Make It Plain with Mark Thompson

The unemployment rate for African Americans in April 2023 fell below 5% for the first time in history. White House Economic Council Deputy Director Joelle Gamble, Center On Budget Chief Economist Chad Stone and AFL-CIO Chief Economist & Howard University Economics Professor William Spriggs all join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Prof. Carl T. Bogus on his much awaited book revealing the real reason the Founders wrote the Second Amendment was to quell slave rebellions, not necessarily to preserve individual liberties.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's installment of Thursday Kos, Markos of Daily Kos discusses Roe being the GOP's undoing, the NC Supreme Court and Tucker Carlson's texts.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Scott Dworkin of the Democratic Coalition on Biden's re-election campaign.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Deputy Chair of the White House National Economic Council joins to discuss the debt limit. And Adrian Shropshire of BlackPac.com joins to talk Biden's re-election.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

Jaime Harrison, Chair of the Democratic Party, joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

The Chief Economist for the Center on Budget explains the numbers to us. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This Town Hall explores the controversial Cop City proposed for Atlanta. Panelists include the Rev. Keyanna Jones; Georgia NAACP State Conference President Gerald Griggs; Color of Change Senior Campaign Director Kyle Bibby; journalist George Chidi; and co-moderated by Kiddada Grey of Community First Solutions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jeffery Robinson, founder and executive director of The Who We Are Project, discusses his collaboration with Tom Hanks on the new animated documentary “How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

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

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/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

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/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; and the Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher, Pastor of Memphis Abyssinian Baptist Church.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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 obscurity exists today due to the calculated plagiarizing and silencing of her work by white academics.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy