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0:08 — Fund Drive Premium: An African American and Latinx History of the United States Paul Ortiz is a professor of history at the University of Florida and the Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. He’s the author of several books, including his most recent work, An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Yours … Continued
0:08 – Fund Drive Premium: This Immeasurable Place Blake Spalding (@blakerspalding) is a chef and co-owner of Hell’s Backbone Grill in Bolder, a Buddhist principled, farm-to-table restaurant in the heart of Mormon country in Utah. She and her partner, a co-owner Jennifer Castle are part of a lawsuit against the Trump Administration as part of their fight to … Continued
0:08 – Breaking News: Oakland teachers vote to approve an agreement to end an 8 day strike Kitty Kelly Epstein is an educator, scholar, and author of A Different View of Urban Schools: Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, and Unexplored Realities. She also host of KPFA’s “Education Today” airing each 2nd and 4th Friday at … Continued
0:08 – Fund Drive Premium: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy Degruy Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (PTSS) is a 2005 book resulting from years of research by Dr Joy DeGruy and describes a set of behaviors and beliefs related to multi-generational trauma experienced by African Americans that include undiagnosed and … Continued
Our 2019 Winter Fund Drive is here! Thank you for donating and supporting our work. We are dedicated to bringing you hard-hitting interviews, debates, breaking news, and in-depth discussions with authors across local, national and international issues. We love what we do, and we can’t do it without your support. 0:08 – Fund Drive Premium: The … Continued
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
0:08 – Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) is an author and national security journalist at EmptyWheel.net, and is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and Democracy Now! She was also called to testify as a witness in the Muller investigation after outing one of her sources to the FBI in 2017. She joins us to … Continued
0:08 – Dahr Jamail (@DahrJamail) is an environmental journalist whose work Howard Zinn has called “superb… In the most honorable tradition of the craft.” An ice and mountain climber, Jamail lived in Alaska before moving to Iraq to work as a war correspondent. But even in Baghdad, Jamail was constantly thinking about the warming weather in Alaska, … Continued
0:08 – Malcolm X: The Ballot or The Bullet In 1960, Pacifica Radio began recording and broadcasting the voice of Malcolm X, and is now the caretaker of an extensive and rare collection of recordings relating to Malcolm X and the Black Liberation Movement. For Black History month and one day after his assassination on February … Continued
Today, we break into our regular Winter Fund Drive program to bring you a full two hours on the Oakland teachers strike. 0:08 – Live report: KPFA’s Nick Alexandra with a live report from the picket line at Manzanita Community School in East Oakland. Then, we hear from: Keith Brown is President of the Oakland teachers’ union, … Continued
