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Talib Kweli And Phillip Agnew Talk Bernie Sanders, HBCUs, Spike Lee, and Reparations

'On this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with activist, community organizer, National Surrogate for Bernie Sanders, and co-founder of The Dream Defenders, Phillip Agnew. Over the course of the next hour and change, the trio dives deep into the importance of HBCUs to the black community, the case for electing Bernie Sanders, and the issues of reparations and identity politics. The conversation is full of big ideas tempered by plenty of laughter.' -- UPROXX Video 

Afrocosmologies -- American Reflections: A Conversation with Curator Frank Mitchell

Bob Thompson, Garden of Music, 1960.'Independent curator, Faron Manuel and Jamaal Barber of Studio Noize Podcast interview Frank Mitchell, curator of the exhibition Afrocosmologies: American Reflections at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art for this episode of BAIA Talks. The exhibition brings together the work of an incredible assortment of artists including Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Elizabeth Catlett, Willie Cole, Melvin Edwards, Titus Kaphar, Lois Mailou Jones, Kerry James Marshall, Alison Saar, Hale Woodruff, Shinique Smith, and Kehinde Wiley along with many additional artists of note. It is accompanied by a 156-page, fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Frank Mitchell, Berrisford Boothe, Claudia Highbaugh, and Kristin Hass.' -- Black Art In America News 

The Unqualified Hostess: Whoopi Goldberg in Conversation with Bevy Smith:

'Whoopi Goldberg, the legendary actor and comedian, sits down with Bevy Smith for a warm and intimate talk about Goldberg's book, The Unqualified Hostess: I Do It My Way so You Can Too! Recorded November 14, 2019, at the 92nd Street Y' 
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Literary LA: Yogita Goyal on the Slave Narrative, Past and Present

'Yogita Goyal, author of Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, joins Eric, Medaya, and Kate to discuss the shape of traditional slave narrative and the ways it has been transformed over the past 70 years across the world and in different genres. Goyal talks about what drew her to this subject, and about teaching the slave story in the Trump and Kanye era. She contrasts abolitionist era slave narratives with those from the past five decades, following their return to prominence in African-American literature in the 1970s, bringing together work by Paul Beatty, Colson Whitehead, and Toni Morrison.' -- LA Review of Books 

Understanding the Chains of Global Imperialism.

'Sociologist Intan Suwandi explores the mechanisms of power in the global economy - as multinational corporations expand their reach into the Global South, they maintain control over technology and commodity chains, extracting and transferring value back to to the Global North, unit by unit, worker by worker. Suwandi is author of the book Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism from Monthly Review Press.' -- This is Hell! 

I Came from the Unknown to Sing: How Poetry Saved a Political Prisoner

'Ghazi Hussein is an award winning Palestinian poet and writer living in Edinburgh. Born in exile in Syria he was first imprisoned at the age of 14, he was never charged but was 'guilty of carrying thoughts'. Repeatedly imprisoned and tortured over the next 20 years he says that writing poetry saved his sanity. Ghazi eventually arrived in Scotland in 2000. After a three year legal battle, the legal evidence of the torture he had endured led him to being granted political asylum in Scotland. This short film, directed by award winning filmmaker Roxana Vilk explores his poetry as the narrative thread to unravel the complex emotional journey he has traveled through and how he came to eventually call Edinburgh home.' -- Aeon Video 

What's In My Bag?: Raphael Saadiq

'Raphael Saadiq goes shopping at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles. His latest album 'Jimmy Lee' is available from Columbia Records' -- Amoeba 

Chicagoans of the Year 2019: Dawoud Bey "The Activist Photographer"

'Dawoud Bey knows how to photograph people. He’s been doing it practically his whole life. What he wasn’t so sure about was turning his lens away from faces and bodies and toward the more elusive notions of place and time.' -- Chicago magazine

Common Sense Mamita: Felipe Luciano Former Chairman of the Young Lords

'Two time Emmy award winning journalist and poet Felipe Luciano is considered one of the top 8 Afro-Latinos who have made huge contributions to the history of the United States. In this interview with Lydia Nicole, he describes how he became involved with the Young Lords Party. Through student activism on campus, Felipe Luciano co-founded the Young Lords Organization New York Branch – a Puerto Rican activist group that started in Chicago with the same missions as the Black Panther Party. Shortly after starting the New York chapter, Felipe was elected as their chairman. He was also a member of the Original Last Poets.' -- Common Sense Mamita

While Black with MK Asante S1:E1: Shopping While Black

'A docuseries that explores racially charged social issues through disarmingly candid conversations – led by author, filmmaker, recording artist, and educator, MK Asante. Produced by Indigo Development, Entertainment Arts and Main Event Media.' -- Snap Originals