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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg – Fund Drive Special

On today’s show, a special focus on Allen Ginsberg, featuring audio from the documentary film The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, which documents the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, a visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher. Allen … Continued


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The Black Panther Party Graphic Novel w/ David Walker – Fund Drive Special

On today’s show, we’re joined by David Walker, award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator to discuss his latest graphic novel The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Art by Marcus Kwame Anderson). FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $100 and receive a copy of The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker. Pledge $150 and receive … Continued


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Tracing the Trajectory of Black Movement Since #BLM – Winter Fund Drive Special

When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag-turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. We’re joined today by the author of a book about the past 10 years of … Continued


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A New Novel as an Artifact of Palestinian Resistance; Plus, Pro-Palestine Artists Alter Own Works at YBCA

We start today’s show in conversation with two artists who are featured in an exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), who decided together as a February 15th protest to alter their own exhibited works by adding pro-Palestine messages to their own pieces. Since the protest, the YBCA gallery has remained closed. … Continued


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Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches – Fund Drive Special

On today’s show, we’re joined by the author of a new uplifting collection of speeches by African American women called Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century. Our guest and the book’s curator is civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author Janet Dewart Bell. Gathering an array of recognized … Continued


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Ancestral Healing from Syria to the Sinai – Fund Drive Special

We’re joined today by the author of a brand new book that ties cultural survival to earth-based knowledge. In The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the … Continued