The Kristal Knight Show: Recent Episodes
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Kristal Knight delivers a grassroots progressive perspective where politics and pop-culture collide. Interviews featuring politicians, celebrities, and activists from all walks of life will attempt to answer a question on many Americans’ minds: where is the future of the Democratic Party headed, and is there a place for both progressives and moderates under the Dems’ “big tent?”
Lindsay Schubiner, Dir. of Programs at Western States Strategies (@wstatescenter @lschubiner), joins Kristal to discuss Trump's latest indictment, the GOP's anti-democracy antics, and how it will affect their 2024 primary.
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Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.(@revyearwood), President and CEO of The Hip Hop Caucus (@hiphopcaucus), joins Kristal to discuss what his organization does, the 50th anniversary of the Hip Hop genre, and its effect on culture and politics.
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In this episode, Kristal does a deep dive into President Biden's recent poll numbers and discusses what Democrats need to do in order to ensure victory in 2024.
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In this episode, Kristal discusses Florida schools teaching that some black slaves actually learned useful skills while in bondage, the 'women vs trans women' fight, and the Carlee Russell hoax.
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In this episode, David Johns (@mrdavidjohns), Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition (@nbjconthemove), joins Kristal to discuss the recent SCOTUS ruling in the case of 303 Creative LLC vs Elenis and how it could strip away LGBTQ protections.
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (@rowefinkbeiner), executive director of Moms Rising (@momsrising), joins Kristal to discuss how various issues surrounding education in America are driving voters in the 2024 election.
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Adrianne Shropshire (@AdrianneShrop), Executive Director of BlackPac (@voteblackpac), joins Kristal to discuss the recent SCOTUS ruling that struck down affirmative action and how that could affect the black vote in 2024.
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Mark Gaber (@markpgaber), Senior Director of Redistricting for Campaign Legal Center (@campaignlegal), joins Kristal to discuss the recent SCOTUS ruling on redistricting and how it might affect the 2024 election.
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Rashad Robinson (@rashadrobinson), President of Color of Change (@colorofchange), joins Kristal to discuss two landmark discrimination cases that are heading to SCOTUS and the possibility of the court overturning affirmative action.
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Kristal weighs in after Donald Trump pled not guilty to 37 charges surrounding his classified documents case in Florida and what that could possibly mean for the 2024 presidential primary.
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Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Director of Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, breaks down the surge in tipping across the country with your host Kristal Knight.
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Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost (@maxwellfrostfl) joins Kristal Knight to discuss Governor Ron DeSantis' anti-immigrant legislation in Florida as well as the current debt crisis.
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Lauren Bealore, associate director of state & local policy at Prosperity Now, joins Krital Knight to talk about the decline in black homeownership and what we need to do to fix it.
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Author Brandi Collins-Dexter joins us to talk about Kanye West, Herschel Walker, and her book: Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future.
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Neil Volz, deputy director at the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, joins Kristal Knight to introduce his organization that is committed to ending the disenfranchisement and discrimination against people with convictions. We also get Kristal Knight's hot take on Donald Trump's big announcement.
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This week Kristal recaps the last 6 weeks of the midterm and what’s to come for the Democratic Party.
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Wendi Wallace is the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) Deputy Executive Director. She joins the show to this week to discuss how critical the gubernatorial landscape is for midterm elections but also the 2024 presidential election.
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The Latino vote is critical in every election. Lawyer and former congressional candidate Jessica Cisneros joins this week’s episode to discuss the most important issues Latino voters will pay attention to ahead of the midterm elections.
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Policing in America is a convoluted topic in political discourse. This week Kristal discusses how policy and policing impact elections with Pastor Mike (Michael McBride) who has been a leading voice in gun violence prevention. Pastor Mike is the Executive Director of LIVE FREE, an organization dedicated to ending the mass criminalization of people of color.
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Former Ohio State Senator and National Co-Chair of the 2020 Bernie Sanders Campaign Nina Turner joins Kristal Knight to discuss the state of the progressive agenda ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Senator Turner shares her thoughts on how progressive voters will affect the upcoming elections.
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Political strategist Amani Wells-Onyioha joins Kristal Knight to dish on all things Trump, from the New York attorney general lawsuit, how both the left and right will react as this process gets drawn out, and political games at play behind the scenes.
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In her debut episode Kristal Knight talks with Katie Fahey, an American activist who led the successful grassroots campaign to ban partisan gerrymandering in Michigan. As the founder of Voters Not Politicians, she organized thousands of volunteers who collected over 425,000 voter signatures for a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to create an independent redistricting commission.
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Kristal Knight welcomes you to her brand new podcast at Newsweek!
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