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.
Ghana’s Kwame NkrumahGhanaian freedom fighter and Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah became independent Ghana’s first president. He delivered an impassioned speech at the UN General Assembly in 1960. USF professor Tetteh Kofi describes what Nkrumah did to advance African self-determination.
Has the Right Been Stopped? Did the Democrats’ victory last November signal an end to the rightward shift in US politics? Radical historian Robert Brenner addresses this question in light of transformations in this nation’s political economy over the past several decades.
Laura Kipnis on "The Female Thing" Laura Kipnis, who authored the acclaimed polemic "Against Love," discusses her new book about feminism and the female condition. It’s entitled "The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability."
Oil Out of Africa In its relentless pursuit of dependable oil supplies, the US is militarizing oil-producing nations in West Africa, with potentially devastating consequences. Paul Lubeck and Michael Watts discuss a new Center for International Policy report entitled "Convergent Interests."
Black Realities, Black Fantasies Donn Worgs discusses the fantasy and reality of African American violent revolt. And Lisa Yaszek describes a storytelling genre called Afrofuturism and how it relates to the work of Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others.
Rock, Radio and the Counterculture Marc Fisher, author of "Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation", and free form radio pioneer Bonnie Simmons talk to host Sasha Lilley about the impact of radio on the counterculture.
