Voice: Ali Velshi

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member reminds us that we've been here before, restricting immigration and deporting immigrants is dangerous to our future and economy

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with Laurence Yep about the immigrant experience in America and how important those stories are to our history

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with Jeannette Walls to talk about her provocative memoir and the complications and ugliness of real life

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews the new president of the American Federation of Teachers about her efforts to take on book bans

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member discusses the renewed morality crackdown on women in Iran, where Mahsa Amini's tragic death inspired the Women, Life, Freedom movement

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews author Lois Lowry about the dark themes in The Giver that guide young readers through discovering their humanity

How a peaceful march, a misguided cop and a rubber bullet turned Canadian-born (by way of Kenya, South Africa and India) Ali Velshi into a true American. An excerpt from Small Acts of Courage, the MSNBC anchor and Citizen board member’s new memoir, launching May 7, in Philly

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi looks back at his parents' homeland and puts the struggle against South African apartheid in modern context

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews Katherine Paterson on the universal and sometimes dark themes of childhood in the enduring classic Bridge to Terabithia

The MSNBC anchor and Citizen Board member talks with Michelle Belser of Melrose Gardens about civic engagement and working with the community