Greater St. Mark Family Church, St. Louis
Pastor of Greater St. Mark Family Church in St. Louis
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Tommie Pierson
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FROM Tommie Pierson
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The View From Ferguson Demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., continue five days after police there shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. We speak to someone on the ground who’s been involved in the protests, and has met this week with the Brown family and civil rights leader Al Sharpton.
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Scheer Intelligence
The Opioid Crisis: Made in the USA Writer Chris McGreal and host Robert Scheer zero in on the book American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts in this week’s episode of Scheer Intelligence. McGreal, the book’s author and a correspondent for The Guardian and other news sources, discuss how the opioid addiction crisis is largely an American epidemic.