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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:24 — 80.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we’ll hear four clips from four shows that weave together ideas of slavery, imperialism, and ideological and environmental pollution. Each clip is about ten minutes long. Those shows are: Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire with guest Zach Sell Spreading Global Freedom, or the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur topic today is a modernizing, industrializing, Japan, and the life and thought of Tanaka Shozo, the the late 19th and early 20th century Japanese peasant, politician, land speculator, liberal parliamentarian, transgressor against the Emperor, and environmental rights activist. But, we are, in the end, talking about …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is a repeat from June 2, 2020. In the introduction we state that Louisiana had the highest rate of mortality from COVID-19 in the United States. That is no longer the case. Louisiana is now 7th on that list with the following states now having …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOriginal air date August 22, 2017. Philosopher, poet, and revolutionary, José Martí, believed that knowledge and understanding do not originate within us, but come to us through our cultural institutions and that what is expressed when you “express yourself” is a collective mind and so if your …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show today selects segments from four recent programs that highlight Colonial Mentality…and of course I’m stealing that phrase from the great Fela Kuti – whose song of the same name opens this show. Our music throughout the show comes from each of the original programs. We’ll …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIt’s January 19, 2021, the day after the nation’s official sanction of a narrow understanding of the work of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the day before the country “swears in” a new president, the representative of one of only two parties allowed to compete for the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 36.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis is the first of two conversations I had with Kimberley Brownlee about her recent book Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms. Brownlee writes that our social needs are so fundamental, basic, and universal, that they lead us necessarily into the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:59 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur 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 …

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 …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:04 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we’re joined by two of the four hosts of the Black Myths Podcast which is produced in Indianapolis: Too Black, a spoken word poet and teaching artist, and elle roberts, a writer and facilitator. As described on the show’s website, “The Black Myths Podcast is an …