Legal News Roundup; Lawsuit Over ACS Practices; Oscar Docs: 20 Days in Mariupol; Exploring Shirley Chisholm's Life & Legacy

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On today’s show: 

    Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation and the author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press, 2022), breaks down the latest on Trump’s legal woes, Alabama’s ruling on IVF and more.
    David Shalleck-Klein, founder and executive director of the Family Justice Law Center at the Urban Justice Center, discusses the class-action lawsuit charging the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) uses coercion, traumatizing families.
    This month we hear from the makers of the 5 films nominated for the Academy Award for best feature documentary. Today, Mstyslav Chernov, Pulitzer Prize-winning video journalist at The Associated Press and president of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, talks about his feature documentary, his experience with his fellow journalists trapped in Mariupol as the Russians invade.
    For this Black History Month, Zinga Fraser, assistant professor of Africana Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies and director of the Shirley Chisholm Project at Brooklyn College, joins us as we explore the life and legacy of Brooklyn’s Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and the first woman and African American to campaign for a major party’s nomination for president. 

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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