Mornings with Zerlina

Every weekday morning, activist, author, and TV & radio host Zerlina Maxwell brings you the stories making headlines and focuses on the issues impacting your everyday lives. On ‘Mornings With Zerlina.’ you’ll hear interviews with activists, politicians, entertainers, influencers and many more while engaging with you on what needs to be done to hold our representatives’ feet to the fire and make them work for us. Plus call in to share your voice! Rise and shine with the progressive news you can use to impact your day on ‘Mornings With Zerlina.” Weekdays 7-9amET SiriusXM Progress Channel 127

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one sure to garner disapproval from fellow passengers. On the American frontier, the new state offered a tempting freedom often difficult to obtain elsewhere: divorce. […Learn More]

Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs

Jamie Fiore Higgins became one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs. Spurred on by the obligation she felt to her working-class immigrant family, she rose through the ranks and saw it all: out-of-control, lavish parties flowing with never-ending drinks; affairs flouted in the office; rampant drug use; and most pervasively, a discriminatory culture that seemed designed to hold back the few women and people of color employed at the company. […Learn More]

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley

In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export: women. […Learn More]