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Covering the movements, the issues, and the people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang.
Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child development today. She became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition and contributed immensely to programs like Head Start — even though her name is often left out … Continued
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Winter Fund Drive. Paul Reitter and Paul North discuss their translation of Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. To support KPFA’s mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732.
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Winter Fund Drive. For four days in September of 1971, prisoners revolted, taking over the institution that incarcerated them in upstate New York. By the time the dust settled in Attica, 33 prisoners and 10 guards or staff had … Continued
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Winter Fund Drive: David Walker, award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator, joins Brian Edwards-Tiekert to discuss Walker’s book The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom. To support our mission, … Continued
The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones, who later deployed to exercises in the Bay Area to try to clean up radioactive substances, directed by the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. In episode 2 of “Exposed,” … Continued
This episode comes to us from the podcast at SF Public Press. “Exposed” opens a window into the little-known history of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in San Francisco’s southeast waterfront Bayview neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real estate development project. The base played a key … Continued
Today we head back to Indianapolis with the podcast Urban Roots. In the 1950s and 1960s, Ms. Jean Spears was a young mother and burgeoning preservationist. She saved antiques from houses about to be demolished; she bought a home in a white slum and renovated it; later on, she did the same with a historic … Continued
Madam C.J. Walker was a brilliant entrepreneur who built a haircare empire and became the first African-American woman millionaire. You might have heard about her, but not many people know that her headquarters used to be located in Indianapolis, along a once vibrant Black corridor called Indiana Avenue, a place that today is known for … Continued
On today’s show, we look at how art can highlight the struggles of incarcerated women, build solidarity with them across prison walls, and fight against the erasure and censorship inherent to incarceration. First, we’ll hear about a dance performance called “If I Give You My Sorrows” that’s built around the complex ways incarcerated women relate … Continued
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border connected to Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza? And what happens when borders cross living land and communities? We’ll dig into these questions in this week’s episode with the help of Heba Gowayed, sociology professor at CUNY … Continued
