Sojourner Truth Radio

Today on Sojourner Truth we bring you a conversation with Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Black feminist theorist and theoretical physicist and Selma James, long-time feminist activist and Wages for Housework co-founder, to discuss, "Our Time is Now," an anthology by Selma James and the legacies of inter-generational feminism. Selma James is a women's rights and anti racist campaigner and auth...

Today on Sojourner Truth: We bring you updates on the Child Tax Credit in the U.S. with our guest Anna Aurilio, the Federal Campaign Director of Economic Security Project Action. We will also speak with Nell Myhand, Quad Chair of the California PPC and member of the Bay Area Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Steering Committee who will share details about their forthcoming a...

Today, as we culminate Earth Week, we are bringing you a special broadcast on the environment: Part 3 of Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Would Build Back Better Burn Billions? This is the third panel of a series that builds on the momentum created by the most recent report on the impact of climate change on indigenous and frontline communities titled, HOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE (THIRD EDITION): RESIST...

Today on Sojourner Truth, as the month of April wraps up, we honor national poetry month with Boyle Heights-based poet Ron Baca, who will share some of his poems and discuss his connection with Homeboy Industries.

A recent rain bomb struck South Africa, killing and injuring thousands. We discuss this climate change catastrophe with ecologist and organizer Desmond D'Sa, for our weekly Earth Watch segment in partnership with the Global Justice Ecology Project.

Today on our weekly Earth Minute segment in partnership with the Global Justice Ecology Project, we will hear about the recent decision by the President Biden administration to resume oil and gas drilling on public lands, being condemned as a reckless failure of climate leadership.

Today on Sojourner Truth the French Presidential Election will take place this Sunday. In response, on Monday, several dozen undocumented migrants, known as sans-papiers, and their supporters took over unoccupied apartments in the 9th arrondissement section of Paris to demand rights for all, citing the right to adequate housing and the plight of the undocumented migrant as two issues that have bee...

Three decades ago, in the summer of 1990, activists from Earth First! occupied the Fairview Timber sale site in the Shawnee Forest— which is located in Southern Illinois for 79 days — using their bodies to block the logging equipment and using legal strategies to challenge the harvesting of the lumber in court. This historic action has come to be known as the Shawnee Showdown. This relatively smal...

Today on Sojourner Truth we begin our Earth week coverage with Hoodwinked in the Hothouse Part 2: Frontline Voices of Indigenous Resistance beyond Climate False Solutions. This panel features Indigenous organizers from frontline communities that are disproportionately impacted by false solutions to the climate crisis. From Anishnabeg communities in Canada fighting the contamination of water to Din...

Today on Sojourner Truth, journalist Laura Carlsen, peace activist and school board member Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, are back for this Friday's roundtable edition. Discussing the recent police killing of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids Michigan, the latest on the Presidential election in Fran...

Today on Sojourner Truth, April is national poetry month, and we are joined by Oklahoma-born/Seattle-based poet Jasmine Elizabeth Smith who will share some of her work. Jasmine Elizabeth’s poetic work is invested in the Diaspora of Black Americans in various historical contexts and eras. Jasmine received her MFA in Poetry from the University of California in Riverside. Jasmine Elizabeth Smith curr...

Today on Sojourner Truth we discuss the latest developments in the Ukraine Russia war with Dr. Gerald Horne. Dr. Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston, he has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is “The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing.” He is also the author of “The...

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly Earth Minute discusses the latest findings in a report on the impacts of climate change, and how a group of scientists are taking action.

Our weekly Earth Watch guest is Dr. Gary Wockner. Dr. Gary Wockner is a Global Environmental Activist, Scientist, Writer specializing in river and water protection and climate change. Noted by publications as a “Eco-Rockstar Impacting the Planet,” and a “River Hero”, Gary is author of numerous magazine articles and newspaper columns as well as the 2016 book, “River Warrior: Fighting to Protect the...

Today on Sojourner Truth, we discuss the latest developments on the Ukraine Russia war with Dr. Gerald Horne. Our weekly Earth Minute relays the latest findings in a report on the impacts of climate change. Our Earth Watch guest is Dr. Gary Wockner, arch defender of the Colorado River who will share how the fight for clean water is unfolding and what we can do about it. Finally, April is national...

Today on Sojourner Truth Today on Sojourner Truth Minneapolis prosecutors announce they will not charge the police officer who shot and killed 22 yr-old Amir Locke during a no-knock raid in February. We speak to Minneapolis-based activist and organizer with Reclaim the Block, D.A. Bullock on this decision.

Today on Sojourner Truth we speak to law professor and writer Alfred de Zayas on the Ukraine/Russia conflict. Prosecutors will not charge the police officer who shot and killed 22 yr-old Amir Locke during a no-knock raid in February. We will speak with Minneapolis-based activist D.A. Bullock on this decision. And this week's Earth Watch guest is founder and Executive Director of Dogwood Alliance,...

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly Earth Minute is an open letter to the Nature Conservancy.

This week's Earth Watch guest on Sojourner Truth, is founder and Executive Director of Dogwood Alliance, Danna Smith who will give us an update on forest protection in the U.S. Danna is the founder of Dogwood Alliance. For over 20 years, she has been at the forefront of forest protection in the US, leading hard-hitting campaigns and negotiating ground-breaking forest protection commitments from so...

Today on Sojourner Truth Radio, Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg & Dr. Gerald Horne join host Margaret Prescod for their Friday roundtable to discuss the latest on the ongoing Ukraine Russia conflict and its impact on the rest of the world, as well as their thoughts on the supreme court hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we discuss the administration's announcement that the U.S. will welcome over 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion, and what lifting Title 42 would mean for asylum seekers from countries like Haiti and Cameroon, with our guest attorney and Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Nana Gyamfi. This week's Earth Watch guest is Zack...

Today on Sojourner Truth we share this week's Earth Minute on the importance of preserving Native Forests.

This week's Earth Watch guest on Sojourner Truth is Zack Porter, Executive Director of Standing Trees, who will give us an update on their continued work to protect and restore forests on New England's public lands.

Today on Sojourner Truth, our guest is Phillip Owen joining us from South Africa to give us an update on the present deforestation in South Africa caused by large scale timber production. Philip Owen is an environmental activist and founding member of GeaSphere, a nonprofit organization registered in South Africa. For more than two decades, GeaSphere has been raising awareness regarding the enviro...

Learn about International Day of Forests and what it means for our planet.