CS 289: Why I Still Hate Hamilton feat. Ishmael Reed pt. 1

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This episode is hosted by Mario, Trevor and guest co-host Andray Domise. Today we welcome Ishmael Reed. Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, lyricist and essayist and his biography is too extensive to fit in the show notes, but you can go over to https://ishmaelreed.org/drupal/node/1 to read it all. We talk about his new play “The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda” (https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ishmael-reed-haunting-of-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-play-review/) and also his other work throughout the years as well as thoughts on Black literature and movements past and present. Malcolm X, James Baldwin, RIchard Wright, and Langston Hughes get mentioned, as well as a litany of underappreciated greats.
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CS 288: The New Jane Crow feat. J. Khadijah Abdurahman

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This episode is hosted by Trevor. Joining us today is J. Khadijah Abdurahman (https://twitter.com/UpFromTheCracks). Khadijah is a child welfare system abolitionist and an independent researcher whose focus is predictive analytics in the child welfare system. She is the co-founder of Word2RI, an oral history archive of racial justice and gentrification on Roosevelt Island, Director of We Be Imagining, a series of digital programming examining race and technology through infusing academic discourse with the performance arts in partnership with community based organizations in collaboration with Columbia University’s INCITE Center and The American Assembly’s Democracy and Trust Program, and is a visiting researcher and lecturer at Cornell Tech in the Milstein Program .

Also check out her podcast “We Be Imagining” (https://americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast) anywhere you find and listen to podcasts.

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Teaser Preview CS 287: Black Star News Pt. 2 feat. Milton Allimadi

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This episode is hosted by Kenny and T. Today we have guest Milton Allimadi (https://twitter.com/allimadi). Ugandan born Milton Allimadi is a comitted Pan-African. He publishes Black Star News, hosts a weekly show on WBAI New York radio, and he’s an adjunct professor of African History at John Jay College. The new edition of his book “The Hearts of Darkness, How White Writers Created The Racist Image of Africa,” is forthcoming.

Allimadi believes everyone should add these books to their library: Things Fall Apart (Achebe), Decolonizing The Mind (Ngugi), How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Rodney), The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James), Accumulation on A World Scale (Amin), Neo-Colonialism The Last Stage of Imperialism (Nkrumah), The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley), and African Origins of Civilization (Diop). Check out his current decolonizing the mind petition campaign: https://www.change.org/p/the-whole-world-wake-up-africa-rename-victoria-falls-and-lake-after-african-icons?original_footer_petition_id=18028178&algorithm=promoted&source_location=petition_footer&grid_position=8&pt=AVB

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CS 286: Black Star News Pt. 1 feat. Milton Allimadi

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This episode is hosted by Kenny and T. Today we have guest Milton Allimadi (https://twitter.com/allimadi). Ugandan born Milton Allimadi is a comitted Pan-African. He publishes Black Star News, hosts a weekly show on WBAI New York radio, and he’s an adjunct professor of African History at John Jay College. The new edition of his book “The Hearts of Darkness, How White Writers Created The Racist Image of Africa,” is forthcoming.

Allimadi believes everyone should add these books to their library: Things Fall Apart (Achebe), Decolonizing The Mind (Ngugi), How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Rodney), The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James), Accumulation on A World Scale (Amin), Neo-Colonialism The Last Stage of Imperialism (Nkrumah), The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley), and African Origins of Civilization (Diop). Check out his current decolonizing the mind petition campaign: https://www.change.org/p/the-whole-world-wake-up-africa-rename-victoria-falls-and-lake-after-african-icons?original_footer_petition_id=18028178&algorithm=promoted&source_location=petition_footer&grid_position=8&pt=AVB

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Teaser Preview for CS 285: Clarence Thomas and The Reactionary Mind Pt. 2 feat. Corey Robin

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This episode is hosted by Trevor. Today we have on Corey Robin, an American political theorist, journalist and professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He can be found on Twitter at twitter.com/CoreyRobin and at his blog at coreyrobin.com/. We discuss his books Enigma of Clarence Thomas (www.amazon.com/Enigma-Clarence-T…bin/dp/1627793836) and The Reactionary Mind (www.amazon.com/Reactionary-Mind-…27&s=books&sr=1-1)

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CS 284: Clarence Thomas and The Reactionary Mind Pt. 1 feat. Corey Robin

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This episode is hosted by Trevor. Today we have on Corey Robin,  an American political theorist, journalist and professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He can be found on Twitter at twitter.com/CoreyRobin and at his blog at https://coreyrobin.com/. We discuss his books Enigma of Clarence Thomas (https://www.amazon.com/Enigma-Clarence-Thomas-Corey-Robin/dp/1627793836) and The Reactionary Mind (https://www.amazon.com/Reactionary-Mind-Conservatism-Edmund-Donald/dp/0190692006/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=reactionary+mind&qid=1593210227&s=books&sr=1-1)

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Teaser Preview for CS 283: The End of Policing feat. Alex Vitale

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This episode is hosted by Trevor. Today we have Alex Vitale, a Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University. He has spent the last 25 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. He also serves on the New York State Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. His academic writings on policing have appeared in Policing and Society, Police Practice and Research, Mobilization, and Contemporary Sociology. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have appeared in The NY Times, NY Daily News, The Nation, Vice News, Jacobin, and USA Today.

We discuss the current George Floyd and Breonna Taylor protests, and the recent efforts by Campaign Zero to enter the space advocating reformist measures such as implicit bias training and body cam rules, and why defunding and abolition measures are better. T. also takes some time to discuss the bourgeois coopting of the current movement on the ground by Black entertainers and executives.

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CS 282: Live, Love, Work and Catastrophe feat. Rob Delaney

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This episode is hosted by Trevor. Today we have guest Rob Delaney, a comedian, actor and author. You can find him on the Channel 4/Amazon Prime show “Catastrophe,” on his new standup special “Jackie,” and his recent memoir https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQZ6EO8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0.

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Teaser Preview for CS 281: Trans-Europe Express feat. Alexandre and Jamel *DOUBLE EPISODE*

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This episode is hosted by Kenny and Trevor. Today we have Alexandre, who had lived in Germany for some years but now lives in Seattle, and Jamel, who lives in the UK, both talk about experiences being Black in Europe.
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CS 280: Afropessimism feat. Frank Wilderson III *DOUBLE EPISODE*

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This episode is hosted by Kenny and Trevor. Today we have guest Frank Wilderson, professor of Drama and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine. We talk about hs book Afropessimism (https://www.amazon.com/Afropessimism-Frank-Wilderson-III/dp/163149614X) and what it tells us about the current moment we’re in today with the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor protests.

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