YES! Magazine Explores 鈥淭he Truth Above All Else鈥�

Sep 6, 2024

The Fall 2024 issue of YES! Magazine has been hitting newsstands and landing in mailboxes around the country. It is the final pre-election issue before this November鈥檚 presidential race, aptly themed around 鈥淭ruth.鈥澛�

In her Editor鈥檚 Letter, YES! Executive Editor Evette Dionne asserts that the issue 鈥減uts the responsibility of both telling the truth and upholding it squarely in the realm of the collective.鈥� Dionne is an award-winning journalist, pop culture critic, and magazine editor who covers culture and politics through the lenses of race, gender, class, and size. She is also the author of two acclaimed books, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul and Lifting As We Climb, and spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the 鈥淭ruth鈥� issue of YES! Magazine.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent 麻豆社事件 Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.