Mystery writer Shelley Singer (1939-2022), who also served as a book reviewer at KPFA, interviewed by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff in 1986 in an interview not aired since that time, followed by a 2000 interview with Philip Pullman, author of the “His Dark Materials” and “Book of Dust” trilogies. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Holiday-season encore presentation: historian David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class, on the uses of that term in US politics, and economist Ellora Derenoncourt, co-author of this paper, on the US racial wealth gap, 1860–2020
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Guest: Margaret Burnham set out in 2007 to travel the country to investigate approximately a thousand unsolved racially motivated murders between 1930 and 1954. She has written a book about it called By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. She and her assistants have also created an on-line archive dedicated to identifying, classifying, and … Continued
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
On today’s show, we’ll be in conversation with Oakland’s young rising star author Leila Mottley, who at just 20 years old published a bestselling novel called Nightcrawling, whose story is grounded in a trafficking and rape scandal by the Oakland Police department. Just a few years ago our guest was Oakland’s youth poet laureate, and … Continued
0:08 – Dan Flores, A.B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana discusses his latest book Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America.
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A mix of jazz, folk, blues and more with Joel Sachs.
