We speak with Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland’s Poet Laureate, cultural architect, and an advocate for the arts as a tool for social transformation. Known as the “wordslanger,” Dr. Nzinga has spent decades building spaces where Black creativity thrives and where the stories, struggles, and triumphs of the community are given voice. In this conversation, Dr. … Continued
Guest: Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World and most recently, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global.
Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-right militants since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and the far right’s attempts to obstruct transfer of power to a duly elected president on January 6, the FBI continues to deprioritize investigations into white supremacist violence, instead targeting marginalized groups such as environmentalists and Black … Continued
During the past seven decades, Palestine has been sealed from the Arab world and shattered into fragmented and coded areas: 1948 area, 1967 area, Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, and A, B and C areas within the West Bank. Each area is ruled by different laws, including different roads and permits that control the mobility of … Continued
Guest: William Dalrymple is a historian, curator, broadcaster and critic. He is the author of The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.
Discussed in this episode: In a lengthy social media post, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised unspecified measures to “fix” the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program – a no-fault system for resolving vaccine injury claims that was set up to keep vaccine manufacturers from ceasing production of low-profit vaccines for fear of litigation costs. To … Continued
Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Candace Johnson, a multi-hyphenated artist and creator of the solo show Scat-ter Brain, The Music of ADHD, playing July 19 – September 13 at San Francisco’s Marsh Theater as part of their POC Mental Health Awareness series. You can get tickets to see Candace’s show Scat-ter Brain … Continued
Isaac Asimov, who died in 1992 at the age of 72, was one of science fiction’s greatest writers. The author of the Foundation Trilogy, “I Robot,” “The Gods Themselves,” and several other novels, along with over a hundred other books, he is widely recognized as a writer for the ages. This interview with host Richard Wolinsky was conducted on August 10, 1983 for KPFA’s Probabilities radio series. Photo/Illustration: Creative Commons. Originally posted August 22, 2021.
In this powerful and timely conversation, Dr. Akinyele Umoja joins us to discuss The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity. Umoja, a scholar of African American history and co-editor of the memoirs, explores the legacy of Robert and Mabel Williams—radical Black freedom fighters who advocated for armed … Continued
Community activist Tony Coleman joins Davey D to discuss the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer convicted in the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant III. Coleman shares the community’s deep frustration and pain surrounding the trial and the broader issues of police violence and accountability. In a second audio clip, Coleman expresses … Continued
