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7am – In February, UpFront is presenting a new series, The Unsung Heroes: Celebrating Black History Month. Today we continue the series speaking to Harry Nii Koney Odamtten Assistant Professor of African and Atlantic History at Santa Clara University, about Pan Africanist Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister and president of Ghana after British colonial rule. … Continued
7:33 – Supervisor Jane Kim, represents District 6, in San Francisco (Tenderloin, South of Market, Mid-Market/Civic Center, South Beach, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, and Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island neighborhoods. She is the chair of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee and also sits on the Budget & Finance Committee.
Greg Mello, the Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group speaks with UpFront about standing president Trump’s new nuclear policy proposal and the dangers it presents. Storied activist and whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers. He also drafted nuclear war plans as a RAND consultant during the Kennedy era. His new book is The … Continued
As part of UpFront’s monthlong coverage of notable black figures who have had a significant impact on black history but are less broadly known, we hear from Melvin Dickson. Melvin was a member of the Black Panther Part and has worked over the last decades to preserve the organizations legacy. Our guest is Chin Jou, lecturer … Continued
0:08 – Monday news roundup with Cat and Brian 0:34 – David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist who’s been covering Donald Trump for nearly three decades joins Cat and Brian to discuss our current administration. He recently founded the news outlet dcreport.org. He talks about his new book Even Worse Than You Think: What the … Continued
In February, UpFront will be presenting a new series, The Unsung Heroes: Celebrating Black History Month. In this episode, we begin the series speaking to Adam Hochschield, author of King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998), about Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of what is now … Continued
On today’s show, we feature an interview with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, notable activist, historian and academic, about her new book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. But first, we speak with Erica Perry and Walter Riley about Law for Black Lives, a national network of over 3,500 radical lawyers committed to building a responsive legal infrastructure for … Continued
To recap last night’s State of the Union address, UpFront is joined by Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and an organizer of the State of OUR Union, an alternative to the State of the Union organized by leading women activists in Washington, DC. We also hear from Donald Lacey, actor, activist, and comedian … Continued
On today’s show, we feature a conversation with Refa Senay, aka Refa One, an Oakland artist with AeroSoul Art who worked on Oakland’s new Black Panthers mural celebrating Huey P. Newton and the rank and file members of the BPP. But first, we hear from Conn Hallinan, military analyst and columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus, on … Continued
The Movement for Black Lives, created in 2016, is a nationwide coalition of activist groups intended to establish a united political front against the systemic and targeted violence against black bodies in the US. Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, author of a memoir called When They Call You A Terrorist is interviewed by Cat … Continued
