On episode 116 of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers are joined by guest-host Elizabeth Booker Houston, attorney, viral comedian, and public health expert @bookersquared.

FOR YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS:

– Alex Pretti Murdered by Federal Agents, Conservatives Divided in Their Response

– Representatives Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost Attacked, Conservatives call it “Staged”

– NLP Minneapolis Town Hall RECAP

– Senate Dems to Close Government Over DHS Funding

– Kanye Apologizes (to everyone)

After Alex Pretti was murdered by a CBP officer in Minneapolis, conservatives in the Trump administration were quick to call Alex an assassin and a terrorist, in particular because he showed up to a protest with a gun. Hold up, so who’s allowed to carry a gun and who is not, because we thought y’all were supposed to be all about the second amendment?? They want some of us to have our rights, and others… not so much. The Black community is all too familiar with this phenomenon.

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Call your Senator, urge them not to fund DHS: 202-224-3121

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On this special LIVE episode of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers host a town hall in Minneapolis with local and national leaders to discuss the crisis brought by ICE and CBP agents flooding their streets.

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Our show is partnering with State of the People to provide tangible support to Minneapolis residents–free legal support, grocery giveaway, and fundraising on the ActBlue Platform.

Guests Include:

Derrick Johnson, President, NAACP

Juan Proaño, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), LULAC

Georgia Fort, Independent Journalist

Elizabeth Booker Houston, Attorney and Viral Influencer

Peggy Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota

Cedrick Frazier, Minnesota State Representative

Zaynab Mohamed, Minnesota State Senate

Melvin Carter, SERVED as 46th Mayor of Saint Paul, MN

Gutu Chinksso, President University of Minnesota Black Student Union

Elizer (Eli) Darris, ED, MN Freedom Fund

Leslie E Redmond, Esq, Past President of the Minneapolis NAACP; Executive Director of Win Back Nonprofit

Rev. Dr. Karen McKinney, Professor & Community Liaison at Bethel University

Minister JaNaé Imari Bates, Co-Executive Director of Faith in Minnesota and ISAIAH

Wintana Melekin, Executive Director, Groundwork Action

Resmaa Menakem, NYT Best Selling Author My Grandmother’s Hands

Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General

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Clay Cane is a bestselling author of The Grift, a history of Black Republicans. His next novel, Burn Down Master’s House, is inspired by long-buried stories of enslaved people who fought back. He has some time

Join host Angela Rye for this inspiring conversation with author Clay Cane. You can buy his new book here:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/burn-down-master-s-house-a-novel-clay-cane/3b5e5df179f72150

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Parents of young Black men and boys are familiar with “the talk,” the conversation about how to survive encounters with law enforcement. It’s an unfortunate necessity.

ICE is now indiscriminately asking Black folks for their papers and detaining them. We got a question from one of YOU about how this new reality affects “the talk.” The answer is much the same as it's always been BUT we appreciate the reminder that it is a good time to refresh our kids on “the talk.”

ALSO we got an update from one of our viewers on the political situation in Tanzania.

Join our hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers for this week’s MiniPod!

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On episode 115 of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers are joined by guest host, Don Lemon.

Conservatives (including recent convert Nicki Minaj) are calling for Don’s arrest after he covered a protest that occurred inside of a church. We’ll talk with him about the incident and so much more…

FOR YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS:

– Trump gives a deranged Greenland speech at Davos.

– Is Donald Trump Okay? Recent statements call his mental acuity into question.

– Minnesota Police Officers say they are NOT safe with ICE

– Why is the NCAA Football Championship team SO Old?

– Pro Palestine: NFL Player Fined

– Nicki Minaj Calls for the Arrest of Don Lemon

– How Dems Expect Us to React When They Cuss

Is it OK to protest inside of a church? That’s exactly what happened earlier this week when protestors in St. Paul disrupted a church service. The pastor for the church is a field director for the local ICE office. Don Lemon covered this protest as a journalist and rightwing media is now calling him a criminal for it. That’s obviously bull sh*t but do WE think it’s OK to protest at church?? Our hosts debate…

24 members of Congress are 80 or older, and many of them are running for re-election. We’ve seen politicians on both sides of the aisle (Mitch McConnell, Diane Feinstein, Joe Biden, to name a few) who continue to work and hold senior positions when it’s CLEAR they are no longer fit. Should there be an age limit for Congress? How to we foster and recruit youth?

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“We cannot be neutral about the dismantling of our democracy and still expect to be protected by it.”

Walking in the footsteps of great journalists who came before her, local Minnesota reporter Georgia Fort has been bearing witness to history as she covers ICE’s Operation Metro Surge on the ground in Minneapolis.

Georgia Fort is the founder of BLCK Press, a social enterprise newsroom in Minnesota, mobilizing the next generation to advance representation in the media workforce.

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On this MiniPod, our hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers are STUNNED by what Fed Chair Jerome Powell did.

The chair of the Federal Reserve, which sets our nationwide interest rates, is under investigation by the Trump administration. A stalwart bureaucrat, Jerome Powell made a rare public statement about the investigation, claiming that it’s politically motivated, and an attack on the independence of the Federal Reserve.

Let’s back it up, what does the Federal Reserve do again? Why is their independence important, and why are our hosts so SHOCKED by Jerome Powell’s statement?

Read more:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fedexplained/who-we-are.htm#:~:text=The%20Federal%20Reserve%20is%20the,stresses%20in%20the%20banking%20system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/business/economy/housing-pulte-fannie-freddie.html

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/14/trump-mortgages-credit-cards-rates

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-homes-trump-says-2026-01-07/

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