Podcasts Podcasts Season 13 Episode 6 | Abolishing the Child Welfare System with Dorothy E. Roberts When we think of foster care in the U.S., we hope to see it as a system that is in place to protect the safety of at-risk children who are… Read More Season 13 Episode 5 | Celebrating “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination” with Robin D.G. Kelley Is the South as conservative as we think? Or has it always been ground zero for radical Black thinking and organizing of civil rights and labor rights movements? In this… Read More Season 13 Episode 4 | Afro-Optimism and Black Chicago with Ayana Contreras Black Chicago has been an incubator for some of the most talented and successful artists and entrepreneurs who have really made the city what it is today Author and podcast… Read More Season 13 Episode 3| “Small Talk at Rofhiwa” with Maurice O. Wallace on Dr. King’s Cadence What is the sound of history in the cadence of Dr. King’s speeches? Rutgers University Professor Maurice O. Wallace (Duke Ph.D, 1995) returned to Durham, NC at Rofhiwa Book Café… Read More Season 13 Episode 1 | “Read Until You Understand” with Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin Read until you understand, started as a simple instruction for learning that Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin first heard from her father, Emerson, who tragically passed away when she was only… Read More Season 12 Episode 27 | Discussing The University Plantation System with Bianca C. Williams & Armond Towns Is it going too far to liken the modern-day university to the plantation system of old regarding academia’s exploitation of Black labor and the squelching of student activism by school… Read More Season 12 Episode 26 | Discussing The University Plantation System with Bianca C. Williams & Armond Towns Is it going too far to liken the modern-day university to the plantation system of old regarding academia’s exploitation of Black labor and the squelching of student activism by school… Read More Season 12 Episode 25 | David A. Varel on the Legacy of Black Scholar Lawrence Reddick There are many Black scholars whose work in the academy is not well known yet provided the intellectual support and underpinning necessary for deep archival research. Lawrence Reddick was one… Read More Season 12 Episode 24 | Kristen Henning on the Criminalization of Black Adolescence What happens to our youth if the normal and typical responses of teenage angst are heavily policed with high punitive consequences, even leading to death as we saw with the… Read More Season 12 Episode 23 | Anthony Reed on the Soundworks of Poetry & Music in the Black Arts Era When you think of Langston Hughes, does Charles Mingus come immediately to mind? What music do you hear when you think of the words of Amiri Baraka? Poetry and music… Read More Season 12 Episode 22 | David Palumbo-Liu on Speaking Out It is the tireless voice of protest, activism, and outrage that enacts real change to make society better for all and especially those who are marginalized and oppressed. It is… Read More Season 12 Episode 21 | Christopher Freeburg on Black Social Life in the Time of Slavery Decades of research and scholarship around New World slavery limit the scope of the actions of the enslaved to political resistance while seeking only one goal: freedom. But what if… Read More « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … 51 Next »
