Sojourner Truth Radio

Today on Sojourner Truth we discuss the Supreme Court nomination hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Republicans make false allegations and exaggerated claims, calling Brown Jackson a supporter of terrorists for defending prisoners in Guantanamo Bay Prison during her time as a federal public defender. Attorney Barbara Arwine and journalist Laura Carlsen weigh in on the significance of the fir...

Today on Sojourner Truth's weekly Earth Watch segment our guest is Policy Director for the Center for Food Safety, Jaydee Hanson. Multinational corporations pushing GM crops, food, trees and fish are up against environmentalists who outright oppose them or question the need for them. Will we see a future where foods are derived from GM microorganisms or GM animals are more broadly introduced into...

Multinational corporations pushing genetically modified or GM crops, food, trees and fish are up against environmentalists who outright oppose them or question the need for them. Will we see a future where foods are derived from GM microorganisms or GM animals are more broadly introduced into the market? Does the general public even know what GM foods they are now consuming? In 2021, the U.S. Dist...

Today on Sojourner Truth: What are genetically modified mosquitoes? Who is making them and why? Find out in today's Earth Watch segment

In 2020, COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency (PHE). Two years later, over 16 million people, including 6 million children, could potentially lose health insurance when the federal public health state of emergency (PHE) ends as soon as April 2022. We will speak to public health reporter Libby Watson about the impact this will have on millions of Americans. Also, we will discuss the hist...

The world is witnessing the horrors of war live on TV including its impact on civilian populations. According to the UN there have been 636 civilian casualties and 1, 125 injured. As the war drags on, more humanitarian corridors have opened most recently in a Province in North-Eastern Ukraine close to the Russian border. Over two million Ukrainians have fled, most are in neighboring Poland where t...

Today on Sojourner Truth we bring you our Friday Roundtable with our panel: Jackie Goldberg, Laura Carlsen and Dr. Gerald Horne for the hour. We will discuss the latest news update in the Russia Ukraine tension and the arms race influencing countries to show support for either Russia or Ukraine. We will also discuss the conservative's surmounting campaigns around the nation in states including: Ne...

There are 1344 Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in the United States. Forty-eight additional sites have been proposed for entry on the list. For years activists have worked to draw attention to the Westlake Landfill, in MO, a superfund site, that encases a radioactive fire that is currently burning underground. The radioactive Superfund site has sat in the middle of a St. Louis Comm...

Today on Sojourner Truth Radio, we continue our Black History Month coverage with a focus on this years BHM theme Black Health and Wellness. Discussing present day and historic challenges, our guest is Dr. Chandra Ford Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. And for our Weekly Earth Watch, environmentalist Daw...

Today on Sojourner Truth we kick off our Black History Month Coverage. We discuss challenges facing Black and Brown communities today including: on-going bomb threats against HBCUs; the latest on what is going on in Congress to protect certification of Presidential elections and community based work being done to encourage voters and to protect the vote; those on the right slamming President Biden...

Last week, an 80 million acre oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico was invalidated after a federal judge ruled the auction did not properly analyze the impacts on climate change. The decision casts uncertainty over the future of U.S. federal offshore drilling. The ruling, which cancels 1.7 million acres of oil and gas leases from that sale, comes after a lawsuit filed in March by the envir...

Today on Sojourner Truth, we discuss the recent district court judgement to reject a plea bargain for one of the three men convicted of murdering 25 year old black man Ahmad Arbery, why did Judge Woods reject the plea? We will speak to attorney and educator, Nana Gyamfi, on this breaking news and her thoughts on how this federal trial could set historic precedent. Plus on the anniversary of a mili...

Earth Minute: Latest laws on GMO Food labeling.

Sojourner Truth brings you the 1st Earth Watch guest of the week segment of 2022, Naomi Wagner, a non-violence trainer with the Redwood Nation Earth First campaign. To discuss her involvement with the campaign to save Jackson State Forest, a 50,000 acre redwood forest track in Mendocino County, California.

Today on Sojourner Truth Radio we discuss the latest update on the U.S. Child Tax Credit with Federal Campaign Director of Economic Security Project Action, Ana Aurelio, what do parents need to know to receive this credit now and through their tax returns and what we can do to ensure its continued existence. We will also discuss the latest update on Supreme Court Justice announcing his retirement...

Today on Sojourner Truth we will discuss NATO and its relationship to the Ukraine Russia conflict. Is war a possibility? Also, the Cal Care Bill being proposed in CA could make CA the first state in the U.S. to offer universal health care to its residents. We will speak to Carmen Comsti, one of the authors of the bill and Policy Specialist for the Nurses Association on what opponents and proponent...

Today on Sojourner Truth, we chat with veteran civil and human rights advocate Esq.,Barbara Arnwine about what the future of voting is shaping out to look like in the U.S. since the recent filibuster-who will share her report back on all options and pushes to counteract the failure of a just voting rights bill. We will then discuss the popularity of the regenerative soil movement in rural U.S. and...

Sojourner Truth Radio presents a discussion on the documentary film The Eagle & the Condor by Directors Clement and Sofie Guerra. The film takes an in depth look at the extractive fossil fuel industries and their devastating impact in the verdant jungles of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon, and first nations communities in Canada and Oklahoma. The film takes the viewer to these frontline communi...

Sojourner Truth Radio presents an exclusive debrief on the most recent edition of the climate impact report entitled "Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resisting False Solutions to Climate Change," written by the Global Justice Ecology Project and the Indigenous Environmental Network in partnership with several grassroots organizations from around the globe. The report raises awareness about false clima...

MLK special discussing Dr. King's legacy in the midst of a historic senate vote over the future of the voting rights act, and the aftermath of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Featuring our guests, civil rights icon Professor Emerita of African American and Islamic studies Zoharah Simmons and Ash-lee Henderson, the first black woman to serve as Executive Director of the Highlander Resea...

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, and Dr. Gerald Horne. The United States Supreme Court seems poised to strike down or at best greatly undermine Roe v. Wade and a women's right to choose. This is a seat change for women and the political landscape in the United States. Also, decisions on several high-profile cases and their impact on...

Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, and Dr. Gerald Horne. The United States Supreme Court seems poised to strike down or at best greatly undermine Roe v. Wade and a women's right to choose. This is a seat change for women and the political landscape in the United States. Also, decisions on several high-profile cases and their impact on...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer is planning to bring President Joe Biden’s social spending and climate bill to the floor as soon as the week of Dec. 13, according to The Hill. Schumer plans to deliver the bill, known as Build Back Better, to the Senate floor once Democrats finish negotiations. Anna Aurilio, the Federal Campaign Director of Economic Security Project Action, joins us to look...

Today on Sojourner Truth: On Wednesday, December 1, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a pivotal case that could result in the repeal of Roe v. Wade. The 1973 landmark decision protects a woman's right to have an abortion. Since the Supreme Court decision, forces on the right have been organizing to repeal it, and with the top court stacked with conservative judges, including Neil...

Today on Sojourner Truth: On Wednesday, December 1, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a pivotal case that could result in the repeal of Roe v. Wade. The 1973 landmark decision protects a woman's right to have an abortion. Since the Supreme Court decision, forces on the right have been organizing to repeal it, and with the top court stacked with conservative judges, including Neil...