The Last Negroes at Harvard

Lorgia Garcia Pena talks about her two new books. She is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar and the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University. She taught at Harvard University from 2013 to 2021… and was denied tenure in 2019.

Professor Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.

Journalist, TV writer and former paramedic, Kevin Hazzard talks about his new book.

Ted Rall is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, and Los Angeles Times. His latest books are Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party (June 23, 2020) and The Stringer (April 20,2021)

Patricia A. Turner talks about her new book. She is Professor of African American Studies and of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on racial dynamics as they surface in folklore and popular culture.

Victor Rayis the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Victor Ray talks about his new book. He was born in Pittsburgh and raised in western Pennsylvania. After receiving his bachelor of arts in urban studies at Vassar, h...

Eve Fairbanks writes about change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values, and our ideas of ourselves. A former political writer for The New Republic, her essays and reportage have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Born in Virginia, she now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her new book is titled The Inheritors: An Intima...

Classmate and Podcast group member Peter Grilli talks about Japan and Hiroshima. August 6, 1945 was the day that the United States dropped the atomic bomb! Peter was one of the producers of a documentary titled PAPER LANTERNS. It tells the story of an atomic bomb survivor and his life long calling to tell the stories of the 12 American POWs killed by the bombing of Hiroshima.

Terrance MacMullan is a professor of philosophy and honors at Eastern Washington University, Department of Philosophy. He has written a book titled, Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction. The book offers a revised and updated look at the concept of whiteness in the United States and offers a distinctive way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits and how to change the...

In his new book the University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States.

Aaron Tang is a law professor at the University of California, Davis. On June 23rd, he wrote a New York Times Opinion piece titled There's a Way to Outmaneuver the Supreme Court, and Maine Has Found It.

In 2019, Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin was appointed chair of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery which is anchored at the Radcliffe Institute. In April of this year, the Committee issued a landmark report detailing Harvard University’s direct, financial, and intellectual ties to slavery. Harvard has committed $100 million dollars to redress harms to descendant communiti...

Ryan Busse is a former firearms industry executive who quit. In his new book he shows us how America's gun industry shifted from prioritizing safety and ethics to one that is addicted to fear, conspiracy, intolerance, and secrecy.

Gal Beckerman has written a book about the engines of social change and examines why revolutions ignite and then flame out.

Assistant Professor Josiah Rector from the University of Houston specializes in 20th century U.S. urban environmental history and the history of the environmental justice movement. He has written a book titled, Toxic Debt: Race, Capitalism, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Detroit.

Free Renty tells the story of her efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. This past Thursday the Massachusetts Surpeme Court ruled that Tamara Lanier COULD sue Harvard for EMOTIONAL DISTRESS over its possession of photographs that depict her enslaved ancestors. But, the Court justices affirme...

Free Renty tells the story of Tamara Lanier's efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes(da·guerre·o·type) of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. The daguerreotype was commissioned in 1850 by a Harvard professor named Louis Agassiz. He wanted to use it as part of his research to "prove" the superiority of the white race. The film foc...

Samuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies. Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war mor...

Our guest is Professor Did-ee-aa Fassin from the Institute for Advanced study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a French anthropologist and sociologist who has adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order… a graphic book titled Policing the City: An Ethno-graphic For 18 months, Professor Fassin observed up close the daily life of an anti-crime police unit in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Par...

Michael Brenner is Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He challenges American activities in Ukraine and says that American dissent on Ukraine is dying in darkness.

Greg Godel writes in MLToday: "Amidst echoes of 1914 and World War I, the political left– far less potent than a century ago– is split between the contestants in a European war. As in 1914, the rush to pick sides in the conflict in Ukraine clouds all judgment, conjuring the adolescent emotions engaged while witnessing a schoolyard fight. Some on the left portray Ukraine as an innocent victim of a...

Simon Levien, a student investigative reporter for The Harvard Crimson writes that ""A fireplace in Adams House has racist caricatures sculpted into its pillars. Without a word, administrators boarded them up to divert attention away. Three years on, they have yet to formally, publicly acknowledge these sculptures or their literal cover-up."

Mount Holyoke College Professor Patricia Banks takes a look at how Black Culture has been leveraged by corporate America.

Fryer is an economist and the youngest African American to receive tenure at Harvard. He applies empirical methods to social issues beyond traditional economics.

Ezra was born 1942 in Barbados… is a psychiatrist. He is Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry the Yale University School of Medicine He is also Emeritus Professor of African and African-American Studies at Yale University. He was in the Harvard College Class of 1963