Abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman will potentially soon replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Born into enslavement in Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in Pennsylvania in 1849 to become the most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, an elaborate secret network of safe houses. For more on the life of Harriet Tubman we … Continued
Ida B. Wells, an African-American investigative journalist, abolitionist and suffragist led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States. We speak with Dr. Gregory Carr (@AfricanaCarr), Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University.
We explore the African presence in history from Ancient Egypt to Jamestown, before ensalvement, with Dr. Gregory Carr (@AfricanaCarr), Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, in conversation with Jeannine Etter.
Guest: Hilary Holladay is a biographer, novelist, poet, and scholar of modern and contemporary American literature. She is a former director of the Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. Holladay is the author of several books, her most recent is The Power of Adrienne … Continued
Alan Watts invited Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg to the artist Varda’s houseboat in Sausalito, California to discuss LSD, art and life in this 1967 recording. Produced by Duncan Ray.
Timothy Leary discusses his experiences with LSD-25 and the subsequent controversy over his research with the drug at Harvard University in this 1963 recording. PHOTO: Leary arrest in 1972, by the DEA, originally uploaded on fi:WP, from http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/history/deahistory_01.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=506521
The life and legacy of Dr. Carter G. Wooden, and the origins of Black History Month with Dr. Gregory Carr (@AfricanaCarr), Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, in conversation with Jeannine Etter.
Guest: Gerald Nicosia, journalist, and author of several books including Memory Babe and his latest Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century.
Bob Fried of WBAI in New York City leads a 1996 panel discussion with Allen Ginsberg and various experts on how psychedelics, halluncinogens and other related drugs are treated in contemporary society, including the use and abuse of such drugs. Panelists are Dr. Donald B. Luria from the New York County Medical Society Subcommittee on … Continued
Guest: Ethan Michaeli is an award-winning Chicago based author, publisher, and journalist. He was a copy editor at the Chicago Defender for five years and has written a book detailing its history, achievements, and struggle, entitled The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America, as well as Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Jerusalem.
