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Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Teresa Wierzbianska.
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On today’s show, we hear excerpts from The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States, produced by Sut Jhally and narrated by Roger Waters. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive a copy of the DVD of The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United … Continued
George McCalman is an artist and creative director based in San Francisco, who recently published The Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen. He joins us today to discuss the process he went through to narrow his list of historical figures from 500 to 145, his artistic process, and what it meant for him … Continued
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
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
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
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
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
For over fifty years, the Shakurs have inspired generations of activists, scholars, and music fans. Many people are familiar with the late rapper Tupac Shakur, or some with Assata Shakur, the revolutionary member of the Black Liberation Army who has been living for three decades in Cuban exile; but the branches of the Shakur family … Continued
