UpFront – February 27, 2019
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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
KPFA needs your help to continue providing quality coverage of public affairs. Make your tax-deductible pledge today and claim a donation gift. 0:08 – Fund Drive Premium: Black Power Pack Melvin Dickson was a former member of the Black Panther Party, and founding member of the Black Panther Commemoration Commission. He passed away on October 25, … 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 Special … Continued
0:08 Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers Band, and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music Despite being a professor of Black music history at UC Berkeley and counting Bobby Seale and Huey Newton as dinner guests in his childhood home, Rickey Vincent (@rickeyvincent) never knew that the Black Panthers had a funk … Continued
In celebration of black history month we highlight a profile in excellence, Carter G. Woodsen, dubbed the father of Black History Month. The son of former slaves, he was one of the first blacks to receive a PhD from Harvard University. He later went on to develop a prolific career as an historian, author and journalist. … Continued
0:08 – An estimated 46 immigrant detainees are on hunger strike in Yuba County Jail, in Yuba City, CA to protest a lack of medical care, recreation time, and basic amenities. We speak with Autumn Gonzalez, a community organizer with NorCal Resist, a group supporting the hunger strikers in Yuba County Jail, and Anoop Prasad (@anoop_alc) an attorney at … Continued