The WBAP Morning Show Crew discussed the best places to go in DFW to ogle the Christmas light displays, plus WFAA had a story regarding a local family and their DNA test results. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

A 2-year-old was picked up by police, crossing the border, and questioned. She was traveling alone to find her family in the United States. Victor Avila, a retired ICE Supervisory Special Agent, joined The WBAP Morning News to talk about this shocking story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Ernie, Carla, and Hal Jay discuss RFK Jr. and his war on artificial and harmful ingredients in our food that is turning our kids into fat tubs of goo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Ted Rossman, Senior Analyst from Bankrate, joined The WBAP Morning News. How will the Thanksgiving Shopping Weekend fare this year? Also, which major retailer is on top and which one is in the toilet? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Spending in our TX schools is out of control. How much does it cost to educate a kid? Plus, should property tax increases be approved by voters? Rep. Brian Harrison joins The WBAP Morning News to explain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Congressman Chip Roy joined The WBAP Morning News. He is demanding Biden admin preserve records and evidence of 100K+ missing alien children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Victoria Coates with The Heritage Foundation, joined The WBAP News to give some insight on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine fight and how it could lead to a war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Dr. Matt Chalmers joined The WBAP Morning News to talk about how treating addiction with Ozempic is breaking new ground. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn joined The WBAP Morning News to talk about the Dept. of Justice releasing their review of the Tarrant County Jail conditions. Was the review favorable? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Julie Fisk, co-host of the local Haunted AF Podcast, joined The WBAP Morning News to talk about her show and what kind of spooky and interesting stories being told by people from around the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

The WBAP Morning News talked about the longest flight from Brisbane, Australia to DFW. How long was it? Plus, National Correspondent Erin Real joins the discussion about our favorite Halloween candies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Hans von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation joined The WBAP Morning News. The Justice Department lied. States can remove illegals from the voting rolls. It is against the law for non-citizens to vote! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Many former Trump officials no longer have Secret Service protection! Why is that, and how will obtain proper security, and can they at all anymore? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne joined the show to talk about the National Border Patrol Council giving their full endorsement for Donald Trump for President. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

The Ted Cruz/Colin Allred debate is tonight. Here with a preview is Jason Whitely, WFAA's Senior Political Reporter Jason Whitely who will be moderating tonight. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

The maker of Ozempic is in clinical trials of a pill version that can cause significant weight loss in 3 months. Umo Collins, 15-year dietitian and fitness coach tells us more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Af Cumulus Media Dallas

FIRST THINGS FIRST, hip-hop is not just the music, and women have played a big role in shaping the way it looks today. FIRST THINGS FIRST takes readers on a journey through some notable firsts by women in hip-hop history and their importance. Factual firsts like Queen Latifah becoming the first rapper to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, La…

Laura Pappano is a veteran journalist who has covered the heated disagreements that surround K-12 education for over thirty years. Yet, today's high stakes battle is unlike anything she's seen before. "It isn't rooted in a passion for the success of all children," she writes. "Rather, it's about the hijacking of public education by a far-right Chri…

According to Award-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Robert Hennelly, most of the labor activists that are reviving the American union movement were not on the planet when Martin Luther King Jr walked the earth. But the torch has been passed and the “dream” endures when ever there’s collective non-violent action that moves US forward.Henne…

Leonard Lopate, the Peabody and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster, is on WBAI where he began his radio career. Tune in weekdays from 1-2pm at 99.5fm New York or you can listen to the show live at WBAI.org. Join us for conversation on current events and call-in into the station to let your voice be heard (212) 209-2877. Listen to past shows: htt…

A site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan—where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night.In Gangsterland, historian David Pietrusza tours the Big Apple’s rotten core. The Roaring Twenties blaze and sparkle wi…

Max Roach Centennial Celebrations in January Include Film Screening, Panel Discussion and Local NYC-NJ ConcertsThe revolutionary 1960 album We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite explored issues of social justice and racial inequality through the lens of jazz and poetry. In celebration of the centennial of Max Roach (1924-2007)—drummer, bebop pi…

Richard Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow (Emeritus) of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Leah Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation E…

Bestselling author and historian Steven Ujifusa tells the largely forgotten, colorful story of three businessmen who, driven by very different motives, made much of this immigration possible and forever changed the fates of millions.The men were Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of an investment bank who used his immense wealth to help Jews to lea…

We'd like to hear from you during this Holiday season. How have you been coping with winter, Municipal, State, and Global concerns? Although this is the mos festive time of year it sometimes doesnt feel that way. We would like you to share your remedies on dealing with the winter blues. Call-in in Join the discussion. Listen to past shows: https://…

Edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite - Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically features a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, activists, educators, chefs, farmers, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to our values. These essays tell the stories of real peopl…

Michael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history, from the first settlement of the New World to current life, including his own lived experiences as an activist, educator, and organizer over the past six decades. As such, the book is an urgently needed resource for activists and organizers seeking structural and mor…

Photos from the 1990s present images of floods and fires that paralyzed the area, juxtaposed with continued bulldozing to clear the way for luxury housing. Politics reshaped Manhattan’s skyline by encouraging new commercial shopping, food, and restaurant destinations. This restructuring marked the beginning of the end of downtown’s blue-collar orig…

Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended Racism, Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski reveal a path for real and lasting global impact―not just talking about it, studying it, or making small steps, but actually ending racism in one generation.Williams and Tygielski draw…

Regular Contributor Bob Hennelly of Stuck Nation covers topics ranging from homeland security to the economy, environmental contamination to corruption, and occupational safety to homelessness.Joing us when Hennelly touches on the hearing held by Sen. Sanders for his Health, Education, Labor and Pension that featured testimony from Fain (UAW), Nels…

From Brown v. Board of Education in the mid-twentieth century to the current Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Foley explores how organizations have resisted and complied with public policies regarding race. She examines how admissions officers, who have played an important role in the long fight…

Lewin brings these general principles to life by considering the history of the genetics revolution, from the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA to the sequencing of the human genome and the possibilities of gene editing today. History shows us that each period of progress in science relied on dogmas that often advanced but sometimes …

Leonardo Freitas is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hayman-Woodward. Freitas is an entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in government relations, international trade, and business development in the United States, as well as emerging markets, with a focus on Latin America and Asia.…

In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides his perspective into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen (“The Four”) —and shows how their tech monopolies have brought middle-class wage stagnation, the hollowing out of many American towns, a radical increase i…

Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theoriesis a deeply researched dive into the history of the conspiracy industry around the Rothschild family - from the "pamphlet wars" of Paris in the 1840s to the dankest pits of the internet today. Join us when journalist and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild, who isn't rela…

Leonard talks with ROLAND RICH, the former Australian Ambassador to the UN about his book. Leviathan.Af Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

American Castle, a Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the super-rich and powerful after Mar-a-Lago became a part-time residence and party place upon Post’s divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery.Af Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Altagracia Pierre - Outerbridge is the owner of theNew York City - based law firm, Outerbridge Law, P.C..Founded in 2019 after representing clients from -intake through trial with a practice focused on -landlord - tenant litigation and transactional matters,diligently protecting landlords' property rights, and -meticulously defending tenants agains…

Marjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow with The Democracy Collaborative, and the author of - Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises (Berrett-Kohler, September 2023) talks today with Leonard on Leonard Lopate at large.Af Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Today Leonard talks with Brian H. Williams, MD, the author ofThe Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. Author Brian H. Williams, MDAf Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Industrial hygienist Monona Rossol brings valuable insights of occupational health and safety, which is a crucial aspect of many industries. Whether it's discussing Covid, workplace hazards, air quality, exposure assessments, or safety measures, as an expert in the industrial hygiene Monona provides important information and tips.…

For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first celebrity surgeons. Statues were built in his honor, but he wasn’t the hero he had made himself appear to be.Sims’s g…

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nation’s species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists.Lowell E. Baier’s intellectual curiosit…

In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, “you see the American story.” For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophes—food stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engag…

DAVID SCHENCK is the former Director of the Ethics Program, Medical University of South Carolina, and was on the faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.A leader on ethics in healthcare and a long-time hospice volunteer, David Schenck is familiar with feeling overwhelmed and helpless while tryin…

A “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation.According to Harvard law professor John Coates, the Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a conc…

Award-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Bob Hennelly has a passion for uncovering the News behind the News. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he has always had a keen interest in the roles of immigration, local politics, business, labor unions, real estate ownership, and environmental protection in the evolution of the United States.For more t…

As we celebrate 50 years in Hip Hop, ILLMATIC CONSEQUENCES combines social science and hip-hop studies to address disinformation and propaganda that distorted political discourse after the 2020 election. In this text, scholars and activists come together to clap back on the lies that animated attacks at local school boards and the January 6, 2021, …

In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border.Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trau…

More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public. War Made Invisible, by the journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon, exposes how this happened, and what its consequences are,…