Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Kathleen Wells: As we mentioned, it [mass incarceration] was politically expedient. In other words, the politicians could see that there could be a backlash to the gains of the civil rights movement.

Michelle Alexander: Yes. It serves the interests of the politicians well, but did great harm to virtually...

There was no need for this. We did not need to choose this path. We didn't need to go down this road. There was absolutely no good reason for our nation to abandon the path that we were on at the time that Martin Luther King Jr passed away.

Kathleen Wells: Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." In that book, she writes that a war has been declared on young black men and they have been rounded-up for...

Kathleen Wells: If I remember correctly, didn't President Bush, the father, at one point make an appeal to the American people on television?

Prof. Falk: Yes, that was the last time there was some effort to, I wouldn't say be balanced, but less unbalanced. It was a period where...

Kathleen Wells: Today my guest is UN Rapporteur, Richard Falk, and we are going to discuss Palestine's bid for statehood, what this means -- the consequences, the ramifications.

Professor Falk is professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and has been appointed to two United Nations positions on...

Larry Baker was the one-time manager of the Admiral Twin which was a drive-in theater located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And it became the inspiration for his very first novel, The Flamingo Rising, which was about an eccentric...

Uri Avnery is an Israeli peace activist, journalist and writer. He is famous for crossing the lines during the Battle of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on July, 3, 1982. This was the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is also the founder of the...

Glen Ford worked as a Network Broadcast Journalist in Washington DC and created in 1977 along with Peter Gamble, America's Black Forum which was the first nationally syndicated black news interview program on commercial television.

America's Black Forum was quoted weekly by national and international news organizations -- a...

Glen Ford worked as a network broadcast journalist in Washington, D.C., and created in 1977, along with Peter Gamble, America's Black Forum, which was the first nationally-syndicated black news interview program on commercial television. America's Black Forum was quoted weekly by national and international news organizations, a feat no...

Lawrence Davidson says, "Keep your eye on the language: When South Africa assigned rights according to race they called it apartheid. When Israel assigns rights according to religion they call it the only democracy in the Middle East."

Lawrence Davidson is a professor at West Chester University in West Chester,...

Jeffrey Blankfort is an American journalist and recognized expert on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Kathleen Wells: Hi. I'm Kathleen Wells, political correspondent for Race-Talk, and today I'm speaking with Jeffrey Blankfort. Jeffrey...

Jim Bryan is the write-in candidate for the US Congress in Florida's 1st District. This large district is the panhandle of Florida and covers six counties, and contains the largest concentration of military in the United States. He is running as the only Democrat in that district.

Richard Ray Perez produced and directed the seminal political documentary Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election, which The Los Angeles Times called "a riveting story about the undermining of democracy in America."

Also, Perez executive produced the multi-platform documentary series, In Their Boots, a series about the impact the wars in...

Prince Abdul Ali Seraj is a direct descendant of nine generations of kings of Afghanistan. He is also the president of the National Coalition for Dialogue with Tribes of Afghanistan, a grassroots trans-tribal movement that has had much success in unifying all the tribes and an organization that works toward...

Internationally recognized as one of America's most critically-engaged public intellectuals today, Noam Chomsky spoke with me about Israel and its interplay with the United States.

Listen or read entire interview.

Listen to the interview.

Kathleen Wells: Hi, I'm Kathleen Wells, political correspondent for Race-Talk. I'm speaking with...

Environmental lawyer, advocate for working Americans, and host of Ring of Fire, Mike Papantonio and his firm have handled thousands of cases throughout the nation, including asbestos, breast implants, pharmaceutical litigation, factory farming, securities fraud, the Florida tobacco litigation, etc., and has received numerous multi-million dollar verdicts.

Recently, he has...

Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) has a reputation as a staunch advocate for all Floridians and a moderate voice in the increasingly partisan world of national politics.

He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2000, after serving six years as a member of the Florida cabinet. He currently serves...

"It is time for American Jews to demand that Obama instruct Israel to obey international law."

Well-known actress and comedian, Roseanne Barr, has been...

The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America's foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and...

Randy Credico is a former comedian turned political activist/drug law reformer who has worked as Director for the William Moses Knustler Fund for Racial Justice the past 12 years.

Now, he'd like to take on and challenge Senator Chuck Schumer for his seat in the Senate.

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