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Mar. 2 | Peta Lindsay, Yari Osorio and Eugene Puryear from the Party for Socialism and Liberation joined Sese and the rest of us for a spirited discussion of their bid for the U.S. presidency in the upcoming 2012 elections. We discussed the role of electoral...
Feb. 10 | Meron Wondwosen of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement joined us this week. We discussed Afrikan liberation, organizing in the Obama era and the politics of gender and sexuality. We also heard music from Curtis Mayfield, Rah Digga, Donny Hathaway and...
Feb. 3 | Imhotep Fatiu of the Baltimore-based Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement and Dedrick Muhammad, co-author of the recently-released State of the Dream Report 2012 joined us this week. This report concludes, among other things, that by 2042 the United States...
Jan. 21 | We came back again this week with part two of The L’s Coming: Liberating Dr. King from DJ Sese and we talked with Dr. Joseph Richardson about the crisis of mass incarceration, particularly that of Black youth! It was all good on this edition of The...
Jan. 13 | 10 hours before show time, its Dr. King’s birthday and the truly dope guest we had lined up cancelled last minute! What to do!?!? No worries. Scoop up my man’s mixtape, The L’s Coming: Liberating Dr. King from DJ Sese, and rolled to...
Jan. 6 | We had an “academic barbershop roundtable” this morning on the politics of race and pop culture in the context of Black superhero comic books. Our guests were Drs. Adilifu Nama (author of Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes),...
Dec. 30 | Nishaun Battle and Ben Woods of Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI) along with the brilliant artist Skipp Coon joined the program this morning for a discussion of mass incarceration, political imprisonment and mass political organization and mobilization. ...
Dec. 27 | We had the pleasure this week of being joined by sisters, scholars and activists Michelle and Leslie Alexander. Each were kind enough to support our pledge-drive by offering their powerfully relevant and related books as thank-you-gifts and to discuss...
Dec. 23 | How and why did Heru become Jesus and Aset become Mary? How is John Coltrane’s “Sheets of Sound” an extension of ancient African wisdom, specifically spiritual mathematics played out through music? All this and more as Dr. Charles...
Dec. 16 | On this week’s show we were joined by Charo Mina-Rojas and Ajamu Baraka for a discussion of Afro-Colombia and the African World. We also heard from Uno the Prophet about Occupy the Hood in Boston and its struggles with the Occupy Wall Street campaign...