And an exit from the Afghanistan quagmire? All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with genocide survivor Claude Gatebuke on Rwanda’s long crisis of political repression; and WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with two conversations: one with musician and WPFW programmer Rusty Hassan on the virtues of live jazz, and an...

Last week, News Director Askia Muhammad talked with Imani Countess: Director of the U.S. Africa Bridge Building Project, and a leader of the movement to boycott apartheid South Africa. Their conversation focused on the calls for boycotts against Georgia-based companies, after state Republicans passed a bill restricting the vote.

Today on the show: Voter ID laws, the filibuster, and the illusion of democracy. We’re still haunted by genocide. A fond remembrance of a much loved educator and labor leader. And April is Jazz Appreciation Month as well as National Poetry Month, so we celebrate Jazzoetry. All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with Aunna Dennis, Executive Director of Common Cause Georgia, on a wave of voter suppression bills; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with economist Sarah Anderson on inequality and policy tools to fix it; and WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad wi...

Today on the show: In-your-face voter suppression in Georgia. Fighting back against hate crimes. Wealth tax and pay inequality. And the successful fight to eliminate the death penalty in Virginia. All that, and more!

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts. Reporter Amara Evering talks with Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Dr. Laura Tohe on the significance of confirming the US’s first Native cabinet secretary. WPFW News Director and Monday Morning QB Host Askia Muhammad discusses decades of discrimination against Black far...

Today on the show: Trump’s Supreme Court could rewrite our legal future. A small town takes a big step toward reparative justice for Black residents. Black farmers will get paid in the Biden pandemic relief package, but don’t celebrate too soon. A campaign urges a national moratorium on utility shut-offs during the pandemic. And the first Native American Interior Secretary will now oversee this co...

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features two extended interview cuts: reporter Amara Evering with activist, writer, and media strategist Raquel Willis about the exclusion of trans women from mainstream feminist discourse; and reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with Africa expert Temi Ibirogba about the economics of kidnappings in Nigeria and...