“Boom Bust Boom”is at its best when illustrating some of history’s worst economic meltdowns. It has informative and fun depictions of the 1637 tulip mania in the Netherlands, the crash of the South Sea Company in early 18th-century Britain, and the 19th-century speculation in (and fantastic crash of) British railroad stock. It also describes how the heights of … Continued


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Agents of Change

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We speak with film maker Abby Ginzberg and former students from SF State and Cornel about the student strikes for ethnic studies …


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#FRISCO5, Black Queer Womyn, Obama vs BLM, Housing and Bin Laden

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Coming up, on HARD KNOCK,  President Obama versus The Black Lives Matter Movement, Youth Radio brings us a report on Young Adults seeking refuge in a challenging housing market, and the Black Agenda Report with a look at why President Obama silenced Bin Laden and we’ll discuss Black Queer Women Voices, in connection with “The … Continued


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#Frisco5 and The Same Difference

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We look at the ongoing hunger strike in San Francisco Ca to protest police terrorism and later we speak with Kin Folkz about “The Same Difference,” the documentary that examines tensions in the lesbian community over race and gender expression.