Rep. Keith Ellison is the first Muslim-American to sit in Congress and the first African-American Congressman from Minnesota. He joined The Laura Flanders Show at the Progressive Congress Summit to discuss Bernie Sanders’ candidacy, the #BlackLivesMatter Movement and what it means to go from organizing to politics.

Laura Flanders
http://www.lauraflanders.com/
Best-selling author and broadcaster Laura Flanders hosts the The Laura Flanders Show, where she interviews forward thinking people about the key questions of our time. The LF Show airs weekly on KCET/LinkTV, FreeSpeech TV, and in English & Spanish in teleSUR. Flanders is also a contributing writer to The Nation and Yes! Magazine (“Commonomics”) and a regular guest on MSNBC. She is the author of six books, including The New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007). The Laura Flanders Show first aired on Air America Radio 2004-2008. You can find all her archives and more at Lauraflanders.com or via Twitter @GRITlaura.

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