Against the Grain – April 10, 2012
Amiri Baraka and Bill Fletcher, Jr., offer conflicting perspectives on Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X. Also, Patrick Dooley discusses a Tom Stoppard play about radical thinkers in 19th-century Russia.
Against the Grain
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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 produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – April 9, 2012
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.
Against the Grain – April 4, 2012
Selma James argues that unwaged work is indispensable to capitalist production; she also discusses the relationship of gender to class.
Against the Grain – April 3, 2012
Acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich, who died last week, discusses her childhood, poetry, race, and sexuality in this interview from 1983.
Against the Grain – April 2, 2012
The social historian Peter Linebaugh talks about the machine-breaking Luddites, the fencing off of the commons, and the radical message of Magna Carta.
Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley – March 27, 2012
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.
Against the Grain – March 26, 2012
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.”
Against the Grain – March 21, 2012
Loic Wacquant reveals what’s behind the unprecedented boom in incarceration; he also confronts the notion of a prison-industrial complex.
Against the Grain – March 20, 2012
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.