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What We Can Learn from Anti-Racist Organizing in Detroit in the 1960s and 70s—A Conversation with Say Burgin
Today, on Speaking Out of Place, I have the pleasure of talking with Say Burgin about her book, Organizing on Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit. Tracing the changing terrain of anti-racist organizing and activism in the 1960s and 1970s, Burgin’s...
“Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood on Zohran Mamdani’s Victory in NYC: What is Its Significance, and What’s Next?”
In February, a New York assemblyman little known outside New York City was polling at 1% in his...
Talking with Dean Spade about Love in a Fucked-Up World: How letting go of the Romance Myth frees us to be better lovers and activists
Today I have the pleasure of talking with Dean Spade about his new book, Love in a Fucked-up...
Policing Black Lives: Abolition, not Reform, and on a Transnational Scale—A Conversation with Robyn Maynard
In 2017, activist-scholar Robyn Maynard published her groundbreaking study, Policing Black Lives:...
Discussing the Sudanese Solidarity Collective with Nisrin Elamin: Supporting Mutual Aid & Resistance Organizations
Today I talk with Professor Nisrin Elamin about the situation in Sudan, where we find both a war...
By-passing “Tradition,” Governmental Norms, and Global North Saviourism: Talking with Zachariah Mampilly About Rural Protest in Africa
How have young people in rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo invented new forms of...
South Bay Youth Changemakers: Going Beyond the Stereotype of “Asian American” to Realize a Broad Sense of Community and Activism in Silicon Valley
Today I have the pleasure of talking with Supriya Khandelwal and Koa Tran, two members of the...