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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 32.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, speak with Bo Petersen, a professional South African actress, currently living in the United States. She wrote, produced, and stars in Pieces of Me, an autobiographical play. She exposes the devastating, emotional cost of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show offers a remix of a July 2016 interview with Alex Lichtenstein on the documentary photographs of Margaret Bourke-White, “Focus on Apartheid.” The conversation was recorded live in our WFHB studios. All of our music for this remix comes from five albums by Johnny Dyani, South …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 46.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDockworkers have power: workers in the world’s ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Our guest Peter Cole brings such experiences to light in a comparative study of Durban, South Africa, and the San Francisco …

This is the final Tuesday in February and so also our last show dedicated to highlighting our past programs detailing key figures and moments in Black History in the United States. So far this month we’ve heard Gerald Horne proclaim that the American Revolution was guided by a backlash to England’s abolitionism; that the US needed to be free to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:37 — 60.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis is a special 90-minute show, live from The Atlas Bar, featuring the music and protest politics of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, and human rights activist. Fela Kuti died of complications from AIDS in 1997 at the age …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:24 — 45.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDirect action and reform politics meet in Apartheid South Africa in playwright Athol Fugard’s 1989 play My Children! My Africa! Within the ruling class, apartheid violence of white South Africa sits a play with a seeming taste for moderation and order in debate, and the recognition of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:33 — 1.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreNext time on Interchange: “The Stones of Reason” Direct action and reform politics meet in Apartheid South Africa in playwright Athol Fugard’s 1989 My Children! My Africa! Within the ruling class apartheid violence of white South Africa sits a play with a taste for moderation and order …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:51 — 55.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show is Cuba in Africa, or what my guest today has called “Castro’s Worldview: Foreign Policy in a Hostile World.” Our music throughout also reflects the influence of Cuba in Africa and the struggle for independence by African nations. Our opening song, “Valodia” by Santocas, released …