Wealth matters and the gap between the haves and have-nots is getting wider. How does it affect us and what can we do about it? On tonight's panel we get past the numbers. An interview with NYT reporter Steven Greenhouse on the plight of the American worker. And a remarkable performance and conversation with Morley, the Nina Simone of our age. All that and more on GRITtv.

Want to be heard at the convention? GRITtv will be there and we want to hear from you. We'll be asking the tough questions and ruffling a few feathers. Don't miss it.

Should we honor the July 4th Holiday? And if so how? And what's the matter with NPR?

Before the big party convention in Denver, Live From Main Street will be in town to look at the kind of grassroots organizing that is reshaping the state of Colorado. Join us on August 24, with David Sirota, for a town hall forum on the populist uprising that may just be scaring Wall Street and Washington.

Tonight on GRITtv we look at the great subprime swindle with Sarah Ludwig, Co-Director of the Neighborhood Economic Development & Advocacy Project (NEDAP), Kai Wright author of a recent article in the Nation magazine, Lionel Ouellete the Executive Director of C.H.A.N.G.E.R., and John Flateau Chair of the Economic and Empowerment Committee of the NAACP in Brooklyn. And an interview with Kimberly Peirce, Chris Hume's Red State Road Trip, and Live From Main Street.

GRITtv is marking the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a special week of programming beginning August 18. What are your stories? If you have something to say, show ideas, thoughts, share them with us. GRITtv wants your input and we want you to be a part of the conversation.

What would a feminist campaign really look like? Playwright, actor Wally Shawn on upper class angst, The Food Stamp Challenge, and The United States of Poetry with Leonard Cohen and Amiri Baraka.

GRITtv wants your feedback. In August, some of our panels will be streaming live and we'll be taking questions from viewers. That's you. And we want to start the conversation now! If you have something to say, show ideas, thoughts, share them with us.

Barack Obama's speech on father's day of this year created a stir. He said, "We know the statistics - that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.

Dr. Jerry Ehrlich first traveled to Sudan in 1991 as a volunteer with the aid organization Doctors Without Borders. Since then he has traveled to Darfur, Haiti, and Sri Lanka. Having viewed drawings by children during the Holocuast in the Terezin ghetto in what is now the Czech Republic, Ehrlich decided to provide his young patients with crayons and paper so they could document their own experience. He began to read the lives of children displaced by war through the pictures that they drew. When director Bruce David Janu saw some of the drawings on line he decided to meet Dr. Ehrlich. “I was just taken by him,” Janu says. “He is a film unto himself.”