Black History Month Special
Afrikahn Jahmal Davys presents “Da Cotton Pickas”, a documentary about share cropping and its relevance today. He also interviews the producer/director Robert “Fleetwood” Bowden, and takes us on a poetic musical journey.
Featured Episode
Education Today – February 8, 2023
Some educators are worried about students learning to write, when artificial intelligence chatbots can write sophisticated essays for them. Our guest discusses the positives and negatives of this development, and shares a bit about his experiences as an international teacher in four different countries.
Thanks to the Dead Heads!
The annual KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon was a success! Hosts David Gans and Tim Lynch offered 16 hours of unreleased live Grateful Dead recordings and related material, interviews with relevant characters, and in-studio performances. Thanks to you, we brought in more than $35,000 for KPFA, while keeping the fun in fund drive for the 37th-ish … Continued
Our World As We See It – February 8, 2023
A weekly talk show produced by Oakland School for the Arts high school broadcast students, Our World As We See It will focus on local and world issues giving a fresh youthful perspective on how to create change.
East Bay Yesterday – February 8, 2023
This series explores stories of culture, politics and nature from Oakland, Berkeley and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
It’s been described at the most turbulent period of global class struggle in history — the turn of the 20th century when revolutionaries around the world found common cause against capital and empire. Christina Heatherton discusses the revolutionary internationalism swirling around the Mexican Revolution and the remarkable intersection of radicals at that time. (Encore presentation.) … Continued
During his second State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Joe Biden talked at length about economic issues and accused Republicans of trying to end Social Security and Medicare. We’re joined by Dave Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect to debrief these economic issues. In the second part of the show we’re joined … Continued
Democracy Now – February 8, 2023
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Centrality of slavery in the making of American society w/ ‘genius’ Saidiya Hartman
We spend this show on the legacy of the peculiar institution of chattel slavery that have led to the social and economic structures we live in and under. We’re in conversation with Saidiya Hartman, an American writer and academic focusing on African-American studies, who just re-released her seminal 1997 book for its 25th anniversary, Scenes … Continued