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Rising Up With Sonali

Rising Up with Sonali is an all-women run radio and a television show that brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience. Rising Up With Sonali was built on the foundation of Sonali Kolhatkar's earlier show, Uprising, which became the longest-running drive-time radio show on KPFK in Los Angeles hosted by a woman. RUS airs on Free Speech TV every weekday.  Be sure to check the showtimes below!

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Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-09-26

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

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Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-09-21

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-09-13

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-09-05

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-08-29

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-08-22

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-08-17

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-08-10

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-08-03

Journalist, activist, artist and former astrophysicist Sonali Kolhatkar brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience from her studio in Los Angeles.

Rising Up With Sonali - 2023-07-18

This week well examine the impetus behind why 160,000 actors are on strike, joining their writing colleagues on the picket line. Los Angeles-based independent journalist Piper French whos been covering Hollywoods labor woes will be my guest. Then well continue our on-going series Realizing Reparations, of interviews conducted during the recent Alight, Align, Arise conference in Atlanta, Georgia organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. Todays topic will focus on narrative change and guests will include Venneikia Williams of Media 2070, Trevor Smith of Liberation Ventures and Jessica Aiwuyor of the National Black Cultural Information Trust.

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