Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:18 — 81.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe title of our opening song, performed by Deacon Tom Jones, from the compilation album Mississippi Saints and Sinners, “If I Had My Way I’d Tear this Building Down,” serves as an epigraph to Baldwin’s 1972 masterpiece, the essay collection No Name in the Street, which features …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 40.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week starts our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Louisiana DOC’s boxing program. For this episode, we discuss his thirty-five-year prison term that began in 1976 at the age of 17, and how coming …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:04 — 43.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this interview, Elizabeth Hinton sketches the relationship between the civil rights movement, urban uprisings and the beginning of the “War on Crime,” with a focus on the Harlem Riot of 1964, and the1 965 Watts Rebellion, which was triggered by police brutality and became a key …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 22.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we’re sharing selections from an historic interview with George Jackson, whose assassination on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Quentin prison guards, remains a reference point for the US prisoners’ movement. Indeed, Jailhouse Lawyers Speak called for the 2018 strike to begin on …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:07 — 42.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe’ll open with “Tensions” by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released in 1960 on the album Blues & Roots. About the album Mingus wrote that it’s “unusual” presenting only one aspect of his musical world, the blues. “Some people, particularly critics, were saying I didn’t swing …
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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 …
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