The Marc Steiner Show
The Marc Steiner Show meets you at the intersection of politics and culture. We produce dynamic conversations and visual productions with activists, actors, artists and authors to creatively get to the root of the social, political and cultural issues that we and our world face.
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Neo-fascists found their voice in Trump. Where will the left’s voice come from?
With COVID-19 still raging and Biden’s inauguration around the corner, Warnock and Ossoff win big in Georgia, Trumpist insurgents storm the U.S. Capitol, and Democrats and Republicans seethe with internal strife. What’s next?
Recent episodes
After Dems win GA and right-wing insurgents storm DC, progressives’ work is just beginning
While a mob of insurgent Trump supporters headed for D.C., Black community organizers and progressive voters fueled Democrats’ Senate wins in Georgia. What now? Will the left be caught between the right-wing devil and the deep Blue sea?
What a radical basketball coach looks like; Kamilah Forbes brings Ta-Nehisi Coates’s words to life
We talk with Jesse Washington about how college basketball coach John Thompson took on the racist sports power brokers and changed the game. Then, Kamilah Forbes discusses the politics of her dramatic adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, “Between the World and Me.”
College athletes sacrificed as universities focus on profits; Biden’s economic plans come up short
Authors David Zirin and Ali Danois discuss how universities are treating college athletes as expendable in a pandemic while still making money from sports programs. Then, Green Party leaders Margaret Flowers and Andy Ellis warn that Biden’s neoliberal centrism will lead to a downward spiral.
Black Panthers Eddie Conway and Paul Coates’ revolution wasn’t televised
Former Black Panthers Eddie Conway and Paul Coates talk about their new book, “The Brother You Choose,” which delves deep into their friendship and their parallel lives as freedom fighters and family men, featuring an afterword from Paul’s son, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The internal battle over the future of the Democratic Party; Rennie Davis of the Chicago 7 talks about mobilization
This week, Marc Steiner asks how progressives will maintain pressure on the Democratic Party now that the election is over, and we speak to Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago 7, about how mobilization around the Vietnam War compares to movements today.
Marc Steiner Show: DeRay McKesson on the movement; Debating Black expatriation from the US
In the second episode of the Marc Steiner Show, DeRay McKesson talks about his victorious Supreme Court case against a police officer, and how the left has the numbers, but not the organization. Then, TaNesha Barnes and Dr. Lester Spence debate the best recourse for Black Americans after an election where 71 million voters actively supported—or ignored—Donald Trump’s racism.
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