Latinos this week have expressed fear, anger and unity after a gunman shot and killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The suspect wrote a racist manifesto blaming immigrants and Hispanics for economic changes in the U.S. The massacre in Texas followed the Bay Area’s own mass shooting last month in Gilroy, a city that is majority Hispanic. Since the ... Show More
Nov 21
Remembering Disability Rights Activist and Author Alice Wong
Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, writer, and MacArthur Genius award winner based in San Francisco, died last Friday at UCSF at the age of 51. Wong was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project (DVP), a group that highlights disabled people and disabi ... Show More
14m 32s
Aug 2021
Why Mexico Is Suing U.S. Gunmakers
<p>For years, Mexico has been gripped by horrific violence as drug cartels battle each other and kill civilians. In the last 15 years alone, homicides have tripled. The violence, the Mexican government says, is fueled, in part, by American guns. </p><p>Now Mexico is bringing a la ... Show More
23m 21s
Dec 2022
How has America changed since Sandy Hook?
The panel discuss where we are with gun violence in school shootings in America, in the 10-years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary. They are later joined by Sandy Hook and Uvalde parents, who reflect on losing their children, and talk about the changes they have pushed ... Show More
40m 47s
Jun 2022
Lessons in Gun Control From California
<p>As a proportion of its population, California has one of the lowest rates of gun deaths in the United States — 8.5 per 100,000 people, compared with 13.7 nationally.</p><p>How did the state get that way?</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/shawn-hubler?smid=pc-the ... Show More
28m 54s
Jun 2021
The Burning of Black Tulsa
<p><i>This episode includes disturbing language including racial slurs.</i></p><p>In the early 20th century, Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was an epicenter of Black economic influence in the United States. However, in the early hours of June 1, 1921, a white mob — sanctioned by t ... Show More
33m 56s
May 2022
Politicians Respond Predictably to Texas Shooting
Yesterday, a gunman shot and killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Today, politicians on both sides of the aisle are repeating the same messages they’ve given after other mass shootings. CNN Political Director David Chalian explains why l ... Show More
10m 58s