Guest: Lillian Faderman is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Surpassing the Love of Men, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle. Her memoir Naked in the Promise Land has been re-published. Among her many honors are Yale University’s James Brudner Award for exemplary scholarship in … Continued
Guest: Marc Stein, professor of history at San Francisco State University and editor of the book The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History.
Guest: Peniel E. Joseph, historian of the Black Power Movement and author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. He is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history and the founding director of the … Continued
Jack Hirschman has been SF Poet Laureate (2006 – 2008), founder of the ‘Revolutionary Poets Brigade’ and close friend of Lawrence over the last few decades. Jack honors his dear friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti with this poem.
Guest: Elizabeth Hinton is associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and a professor of law at Yale Law School. The author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, and her latest, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jane Smiley discusses her latest work, “Perestroika in Paris” along with aspects of her career as a writer and teacher, with host Richard Wolinsky.
Encore podcast from April, 2018. Michael Mayer, director of the musical “Head Over Heels,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Later in 2018, “Head Over Heels” made it to Broadway, opening in July and closing in early January 2019 after 164 performances.
Guest: Nobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of the … Continued
We Rise has been partnering with Mycelium Youth Network for over a year, and together, we are so excited to share this two-part podcast series with you. Here is the second of two keynote speeches from MYN’s Autumn 2020 conference entitled Apocalyptic Resilience: An Afro-Indigenous Futuristic Adventure. This episode features the brilliant organizer, researcher, & … Continued
Guest: Patrick B. Sharp, professor and chair of Liberal Studies at California State University of Los Angeles. Also features clips from Pacifica Radio’s radio production of Hiroshima
