LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST KAREN BASS started out as a community organizer in South L.A.; now she’s a member of Congress. Today she’s at the Congressional Black Caucus Jobs Fair in L.A. — we’ll ask her about Obama and jobs, and why she voted in favor of the debt ceiling [...]
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LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST SKIP GATES is the Harvard professor of African American studies who had that “beer summit” at the White House with President Obama and the Cambridge cop who arrested him for breaking into his own house. He talks about what it means to be “black” in Latin [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Obama’s surrender to Republicans “savages programs for the lower and middle classes, while hedge fund managers and oil companies probably won’t sacrifice a cent.” JOHN NICHOLS will comment — he writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com. Also: from the archives: our interview with TERRY GROSS of [...]