12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays
Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Alondra Nelson, author of “Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination,” talks to Sasha Lilley about the little known history of the Black Panther’s medical activism, from setting up free clinics to genetic screening for sickle cell anemia.
Selma James argues that unwaged work is indispensable to capitalist production; she also discusses the relationship of gender to class.
Acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich, who died last week, discusses her childhood, poetry, race, and sexuality in this interview from 1983.
The social historian Peter Linebaugh talks about the machine-breaking Luddites, the fencing off of the commons, and the radical message of Magna Carta.
Sarah Schulman, author of “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination,” talks to Sasha Lilley about the political consequences of AIDS, including facilitating massive gentrification.
Angela Davis and Grace Lee Boggs share their thoughts about revolution — what it requires, what it ought to encompass. And Daniel Rasmussen discusses his book “American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt.”
Loic Wacquant reveals what’s behind the unprecedented boom in incarceration; he also confronts the notion of a prison-industrial complex.
Two movement elders, Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis, recently shared the stage in Berkeley. And in Alex Gilvarry’s debut novel, a Filipino immigrant to the US ends up in Guantanamo.
Gary Rivlin is the author of “Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business.”
