The world-renowned economist explains how tech companies and the pandemic have made the rich richer and poor poorer.
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About the show
With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Marc Lamont Hill cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.
Meet the presenter
Dr Marc Lamont Hill is an award-winning journalist and author and is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Hill is known for his work addressing the intersections of race, justice, politics and culture. His latest best-selling book is ‘We Still Here: Pandemics, Policing, Protest and Possibility’ which follows on the success of ‘Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable from Flint to Ferguson’. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the US National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
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