Derk Richardson Thursday nights
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From singer-songwriters to avant-garde jazz; old faves, new voices, and live performances.
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On Saudi Arabia’s bombing of Houthi rebels in Yemen with Sheila Carapico, professor of political science and international studies at the University of Richmond Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud Roam co-authors of the book The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow
An on-the-ground report from Occupied Baghdad, where upwards of forty people were killed in a car bomb earlier today; unanswered questions from the current 9/11 commission investigation, we’ll speak with former high-level Bush One official Catherine Austin-Fitts and investigative reporter Kyle Hence on what we didn’t see at the hearings; an in-depth look at grassroots … Continued
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We speak with organizers about the State of Black Oakland and the subsequent event.
A. Philip Randolph famously led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, but he did much more than that. Eric Arnesen traces Randolph’s emergence as a militant socialist at a time when few Blacks were attracted to the Socialist Party and its emphasis on class. Arnesen also discusses Randolph’s relationship with Eugene Debs and W. E. B. … Continued
Music of the World with Joanna Manqueros
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Interview with Tabla master, Zakir Hussain and live in-studio performance with Gautam Tejas Ganesham
Ellen Pao’s discrimination suit against a high-profile Silicon Valley venture capital firm enters final arguments — we talk to Ars Tecnica’s Megan Geuss Plus: Why are so few women working in tech? We talk to Sue Rosser author of “Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science”
Host Walter Turner interviews Dr. David Anthony professor of history at UC Santa Cruz about developments in Africa since World War II, ranging over issues of Nationalism and Pan-Africanism in a two part series. Part II airs on April 6th.