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Community Land Trusts: A Model for Reparations?

Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit has come at a cost to public services and public trust. Could it be different?

Reforming Prosecutor Power – Especially After Roe.

Prosecutors are immensely powerful, especially now, after the overthrow of Roe. They decide which cases to bring, what charges to make and what sentences to ask for. Until this year, only internal committees could...

Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread

The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-ally Victor Orbán. In the midst of a climate catastrophe, with a majority on the...

Life As A DREAMer in the United States — Justice Fellow Mame Niang’s Report

Here at The Laura Flanders Show we have a comprehensive John Jay Justice Fellowship program where participants work hands-on gaining first hand knowledge about our independent movement media operation producing our TV, radio and...

How Radical Self Love Can Heal the World

It’s that time of year when we all need resilience: elections, holidays, the change of seasons. Many of us need fortitude to get through. Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis would add that we need Fierce...

Heather McGhee: Racism Costs Everyone

Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together. She shows how...

BIPOC Media Covered the Elections Differently

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.When it came to the midterms, mainstream white pundits got a lot wrong that local, Black, Brown and...

Cash Relief for Black Moms: The Success of Guaranteed Income

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.This Mother’s Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Since its enactment...

Putting Public Safety in Public Hands

Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark ModelTo download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player below.A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through...

Texas Under Siege: Dobbs, Democracy & Bodily Autonomy in the Crosshairs

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 7/2).What kind of country do we want as Americans? Gerrymandered Red by the Republican minority, Texas...

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