RT Jeffery Mead (@the_jefferymead)Whoopi Goldberg just claimed being black in America is "no different" than living in Iran.Seriously?In Iran, you can be jailed, tortured, or executed for speaking out. Women are beaten for showing hair.Protesters are gunned down in the street. There is little to no free speech or civil rights.In America, you can protest, vote, sue the government, start a business, run for office, and get paid millions to say stupid things on national TV.Enough with the victim olympics. ...

Tanahasi Coats is a national book award-winning author and journalist. His acclaimed work, Between the World and Me, is being re-released in paperback on its 10th anniversary next week. And his most recent book, The Message, is out.It's good to have you. Thanks for having me, Chris. We have not gotten a chance to talk on air in a bit.A lot has happened. You think. Well, we got a US military parade on the birthday of the president of the United States, ostensibly for the armed services.Um, we've got deployme ...

Joining me now, MSNBC legal analyst and former US attorney Joyce Vance and MSNBC political analyst and Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Eugene Robinson. Joyce, I'll start with you. The ruling on Trump's use of the National Guard in California, where do you think it goes from here and what does it tell us about writing precedent in real time? Right. So, it's an amazing opinion written by Justice Brier. I know people were disappointed early on when he took two days to set a hearing rather than immediately iss ...