Did the Freedmen’s Bureau, established in 1865, help or harm the formerly enslaved? Priya Kandaswamy traces the Bureau’s activities in relation to vagrancy legislation and the placement of Black domestic workers in white people’s homes. Labor discipline and white surveillance, she argues, took precedence over public assistance and meaningful forms of freedom for African Americans. … Continued


Talkies

Roe v. Wade

Texas has done it: eliminated a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.  And there is every indication Texas is only the beginning, of a total rollback of reproductive rights.  Jessica Mason Pieklo, of Rewire News, explains. Hosted by Kris Welch.


Guest: Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale University and the author of several books on constitutional law and history, including America’s Constitution: A Biography, America’s Unwritten Constitution, and his latest, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.


Fighting the Tide: Efforts to Restore the California Kelp Forest

As climate change continues to transform our planet, many of its effects are fairly visible to us – things that make the nightly news, like fires, floods, heat waves and hurricanes. But we sometimes forget that climate change touches every part of our planet. Scott Baba filed this report, on the vast but mostly unseen … Continued


On today’s show: 0:08 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich) joins us to tell the story of where he was on 09/11/2001 and discuss what the nation will do now that the federal unemployment benefits have expired. 0:34 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us … Continued


A Box of Toys

A Box of Toys #70 A Journey

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One thing leads to another.  In life, and on a Box Of Toys.  This show starts out with a Castanets track, and follows that tortured path into Psych, Progressive, Dub, and Alt-Folk genres from the 60’s all the way to the 21st century.  A journey through the curation process for A Box Of Toys. An … Continued