A Political and Literary Forum
Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.
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Assata Shakur — “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us”
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Fred Hampton — “Power Anywhere There’s People”
Jack O’Dell — “The July Rebellions and the ‘Military State’”
Jesse Gray — “The Black Revolution: A Struggle for Political Power”
Claudia Jones — “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”
A conversation between Arlie Hochschild and Archon Fung.
Arlie Hochschild, Archon Fung
What differentiates the crimes of a terrorist, hacker, or non-state actor from those of a president who launches a nuclear weapon?
Elaine Scarry, Jonathan King, Bruce Ackerman, Kennette Benedict, Bruce Blair, Sissela Bok, Rosa Brooks, John Burroughs, Hugh Gusterson, Edward Markey, Jim McGovern, Zia Mian, William Perry
Cornel West on Martin Luther King, Jr., hope, and the future of activism.
Cornel West
The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.
Daniel Penny
After the slave trade and colonization, history has become a dystopia.
Tananarive Due
As we heap scorn on neoliberalism, we risk throwing out some of its most useful ideas.
Dani Rodrik
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