Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

This is the second episode in our series on Dan Berger's new book Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey .   We welcome back Dan Berger, and Michael and Zoharah Simmons for this discussion. Make sure you check out part one if you missed it. In part 1 Zoharah and Michael Simmons share stories from their childhoods and their early politicization, as well as t...

This conversation is centered on Dan Berger's new book Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey .   Stayed On Freedom brings into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom.   Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordina...

This is the second half of our conversation with Joshua Myers on his latest book Of Black Study . In part one we covered Myers' goals for the project and the selection of thinkers he includes. We also reviewed in some detail his chapters on W.E.B. Du Bois and Sylvia Wynter, as well as his inclusion of June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara. In this part of the discussion we focus on the interventions o...

This is part one of a two part conversation with Joshua Myers on his latest book Of Black Study .   In Of Black Study Joshua Myers examines the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Sylvia Wynter, Jacob Carruthers and Cedric Robinson as well as June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara, and what each contributed to Black Studies approaches to knowledge production within and beyond Western structures of knowledge.   In...

In this episode we welcome J. Moufawad-Paul back to the podcast. Previously we had him along with Alyson Escalante and Devin Zane Shaw to talk about On Necrocapitalism a collectively authored book they all worked on together along with some other authors. For today's episode we are focused on J. Moufawad-Paul's latest book Politics In Command: A Taxonomy of Economism . This book seeks to understan...

This is an episode we recorded about a month and a half ago for our 5th anniversary. Due to all the other stuff we were recording at the time we just held on to this one for the year end.   In this episode we grapple with a bunch of questions sent to us by patrons of the show. We are not experts, and this conversation, like all of ours is not without its own limitations and shortcomings. We hope t...

This episode is part 2 of Josh's conversation with Alex Charnley, Alana Lentin, and Michael Richmond. This conversation is extremely wide ranging, but focuses around topics of anti-racism, identity politics, neoliberalism, class politics, and politics of solidarity. In this part of the conversation Alex, Alana, and Michael get a little deeper into discussions of anti-semitism, of historical fractu...

In this episode Alex Charnley, Alana Lentin, and Michael Richmond all join the podcast. Josh brought all three of these thinkers together for a discussion on anti-racism in the current conjuncture. This conversation took place across three continents and time zones that were as much as 16 hours apart. Due to its length, we've decided to release this episode in two parts, but because of how arbitra...

In this episode we interview China Miéville.   China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City , Embassytown and This Census-Taker. He has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards. His non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London's Overthrow . He is also the author of October: The Story...

[photos in the collage were taken by Guy Smallman, Callum Ford, and Martin Pope or otherwise found on Palestine Action's social media] In this episode we interview co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori. Ammori has organized against British complicity in the colonization of Palestine and against British   support for the Israeli colonial apartheid regime in historic Palestine for years now. P...

In this episode we interview Efemia Chela. Chela is a Zambian-Ghanian writer, literary critic, and an editor. Efemia joins us in her role as the commissioning editor at Inkani Books, which is the publishing division of The Tricontinental Pan Africa NPC, a research institute that collaborates with and is aligned with the work of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In this conversatio...

In this episode we welcome Robin DG Kelley back to the podcast. Robin DG Kelley is the Gary B. Nash professor of American History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, and the editor or co-editor of even more.   For this episode, Kelley returns to the podcast to talk about the 20th Anniversary Edition of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination .   We talk to Kelley about what has been ad...

In this conversation Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson return to the podcast for the second conversation on their book Rehearsals For Living ( part one is here ). This conversation was recorded in late October, about a month after recording the first part. Most of these questions were conversations from the reading which we just weren't able to ask during our first conversation due to...

[Note: In the episode image the artwork behind Dionne Brand at the podium is by Torkwase Dyson, as is the cover art work for  Nomenclature] In this conversation we are thrilled to welcome Dionne Brand to the podcast.   This is a conversation with her new book Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems and also with a number of her lectures, interviews, and dialogues over the years. If we reference some...

[The image contains the cover of the 25th Anniversary Edition of  Scenes of Subjection , two images of author Saidiya Hartman, and one image from visual artist Torkwase Dyson (which is included in the book) entitled  set/interval/enclosure ] For this conversation we are extremely honored to welcome Saidiya Hartman to the podcast.   In this conversation we'll be talking about the new 25th anniversa...

This is the continuation of our conversation with Winston James about his latest work Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik . In part 1 we talked about McKay's origins in Jamaica up through the Red Summer of 1919 when he would pen his famous poem "If We Must Die." In this conversation we talk about McKay's time in Harlem, his relationship with Hubert Harrison, his support of - and politica...

For this conversation we welcome Winston James to the podcast. Winston James is the author of A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion , The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer 1799-1851, and Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twenty Century America. James has held a number of t...

This is the second part of our two part conversation with Too Black on his piece " Laundering Black Rage "  which you can read over at Black Agenda Report. Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace , host of The Black Myths Podcast which can be found on Black Power Media , he's a writer, and he is the communications coordinator of the Campaign to Free the Pendleton 2 .   Here is part...

Our guest for the episode is Too Black. Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace, host of The Black Myths Podcast which can be found on Black Power Media, he's a writer, and he is one of the organizers of the Campaign to Free the Pendleton 2.   In this conversation we welcome Too Black to discuss his recently published 2 part essay "Laundering Black Rage" ( part 1 , part 2 ) which w...

In this episode we interview multiple people who've been involved in the struggle to Stop Cop City and Defend the Forest in Atlanta. What started as a political struggle against an extremely unpopular massive new police training facility has morphed and evolved in many different directions. We welcome Kamau Franklin from Community Movement Builders back to the platform for the third time for this...

In this conversation Charisse Burden-Stelly returns to the podcast, and is joined by Jodi Dean to talk about their new book Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing .   Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Along with Gerald Horne she co-authored W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life In American History. She is a co-editor o...

In this conversation we speak with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson   Robyn is the author of the bestselling and award-winning book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present . She is also an assistant professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at University of Toronto. She also has a lengthy history of writing about and organizing with social movements aga...

In this episode Dr. Jesse Benjamin returns to the podcast. Like our previous conversation with Jesse we're connecting to talk about a recently released book by Walter Rodney, in this case it's Decolonial Marxism: Essays From The Pan-African Revolution , which is a previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on race, colonialism and Marxism. Jesse Benjamin is a scholar, activist, publisher...

For this episode we welcome Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad back to the podcast. This is our second conversation on  The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power  ( Part 1 is here ) As we noted in our previous conversation we weren't able to get to all of our questions in the first discussion, but Noam and Vijay were generous enough to agree to record a part 2. We recor...

In this episode we are honored to host a conversation with Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, to discuss their brand new book The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power .   Part 2 of the conversaiton can be found here . Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic and political activist. While we couldn't fin...