Author: Laura Flanders

filmed on location at Vernon Park, July 24th,...

In 2014, Tanisha Anderson, a 37-year-old mentally ill woman in Cleveland, died after being physically restrained by the police as her family watched. Watch Laura’s interview with the Andersons during the RNC in Cleveland, as they talk about Tanisha’s tragic death and the change that they want to see in the...

Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks on how bipartisan unity exists amongst the common goals of working class folk and activists against corporate...

In this special episode, the Laura Flanders is at the scene of the Republican National Convention — but while the party is on inside Quicken Loans Arena, much of Cleveland is still grieving. The 2014 death of Tamir Rice still rests in the minds of many city residents, but it is not the only one. And death is a topic; at the RNC, the rhetoric is targeting those who fear the death of middle class chances and white-working class jobs. There’s a reality to thaat too, in a city where the normal family incomes are half the national average....