Laura visits "He Sapa,'' the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral lands to address homelessness, addiction and violence against Native Americans. In this special feature, she reports on Camp Mniluzahan, a tipi village built on tribal trust land that welcomed hundreds of unhoused Indigenous people and others in the Rapid City area in the dead of winter.

Private tactical training facilities have proliferated across North Carolina - many located on the outskirts of rural, predominantly Black towns - creating extreme noise pollution and fear, say local community members. Laura Flanders reports on two rural communities where residents have serious concerns about these facilities near their homes, especially in the wake of the January 6 insurrection.

A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast - a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land theft and white violence. The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project is pioneering regenerative farming practices as a means to address systemic racism. Join Laura Flanders on-location from Alexandria, Louisiana in this exclusive report.

In 2023, New York City received over 100,000 asylum seekers, including 15,000 unaccompanied minors. Most are from Latin America, where they face extortion from gangs and LGBTQ+ persecution. Hear the harrowing journeys and hopes of refugees coming to NYC - and meet the growing network of volunteers and nonprofits working to give asylum seekers a welcome, shelter, and legal protection.

Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a leading voice in the movement for abolition and feminism who has lots to share about her evolution and how decades of activism are coming together. From Palestine to elections, to our carceral state and collective liberation, this conversation is packed with her insight.

The discriminatory and unjust for-profit cash bail system disproportionately impacts Black and Brown people, and favors the wealthy who can buy their freedom while leaving the poor to languish in jail. Bail reform has faced tremendous pushback, but Illinois implemented the first-of-its-kind Pretrial Fairness Act, ending cash bail statewide in 2023. What's holding the rest of the nation back?

Could a successful coup happen in the U.S.? While the January 6 insurrection unfolded, many Americans watched in shock, but it has happened before - more than a century ago in Wilmington, North Carolina. Laura meets residents and leaders from across the state who are clear that the future of multi-racial democracy in America is being decided in out-of-the way towns like theirs.

Award-winning actress and writer Liza Jessie Peterson performed her one-woman show in dozens of prisons before visiting Louisiana's Angola Prison. Although she had permission to perform and bring a camera crew, authorities at the prison shut down the play in the middle of her performance. That day is the subject of the MTV documentary "Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison."

Laura Flanders sits down with the directors of CYCLE, an investigative feature documentary that focuses on the 2019 killing of Ty'rese West, an 18-year-old Black teenager from Racine, Wisconsin who was shot to death after being pulled over by a Mount Pleasant police officer for riding a bicycle with no headlights.

The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) is an independent program of the University of Michigan that supports formerly incarcerated artists, facilitates creative arts workshops and even hosts an annual exhibition to showcase incarcerated artists' work. "Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance" is a new book based on the project.