Podcast appearances and mentions of Charles M Payne

Drew Perkins talks with historian Stewart Burns about the life and legacy of educator and civil rights leader Bob Moses. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Union Institute and University Institute for Social Justice (TISJ) at Union Institute & University Algebra Project Young People's Project (extension of Algebra Project, led by its student alums) Laura Visser-Maessen, Robert Parris Moses (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2016) Barbara Ransby: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003) Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Univ. of California Press, 1997) Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr., Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (Beacon Press, 2001) Robert P. Moses et al, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools (Beacon Press, 2010) Stewart Burns, To the Mountaintop (bio of MLK, 2004, 2018), winner of Wilbur Award (first published by HarperCollins in 2004) Visit wegrowteachers.com for more info on our workshops and services.

Remembering the life of Bob Moses, and his mission to build a more equitable America from the bottom up.  From teaching in New York City to registering Black voters in the 1960's Mississippi, Moses was a measured man who believed leadership was about listening, not talking. Rutgers University Professor of African American Studies Charles M. Payne joins us to recap Moses' life's work -- and his big ideas, from Freedom Summer to a radical education initiative that's still used in schools today.  Companion listening for this episode: The Origin Story of Black History Month (2/1/21) We've got complicated relationships with this annual celebration -- from joy to frustration. So to launch our Future of Black History series, we ask how it began and what it can be. The Short Life and Early Death of Voting Rights (7/12/20)  Birth, August 1965. Death, July 2021. So now what for multiracial democracy? “The United States of Anxiety” airs live on Sunday evenings at 6pm ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts. To catch all the action, tune into the show on Sunday nights via the stream on WNYC.org/anxiety or tell your smart speakers to play WNYC.  We want to hear from you! Connect with us on Twitter @WNYC using the hashtag #USofAnxiety or email us at anxiety@wnyc.org.

The Bernie Sanders campaign is an organizing tour-de-force relative to the Joe Biden campaign; yet the latter has won primary after primary — with even higher turnouts than 2016. So does organizing even work? And, if so, what went wrong? Jane McAlevey has organized hundreds of thousands of workers on the frontlines of America’s labor movement. She is also a Senior Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Labor Center and the author of three books on organizing, including, most recently, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy. McAlevey doesn’t pull her punches. She thinks the left builds political power all wrong. She thinks people are constantly mistaking “mobilizing” for “organizing,” and that social media has taught a generation of young activists the worst possible lessons. She thinks organized labor’s push for “card check” was a mistake, but that there really is a viable path back to a strong labor movement. And since McAlevey is, above all, a teacher and an organizer, she offers what amounts to a master class in organizing — one relevant not just to building political power, but to building anything. To McAlevey, organizing, at its core, is about something very simple, and very close to the heart of this show: how do you talk to people who may not agree with you such that you can truly hear them, and they can truly hear you? This conversation ran long, but it ran long because it was damn good. References: No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey Raising Expectations and Raising Hell by Jane McAlevey Book recommendations: Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss it When its Gone by Astra Taylor I've Got the Light of Freedom Charles M. Payne On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder New to the show? Want to check out Ezra's favorite episodes? Check out the Ezra Klein Show beginner's guide (http://bit.ly/EKSbeginhere) Want to contact the show? Reach out at ezrakleinshow@vox.com Credits: Engineer - Cynthia Gil Producer/Editor - Jeff Geld Researcher - Roge Karma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles M. Payne offers an in-depth history of the early civil rights movement in the South, uplifting the work of Ella Baker, Septima Clark, and community members leading on-the-ground work in places like Greenwood, Mississippi. In this first episode, Monica and Dominique speak with Tess Raser, an organizer with Assata's Daughters and Quinn Rallins, social activist and organizer.

Scholar Charles M. Payne argues that the realities of race should return to the forefront of this discussion- not to be seen as a problem to overcome, but as a dynamic for empowerment.