Tag: Interview

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

Robin D. G. Kelley and Bongani Madondo honor the writer's life, work, and legacy.

Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.

Artist-activist Shellyne Rodriguez speaks with Billie Anania about museum labor practices and how Strike MoMA imagines a future of art for the people.

Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book and how talk of “riots” discredits Black political demands.

Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman on the NRA. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.

In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.

An interview with Lorgia García-Peña on ethnic studies and protest.

On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinn’s death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade—including whether he would have voted for Bernie.

Judith Butler talks with Brandon M. Terry about MLK, the grievability of black lives, and how to defend nonviolence today. 

An interview with historian Nell Irvin Painter.