In the News: A Lynching that Led to a Nationwide Rebellion

On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Nicole Roussell, Esther Iverem and Walter Smolarek discuss the one year anniversary of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery by racist vigilantes, the trial of Derek Chauvin -- the Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd -- beginning this week, Donald Trump delivering a major speech to the CPAC right wing political gathering, the uprising in Haiti against the US-backed president’s power grab, and the US-Iran confrontation as Iran says enough is enough.

This episode features a special interview with Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran, on recent U.S. actions towards Iran.