Make It Plain with Mark Thompson

Media Matters Senior Fellow Matt Gertz on his latest. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A friend asked me should we be celebrating the incident in Montgomery? I decided to pose the question to one of the greatest teachers of nonviolence in history--the Rev. James M. Lawson. More than anyone else, he educated, organized and mobilized nonviolent troops for the Civil Rights Movement and for Dr. King, in the way Joshua prepared Moses' troops. We owe him a listen on this matter.And please share your thoughts and reactions via email at makeitplainmail@gmail.com, or via the video on social media: @MakeItPlain on Twitter and TikTok, Make It Plain on Facebook and YouTube and LinkedIn and @ministter on Instagram.☥ † MFrom the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University:"When Lawson and King met in 1957, King urged Lawson to move to the South and begin teaching nonviolence on a large scale. Later that year, Lawson transferred to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and organized workshops on nonviolence for community members and students at Vanderbilt a

Also, what's Putin up to in Africa? Markos joins for #ThursdayKos.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney Judith Browne-Dianis, Executive Director of the Advancement Project, Adrianne Shropshire, Executive Director of the Black PAC, and Attorney Donald Temple join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hermon Johnson, Rev. Darryl Johnson and Reena Evers-Everette, the daughter born to Medgar and Myrlie Evers in Mound Bayou, MS discuss the Mound Bayou Museum in a historic African American city and its first annual gala. Even if you can't attend, pls GIVE moundbayougala.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Community Justice Action Fund Executive Director Greg Jackson says his organization has joined Everytown, Giffords, Moms Demand Action, Brady and March for Our Lives in endorsing Biden Harris.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dobbs reversal of Roe consistently brings Democrats wins at the polls. Markos Moulitsas joins for #ThursdayKosAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Center Budget's Chief Economist, Chad Stone, joins. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rev. Mark moderates the 114th NAACP National Convention Closing Plenary Panel with Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Sheryl Underwood.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Meek Mill, historian Henry Louis Gates, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and NAACP President Derrick Johnson engage in a panel discussion moderated by Fox Sports' Joy Taylor at the 114th NAACP Convention in Boston.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Senate Democrats held the annual African American Media Roundtable on a wide range of issues on July 12, 2023Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on Biden's re-election; Dems fundraising; Bidenomics; unemployment; three 2024 first-in-the-nation primaries with African American women as state chairs; the VP's visit to FL today to slavery as a "personal benefit;" Affirmative Action; Trump's mounting legal woes and Jim Clyburn's birthday today!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Live from Chicago, at the 17th Annual Netroots Nation, MIP is joined by a number of guests including Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, Carol Joyner of Family Values Action, Delinda Bryant of the Albany Voters Coalition, Bo Shuff of DC Vote, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and member of Moms RisingAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Joelle Gamble, Deputy Assistant to the President and the Deputy Director at the National Economic Council, and Chad Stone, Chief Economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities both join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was the Keynote Speaker at the National Newspaper Publishers Association 2023 Convention and he expounded on topics in his new book, Break The Wheel: Ending The Cycle of Police Violence.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A Make It Plain tradition. Frederick Douglass's "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?"Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On Day One of the National Newspaper Publishers Annual Convention (NNPA)--the convention of all the African American newspapers--a panel discussion on Engaging the Next Generation Through Culture: Building Pathways between The Black Press & The Next Generation Through Education addressed solving the national issue of literacy to reach the next  generation, and provided publishers and attendees with solutions to reach an untapped market –  schools – to engage a younger demographic of readers, journalists/contributors, and consumers. Afterwards, NNPA President, the Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. held a Fireside Chat on the Black Press State of Emergency Response through Hip Hop, Education and Literacy.Panelists included: Chelsea Lenora White – Houston Forward Times Business Manager Jarren Small – CEO of Educational Entertainment and Reading with A Rapper and the Reading With a Rapper Team Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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

The Poor People's Campaign Moral Poverty Action Congress held a panel entitled, "Poverty Kills: The Moral Mandate for Ending Poverty in America," on Juneteenth 2023. Moderated by the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, panelists included:Dr. David BradyDr. Valerie WilsonDr. Gregg GonsalvesValerie Eguavoen andJonathan Wilson-HartgroveAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy