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A Radical Reframing with Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg
When a popular leader emerges from the whirlwind of a struggle for justice, power always stands in opposition—ignoring the rising demands where possi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Beyond Prison with Jimmy Soto
James (Jimmy) Soto was released from Stateville Prison in November, 2023, after suffering 42 years and 2 months in custody for a crime he did not co…
1 year, 5 months ago
How We Get Free with Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith is a Movement legend— the kind of courageous activist, powerful thinker, persistent organizer and whole-hearted doer who keeps the Move…
1 year, 6 months ago
Culture/Counterculture with Alex Zamalin
Human beings are suspended in webs-of-significance—we make sense and we make meaning—and culture is nothing more nor less than the webs. Those webs-o…
1 year, 6 months ago
To be Close to Books with Emily Drabinski
In America is in the Heart, Carlos Bulosan describes his good fortune at landing a job in a library where he could be close to books: “I was beginnin…
1 year, 7 months ago
Comix Theory with Eve Ewing and Ryan Alexander-Tanner
Comix is a distinct art form—sequential art—that expresses ideas with multiple images, most often combined with text. It's a hybrid (think co-mix) an…
1 year, 7 months ago
Goodbye to All That—Let’s Begin Again with Bill Ayers
When Freedom is the Question… was published on September 10, and we had a book launch that night at our home-away-from-home, Pilsen Community Books, …
1 year, 8 months ago
Brave Community with Janine de Novais
The word “racism” can apply to a specific person or to the social structure, and in our hyper-individualistic culture, the word most commonly devolve…
1 year, 8 months ago
Reckoning with the Wreckage with Davarian Baldwin and David Stovall
This is the country we live in…no doubt about it: white nationalists well-organized and rising; a fascist in the white house surrounded by his loyal …
1 year, 9 months ago
From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood with Christopher Emdin, Sam Seidel, and co-host Adam Bush
Let’s talk about teaching, which means let’s also talk about racism—attitudes, stereotypes, prejudices, for sure, and much, much more. Let’s talk abo…
1 year, 10 months ago