Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR), is an intergenerational, roundtable discussion of independent national journalists featuring rigorous conversations and analysis of news coverage and the role race plays in politics, government, economy, education, and health. LTAR currently airs on KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR, and on Pacifica Radio Network
LTAR brings independent journalists from all over the country from New Jersey to Texas and Pennsylvania with a home base in Portland, Oregon. The hosts bring their own flavor, journalistic perspectives, and integrity.
The roundtable line-up features: LaNita Duke, an award-winning audio and video producer who has written, directed, and produced political news and commentary for Grassroots NW and KBOO Radio for over 20 years. Dianne Johnson, a journalist from Texas co-host/musicologist on From the Grassroots, a political news audio magazine. Althea Billings, current News Director at KBOO Community Radio. Rev. Cecil Prescod is a talk-show host discussing local, national, and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland, OR to politics in Africa. Nia Gray, host and blogger of The Faith Report in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And Mary Li provides an in-depth analysis.
No taxation without rationalization.
You may have heard it said that only two things in this life are assured death and taxes. To not get too morbid, our panel is going to focus on the second of those sureties. Taxes. What is taxed, who benefits from those dollars, and why these are what we'll be discussing on the program today.

Guests: Evan Kirkpatrick. I'm the founder and CEO of Wendell Charles Financial explains why the Trickle-down economic theory does not work
Guest: Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley.” tax code is rigged for the rich, enabling a handful of wealthy individuals to exert undue influence over our economy and democracy…
Our Panel discussed :
tying up the child tax credit, which we love to bring up on this show because it is an extremely successful public policy to Increase corporate tax breaks

We’ve left our humanity behind. So this 3 w3-weight is what I think we're seeing here. When we see something that says child tax credit and cuts for big business, that is what we're seeing in, in, in real time is the struggle to control.
Participatory budgeting is a practice where the community can weigh in on how the government spends our tax dollars and on what the government spends. Our tax dollars. Now, at the beginning of the show, I talked about this, negative image of government as a vending machine.
Now, not all entities pay taxes. Churches are nonprofits exempt from paying taxes, Reverend Cecil explains.
Senator Bernie Sanders has been a constant critic of these tax plans that don't help working families
Cordae - Taxes (Lyrics) [from the Netflix Series "We The People"]

Hope is a thing with feather-Trump fined over $350 million in civil fraud case

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR), is an intergenerational, roundtable discussion of independent national journalists featuring rigorous conversations and analysis of news coverage and the role race plays in politics, government, economy, education, and health. LTAR currently airs on KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR, and on Pacifica Radio Network
LTAR brings independent journalists from all over the country from New Jersey to Texas and Pennsylvania with a home base in Portland, Oregon. The hosts bring their own flavor, journalistic perspectives, and integrity.
The roundtable line-up features: LaNita Duke, an award-winning audio and video producer who has written, directed, and produced political news and commentary for Grassroots NW and KBOO Radio for over 20 years. Dianne Johnson, a journalist from Texas co-host/musicologist on From the Grassroots, a political news audio magazine. Althea Billings, current News Director at KBOO Community Radio. Rev. Cecil Prescod is a talk show host discussing local, national, and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland, OR to politics in Africa. Nia Gray, host and blogger of The Faith Report in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And Mary Li provides an in-depth analysis.

And as we celebrate international women day -LTAR revisits the issues impacting women.
From the end of Affirmative Action , lack of family resources for child care and the challenges facing reproductive rights
However, at the same time, we celebrate women who stood up and fought and continue to fight for progressive causes:
Starting with Oregon State Sen. Avel Gordly A Portland native, Gordly became the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1996, serving until 2009.
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm: the first African-American woman elected to Congress. Chisholm was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the first African American to make a serious bid for the Presidency of the United States of America.

Mary Li did a shout-out to Yuri Kochiyama

Yuri Kochiyama was a Japanese American political and civil rights activist. During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed her and her family to an incarceration site for Japanese Americans. For fifty years, Kochiyama spoke out about oppressive institutions and injustice in the United States. Her activism supported the liberation and empowerment of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Puerto Ricans. She also advocated for nuclear disarmament, reparations for Japanese American incarcerates, and the release of prisoners whom she regarded as prisoners of conscience.

Althea Billings shares with us that the struggle for Women's Reproductive rights never ends with A Women's Rights vs the Supreme Court's Might

Previously On-Dyning to own the Liberals or voting against your own needs
Hope is a Thing with Feathers- Senator Mallory McMorrow

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR), a new intergenerational, roundtable discussion of independent national journalists featuring rigorous conversations and analysis of news coverage and the role race plays in politics, government, economy, education, and health. LTAR currently airs on KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR .

LTAR brings independent journalists from all over the country from New Jersey to Texas and Pennsylvania with a home-base in Portland, Oregon. The hosts bring their own flavor, journalistic perspectives, and integrity.

The roundtable line-up features: LaNita Duke, award-winning audio and video producer who has written, directed, and produced political news and commentary for Grassroots NW and KBOO Radio for over 45 years. Dianne Johnson, a journalist from Texas co-host/musicologist on From the Grassroots, a political news magazine. Althea Billings, current News Director at KBOO Community Radio. Cecil Prescod, talk-show host local, national, and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland to politics in Africa. Nia Gray, host and blogger of The Faith Report in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Welcome to another edition of LTAR- The Fire This time

Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have erupted at many college campuses after being inspired by demonstrators at Columbia University.

The students are calling for universities to separate themselves from companies advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza and in some cases from Israel itself.

It is interesting to see how an international student movement has developed and the response by university administrators and police. Young people in the United States and other Western Countries are questioning America's relationship with Israel.

Additionally, they have a greater level of concern about the human rights abuses occurring in Gaza.

Combine this with a major Presidential election, Russia picking a fight with NATO, and the economic pressures of inflation and underemployment –

This is the Fire this Time

I do not know if we are all being played as useful idiots; as difficult problems are igniting the world. But the relationship between Israel and American public opinion may be changed forever.

Hope is a Thing ...

Catlin Clark garnered a great deal of publicity for her college ball and now she is in the WNBA- But At LTAR we stan Paige Bueckers for standing up for her teammates -who are Women of color and ignored and underappreciated