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Report from Harlem
Angela Davis
The new code words for racism are welfare and crime. Reagan’s fictitious welfare queen is back. She’s driving her Cadillac and collecting extra checks while decent (read “white”), hard- working people struggle to make a living. In reality, welfare, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, constitutes 1% of the budget. Corporate welfare, on the other […]
Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name
Angela Davis
Liberty and Justice for All?
Angela Davis
African American Women in the Twenty-First Century
Angela Davis
African American women have been rendered invisible for much of history. Although they have held the torch for movements including black empowerment and women empowerment, they have been scarcely acknowledged, and often deliberately suppressed. “Who will speak for us, if we do not speak for ourselves?”, asks Angela Davis in this powerful 1989 talk to African […]
Reproductive Rights and Racism
Angela Davis
Anti-Communism and the Evolution of the Women’s Movement
Margaret Randall, Angela Davis, Rosalyn Baxandall, Amy Swerdlow
Margaret Randall, Angela Davis, Rosalyn Baxandall, and Amy Swerdlow speak at the Institute of Media Analysis Conference. Recorded at Harvard.
The Poetry of Palestine’s National Poet
Mahmoud Darwish
This program features some of Darwish’s finest poems, including “Promises,” “The Roses and the Dictionary,” “My Mother” and “Passport.” You will hear the poems in Arabic followed by English translation. Musical renditions are by famed oud master Marcel Khalife. With the participation of Mohamed Abu Zahra. Part of David Barsamian’s World Poetry Series.
The Wrong Complexion to Get the Protection
Ron Daniels
Stolen. That’s how the year 2000 U.S. presidential election will go down in history to the minds of many Americans. Numerous problems with voting procedures became apparent in the days following the election. But what may be most disturbing is how people of color were literally stopped from reaching the polls. The events that occurred […]
The Color Line in the 21st Century
Ron Daniels
W. E. B. DuBois, the great African American scholar and activist in his classic 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk wrote, “The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line.” Now with a new century where has the line moved. Racism today is far more complex than it was in […]
Racism: Past & Present
Ron Daniels
Racism is a deep fissure that divides the country. It is persistent and pervasive. Evidence of racism is blatant, as in the burning of African American churches. And it’s also subtle, as in interpersonal relations. In this powerful and moving presentation, Ron Daniels gives the context and background of racism in America and what must […]
Media and Organizing
Ron Daniels
The power and reach of media are enormous and growing. A crucial question to ask is: Who are the media? Increasingly, they are large corporations that depend on other corporations, i.e., advertisers, to support them. Media are among the most important institutions that maintain, reinforce and reproduce existing societal arrangements. The media set the political […]
Global Health or Global Wealth?
Kevin Danaher
There’s one global economic model that creates wealth for the few, at the expense of the many. In that model, a country’s resources and the labor of its people exist to deliver products with the lowest possible cost and the highest possible profit. That profit goes into the pockets of corporate executives and shareholders. The […]

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