

He was nominated for an Oscar for his 1997 documentary 4 Little Girls, and has won two Emmys for his documentary editing. About two men on the same trajectory one with a goal to take his people to the Promised Land, and the other one with a goal to stop that man from doing that.” Sam Pollard is an award winning director, editor and producer. Pollard tells Mike, “I was just trying to tell a good story. The film delves into new and declassified documents as well as restored footage to reveal the government’s long past of targeting Black activists. In the Interview, his new documentary has been called “jaw-dropping,” “incendiary,” “riveting,” and “engrossing.” Sam Pollard’s new film MLK/FBI is about the bureau’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Mike looks at the arguments on both sides, points to many as ridiculous, but a few as legitimate and truly vexing. Some swimmers, including ones she out-touched supported her right to swim as her true self.

Other swimmers protested her inclusion in the women's division as unfair. Then we listen back to our Monday show, when Mike Spieled about University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who won the NCAA title in the 500. Tauer discusses what changes when a team makes such a bold move. Thomas University's basketball team, which made an unprecedented leap ahead of this season from Division 3 to Division 1. The first is part two of Mike’s interview with John Tauer, the head coach of the St. He’s the author of the new book, Secret City: The Hidden History Of Gay Washington, and he joined Mike to discuss the power of the closet and complicated relationship our Presidents have had with it.Īs the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament heats up, on this week’s Best Of The Gist, we bring you a pair of stories from college sport. In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we will listen back to that Jinterview with Wilmore, who then launched a podcast, Black On The Air, which continues to this day.īut first, some say the power in Washington DC can be found in control of the purse strings, other say its who controls the narrative, but author James Kirchick hypothesizes power in DC goes to the holder of the greatest secrets. In hindsight, it feels ahead of its time. The Nightly Show focused on issues like equality, activism, and how racism subtly wormed its way into American life. In August 2016, Larry Wilmore’s talk show was canceled. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey WaraĮmail us at advertise on the show, visit: Glaude helps make sense of where we are today and explains that Baldwin understood our messy and uneven economic, social, and political lives are simply a reflection of our individual selves.Īnd then we listen back to Mike’s Spiel from last Friday, June 10, 2022, when he noticed that a particular world came up again and again when the media described the first January 6th hearing.

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own poses a fundamental argument around how getting it wrong culturally has hurt the fabric of our nation. The two discussed Glaude’s newest book and its release in the context of the recent civil uprisings. In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s Auginterview with Dr.
