Podcasts about civil rights struggle

Episode 73 – Allie Lopez on the AHA 2024 Coley Research Award Air Date: April 22, 2024 Allie Lopez, winner of the AHA 2024 Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley Research Award, discusses her proposed project, “The Injustice That Permeates: Jim Crow, Fear, And Dispossession in Rural Alabama 1930 to 1985,” and her 2024 AHA Meeting presentation on the Reverse Freedom Rides. Links to things mentioned in the episode: Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ AHA Coley Research Award: https://www.alabamahistory.net/clinton-jackson-and-evelyn-coley-re Allie Lopez webpage at Baylor University: https://history.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/person/allie-r-lopez. University of North Alabama: https://una.edu/index.html SNCC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee SCLC: https://nationalsclc.org/ CORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality NAACP: https://naacp.org/ Walter Johnson: https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/walter-johnson Marisa Fuentes: https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/346-fuentes-marisa Saidiya Hartman: https://english.columbia.edu/content/saidiya-v-hartman Black Belt of Alabama: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/black-belt-region-in-alabama/ Charles S. Johnson, Shadow of the Plantation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934): https://archive.org/details/shadowofplantati00john/page/n5/mode/1up Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974): https://archive.org/details/allgodsdangersli0000shaw_t4b0 Alabama Sharecroppers Union: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/alabama-sharecroppers-union/ Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH): https://archives.alabama.gov/ Freedom Rides: https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/freedom-rides/ Reverse Freedom Rider: Allie R. Lopez, “When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way bus Tickets North,” Time – Made By History, March 21, 2024, https://time.com/6697055/welfare-queen-stereotype-origins/. White Citizens Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils W. S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama: https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/ Civil Rights Struggle and the Shoals Project: https://civilrightsshoals.com/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/ypm5axjm *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website www.alabamahistory.net/

Veteran journalist and MSNBC Host Joy Ann Reid joins Megan Lynch discussing her new book "Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America"

If you are anything like me, you like to think of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s & 60s as a movement that helped our country achieve, maybe not the entire dream that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described, but at least something that was closer to that dream, something that showed we were on the right path toward fulfilling that dream. After all, didn't the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act get passed and implemented by the government? Haven't we seen great strides in the implementation of fair housing and lending? Hasn't segregation been relegated to the dark corners of our past? Unfortunately, this is a mythology that many of us would like to hold on to. The assassination of Dr. King in 1968 should have been enough to disabuse us of that mythology. And yet that mythology persists. In more recent years, it has been perforated and torn time and again by the abuse and murder of Black citizens by police and white supremecists: Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, Philando Castille, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, Tamir Rice and so many more.These names represent our collective failure to realize King's dream of justice, equality and equity. Perhaps, if nothing else, these names help those of us in the white community to understand just how frayed and fractured that mythology of progress really is. And there is no place that I can think of that reveals the stark contrast between our hopes and their unfulfilled promise than the city of Birmingham, Alabama.  My guest today is Clay Cornelius, the owner and guide of Red Clay Tours in Birmingham, AL. How do we get to know cities that we visit? How do we get the lay of the land and find out what really happened there? Of course, we can visit monuments and historical sites, but that doesn't begin to fill in the canvas of a city. Clay is the sort of guide that will fill in that canvas with stories and historical detail that you can't get anywhere else. And that detail is especially important for a city as famous and infamous as Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, as we know, played a huge role in the era of the civil rights struggle. It was the place of confrontation with Bull Connor, of tragedy with the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and the deaths of four Black children. It was where Dr. King was jailed and wrote one of his most extraordinary writings, Letter from a Birmingham Jail. As I mentioned on a previous episode, I was part of a wonderful civil rights pilgrimage with a group from Westminster Presbyterian Church here in Olympia, WA. And Clay was our guide when we were in Birmingham and as you will hear, he is a fount of knowledge about Birmingham and its history.Books Mentioned in this episode:“Carry Me Home” by Diane McWhorter  “But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle” by Glenn Eskew “A More Beautiful and Terrible History” by Jeanne Theoharris

* Opponents Gear up to Fight GOP's Latest Plan to Cut Social Security & Medicare; Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works; Producer: Scott Harris. * As Climate Crisis Worsens, Environmental Regulations Sacrificed to Reach Debt Ceiling Deal; Elizabeth Yeampierre, Exec Dir of Uprose, & Board co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * Ensuring Juneteenth Federal Holiday Remains Radical and Relevant to Today's Civil Rights Struggle; Robert Greene II, Asst Prof of History at Claflin University and Senior Editor, Black Perspectives; Producer: Scott Harris.

What role have black women played in the civil rights era and black empowerment in addressing issues of white supremacy? We explore the importance of black women intellectuals, the way in which they have framed the scholarship, the analysis, and policies. Hosted by Doug Becker. [ dur: 33mins. ] – Recorded March 2022. Ashley Farmer … Continue reading Scholars' Circle – Black Women intellectuals contribution to civil rights struggle; History of Cooperatives in Black Communities – Feb. 12, 2023 →

​ Here We Stand with Reverend Kevin D. Annett Title: Remembering those who never surrender: My sister and fellow fighter Colia Clark This Sunday: The Necessity and Power of Remembrance: Honoring the best in us and among us, on Here We Stand, November 20 Veteran Civil Rights fighter Colia Clark (left) and Kevin Annett in New York City, May 2019  Colia died on November 4, 2022   Their last and best interview together:  (103) Colia Clark and Kevin Annett HD 1080p - YouTube   Draw inspiration and courage from the example of those who have fought to the very end: This Sunday November 20 at 3 pm pacific, 6 pm eastern, 11 pm Irish time  on bbsradio.com/herewestand      "I was born into the civil rights struggle being poor and black and picking cotton when I was a child. You either fight back or live a slave life." - Colia Clark   "Suffering is like a big wind that clears away all the small things in your life and makes you live only for what matters. That's how we find our real purpose and can become a light for others." - Kevin Annett 

For months after three white men chased Ahmaud Arbery to his death, Georgia of 2020 looked disconcertingly like Georgia of 1950. Hank Klibanoff would know. He is a son of the South, professor at Emory University, and created the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project--a journalistic exploration of unpunished racially motivated killings during the civil rights era.rnrnHank is also the creator and host of Buried Truths, a narrative history podcast that chronicles these hidden cold cases and explores injustices of history that are still relevant today. It is produced by WABE (NPR) in Atlanta, and winner of Peabody, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward R. Murrow awards.rnrnHank's podcast and Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project are not just about solving a crime. It's about finding the truth and understanding a history that is little known or long forgotten. It's about closing gaps in history and producing answers that families of victims have long despaired they would never know. Hank argues that the truth is restless, relevant, and revealed.rnrnHank Klibanoff is also a veteran journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 2007 for a book he co-wrote called, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. He was recently nominated by President Joe Biden to the newly created Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, where he will examine government records of unpunished, racially motivated murders of Black Americans from 1940 to 1980.

There's a long history of African American Catholic sisters, but it has been overlooked, even erased. Now, a new book tells the powerful story of how these Black nuns brought their faith and voices to the struggle of civil rights in America.

There's a long history of African American Catholic sisters, but it has been overlooked, even erased. Now, a new book tells the powerful story of how these Black nuns brought their faith and voices to the struggle of civil rights in America.

Tune in as we interview Dr. Glenn Eskew, author of the book But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle.

Join us on another special episode where Maria Morukian and guest host, Roger Moreano welcome Dr. Randal Jelks to Culture Stew. Come along as the three speak about the historical trends of civil rights, Dr. Jelks' background, and his experience with DEI as a democratic process. “Randal Maurice Jelks is Professor of African and African American Studies and American  Studies. He is the co-editor of the academic journal American Studies (AMSJ). Jelks is an award-winning author and documentary film producer.” Learn more about Dr. Jelks and his books:African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights Struggle in Grand Rapids,  Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography,  Faith and Struggle in the  Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver,  Muhammad Ali and Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America. Connect with Dr. Jelks here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randalmauricejelks

The proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ by members of the churches of Christ.  With your Host Stevie R. Butler (Helen Street Church of Christ, Fayettevillle, North Carolina) Co-host: Clay Phillips           Subject: "God Call on Our Life" Recornizing Black History Month. (Civil Rights Struggle)                  (Rose City Church of Christ, Thomasville, Georgia) Host: Stevie R. Butler "Shout It Out" question from his social media platform (Facebook).  Co-host: Steve Cordle (East Park Church of Christ, Danville, Illnois). Co-host: Tim Bench             Subject: "William Tyndale"               (Oldham Lane Church of Christ, Abilene, Texas)

The podcast is from the Diverse Voices Book Review live Zoom event, Meditations on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy: A Conversation with Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, author of LETTERS TO MARTIN. It was held on January 30 and was cosponsored by the Texas NAACP.  The recording has been lightly edited due to some technical difficulties during the welcome.  Texas NAACP president Gary Bledose provided the welcome.  Maya Hay and Alex Winston, two of the three host of Teens Choice Book Show introduced Dr. Jelks and his book.LETTERS TO MARTIN: Meditations on Democracy in Black America is an original collection of twelve literary essays by historian Randal Maurice Jelks. It is a meditation on contemporary history and political struggles. Each essay builds on words offered by Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as the author's own autobiographical reflections. These meditations, written in the form of letters to King, speak specifically to the many public issues we presently confront in the United States—economic inequality, freedom of assembly, police brutality, ongoing social class conflicts and geopolitics.Randal Maurice Jelks is Professor of African and African American Studies and American Studies. He is the author of the two award-winning books African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights Struggle in Grand Rapids and Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography. His latest book is titled Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver and Muhammad Ali. Randal Maurice Jelks web site: https://randalmauricejelks.com/DIVERSE VOICES BOOK REVIEWSocial media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/  

A discussion with Aram Goudsouzian, Professor of History at University of Memphis, and Charles McKinney, Professor of Africana Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. McKinney is the author of numerous essays on African American history and the book Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina, published in 2010, and is currently at work on a book titled Losing the Party of Lincoln: George Washington Lee and the Struggle for the Soul of the Republican Party, which explores the life and work of George Washington Lee, an African American Republican operative and civil rights activist who lived in Memphis in the middle of the twentieth century. Goudsouzian is the author of five books, including most recently Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear, published in 2014, and 2019's The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America.Together, Goudsouzian and McKinney edited the 2018 collection An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee, published by University of Kentucky Press, which we discuss in this episode. 

Known as the “Voice of Selma,” Bettie Mae Fikes describes what got her involved in the civil rights movement, the violence she witnessed and her thoughts on voting rights legislation now pending in Congress.

Kenny and Mike discuss the film and spot faith elements presented in Crip Camp, the Netflix documentary that tells the story of a camp for children and youth with disabilities. The film also shares the impact many of the former campers had as adults in the Civil Rights Struggle for persons with disabilities. Crip Camp is a production of Higher Ground Productions and is directed by James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham and stars Lebrecht, Judith Heumann, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and Lionel Je'Woodyard. Barack and Michelle Obama, Priya Swaminathan serve as executive producers.  Faith Issues Spotted: Primacy of Jesus's Ministry to the outcast and socially marginalized: Jesus associates and heals lepers and others with illnesses and disabilities: Mark 1: 40-41, Luke 5:12-13, Luke 17:11-19, Luke 7:18-23. Jesus response to the need of persons outside Israel: Luke 7:1-10 Jesus and the Samaritan woman and her village: John 4 Jesus heals woman with hemorage: Matthew 9:20-22, Luke 3 8:43-48 Jesus dines with Levi and other "sinners:" Mark 2:13-17 All people are fully children of God, abled as those with disabilities. 

Simon's live report for Darren Adam's overnight programme on the UK's LBC.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a brilliant man who tried to love America into living up to its creed and to its grand ideals. A lot has been said and written about Dr. King, yet there is still so much to be said, because there are so many ways to look at what he did, what he said, and how he processed the world around him. Today, we are fighting the same struggles with which he wrestled. Here is one of my takes on Dr. King. A Few Resources: Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence speech at Riverside Church in New York, April 4, 1967 https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm Stanford University: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (online) https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/ There is a treasure trove of information at this site, the repository for the King papers. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967) In the Spirit of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bessemer Workers Fight for Justice. https://www.workers.org/2021/03/55465/ When Muhammad Ali Refused to go to Vietnam: Muhammad Ali and Vietnam. https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/muhammad-ali-vietnam/485717/ Short video on Muhammad Ali (“You my enemy.” https://youtu.be/HeFMyrWlZ68) FBI 'Honors' Martin Luther King Jr., 50 Years After Plotting to 'Neutralize' him. https://www.alternet.org/2017/01/fbi-honors-martin-luther-king-jr-50-years-after-plotting-neutralize-him/ How the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike Expanded the Civil Rights Struggle: https://www.history.com/news/sanitation-workers-strike-memphis --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rhonda-sherrod4/message

Phonicz Recounts the Civil Rights Struggle and one of its most famous spokesman. Also, he talks about the cancer in Amerikkka which is white supremacy and will it ever be destroyed?

(Originally broadcast 10/26/18) - In 1968 state troopers gunned down black students protesting the segregation of a South Carolina bowling alley, killing three and injuring 28. The Orangeburg Massacre was one of the most violent moments of the Southern civil rights movement, and only one person served prison time in its aftermath: a young black man by the name of Cleveland Sellers Jr. Many years later, the state would recognize that Sellers was a scapegoat in that college campus tragedy and would issue a full pardon. Outside Agitator: The Civil Rights Struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr. (2018, Hub City Press), is the story of Sellers’ early activism: organizing a lunch counter sit-in as a 15-year-old in the tiny South Carolina town of Denmark, registering voters in Alabama and Mississippi, refusing the Vietnam War draft, serving as national program director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and working alongside 1960s civil rights icons Stokely Carmichael, Martin

Image: Ella Baker at the November 1974 Puerto Rican Independence Solidarity Rally Attempts to distort, rewrite, dilute, misdirect, and misguide the impact of our radical scholars, radical thinkers, activist, artist, and advocates are carefully planned practices by those who hold perceived positions of authority. The exclusion of important Africana thinkers and activist is not a matter of simple exclusion, but a matter of intentional attempts to disrupt the continuity of radicalization.Ella Baker words from a speech titled, “The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle” delivered at the Institute of the Black World in 1969, are still sharply true today. Ms. Baker reasoned that: “In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become a part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. This means that we are going to have to learn to think in radical terms.” Barbara Ransby, one of the world's preeminent thinkers and activist, writes in Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement that “those who romanticize the concept of leaderless movements often misleadingly deploy Ella Baker's words, “Strong people don't need [a] strong leader.” Baker delivered this message in various iterations over her 50-year career working in the trenches of struggle, but what she meant was specific and contextual." Professor Ransby, who also wrote the important, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, suggests that “Ella Baker spent her entire adult life trying to “change this system as rooted in exploitation, oppression, and the idea that Whiteness equals supremacy.” Somewhere along the way she recognized that her goal was not a single “end” but rather an ongoing “means,” that is, a process. Radical change for Ella Baker was about a persistent and protracted process of discourse, debate, consensus, reflection, and struggle.” Employing an Africana critical human rights consciousness if you will. In addition to Professor Ransby work, it is vital and essential that I highlight and call attention to the work of Joanne Grant who provided us with: Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analysis 1619 to Present, 1968; Ella Baker: Freedom Bound, 1998; Confrontation on Campus: The Columbia Pattern for the New Protest, 1969; but she produced an important documentary film titled: Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker. Joanne Grant, a radical journalist and activist of African descent who served as an assistant to W.E.B Du Bois; she was a member of the Communist Party, which made her a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee; was an author; documentary filmmaker is yet another important link in the genealogy of Black radical praxis that have continuities with not only Diaspora exemplars such as but not limited to, Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Fannie Lou Hammer, Madie Hall Xuma but continental Africa as well, Winnie Mandela, Miriam Makeba, Mariama Ba to name a few. Today, in response to screening of Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker AWNP co-sponsored this past August, we will listen to a conversation I had with Zach Norris where we explore the continuities of the praxis of Ella Baker. Zach Norris is the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities, and co-founder of Restore Oakland. Zach is also a co-founder of Justice for Families, a national alliance of family-driven organizations working to end our nation's youth incarceration epidemic. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the Native/Indigenous, African, and Afro Descendant communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all peoples! Enjoy the program!

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I have known Bruce Bridges for many decades, and I am looking forward to our conversation on our Podcast.   We will be talking about his work on many cultural fronts, including owning one of this area's top book stores and jazz spots in the past....Many folks don't know that he has been teaching at NC State and also traveling with a noted Jackson Five member, as well as having a tribute to Pigmeat Markham...When he had the bookstore, he had  such great guests as Sista Souljah, Zane, and many others....  has always been very outspoken about Durham's history and it's legacy in the Civil Rights Struggle and feels that even some of these stories were missed in the salute to Durham's 150th Anniversary....He also has some very interesting theories about politics and race relations and much more...Can't wait for this conversation....In addition we will be hearing from Shel Horowitz, a Social entrepreneur and activist in his own right...  ."For organizations that want to combine making a difference and making a profit, I'm your Success Sherpa, your 'Transformpreneur." I find opportunities for you to make money doing good in the world, and walk you through the steps to make it real." —Shel Horowitz... Horowitz has examples of how you can be both a good stewart to the planet and the world but also a successful business owner..Also featured is Tonya Brooks, a longtime entertainment person from LA... As a 40 year veteran in the Entertainment industry, Tanya has a vast amount of experience. She has worked as a singer, actress, vocal and acting coach, producer, director, mentor ship, Executive writing for businesses, and play write. The main focus for Tanya starting TanLouBro Entertainment, was to have a place for young up and coming artists to have a place to train and utilize there talents. The second goal is to mentor the up and coming business professionals 

I have known Bruce Bridges for many decades, and I am looking forward to our conversation on our Podcast.   We will be talking about his work on many cultural fronts, including owning one of this area's top book stores and jazz spots in the past....Many folks don't know that he has been teaching at NC State and also traveling with a noted Jackson Five member, as well as having a tribute to Pigmeat Markham...When he had the bookstore, he had  such great guests as Sista Souljah, Zane, and many others....  has always been very outspoken about Durham's history and it's legacy in the Civil Rights Struggle and feels that even some of these stories were missed in the salute to Durham's 150th Anniversary....He also has some very interesting theories about politics and race relations and much more...Can't wait for this conversation....In addition we will be hearing from Shel Horowitz, a Social entrepreneur and activist in his own right...  ."For organizations that want to combine making a difference and making a profit, I'm your Success Sherpa, your 'Transformpreneur." I find opportunities for you to make money doing good in the world, and walk you through the steps to make it real." —Shel Horowitz... Horowitz has examples of how you can be both a good stewart to the planet and the world but also a successful business owner..Also featured is Tonya Brooks, a longtime entertainment person from LA... As a 40 year veteran in the Entertainment industry, Tanya has a vast amount of experience. She has worked as a singer, actress, vocal and acting coach, producer, director, mentor ship, Executive writing for businesses, and play write. The main focus for Tanya starting TanLouBro Entertainment, was to have a place for young up and coming artists to have a place to train and utilize there talents. The second goal is to mentor the up and coming business professionals 

A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun The more God is felt to be among us, the more one’s life will be dedicated to fixing this broken world.

Samuel Walker, Emeritus Professor, Univ of Nebraska at Omaha, along with J. Bonner Ritchie, Emeritus Professor, BYU, share memories of the civil rights struggle. BYU's Earl Fry, Chris Hodson, Brenden Rensink and Dale Cressman celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary. A visit with Voice of the Cougars Greg Wrubell, who sings "O Canada!"

Understanding Mass Incarceration describes in plain English the many competing theories of criminal justice -- from rehabilitation to retribution, from restorative justice to justice reinvestment. Author James Kilgore illuminates the difference between prisons and jails, probation and parole, laying out key concepts and policies such as the War on Drugs, broken-windows policing, three-strikes sentencing, the school-to-prison pipeline, recidivism, and prison privatization. He also addresses the rapidly increasing incarceration of women, Latinos and transgender people; the growing imprisonment of immigrants; and the devastating impact of mass incarceration on communities.James Kilgore is a writer, educator and social justice activist who teaches and works at the University of Illinois. He spent six years in prison, during which time he drafted his three published novels.Recorded On: Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Understanding Mass Incarceration describes in plain English the many competing theories of criminal justice -- from rehabilitation to retribution, from restorative justice to justice reinvestment. Author James Kilgore illuminates the difference between prisons and jails, probation and parole, laying out key concepts and policies such as the War on Drugs, broken-windows policing, three-strikes sentencing, the school-to-prison pipeline, recidivism, and prison privatization. He also addresses the rapidly increasing incarceration of women, Latinos and transgender people; the growing imprisonment of immigrants; and the devastating impact of mass incarceration on communities.James Kilgore is a writer, educator and social justice activist who teaches and works at the University of Illinois. He spent six years in prison, during which time he drafted his three published novels.

Summer of 1964 Bob Moses created Freedom Summer to mobilize Whites and to gain mainstream media exposure for the Civil Rights Struggle..... The Historic 1964 Freedom Summer anniversary; Mississippi Founder, Bob Moses created the Freedom Summer strategy seeing the need to mobilize White volunteers to gain mainstream media exposure to the Civil Rights struggle against Mississippi's collusion of state and local officials and law enforcement officers and White terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan who fought violently to exclude black citizens from political participation (Fannie Lou Hamer's Political Party) including the right to vote. ------ Listen in now to The Gist Of Freedom, Black History Internet Radio Show www.BlackHistoryUniversity.com and www.BlackHistoryBlog.com Read more http://bit.ly/The_Gist_of_White_Freedom_Riders by Marianne Wright Eldeman ?Harvey Boyd's current "mission" is preserving the land and the community of Crestdale, located southeast of Charlotte, in Matthews. Born in 1944, to Viola and Sam Boyd, Harvey described Crestdale as "a unique community in the U.S. One of the oldest African American communities founded right after the Civil War." Sitting on 135 acres of land in the center of Matthews, it is still owned by ancestors of the original families.

Linda Porter explores the Scottish queen's turbulent life, while Paul Stephenson recounts his experiences as a leader of the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott. Rob Attar presents See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Shawn Leigh Alexander, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and interim director of the Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas, discusses the efforts of T. Thomas Fortune, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and other leaders featured in his book, An Army of Lions: The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP.

Razwell and Justin Thomas will discuss.....The X Men movie is a metaphysically coded story about the civil rights struggle that black people want through in order to be excepted in society.

When I was an undergraduate, I noticed that there were certain books that seemed to be unavoidable (at least at my liberal arts college). They were assigned in many classes, and they were discussed in many others. Reading them seemed to be a secret requirement for graduation. These “liberal-arts essentials” included Plato's Republic, Rousseau's Social Contract, Lockes' Two Treatises on Government (especially the second), Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto, Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, and John Bergers' Ways of Seeing. Another was William Sheridan Allen's The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 (Quadrangle Books, 1965). It explained the rise of National Socialism in a new and revealing way: from the bottom up. In Sheridan Allen's story, the local politicians, shopkeepers, and housewives of Northeim (Hanover) moved to the fore, while Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels remained in the background. Here the locals “made history,” and they did so ways that we would all recognize from our own local communities. Charles McKinney, Jr has written a similar book, though one with a much happier ending. Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina (UPA, 2010) tells the tale of how one small city in the South negotiated the rough transition from Jim Crow to Civil Rights and beyond. In McKinney's telling, the people of Wilson (North Carolina) make history; Martin Luther King, et al. remain off stage. These common folks–both Black and White–discuss, argue, protest, sue, threaten, fight, organize, lobby, and vote their way to a “greater freedom” over the course of many decades. In the pages of McKinney's fine book, we see how Civil Rights actually happened “on the ground.” I hope it becomes required reading as Sheridan Allen's book once was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

When I was an undergraduate, I noticed that there were certain books that seemed to be unavoidable (at least at my liberal arts college). They were assigned in many classes, and they were discussed in many others. Reading them seemed to be a secret requirement for graduation. These “liberal-arts essentials” included Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Social Contract, Lockes’ Two Treatises on Government (especially the second), Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto, Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, and John Bergers’ Ways of Seeing. Another was William Sheridan Allen’s The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 (Quadrangle Books, 1965). It explained the rise of National Socialism in a new and revealing way: from the bottom up. In Sheridan Allen’s story, the local politicians, shopkeepers, and housewives of Northeim (Hanover) moved to the fore, while Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels remained in the background. Here the locals “made history,” and they did so ways that we would all recognize from our own local communities. Charles McKinney, Jr has written a similar book, though one with a much happier ending. Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina (UPA, 2010) tells the tale of how one small city in the South negotiated the rough transition from Jim Crow to Civil Rights and beyond. In McKinney’s telling, the people of Wilson (North Carolina) make history; Martin Luther King, et al. remain off stage. These common folks–both Black and White–discuss, argue, protest, sue, threaten, fight, organize, lobby, and vote their way to a “greater freedom” over the course of many decades. In the pages of McKinney’s fine book, we see how Civil Rights actually happened “on the ground.” I hope it becomes required reading as Sheridan Allen’s book once was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When I was an undergraduate, I noticed that there were certain books that seemed to be unavoidable (at least at my liberal arts college). They were assigned in many classes, and they were discussed in many others. Reading them seemed to be a secret requirement for graduation. These “liberal-arts essentials” included Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Social Contract, Lockes’ Two Treatises on Government (especially the second), Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto, Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, and John Bergers’ Ways of Seeing. Another was William Sheridan Allen’s The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 (Quadrangle Books, 1965). It explained the rise of National Socialism in a new and revealing way: from the bottom up. In Sheridan Allen’s story, the local politicians, shopkeepers, and housewives of Northeim (Hanover) moved to the fore, while Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels remained in the background. Here the locals “made history,” and they did so ways that we would all recognize from our own local communities. Charles McKinney, Jr has written a similar book, though one with a much happier ending. Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina (UPA, 2010) tells the tale of how one small city in the South negotiated the rough transition from Jim Crow to Civil Rights and beyond. In McKinney’s telling, the people of Wilson (North Carolina) make history; Martin Luther King, et al. remain off stage. These common folks–both Black and White–discuss, argue, protest, sue, threaten, fight, organize, lobby, and vote their way to a “greater freedom” over the course of many decades. In the pages of McKinney’s fine book, we see how Civil Rights actually happened “on the ground.” I hope it becomes required reading as Sheridan Allen’s book once was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When I was an undergraduate, I noticed that there were certain books that seemed to be unavoidable (at least at my liberal arts college). They were assigned in many classes, and they were discussed in many others. Reading them seemed to be a secret requirement for graduation. These “liberal-arts essentials” included Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Social Contract, Lockes’ Two Treatises on Government (especially the second), Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto, Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, and John Bergers’ Ways of Seeing. Another was William Sheridan Allen’s The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 (Quadrangle Books, 1965). It explained the rise of National Socialism in a new and revealing way: from the bottom up. In Sheridan Allen’s story, the local politicians, shopkeepers, and housewives of Northeim (Hanover) moved to the fore, while Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels remained in the background. Here the locals “made history,” and they did so ways that we would all recognize from our own local communities. Charles McKinney, Jr has written a similar book, though one with a much happier ending. Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina (UPA, 2010) tells the tale of how one small city in the South negotiated the rough transition from Jim Crow to Civil Rights and beyond. In McKinney’s telling, the people of Wilson (North Carolina) make history; Martin Luther King, et al. remain off stage. These common folks–both Black and White–discuss, argue, protest, sue, threaten, fight, organize, lobby, and vote their way to a “greater freedom” over the course of many decades. In the pages of McKinney’s fine book, we see how Civil Rights actually happened “on the ground.” I hope it becomes required reading as Sheridan Allen’s book once was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution, explores the peace message in the hugely popular original 1960's TV series - STAR TREK. A new Star Trek movie was released in May 2009 that revisits the stories of Capt. Kirk, Spock, Bones and the characters from the original series. This episode ot Peace Talks Radio notes how many stories in the original series thoughtfully explored the themes of war and peace, tolerance, friendship and compassion. When originally released in the turbulent late 1960's, Star Trek stories tackled complex issues that mirrored both the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Struggle. Host Paul Ingles talks with Dr. Judith Barad, author of The Ethics of Star Trek and David Gerrold, author of The World of Star Trek and the popular episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." Also, Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lt. Uhura, the communications officer, in the original series.

Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution, explores the peace message in the hugely popular original 1960's TV series - STAR TREK. A new Star Trek movie was released in May 2009 that revisits the stories of Capt. Kirk, Spock, Bones and the characters from the original series. This episode ot Peace Talks Radio notes how many stories in the original series thoughtfully explored the themes of war and peace, tolerance, friendship and compassion. When originally released in the turbulent late 1960's, Star Trek stories tackled complex issues that mirrored both the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Struggle. Host Paul Ingles talks with Dr. Judith Barad, author of The Ethics of Star Trek and David Gerrold, author of The World of Star Trek and the popular episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." Also, Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lt. Uhura, the communications officer, in the original series.