Journalist, political prisoner, and revolutionary, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is recovering from COVID-19 and is back in general population after completing quarantine in the prison infirmary. Mumia’s emergency-transfer to a hospital outside the prison on Sat, Feb 27, came less than 24 hours after supporters flooded the prison and Philadelphia DA’s office with emails and calls expressing … Continued
Guest: Alice L. Baumgartner is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.
Julia Flynn Siler, author of The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Against Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Margaret Maron (1938-2021) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff on the Probabilities radio program on KPFA, recorded June 6, 1994 while she was on tour for the third Deborah Knott mystery, “Shooting at Loons.” In her lifetime, Margaret Maron wrote 27 mystery novels in two series, and served as Vice President and President of the Sisters in Crime Organization. She won an Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1993 and for Best Short Story in 2002 and was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America in 2013.
Barbara Cook, legendary Broadway star of “The Music Man” and Bernstein’s “Candide,” and later an acclaimed cabaret performer, died at the age of 89 in August, 2017. This interview was conducted at her home in New York City in June, 2016 upon publication of her memoir, “Then and Now.” She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
Guest: Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello and her latest, On Juneteenth.
Guest: Stephen Kinzer, an award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as The New York Times bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as The Boston Globes Latin America correspondent. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs for The … Continued
Guest: Clay Risen is a historian and a reporter and editor at The New York Times. He is the author of several books including The Crowded Hour, a New York Times Notable Book of 2019, and his latest, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.
Guest: Stephen Kinzer, author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allan Dulles and their Secret World War.
Guest: Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times foreign correspondent, now Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and author of the book Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.
