Rich Benjamin

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  • “Insurrectionists Sentenced Under Terrorism Standards”

    Interview, MSNBC Primetime
    September 22, 2023
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  • “How Right-wing Extremism is Being Normalized in America”

    Interview, MSNBC Primetime
    May 13, 2023

  • “GOP Mainstreams Violence”

    Interview, MSNBC Primetime
    May 22, 2022
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  • “Assassination and Crisis: What Is Next for Haiti?”

    Interview, MSNBC Primetime
    July 9, 2021
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  • “Haiti — How Past is Present”

    Interview, NPR
    July 8, 2021
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  • “America’s Competing ‘Brands’ of Whiteness”

    Interview, MSNBC
    June 21, 2020
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  • “America In Crisis: How Does the Public View the Protests?”

    Interview, MSNBC
    June 12, 2020
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  • “Why Blacks and Latinos Bare the Brunt of Covid Destruction”

    MSNBC, “The Beat With Ari Melber”
    May 26, 2020
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  • “Electability: Who Can Beat Trump?”

    CNN Live
    August 20, 2019
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  • “Who’s Trying to Stop the Rise of White Supremacy in America?”

    NPR, “1A”
    August 6, 2019
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  • “Who’s More Sexist— Gay Men or Straight?”

    NPR, “Here and Now”
    July 16, 2019
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  • “What Makes America Great?”

    MSNBC, “The Beat with Ari Melber”
    April 5, 2019
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  • “Dumpster Fire of Secret Trump Tapes”

    MSNBC, “The Beat with Ari Melber”
    August 13, 2018
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  • “How Does Race Play to Trump’s Base?”

    MSNBC, “The Beat with Ari Melber”
    January 15, 2018
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  • “Congress to Trump: ‘Denounce Hate'”

    MSNBC, “The Beat with Ari Melber”
    September 13, 2017
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  • “Trump Stages Divisive Rally, Then Calls for Unity”

    CNN, “Newsroom”
    August 23, 2017
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  • “Charlottesville and the White Supremacists”

    NPR, “1A”
    August 14, 2017
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  • “GOP Last Ditch to Repeal Obamacare”

    MSNBC, “The Beat With Ari Melber”
    July 26, 2017
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  • “Pres. Trump and the Paranoid Style in Politics”

    MSNBC, “The Point”
    April 16, 2017
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  • “Pres. Obama Opens Up About His Presidency in Exit Interview”

    CNN Newsroom
    December 22, 2016
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  • “What Next?: Trump Transitions”

    Canada TV: “Your Morning”
    November 22, 2016
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  • “Adaptation”

    NPR
    “What Is a Whitopia? What Might It Mean to Live There?
    October 29, 2016
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  • “Anxious America: Election 2016”

    Ireland TV3: “The Agenda”
    October 23, 2016
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  • “Low Road to the White House: Trump-Clinton Rumble”

    France 24: “The World This Week”
    October 10, 2016
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  • First Lady Michelle Obama Addresses Voters

    CNN Newsroom
    September 17, 2016

  • Trump Woos Independents and Black Voters

    CNN Newsroom
    August 23, 2016

  • President Obama: “I’m a Feminist Dad”

    CNN Newsroom
    August 5, 2016
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  • Special: Police Brutality in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge

    GloboNews, Brazil National Network
    July 14, 2016
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  • The Soul of the Democratic Party

    CNN Newsroom
    February 11, 2016

  • “Adaptation”

    NPR, “Ideas Radio Hour”
    Experts Discuss Humans’ Extraordinary Capacity to Adapt
    November 20, 2015
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  • Not Lovin’ It: McDonalds Workers File Suit

    MSNBC, “Now with Alex Wagner”
    January 23, 2015
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  • Sotloff Beheading: Getting Tough on ISIS

    Fox Business, “Cavuto”
    September 2, 2014
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  • Is September a Bad Month For Your Stock Portfolio?

    Fox Business, “Cavuto”
    September 2, 2014
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  • Fresh Tensions Over Michael Brown Shooting

    MSNBC, “MSNBC Live”
    August 16, 2014
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  • Rich Benjamin guest-hosts Book TV’s “After Words”: Down to the Crossroads

    C-SPAN
    February 22, 2014
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  • “President Obama’s Opportunity Agenda”

    MSNBC, “MSNBC Live”
    February 1, 2014
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  • “Pres. Obama: Americans Are In It Together”

    MSNBC, “MSNBC Live”
    January 7, 2014
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  • Rich Benjamin guest-hosts Book TV’s “After Words”: The End of The Suburbs

    August 18, 2013
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  • “Civil Rights and Our Demographic Future”

    MSNBC, “Melissa Harris-Perry”
    June 16, 2013
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  • “Whitopia / SCOTUS”

    MSNBC, “Melissa Harris-Perry”
    June 16, 2013
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  • “American Manhood: Taking the Measure of Men”

    MSNBC, “Melissa Harris-Perry”
    February 23, 2013
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  • “Solving America’s Poverty Problem”

    MSNBC: Interview w/ Rich Benjamin
    January 27, 2013
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  • “Race 2012: A PBS Special”

    PBS
    October 16 and 19, 2012
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  • “Will Fiscal Cliff Derail America?”

    CNBC, “Closing Bell”
    September 24, 2012
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  • “How Credit Fees Will Sock Global Consumers”

    China Central Television: Interview w/ Rich Benjamin
    July 17, 2012
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  • “Crony Capitalism’s Shakedown”

    MSNBC, “Up With Chris Hayes”
    July 14, 2012
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  • “Is America George Zimmerman?”

    MSNBC, “Up With Chris Hayes”
    April 1, 2012
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  • “Do Antisocials Run Wall Street?”

    Rich Benjamin in Conversation with Author Nomi Prins and Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi
 C-SPAN Book TV
    December 3, 2011
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  • “Clinging to the Ruins of a Great Haitian School”

    Time / Time.com
    January 12, 2011
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  • “Haiti’s Precarious Elections — Between Crisis and Optimism”

    Time / Time.com
    December 2, 2010
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  • “Will the Tea Party Tip the Mid-term Elections?”

    Al Jazeera Interview with Rich Benjamin
    November 1, 2010

  • “Wyclef Jean’s Dubious Run”

    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Interview with Rich Benjamin
    August 16, 2010

  • “Obama’s America: 2010 and Beyond: Town Hall With Chris Matthews and Tom Joyner”

    MSNBC
    January 18, 2010

  • Searching for Whitopia

    C-SPAN 2 / Book TV
    December 13-14, 2009
 November 14-15, 2009

  • “America’s Whitest Communities”

    Time Video
    November 24, 2009
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Radio

  • “What Is the Zimmerman Ruling About?”

    NPR’s The Takeaway,
    July 15, 2013
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  • “Race Issues Reverberate in Zimmerman Trial,”

    Here and Now,
    July 10, 2013
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  • “Taking a Pass on Straight Weddings”

    NPR Interview with Rich Benjamin
    June 9, 2011
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  • “Salty Entertainer Wins Haitian Election: So What Next?”

    Candadian Broadcasting Corporation Interview w/ Rich Benjamin
    April 6, 2011
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  • Rich Benjamin in Conversation with Tom Joyner and CNN’s Roland Martin

    The Tom Joyner Show
    October 7, 2009

  • A Black Author’s Journey Into American “Whitopia”

    NPR, Talk of the Nation
    October 6, 2009
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  • “What King Really Dreamed”

    NPR, Talk of the Nation
    January 18, 2006
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