** "Sitting and talking with Myrlie Evers, and her telling me the love story of Medgar Evers and how she met him - and how much she still is deeply in love with this man, really inspired me to write about it. And I had not read a civil rights love story, and she told me one - and I said that's the story I wanted to tell..."

A Conversation with Joy Reid. And the book the journalist, political commentator and MSNBC host has just written, during this year's June 12th commemoration of the civil rights leader's assassination 61 years ago. Exploring the marriage of Evers and his wife united in a bond of activism and love, in 'Medgar And Myrlie: Medgar Evers And The Love Story That Awakened America." 

Reid, who has herself fought against attacks for her defense of the Palestinian struggle, reads as well excerpts from her book.

** "Not The NY Times: That's right, The NY War Crimes - because what's contained there, you will not find in the so-called paper of record."

The NY War Crimes: A Reading. Dispatches From Gaza, Writers Against The War On Gaza. From the press to philosophers, poets, and Israel's cultural genocide - and exposing how the media manufactures consent for genocide.

** "Hollywood's job was to clean the black folks out of America on the screen. And there was a TV show called Father Knows Best - so that was America..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon in our Crimes Scenes Edition this week, with a continued breakdown of Rainbow Imperialism in Hollywood. And connections to the infamous nuclear family, virtue signaling, the George Floyd protests - and symbolism over struggle on and off screen...

** "I always felt country music was all about cowboys and conservative values. But I was in for a surprise - diving deep into the heart of America with a genre that is as iconic as it is misunderstood..."

Open Country: Jack Clarke at the UK Desk in a conversation with Glenda and Jesse Drew about their music documentary. And country music as a powerful expression of working class struggles and aspirations - and the history of liberating country music from corporate radio.