National Roundtable: Hate Crimes / Standing Rock

February 28, 2017 – Segment 1 

We begin the show with a National News Roundtable. With: Bill Fletcher, Jr., Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com, co-author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941 and author of They’re Bankrupting Us! And 20 Other Myths about Unions; independent print and media journalist Mark Trahant of Trahantreports.com; and Kalima Young, Lecturer in Electronic Media and Film at Towson University and doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of Maryland