When political organizer and Black Lives Matter
activist DeRay Mckesson announced
that he was running for the office of Mayor of Baltimore, many people in the
city's political establishment questioned whether or not he was really serious
about the campaign and wondered if this was just an attempt to get other more
mainstream candidates to address the concerns of the city’s African-American
community and embrace progressive causes.
However, since filing the paper work to run for office, DeRay has
silenced many of his critics by offering an extensive set of policy proposals
on education, economic development, public safety, health, the environment,
arts and more that rival and in some cases easily surpass those from the more
mainstream candidates in their depth and scope. Deray joins me today on the
show to talk all about his campaign for Mayor and the many issues facing the
citizens of Baltimore today.
One of the great things about being on SiriusXM
is our ability to reach people all across the country and provide a progressive
prospective in places where it would not normally be present, which is
something that many of our listeners who live conservative areas of the country
say comes as a breath of fresh air. In
his new book Blue in a Red State: The Survival Guide to Life in the Real America, Justin Krebs did in person what we do every day via the airwaves,
and traveled across the US speaking with progressives in deeply red areas to
learn how they get involved in local activism and keep their sanity from day to
day. Justin is the founding director of
a national political organization called Living Liberally and a campaign
director at the MoveOn Political Action Committee, and he joins me today on the
show to talk all about the book and what it is like to be Blue in a Red State.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Today on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusXM PROGRESS ch.127
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Monday, March 21, 2016
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Tomorrow, Arizona, Idaho, and Utah will head to
the polls and vote in their states primaries. And, while he didn’t win
any states in last week’s mini-Super Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders is standing
firm, saying of the Clinton Campaign while in Arizona, “I don’t believe they
have an insurmountable lead”. Returning to speak with me now about their
efforts for tomorrow’s primaries is Symone Sanders, National Press Secretary
for Senator Bernie Sanders…
As Trump is looking more and more like the
Republican nomination for President, people are starting to take a closer look
at the candidate and his business dealings, and one particular aspect of his
empire that has been receiving more and more scrutiny is Trump University. Since it began, the real estate classes which
bare Trump’s name have been enveloped in controversy and litigation with
countless claims of misleading and fraudulent practices from scores of former
students who argue that they were deceived into handing over thousands of
dollars as a result of tantalizing promises of riches. Joining me today to talk all about his
experience at Trump University and why he feels it was an absolute con, is Robert Guillo who attended Trump
University and has filed an affidavit in the New York case against the
school.
Following
the Iranian revolution in 1979, the country became closed off for the most part
to the west, and what little information did make it out made the nation seem
like a sinister presence looming over the horizon. However, inside the country, things were not
always as the media would have it appear, in her new book Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran veteran journalist Laura Secor
tells the story of the efforts of various religious thinkers, political
operatives, poets, journalists, and activists who have all struggled to reform
Iran and reimagine what the country can be.
Laura joins me today on the show to talk all about the book and the
struggle for the soul of Iran.
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Friday, March 18, 2016
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In 2011, Stephen King
released his much anticipated novel 11/22/63, which was on the New York Times
best seller list and won several literary awards. The novel, which focuses on the life of Jake
Epping – a divorced English teacher who goes back in time and tries to change
the course of history by stopping the assassination of JFK – has since been
made into a miniseries and was released on Hulu last month, starring James Franco, Chris Cooper, Cherry Jones,
and my guest TR Knight, who you all
know from other shows like Grey’s Anatomy
and The Good Wife. He joins me on the show today to talk all about this epic new
time traveling thriller and so much more.
On the show we talk a lot about religion and the
effect it has on people and society, and an essential feature of religious
experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence.
More than any rituals or doctrines, it is this experience that anchors
religious faith, yet it has been largely ignored in the scientific literature
on religion. However, that is no longer
the case, in his new book The Illusionof God’s Presence: The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longings
computational biologist and neuroscientist John C. Wathey examines the biological origins of this compelling feeling, and
attributes it to innate neural circuitry that evolved to promote the
mother-child bond, which is eventually transferred to the realm of religion
when the infant grows into adulthood.
John Wathey joins me on the show to today to talk all about the book and
the biological origins of spiritual longings.
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
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Joe Sudbay, a DC-based political consultant with over twenty-five years of experience at both the state and federal level, is sitting in for Michelangelo today while he's traveling up to New Hampshire today. Joe has served as a Deputy Editor at AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog Gay and in February 2009, he became the first blogger credentialed to attend a presidential news conference and was one of five bloggers to conduct the first-ever sit-down interview with President Obama. In his non-blogging time, Joe works with nonprofit organizations, companies, and campaigns, primarily designing and implementing strategies for dealing with the social networking and online world. He's got some great things planned for the day so be sure to tune in and give him a call.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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Joe Sudbay, a DC-based political consultant with over twenty-five years of experience at both the state and federal level, is sitting in for Michelangelo today while he's traveling up to New Hampshire today. Joe has served as a Deputy Editor at AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog Gay and in February 2009, he became the first blogger credentialed to attend a presidential news conference and was one of five bloggers to conduct the first-ever sit-down interview with President Obama. In his non-blogging time, Joe works with nonprofit organizations, companies, and campaigns, primarily designing and implementing strategies for dealing with the social networking and online world. He's got some great things planned for the day so be sure to tune in and give him a call.
Listen to The Michelangelo Signorile Show weekdays live from 3-6 pm ET on SiriusXM Progress 127 and on the SiriusXM iPhone, Blackberry and Android apps. Not a subscriber? Not a problem! Listen online any time with a free thirty-day pass or, if you have an if you have an iPhone or Blackberry, go to the app store and download SiriusXM for free, for a 7-day trial, and listen on your phone
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
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On Thursday, at 10pm ET
the season finale of the hit ABC drama series, How to Get Away with Murder will air across the country. The show stars Tony Award-winning actress
Viola Davis as the brilliant, charismatic and seductive professor of defense
law Annalise Keating, who teaches a class called “How to Get Away With Murder”. In the show, Annalise, who is also a
criminal defense attorney, selects a group her best and the brightest students
to assist with cases at her firm alongside her employees, and as a result a
series of tantalizing mysteries arise that test everyone's limits and reveal
dark truths. Joining me today to talk
all about the show and the upcoming finale is Peter Nowalk, the show’s creator and executive producer. You can also follow Peter on twitter.
In the new show Gaycation on Viceland TV actress Ellen Page, who you all may know from the movie Juno, and her friend Ian Daniels explore LGBT cultures from around the world and learn how LGBT people in different countries deal with homophobia and other issues affecting their communities. In the first two episodes Ellen and Ian travel to Japan and Brazil where they talk to everyone from people in bars to politicians. The show takes a hard look at the adversities the LGBT community faces around the world and Ellen joins me right now in studio to talk all about it.
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Monday, March 14, 2016
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In her new book The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Patricia Bell-Scott, professor emerita
of women’s studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia, tells the story of how a
brilliant writer-turned-activist who was the granddaughter of a mixed race
slave, and the first lady of the United States, forged an enduring friendship
that changed each of their lives and helped to alter the course of social
justice in America. Patricia Bell-Scott
joins me now on the show to talk all about the book and the decade’s long friendship
between Pauli Murray, the co-founder of the National Organization for Women and
Eleanor Roosevelt and the effect it had on the course of American history.
On the hit musical drama Empire, Jussie Smollet plays Jamal Lyon, the middle son of hip-hop mogul Lucious, played by Terrence Howard and his ex-wife Cookie played by Taraji P. Henson. In the show, Jussie’s character Jamal who is gay struggles with his father's objection to his sexual orientation, which was inspired by the show’s creator Lee Daniels' own relationship with his father. The show returns to FOX on Wednesday March 30th at 9pm ET and Jussie joins me right now to talk all about the upcoming third season of Empire.
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Friday, March 11, 2016
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Earlier this week, we played on the show a
portion of a marathon filibuster out of Missouri that went on to go roughly 39
hours. However, despite the efforts of
my guest, Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Republicans in the
Missouri Senate were able to still go ahead and muscle through a religious
freedom bill that would legalize the discrimination of LGBT people by certain
religious organizations and individuals in the state. Joining me now to talk about this bill but
also about her epic filibuster is Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal.
If you haven't watched all of Season 4 of "House of Cards" then you're un-American... At least that's what I think Frank Underwood would say. My next guest you know from Scream, The Craft, and 54 is Neve Campbell, who plays Leann Harvey on the newest season of House Of Cards
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
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Noah Michelson, the Voices Editorial Director and Executive Editor of Queer Voices at The Huffington Post, and the co-host of the Love + Sex Podcast returns to the show as he does every Thursday to help us close out the week with the stories making headlines over at Queer Voices. You can also follow Noah on twitter.
According to both the adherents and opponents of atheism today, it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, an idea that came about only when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith. However, according to Tim Whitmarsh, Professor of Greek Culture at The University of Cambridge in The United Kingdom, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In his new book Battling The Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, he journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. Tim joins me today on the show to talk all about the book and the history of atheism’s first thousand years.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
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Over
the past few weeks there has been a storm brewing in the Republican Party, as
both the supporters and opponents of Donald Trump gear up for the party’s
convention in Cleveland this summer. As
you all know, we talk a lot about what’s happening in the GOP from a
Progressive viewpoint on this show, but it is also important to get an opinion
on the goings on in the GOP from someone who is closer to the center of the
storm. Which is why I have asked my
colleague Andrew Wilkow, who hosts The Wilkow Majority which airs Monday-Friday from noon-3pmET on SiriusXM Patriot ch. 125, to come on the show today and give us the Libertarian
perspective on the current race for the Republican Presidential
nomination.
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