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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 Jesse Strauss.
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FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $200 and receive Linda Ronstadt’s book Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. Growing up the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and a descendant of Spanish settlers near northern Sonora, Ronstadt’s new memoir celebrates her rich musical heritage. Linda Ronstadt joins us in this exclusive conversation about her musical upbringing and … Continued
We kick of today’s show with our weekly State Terror Roundup segment. Then: Even those who have never lived in the US South can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region … Continued
On today’s show, we speak with Nyanyika Banda, the cook and creative mind behind The Wakanda Cookbook – a cookbook for the Marvel universe that builds out of expertise in culinary traditions from all over the African continent. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive Marvel’s Black Panther: The Official Wakanda Cookbook by Nyanyika Banda and … Continued
On today’s show, we’re joined by Lateefah Simon, who announced her election campaign for the 12th Congressional District seat that is being vacated by Barbara Lee. Lateefah Simon is a 25-year veteran organizer and nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and social justice. In 2016 – driven into politics by the tragic murder of Oscar Grant … Continued
We spend this hour with legendary former political prisoner and civil rights icon, famed for her leadership and education work with the Black Panther Party – Ericka Huggins. We’ll discuss her history with the Party, the assassination of her husband and child’s father, and how that led her to continue her political work while raising … Continued
On today’s fund drive special, we explore the world of athlete activism, from Mahmoud Abdul Rauf to Colin Kaepernick, by spending time with a new documentary from progressive sports commentator Dave Zirin, called Behind The Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $120 and receive a DVD of Behind The Shield: The Power … Continued
We speak with David F. Walker (@DavidWalker1201) is a writer, filmmaker and graphic artist. Today we speak with him about his book The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $100 or more and receive a copy of The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative … Continued
Today is the 58th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X at New York City’s Audubon Ballroom in 1965. We spend the day remembering Malcom’s contributions for our struggle against white supremacy by listening to selections from his famed speech that came to be known as “the Ballot or the Bullet”. He gave that speech … Continued
We spend this hour in conversation with Dorothy Roberts about her latest book, Torn Apart: How The Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build A Safer World. Dorothy is an internationally acclaimed scholar, activist, and social critic who has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in … Continued
We start today’s episode with our weekly State Terror Roundup. Then, we go to Denver to learn about how the FBI infiltrated Black Lives Matter organizing there. Our guest is Trevor Aaronson, journalist and the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. He is also a contributing writer for The … Continued
