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Current Events Roundtable, Remembering Sidney Poitier

Season 50 Episode 3

A wide-ranging roundtable discussion around some of the biggest current events catching headlines in the new year. Public relations and political consultants Karen Dumas, Greg Bowens and Brandon Brice, and Kerry Leon Jackson debate about new redistricting maps, discuss the conviction and sentencing in the Amhaud Arbery case, and share their perspectives in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Episode 5003

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