September 8, 2020

Actor John Leguizamo recently became a first-time director with “Critical Thinking,” the true story of a group of underprivileged Latinx and Black teens who qualified for the National Chess Championship in 1998. He joins Ana Cabrera to discuss the importance of education, representation in Hollywood, and the Latinx vote.

Erin Brockovich showed the power of individual activism when she took on California’s massive Pacific Gas & Electric Company over water contamination. Yet now, 25 years later, access to clean water is still not a guarantee in the United States. Brockovich is now calling on Americans to stand up and join her ongoing fight, as she details in her new book.

When Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's husband's presidential campaign in Belarus was ended by his arrest and incarceration, she launched her own campaign and quickly gained enormous popularity. After the election she was briefly detained by authorities before finding refuge in neighboring Lithuania. She explains to Christiane why she is determined to fight against authoritarianism no matter what.