# Michael Meltsner joins Tavis Smiley Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tavis-smiley-5000046/michael-meltsner-joins-tavis-smiley Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tavis-smiley-5000046/michael-meltsner-joins-tavis-smiley.md Podcast: [Tavis Smiley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tavis-smiley-5000046) Published: 2026-05-19T01:01:19+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/michael-meltsner-joins-tavis-smiley--72062348 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72062348/kblaam_pl_20130.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tavis-smiley-5000046/episodes/michael-meltsner-joins-tavis-smiley Duration seconds: 1036 ## Resource Attorney for Muhammad Ali, the first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and author of Mosaic: Who Paid for the Bullet?, Michael Meltsner shares his take on the role of the judiciary in the struggle for civil and political rights. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tavis-smiley-5000046/episodes/michael-meltsner-joins-tavis-smiley/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/tavis-smiley-5000046/michael-meltsner-joins-tavis-smiley.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.