Staying in the Fight with Ijeoma Oluo, from In the Meanwhile
In this special guest episode from the podcast In the Meanwhile, co-hosts Marcus Harrison Green and Nora Kenworthy sit down with author and activist Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race; Mediocre: the Dangerous Legacy of White Male America; Be a Revolution) for a searching conversation about movement work, harm, belonging, and the radical choice to stay. Together, they explore the personal cost of speaking truth, the wounds...
Mabuhay: Welcome to Little Manila in Queens (Encore)
This episode was originally published on May 24, 2023 as “Queens Memory Podcast: Seeing Signs” Mapapakinggan din itong episode sa Tagalog (This episode is also available in Tagalog): The Queens Memory Podcast is a project archiving stories from the most diverse community in the US — Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino neighborhood dating back to the 1970s, but it still struggles to find its political footing. ...
Grace Lee Boggs: Sister Revolutionary (Updated Encore)
On today’s program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs (June 27, 1915 – October 5, 2015). Through the lens of the documentary film American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs we present a close and personal view of Boggs’ activism. The film plunges us into Boggs’ lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from...
I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in...
Remembering Fred Hampton (Encore)
This episode originally aired in 2019. Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party. On December 4th, 1969, exactly 50 years ago, Black Panthers Fred Hampton, age 21, and Mark Clark, age 22, were shot to death by Chicago police. In an infamous moment in Chicago’s history and politics,...
Bayard Rustin: The Gay, Black Civil Rights Activist (Encore)
This episode has also been published as “Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin” and “Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers” On today’s show, we take a look at the life and legacy of a central organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an openly gay civil rights leader and a trusted advisor to labor leader A. Phillip Randolph and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This show first aired in June...
