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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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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
Roadside Theater is a professional ensemble of storytellers and theater makers hailing from the mountains of central Appalachia. In its decades since its founding in 1975, the ensemble has taken on the task of people’s theater, engaging social issues and abandoning the ‘fourth wall’ concept in order to bring audiences into the process of cultural … Continued
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 Jesse Strauss. Untold numbers of prisoners and arrestees die while in custody, but save for the occasional news report there is no public record keeping of … Continued
Stand-up comedian, director and producer W. Kamau Bell joins Reginald Edmund, co-founder and managing curating producer of Black Lives, Black Words International chat with Cat Brooks about her screenwriting debut film “Bottled Spirits.” The film, starring Margo Hall, directed by Elizabeth Carter and produced by Black Lives, Black Worlds International debuts this Sunday, February 18 … Continued
Elections in the Alameda County Board of Supervisor race for District 4 are taking place on March 5th. The Board of Supervisors is made up of five elected non-partisan leaders who work as a regional governing body. The board’s work includes appointing county officials, adopting an annual budget and awarding all public works contracts, among … Continued
