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Our opening song is “Brother Malcolm” by Archie Shepp, from his 1999 release Conversations. Archie Shepp, surely one of the great political philosophers of so-called Jazz, accompanies us throughout. While preparing for this conversation another Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back by police, this time in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but it could have been, likely has been, in …

Our 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 people being killed fall out of the news cycle, Black people are killed …