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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Clayborne Carson is The Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford University. In 1985, Carson had been specifically chosen by Coretta Scott King to pull together Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers and archives into a comprehensive and official collection (which ran seven volumes).
Funeral held for George Floyd
Guests: Sylvia Allegretto is a labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley. Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and politics in Modern Europe. He is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, and … Continued
Guest: Anna Feigenbaum, author of Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today (Rebroadcast)
Guests: Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of African American Studies at Princeton University. Professor Glaude is the author of several books including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; his most recent, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our … Continued
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to use military forces in order to quell civil disturbances. To learn about the legality and use of this Insurrection Act we talk to Constitutional lawyer and Presidential powers specialist Neil Kinkopf. Guest: Neil Kinkopf is Professor of Law at the Georgia State University … Continued
Guest: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, and host of the series Under The Blacklight: The Intersectional Failures that COVID Lays Bare. Professor Crenshaw is a leading authority on Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and Critical Race Theory. She is known … Continued
Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York. His latest books is Understanding Socialism. Richard Wolff is the founder of the non-profit: Democracy at Work. He’s also the host of the TV and Radio show Economic Update that … Continued
Today we talk about how history can also teach us about the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic and its possible consequences. Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters and senior vice president and provost at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of … Continued
Guest: Susan Berfield, award-winning investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. She is the author of the book The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism.
