Topic: citizencast

Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Reads The Glass Castle
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
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Sits Down with Randi Weingarten
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
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi on Women, Life, Freedom … In Iran.
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
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi Banned Book Club reads The Giver
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
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi on South Africa’s Fight for Democracy
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
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi Banned Book Club reads Bridge to Terabithia
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
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi Interviews Philadelphia’s Block Captain of the Year
The MSNBC anchor and Citizen Board member talks with Michelle Belser of Melrose Gardens about civic engagement and working with the community
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi Has Hope For The Hostages
The MSNBC anchor and Citizen Board member on the necessity of hope for the innocent men, women and children taken hostage by Hamas six months ago
By Ali Velshi
What Philly Can Learn from America’s Fastest Growing City
Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker talks to our podcast hosts, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, about how she’s guiding her Texas city through a population boom that benefits everyone. Hint: It’s just common sense
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ali Velshi Banned Book Club reads Hunger by Roxane Gay
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks with Roxane Gay about her memoir Hunger, her raw story about being a Black woman in a big body in America
By Ali Velshi