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January 11, 2013

Education activist Jonathan Kozol, previews the January 17th event Vision for a New America: A Future Without Poverty. 

Dartmouth professor Susannah Heschel reflects on the legacy of her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

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"Listen to our 2010 conversation with blues legend Buddy Guy, in celebration of his Kennedy Center Honor this month. 

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Folk singer Pete Seeger, fresh off his star-studded benefit concert for political prisoner Leonard Peltier, reflects on his long life and career. 

Plus, Smiley and West look at the "sick culture of violence" and the latest negotiations about the so-called fiscal cliff.

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Trumpet master Wynton Marsalis celebrates 25 years of Jazz at Lincoln Center, where he is now the artistic director.

Plus, Smiley and West reflect on the anti-union bill signed in Michigan, and the new effort to create a Black Agenda for President Obama.

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Egyptian activist and writer Nawal El Saadawi takes us inside her country's revolution. 

Plus, Smiley and West look at how the push for austerity by rich folks will push is pushing poor folks over the cliff.

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Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, 
Congressional Black Caucus chair Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, 
Texas Congressman-elect Joaquin Castro,
Univision anchorman Jorge Ramos join Smiley in this post-election special

The complete town hall event recorded live at
Northwestern University Law School in Chicago

featuring Tavis Smiley, Dr. Cornel West, and Democracy Now host Amy Goodman

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Jeffrey Toobin, CNN legal analyst and staff writer for The New Yorker, goes inside the Supreme Court, as laid out in his new text, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court. 

Plus, Smiley and West reflect on the final weekend of the presidential campaign before Tuesday's election.

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"Former Congressman Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, gets down and dirty with the campaign financing system and Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, explains why her union is sitting out this year’s presidential election. Plus, Smiley and West dissect the DNC, Rahm Emanuel battles Chicago’s teachers, and Bishop Desmond Tutu wants George W. Bush and Tony Blair in the Hague."  listen

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), National Lawyers Guild executive director Heidi Boghosian, and guitarist Ry Cooder join Smiley and West for their un-Convention-al coverage of the RNC and DNC. Plus, West previews the upcoming Blow the Whistle on Stop-and-Frisk action on September 13th. - Listen -