Diversity is measured in large part by the presence or absence of people belonging to one ethnoracial category (Black, Hispanic, etc.) or another. But do those long-standing categories still make sense, given intragroup differences, immigration to the U.S., and race-mixing? David Hollinger thinks that if the goal of anti-discrimination policy is to match reward conferred … Continued
We talk to James Loewen, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. He worked with a commission studying Confederate monuments in Baltimore. He is the author of such books as Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong and the Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.
On the fifth anniversary of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, we’ll examine the various threats it faces as 800,000 young immigrants outed themselves to the government so they could live without fear. My guest Juan Escalante a DACA recipient will join us. Then, as Republicans prepare to re-write the US tax code … Continued
On today’s show, Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Cat Brooks discuss the extremist demonstrations that are imminent in the Bay Area, how we should strategize to combat them, and Trump’s response to the protest in Charlottesville. Then, Cat Brooks interviews Daria Roithmayr about her book Reproducing Racism, which explores the ways in which our institutions and personal relationships automatically … Continued
Meet the College Student Who Pulled Down a Confederate Statue in Durham & Defied White Supremacy; Bree Newsome: Charlottesville is Latest Chapter in Long U.S. History of White Supremacist Terror; Antifa: A Look at the Antifascist Movement Confronting White Supremacists in the Streets.
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Entrevista con la banda nicaragüense Ciclo. Boletos de regalo para el concierto de Residente en San Francisco. Y los titulares de noticias de Democracy Now! en Español.
We speak with Rev Brittany Caine-Conley of Congregate C’ville about the organizing they did on the ground in Charlottesville, Va.. and the role white people should play moving forward
Guest: James Oskins, Broken Arrows. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Stephanie Seneff, PhD, senior research scientist at MIT, discusses the new theory of heart function and disease that upends the cholesterol theory of heart disease. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
It was an unlikely book to take America by storm: a 700-page work of economic history by a French academic. But Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century” has proved to be a book for our times, explaining the extreme inequality that characterizes our world, and drawing some bold and empirically backed arguments about the inherent … Continued
