Public affairs with movement memory.
Sojourner Truth Radio brings a grave, activist lens to news, politics, and liberation struggles. Its conversations move from headlines into interviews on Gaza, Haiti, Indigenous life, Black communities, immigration, fires, and art as political memory.
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Sojourner Truth Radio is a measured, activist public-affairs program built around the connection between world events and the people most exposed to their consequences. It is serious by design. Episodes commonly start with a news frame or clip, then move into longer interviews where guests are given room to connect policy, history, and organizing. Palestine receives sustained attention, from the Nakba and UN Resolution 194 to Gaza, refugee rights, starvation, displacement, and civilian deaths. Haiti is treated with similar historical depth. The show follows the legacy of Haiti’s revolution, the 2004 coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, occupation, hunger, CARICOM policy, migration, and anti-Haitian sentiment. U.S. politics are covered as a matter of power rather than spectacle. Discussions of Trump’s executive orders, immigration enforcement, federal contracting, corporate influence, Medicaid, utilities, and local budgets are tied back to communities deciding how to resist or survive. The program is also attentive to Southern California. Its coverage of fires in Altadena and Pasadena centers Black residents, renters, insurance barriers, rebuilding, prisoner firefighters, and the fear that disaster recovery can become another route to displacement. Movement history is a living reference point. Martin Luther King Day, Marcus Garvey, Leonard Pelletier, SNCC, Bernice Johnson Reagan, and Indigenous ceremonial life all appear as part of the show’s political memory. Art matters here because public memory matters. Conversations with Michael Massenburg and references to memorial work in South Los Angeles show how sculpture, healing plants, and community space can carry grief and resistance together. The tone is rarely casual. It is warm at times, but more often grave, insistent, and plainly aligned with movements for racial justice, Indigenous life, Palestinian freedom, Haitian sovereignty, and economic fairness. The show is best for listeners who want interviews that slow the news down and put moral stakes on the table.
Made for: For listeners who want left public-affairs radio grounded in history, organizing, and communities facing state violence, displacement, racism, and war. It will suit people who prefer long-form context over quick partisan recap.
What sets it apart: The show links international crises, local policy, art, and movement history in one editorial frame. Its strength is the bridge from headline to guest conversation, where political analysis stays close to lived consequences.
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod is a news & public affairs program that airs Tuesday through Friday on KPFK Radio from 7 to 8 AM (PST), and nationwide on Pacifica Radio networks. If you're in Los Angeles, or Southern CA, tune in at 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 93.7 FM North San Diego, 99.5 FM Ridgecrest-China Lake, or www.kpfk.org.Tune in to daily Pacifica News headlines at the start of our show. Sojourner Truth brings you news and views on local, national & international policies and stories that affect us all. We draw out how those of us most impacted -women, communities of color and other communities are responding. We also discuss the inter-relationship between art a…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Margaret Prescott connects political decisions to their human consequences, with sustained attention to communities facing displacement, exclusion, and state power.
Sojourner Truth Radio follows public policy to the communities living with its consequences. Margaret Prescott moves between news headlines, interviews, and roundtable discussion, pressing guests to connect government action with material questions of safety, displacement, civil…
Margaret Prescott keeps asking who pays after the headline moves on, from Altadena to Haiti.
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Gaza leads into a measured politics-first conversation about utilities, immigration, and local power.
Sojourner Truth starts in Gaza, where airstrikes, shootings, aid access, and allegations of starvation-as-tactic frame the urgency. From there, it broadens into a politics-first look at utility bills, fossil fuels, state authority over private utilities, immigrant protections,…
A wide-ranging look at Trump's first week, from executive orders and retaliation to Mexico, Gaza, and federal contracting.
This episode of Sojourner Truth follows Trump's first week through executive orders, loyalty tests, and revenge politics, while tracing what those moves could mean at home and abroad.
MLK Day, clemency, and South LA memorial work anchor the broadcast.
Sojourner Truth marks Martin Luther King Day with a broadcast that opens on Leonard Peltier's commutation, Marcus Garvey's pardon, and the first lawsuits against Trump administration policies.
A fire report that keeps Black residents, rebuilding costs, and land loss at the center.
Southern California's fires set the frame, but the episode keeps returning to Black residents in Altadena and Pasadena who now face a second disaster after the flames: displacement, rebuilding costs, and the old threat of land loss.
A focused political review of Haiti's sovereignty struggle, from revolution and crisis to exclusion within CARICOM.
Haiti's fight for sovereignty is treated here as a living political struggle, not a closed chapter. The episode begins with Haitian revolutionaries defeating Napoleon's army, anchored by Francois Capoy's charge under heavy fire, then carries that history into claims of a…
Global health news with medical context.
Colombia's day, compressed into a hard news bulletin.
Sojourner Truth opens with a global frame and then turns to headlines.
Margaret Prescott opens Sojourner Truth with Trump’s first week in his second term.
Sojourner Truth opens on MLK Day.
Margaret Prescott opens with the devastating Southern California fires.
Sojourner Truth opens with Haiti's 1804 victory over Napoleon's army, drawing on a Haiti Action Committee alert.
This episode rebroadcasts an interview with civil rights icon Bernice Johnson Reagan at the 50th anniversary conference of SNCC.
This episode marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba and discusses the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
This episode discusses the 2004 coup against Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Adeski on its anniversary.