2:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: Fridays
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.
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace inclusion expert, and Ijeoma Oluo, a thought leader on race in America, discuss the subtle and overt ways white supremacy and anti-Blackness impact our experiences at work. GUESTS: Ruchika Tulshyan – Inclusion … Continued
This week’s show is preempted by special fund drive programming.
Today’s episode is preempted by special KPFA Winter Fund Drive programming.
On this special fund drive show, Brian Edwards-Tiekert talks with David Walker about Frederick Douglass and about the history of the Black Panther party.
Today, we continue celebrating Black history and heritage with a special encore episode honoring an often forgotten civil rights figure, Bayard Rustin. The organizer of the 1963 march on Washington, Rustin was a trusted advisor to labor leader A. Phillip Randolph and to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As a gay man, a pacifist, and a … Continued
When Oklahoma passed a law limiting discussion of race in classrooms, Tulsa activist Kristi Williams rallied the community to create Black History Saturdays. Now, she says entire families are learning who they are by knowing where they come from. GUESTS: Kristi Williams – Tulsa activist and Founder of Black History Saturdays Bracken Klar – Co-Executive … Continued
Black Wall Street, or the historically Black neighborhood Greenwood, Oklahoma is the site of a once prosperous, thriving, Black community. It is also the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a violent attack waged by white supremacists, killing hundreds of residents and leveling homes and businesses. In this, second episode of our three-part Black … Continued
In the first of our three-part series leading up to Black History Month, we discuss how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Race Massacre. We hear from KalaLea, host of the critically acclaimed podcast Blindspot: Tulsa Burning. This series tells the story of the rise of Greenwood, a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, … Continued
Oppenheimer swept the Golden Globes, but what did it leave out? We talk with Myrriah Gómez, author of the book Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos, about the impact of nuclear colonialism on New Mexico. Then we dig into how nuclear testing during the Cold War led … Continued
The problem in America is, America’s been in denial about its problems. And that’s a problem. America doesn’t have a race problem, in reality we’ve had catastrophes visited on Black people. Catastrophes visited on Indigenous brothers and sisters. Catastrophes visited on Latino brothers and sisters. Catastrophes visited on working people. Catastrophes visited on women of … Continued
