Patricia Kullberg hosts this MLK Day show, which features the following segments:
Identity Politics: Gary Younge is an award-winning author and professor of Sociology at University of Manchester in Great Britain. Younge claims Black, working class, middle class, male, heterosexual, professional and British identities, all at once. What, he asks in this commentary, does that matter? What does it mean for a politics that seeks to dismantle a racist, sexist, anti-gay and imperial world order? Younge takes up the politics of identity, race and racism, and how identity politics alone, including the politics of racial identity, is an insufficient response to the moment. Younge’s most recent book, Dispatches from the Diaspora, investigates decades of the Black diaspora, from the first presidential campaign of Nelson Mandela to the Black Lives Matter movement. This commentary was originally published on July 27, 2023 by Double Down News, a progressive, online journal.
¡Huelga! Strike! Miracle Theater, Teatro Milagro, opens a play about the life of Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. Norm Diamond talks with Maya Malan-Gonzalez, playwright, about the production and about the tradition of social justice theatre out of which it comes.
White Supremacy and Teaching about Race: Earlier this month the authoritarian far right achieved a significant victory in their campaign to eliminate the teaching of anything that contradicts their white supremacist gospel, when they forced the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, a black woman. That resignation was also demanded by a set of super rich donors threatening to stop giving. And last year the right shook up the entire public school system, winning legislation in many Republican controlled states that made it a crime to teach about racism (that the right insists no longer exists), sexual minorities, and more. Bill Resnick talks to Malik Miah, a Black revolutionary activist airline mechanic who retired to write two books and many articles, about the attack and how it can be defeated.
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