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Interchange – John Lewis and Necessary Trouble

Civil-rights leader John Lewis died Friday, July 17th, at the age of 80. Today we’ll pay tribute to the life-work of Lewis by revisiting our September 2015 program “ “Necessary Trouble: A Graphic Example from John Lewis.” This is an edited version. Host and Producer Doug Storm interviews Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin about their work on the graphic novel …

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Interchange – Demythologizing Marches and the Promise of Direct Action

We open with “What’s Going On” by Marvin Gaye because it is the title track from his 1971 album–one that for me expresses both the popular awareness of the catastrophic actions of Western Militarism and Capitalism–but as well seems a kind of funeral dirge on the capability of protest movements to make real difference as opposed to a cosmetic one. …

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