Hip Hop academic KRS-One explores American Education
Danny Weil on The Corporate Privatization Raiders Destroying Public Education.
Professor and author Christopher Emdin Ph.D speak with a crowd about education and his new book Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success. Building on the ideas introduced in his New York Times best-selling book, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Christopher Emdin introduces an alternative educational model that will help students (and teachers) celebrate ratchet identity in … Continued
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