Make It Plain with Mark Thompson

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

Dr. Roger Mitchell is a national expert on deaths that occur while in the custody of law enforcement and has served as an expert in many high-profile cases. He currently is the Chairman of the pathology department at Howard University College of Medicine and is the Speaker of the House of Delegates for the National Medical Association which has a membership body of 50K Black Doctors.Dr. Mitchell is the Former Chief Medical Examiner for Washington DC.  He recently served as Chairman and lead author among a group of nationally recognized forensic pathologists tasked with making recommendations for the Definition, Investigation, Postmortem Examination and Reporting of Deaths in Custody for the medical examiner/coroner community.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos joins for Thursday Kos as Democrats win Tuesday in VA, WI, KY, and NH, and Biden visits Ukraine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Author Rob Wipond and forced treatment survivor Cindy Hadge of the Wildflower Alliance join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on first-ever Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program grants to recruit more teachers of color, and White House Domestic Policy Council Dep. Director Chiraag Bains on President Biden's new Executive Order, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Markos Moulitsas joins #ThursdayKos with the latest Civiqs poll. 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

The Democrats Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's SOTU speech, and the Center on Budget's Chief Economist Chad Stone on the January 2023 jobs report.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Keisha Lance Bottoms, Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement, Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President for Infrastructure Implementation preview of the President’s State of the Union address tonight.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

American Federation of Teachers Secretary-Treasurer and immediate past president of the Florida Education Association on the banned course, and the myriad of other issues Florida's students, parents and teachers face which DeSantis ignores. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Twenty-one years of investigative journalism by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham has resulted in their new book on the history of brutality, racism and corruption on the part of the Oakland police.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daniel Golden of ProPublica joins.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daily Kos is unspared from media layoffs as Markos shares on this week's Thursday Kos. Also, the latest on U.S. and German equipment headed to Ukraine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Professor Felicia Kornbluh on the role her mother, Beatrice Kornbluh, played in establishing Roe, and on the role her neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, played in ending sterilization abuse disproportionality victimizing African American, Latina and Indigenous women, as told in her new book, A Woman’s Life Is A Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Secretary Fudge joins to discuss the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which continues the work of MLK and the realization of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.Secretary Cardona joins to discuss the Education Department's milestones at the halfway point of the Biden Harris Administration.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The turmoil in the House, and the inability to govern begs the question. Also Santos's pathology, Hunter Biden, the difference between Trump's classified docs and Biden's, and the latest on Ukraine.Markos Moulitsas joins for the first Thursday Kos of 2023!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Eight Akron police officers are currently under investigation for the June 27, 2022 killing of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old African American young man. Officers fired more than 90 times at Jayland and his body was hit by 46 bullets.On Jan. 14, 2023 during MLK JFJ (#JusticeForJayland) weekend in Akron, OH, Rev. Mark moderated two panels on Where Do We Go From Here with Justice for Jayland Walker, Police Accountability, Police Violence, Black-on-Black Nonviolence, Trauma, Loss and Healing? The second panel included Bishop William J. Barber, founder of Repairers of the Breach ad the Poor People's Campaign; Dr. Lathardus Goggins, Principal Consultant at Applied Academic Solutions; Dr. Curtis Williams, II of the Minority Behavioral Health Group; Pastor Lori Porter of Love Akron; Pastor Kyle Early of the Cleveland Police Commission; Rev. Raymond Greene of Freeodom BLOC; Bishop Joey Johnson of Love and Justice Akron; Margo Sommerville, Akron City Council President; and Kenneth Brooks, youth activistAdvertising

Eight Akron police officers are currently under investigation for the June 27, 2022 killing of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old African American young man. Officers fired more than 90 times at Jayland and his body was hit by 46 bullets.On Jan. 14, 2023 during MLK JFJ (#JusticeForJayland) weekend in Akron, OH, Rev. Mark moderated two panels on Where Do We Go From Here with Justice for Jayland Walker, Police Accountability, Police Violence, Black-on-Black Nonviolence, Trauma, Loss and Healing? The first panel included Jayland Walker family attorney Bobby Dicello; Until Freedom Founder Tamika Mallory; Akron NAACP President Judi Hill; Dr. Ciarra Dennis- Morgan of the Minority Behavioral Health Group; youth activist Lauren Goggins; Kaysie Anderson, of the Akron Public School Scholar Board; and the rapper, Mysonne.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lewis V. Baldwin joins on MLK Day to discuss his latest book on Dr. King. Dr. Baldwin is an award-winning author who has written many books on the Black Church and on Martin Luther King Jr., including There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King Jr.; To Make the Wounded Whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.; and Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Baldwin is professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Small Business Administration Administrator Isabella Guzman and Center On Budget Chief Economist Chad Stone both join. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy