Guest: Caleb McDaniel, author of Henrietta Wood: A Legacy of Slavery and Reparations in America.
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Jeffrey C. Stewart, Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke.
Guest: Kidada E. Williams is Professor of History at Wayne State University. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction. She is the host of the podcast Seizing Freedom.
Guest: Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials,Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History, and his latest,Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.
Northern Syria, Rojava & The Earthquake
Guest: Nicole Clara, works with The Rojava Information Center in Qamishlo, Syria. She is raising funds for Kobane at: https://fundly.com/direct-earthquake-relief-for-families-with-damaged-homes?fbclid=IwAR00bG78piErZDc4g7ib0rQeuEoMX_PLnW2BQMDk7pH1seRxm9c1CldTPZs
During his second State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Joe Biden talked at length about economic issues and accused Republicans of trying to end Social Security and Medicare. We’re joined by Dave Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect to debrief these economic issues. In the second part of the show we’re joined … Continued
Guests: Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham are co-authors of The Riders Come Out At Night. Ali Winston is an independent reporter covering criminal justice, privacy, and surveillance. His work has been rewarded with several awards, including the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. Darwin BondGraham is News Editor at The Oaklandside. He was … Continued
Guest: Caroline Moorehead is a historian and biographer. She is the author of several books including her latest Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
Part I. Finding The Disappeared Children of the War in El Salvador Guest: Elizabeth Barnert is a pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research, grounded in human rights and social action, examines children affected by violence, family separation, and incarceration. She is the author of the book … Continued
From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery
Guest: Siddharth Kara is Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.