Jan 23, 2017 | Electoral Politics, Journalism, Rising Up with Sonali
Produced for Rising Up with Sonali. Millions of people marched around the country and also the world on January 21st. Among them were my guest Rosa Clemente, the 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate, who knows a thing or two about electoral politics and...
Nov 17, 2016 | Black Lives Matter, Journalism, Rising Up with Sonali
Produced for Rising Up with Sonali. A video of a white man screaming insults at a female employee of Starbucks in Miami has gone viral. The man yelled at the woman of color, “You’re trash…you’re garbage…you’re complete trash,” and, “I voted for Trump,” and “you lost.”...
Sep 26, 2016 | Black Lives Matter, Journalism, Police, Rising Up with Sonali
Produced for Rising Up with Sonali. Authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina, have just released portions of video from dashcam and bodycam footage of the fatal police killing of Keith Lamont Scott. Critics are demanding the police release all available footage. The...
Jul 25, 2016 | Electoral Politics, Journalism, Rising Up with Sonali
Produced for Rising Up with Sonali. On Monday July 25, 2016, Rising Up host Sonali Kolhatkar reported from the March for our Lives, organized by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. The march took place in Philadelphia in front of the City Hall, to...
Jul 8, 2016 | Black Lives Matter, Journalism, Police, Rising Up with Sonali
Produced for Rising Up with Sonali. Just as protests and rallies against the police killings of two black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were ramping up in cities around the US, a horrific mass shooting incident in Dallas, Texas, has shocked the nation....
