Episodes

  • Lisa Graves Joins Tavis Smiley

    Lisa Graves Joins Tavis Smiley
    Apr 1 2026
    Lisa Graves, co-founder of the judicial advocacy organization Court Accountability and co-host of the podcast Legal AF, shares her insights about the landmark birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court.

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    38 mins
  • Jon Ralston Joins Tavis Smiley

    Jon Ralston Joins Tavis Smiley
    Apr 1 2026
    Jon Ralston, political journalist and founder of The Nevada Independent, talks about his book The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight.

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    17 mins
  • Ruth Buffalo Joins Tavis Smiley

    Ruth Buffalo Joins Tavis Smiley
    Apr 1 2026
    Former North Dakota representative and Indigenous activist Ruth Buffalo reflects on the NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline) movement at Standing Rock 10 years ago and what’s next for sacred, ancestral lands.

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    22 mins
  • Ryan Grim Joins Tavis Smiley

    Ryan Grim Joins Tavis Smiley
    Apr 1 2026
    Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News, returns with his analysis about trending political topics, including Trump’s federal voting list, the Iran war, and more.

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    40 mins
  • Michael Harriot Joins Tavis Smiley

    Michael Harriot Joins Tavis Smiley
    Apr 1 2026
    Michael Harriot, award-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated TV writer, and New York Times bestselling author of Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, talks about the future of Black history, the upcoming “Reporting While Black” symposium at Howard University, and more.

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    39 mins
  • Martha S. Jones Joins Tavis Smiley

    Martha S. Jones Joins Tavis Smiley
    Apr 1 2026
    Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins historian, legal scholar, and author of the 2018 text Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, takes us inside this week’s U.S. Supreme Court arguments about this seminal case.

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    22 mins
  • Rich Logis Joins Tavis Smiley

    Rich Logis Joins Tavis Smiley
    Apr 1 2026
    Rich Logis, founder of Leaving MAGA, returns with his brand new memoir, One Betrayal Too Many: Why I Left MAGA.

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    15 mins
  • Connie Rice Joins Tavis Smiley

    Connie Rice Joins Tavis Smiley
    Apr 1 2026
    Connie Rice, civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Urban Peace Institute, shares her analysis about a potential draft for the Iran war, birthright citizenship, and other trending political topics.

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    39 mins