Laura Flanders Show

Where do racial justice and food justice meet? Perhaps at the point where long time farmworkers are able to buy their own land.

The U.S. transportation system has long been rife with inequality, making it more difficult for low-income people, people of color, and people with disabilities to get where they need to go.

"Defund the police" became a rallying cry in the summer of 2020 as demonstrators flooded streets across the United States to demand an end to police brutality in the wake of the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd at the hands of the police.

The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn't simply to "build back better.

The Trump years have seen a doubling-down on the immigrants-as-problem narrative in which migrants are accused of bringing gang violence, crime, and disease to the United States, and of "stealing" jobs.

In the aftermath of the January 6th siege of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, Laura convenes a panel of pro-democracy activists to discuss the fate of the nation.

Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights.

The right wing has found its newest racist wedge issue: Critical Race Theory.

Crip Camp is a Peabody Award-winning documentary from Netflix and Higher Ground Productions that tells the story of Camp Jened, a summer camp in the 1960s where disabled youth could be themselves.

This July, America's largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia.

New York City will likely elect its second African American mayor in November.

The Compton Pledge is paying 800 families up to $600 per month to give them a leg up.

What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film and storytelling to give judges an in-depth, humanizing look at the lives of defendants facing prison for non-violent crimes.

Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities-all of these are turning up the heat on American democracy.

In the midst of yet another year of climate catastrophe, the U.

A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racism.

When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners of Opportunity Threads in Morganton, North Carolina stepped up, retooling to make PPE for New York caregivers.

In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky-for the first time ever-to discuss the way forward for people, politics, and the planet.

Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman-and first Democratic Socialist-to lead the city.

Could a city reduce violent crime by planting more trees? How will the culture of work adapt to the climate crisis? What will increased flooding in the Global South do to U.