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Back to SearchHAP 126 - Fugitive for Justice - Angela Davis
Episode 163
The eventful life and penetrating philosophy of Angela Davis, an icon of resistance deeply informed by Marxism and influential on black feminist thou…
2 years, 6 months ago
HAP 125 - Phenomenal Woman - The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance
Episode 162
Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Alice Walker explore the themes of black feminism (or “womanism”) in their fiction. Warning: this episode contains di…
2 years, 7 months ago
HAP 124 - Double Jeopardy - Black Feminism
Episode 161
1970s black feminists like Toni Cade Bambara, the Combahee River Collective, and Awa Thiam critique white feminist and black nationalist failures to …
2 years, 7 months ago
HAP 123 - History Teaches Us - Walter Rodney
Episode 160
Another Caribbean thinker, Walter Rodney of Guyana, explores Africana history from a Marxist perspective.
2 years, 8 months ago
HAP 122 - A More Human Face - Steve Biko
Episode 159
Famous for his killing at the hands of the Apartheid government in South Africa, Steve Biko was also a deep thinker, who introduced the notion of Bla…
2 years, 8 months ago
HAP 121 - No Agreement - Fela Kuti and Wole Soyinka
Episode 158
The political and musical revolution of Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, and the social critique of his cousin, the playwright Wole Soyinka.
2 years, 9 months ago
HAP 120 - Redemption Songs - Reggae and Rastafari
Episode 157
How the Rastafari movement grew from trends within Africana philosophy, and then passed into global popular culture in the music of Bob Marley and ot…
2 years, 9 months ago
HAP 119 - The Space Race - Afrofuturism
Episode 156
Sun Ra and Parliament-Funkadelic return to claim the pyramids, and Octavia Butler uses science fiction to confront the brutal past of slavery.
2 years, 10 months ago
HAP 118 - African Survivals - Abdias do Nascimento
Episode 155
Abdias do Nascimento, a leader in Brazilian theater and politics, and his theory of Qilombismo.
2 years, 10 months ago
HAP 117 - Spear of the Nation - Nelson Mandela and the ANC
Episode 154
The career and ideas of Nelson Mandela up to the time of his imprisonment, in the context of the founding of the African National Congress.
2 years, 11 months ago