Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis

About Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis

Award-winning journalist Mary C. Curtis tackles policies and politics through the lens of social justice, illuminating the issues that have been, and still are, dividing the country. After all, the world is not so black and white.

Publisher

CQ Roll Call

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Sept 2020

Latest episode

3 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 81 episodes have a transcript.

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   3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   ‘How rebellion and activism have always sustained America’

   Host Mary C. Curtis interviews author Angela P. Dodson about how rebellion and activism sustain American progress against opposition.

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   30 Apr 2026

   Do Black women have solutions to what’s ailing American democracy? By Mary C. Curtis

   When Black women show up – as election workers, activists, advocates, voters – they make a difference. So, when they step forward, why do they so often meet resistance, not just from opponents, but also from supposed allies? And why has that never stopped them. Atima Omara’s new book, “The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (And what we can learn from them),” is both a history lesson and a blueprint for the future. In an almost two-decade career, Omara, founder of the award-winning Omara Strategy Group, has worked at the intersection of electoral politics and advocacy in the progressive movement. She is my guest on this episode of Equal Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   2 Apr 2026

   Mixing religion and politics in America. That isn’t new. What makes today different?

   If the line separating church and state in America has not yet disappeared, it is certainly fading fast. The evidence? A Supreme Court willing to rule in favor of faith-based lawsuits; a Secretary of Defense framing the war in Iran in apocalyptic terms; a president pushing a law restricting voting rights, exhorting legislators to pass it -- for “Jesus.” Is today’s elevation of a certain kind of Christianity at odds with the ideals of a diverse country where freedom of and from religion is guaranteed in the Constitution? David Gibson -- award-winning religion journalist, author, and filmmaker -- is director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, and the guest on this episode of Equal Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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‘How rebellion and activism have always sustained America’

Published 3 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You talk about civil rights, women's rights, the labor movement, Native American history, anti-war demonstration, the environmental movement. Why was it important to widen the focus? Because the nation has evolved with all of these competing issues and activists on many, many fronts. And we first came up with a long, comprehensive list of rebellions and protests and whatever. And the publisher kind of whittled it down. Yes, I'm interested in this. No, I'm not interested in that. And then we divided up the topics among ourselves. He wanted to write about the indigenous people, for instance, and the civil rights part of it. […]

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Engagement

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