Esteemed voices of our time from KPFA’s author event archive, speaking about the history and current manifestation of racial inequity in our society and steps forward toward change.
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Patrisse Cullors with Cat Brooks in Oakland | 1-25-2017 | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST takes an intimate look at Patrisse Cullors’ time growing up in Van Nuys, California, surrounded by a devoted family and supportive friends, and weaves her experiences into the … Continued
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL 2-18-2016 | Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings – presented by Angela Davis • Johanna Fernandez • Walter Turner. Writing on the Wall presents a selection of more than 100 previously unpublished essays spanning the entire period of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s incarceration that crystallize his essential perspectives on community, politics, protest, history, social … Continued
Ibram X. Kendi 5-4-2017 in Oakland | Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Stamped from the Beginning is a history of how racist ideas are built, and how they are built to last. In this deeply researched, provocative narrative, Kendi offers a comprehensive history of anti-Black racist ideas their … Continued
Ta-Nehisi Coates in Berkeley 10-28-2015 | Between the World and Me “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate … Continued
Isabel Wilkerson in Oakland 9-23- 2010 | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration “Profound, necessary and an absolutely compelling read.” – Toni Morrison “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” brilliantly chronicles the decades-long migration of African-Americans from the South to the North and … Continued
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in Berkeley 10-2-2014 | Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. Roxanne … Continued
john a. powell in Berkeley 12-5-2014 | Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society john a. powell is Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where he is the director of the Haas Institute for a Fair … Continued
Paul Ortiz 11-12-2019 in Berkeley | An African-American Latinx History of the United States “An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a gift. Paul Ortiz wields the engaging power of a social historian to bring vividly to life so many Black and Brown fighters for human rights in the Americas. Ambitious, original, … Continued
