Award winning international journalist, activist and freedom fighter Mumia Abu-Jamal, has been imprisoned for nearly 40 years. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness. Mumia has maintained his innocence since 1981. Supporters say Mumia’s innocence can be … Continued
Guest: Peter Afrasiabi, author of the book Burning Bridges: America’s 20-Year Crusade To Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges.
Larry McMurtry (1926-2021) died on March 25, 2021. In this interview recorded in 1994, he and his frequent collaborator Diana Ossana talk about their book, “Pretty Boy Floyd,” and books, which include “Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment” and “The Last Picture Show. They are interviewed by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
Carol Channing (1921-2019), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded during the tour of her memoir, “Just Lucky I Guess,” recorded on October 18, 2002. The great Broadway star Carol Channing died on January15, 2019 at the age of 97. An iconic performer, she was best known for “Hello Dolly” and for her appearances on television and stage.
Guest: Pamela Haag is an award-winning nonfiction writer, essayist, cultural commentator, and historian. She has written several books including The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture.
Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and … Continued
Guest: Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and the Mastin Gentry White Professorship in Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. Her latest book is Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American … Continued
Jennifer muses on the announcement that Mills College will be closing its doors in 2023 after 169 years. Jennifer was a student there from 1951 to 1955.
Guest: Louis S. Warren is the W Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at U.C. Davis. He is the author of the book author of Buffalo Bill’s America, American Environmental History, and most recently, God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America.
Guest: Deborah G. Plant is an African American literature and Africana Studies scholar and literary critic whose special interest is the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. She is the author of Barracoon: The Story of the “Last Black Cargo.”
