Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest living national park service ranger–she just turned 100. Her memoir is Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life. (This conversation is from when it came out, in 2018)
Fredrika Newton, former member of the Black Panther Party, and the widow of its co-founder, Huey P. Newton.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, radical historian, author of many books. The latest is Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
David Silverman is a professor of history at George Washington University. His most recent book is This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.
Damon B. Akins, professor of history at Guilford College, co-author of We Are the Land: A History of Native California
Mark Bittman, long-time food journalist who spent over 30 years at the New York Times. Now the author of the new book Animal Vegetable Junk: A History of Food From Sustainable to Uuicidal.
Annalee Newitz, longtime science journalist and editor, does a podcast on the politics of speculative fiction called Our Opinions are Correct. Annalee’s last couple books were science fiction, but the latest is a return to nonfiction and a dive into what archaelogy can tell us about our future: it’s called Four Lost Cities: A Secret … Continued
Brian Fagan, distinguished emeritus professor of anthropology at UC Santa Barbara; his new book is Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from our ancestors
David Wengrow is professor of comparative archaeology at University College London. His latest book, co-authored with the late David Graeber is The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
Social Media is a huge part of everyday life, impacting Americans in both positive and negative manners. Davey speaks with Dr. Desmond Upton Patton of SAFE Lab about the role social media plays in the facilitation of youth behavior and gang violence. Guests: Dr. Professor Desmond Upton Patton’s research uses qualitative and computational data collection methods to … Continued