Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show today is “Patterns of Segregation and Alibis for Abandonment,” Part 2 of our conversation with Walter Johnson about his book, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States published by Basic Books. The opening song is the main …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:58 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe deeply racist Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner once wrote in his 1951 novel, Requiem for a Nun, that the past isn’t dead, it’s not even past. In that same book Faulkner has the “nun,” which carries the meaning of prostitute in Shakespeare’s time, a Black drug …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:14 — 81.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur guest today is Yannick Marshall and as I find all his recent essays crystallizations of important truths about the US of A, I’ll let his words serve as an introduction to our conversation. This is from “The Racist’s Peace“: In the times when videos of Black …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:38 — 42.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhere once solidarity referred to a workers’ movement against authoritarian controls by the state and capitalist economies and the shared sense of identity that Labor gave in the struggle against class hierarchies, today’s movements against oppression require envisioning and committing to new ways to share the political …
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