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Lorenzo Sewell—the pastor who delivered a prayer at Trump’s inauguration—argues that the president is making Black Americans’ lives better despite rolling back DEI initiatives.

This week on More To The Story, Al Letson sits down with MAGA's Black pastor: apple.co/442aYMu
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn street in 2001. In prison, he reckoned with his crime and became a nationally known writer while behind bars.

He talks with @alletson.bsky.social from Sing Sing Correctional Facility on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Executions are rising in the US. This reverend witnesses them.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” death row spiritual adviser Jeff Hood talks about how his longtime activism for racial justice led him inside America’s execution chambers.

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November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Earlier this year, Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley fled to Canada.

Why? Because he studies fascism—and he believes it’s already arrived in the US.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale professor Jason Stanley has been taking a lot of heat for moving to Canada. Why?

Because he studies fascism—and he believes it’s already arrived in the US.

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November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
America had a Black president. Then came the whitelash.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” @jelaniya.bsky.social traces the tumultuous throughline from Trayvon Martin to the rise of white nationalism and reexamines Barack Obama’s legacy in the age of Trump.

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October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Some had creative posters. Others wore inflatable costumes. But all of them told @alletson.bsky.social they feared for the direction of the country under President Trump.

Conversations with No Kings protesters on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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October 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@billmckibben.bsky.social is a long-time environmental activist whose outlook on climate change has been described as “dark realism.”

Now, he’s painting a much sunnier picture about the future of our planet thanks to the remarkable rise of solar power.
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On this week’s “More To The Story,” @karenhao.bsky.social sounds the alarm about the rising risks to the planet from the supercharged growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

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October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“I am extremely pessimistic about what would happen if we allowed Silicon Valley to keep building the technology the way that they want to."

We sat down with @karenhao.bsky.social to talk about OpenAI's rapid rise on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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October 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Silicon Valley once laughed off OpenAI. Now it’s the world’s most valuable private company.

Tech journalist @karenhao.bsky.social has been writing about OpenAI’s remarkable rise and joins us to examine the AI boom on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Trump sicced the National Guard on LA, ramping up immigrant arrests in a city that’s been targeted by ICE for months.

Here’s how @lataco.bsky.social, a local taco site tracking the raids, became an essential reporting powerhouse to their community.

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October 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Baltimore’s homicide and violent crime rates are approaching all-time lows. So why is Trump threatening to send the National Guard in?

Mayor Brandon Scott has an answer on this week’s More To The Story with @alletson.bsky.social.

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September 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“The very top of our political leadership is stoking a political and cultural war.”

Mother Jones editor @markfollman.bsky.social discusses how the Trump administration is using Charlie Kirk’s murder to fuel America’s political battles.

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September 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
On this week’s “More To The Story,” the second half of @trymainelee.bsky.social’s conversation with host @alletson.bsky.social about the burdens of covering violence against Black Americans as a Black journalist.

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September 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
How exactly should a Black journalist cover violence against Black Americans?

That’s the heart of this week’s discussion between Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @trymainelee.bsky.social and “More To The Story’s” @alletson.bsky.social.

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September 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Journalist @trymainelee.bsky.social’s first book almost killed him when a massive heart attack at age 38 nearly took his life.

The near-death experience changed him and his book. On this week’s “More To The Story,” the cost of violence on Black men in America.

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September 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Overmedicating. Exploiting. Profiting. America’s drug rehab industry too often harms the patients it’s supposed to be helping.

@alletson.bsky.social examines drug rehab in the US and the lingering opioid crisis on this week’s “More To The Story.”

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August 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM