Rising Up With Sonali

With a massive new crop of Democratic senators and representatives heading to Washington D.C. in January, many are calling for Congress’s first order of business to be raising the federal minimum wage.

The November 3rd midterm elections were historic on many fronts.

This week on Rising Up for Justice, my guest is Imani Rupert-Gordon, President of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights.

Tim Disney is a filmmaker, artist, and co-author of The A.R.C., a darkly comic graphic novel about a world where lying becomes lethal.

Dawn Huckelbridge is the founding director of Paid Leave for All, the national campaign of the organizations fighting for paid family and medical leave.

Katie Goldstein, director of FightBack, an initiative at Popular Democracy spoke with Sonali Kolhatkar from outside a polling place in Forth Worth, Texas on election day.

This week on Rising Up for Justice, my guest is Jenn M. Jackson, Editor-in-Chief of Black Youth Project and Black Life Everywhere.

This week on Rising Up for Justice, my guest is Wanda Bertram, Communications Strategist at the Prison Policy Initiative.

Gavin Newsom is wrapping up his tenure as California’s governor by signing a spate of bills into law, among them, a much-touted balcony solar bill.

Barely three months since the world’s largest democracy was rocked by student-led protests under the satirical name of the Cockroach Janta (People’s) Party, India is facing mass protests once more.