Last week, award-winning journalist, activist, and author Barbara Ehrenreich passed away at the age of 81. During her very influential career, she wrote twenty-one books, including the bestselling Nickel and […]
Adolph Reed on Race, Class, and the Jim Crow South
“American politics is coming up to a T-intersection,” says political scientist Adolph Reed. For today’s show, he joins Thursday host Allen Ruff to talk about his new book, The South: […]
Paying Tribute to Black Intellectual Foremother bell hooks
No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much.’ … No woman has ever written enough. – bell hooks, Remembered […]
The Politics of Resentment, Five Years Later
Back in 2016, before the presidential election, political science professor Kathy Cramer published a new book, The Politics of Resentment. It chronicled her findings after traveling around rural Wisconsin and […]
The Rot of the American Ruling Class
How do we get beyond the rhetoric of “the one percent” to discuss the ruling class in twenty-first century America? Thursday host Allen Ruff digs into this and other questions […]
The Radical Life of Hubert Harrison
Hubert Harrison was an immensely influential but underrecognized Black radical who lived and organized in Harlem at the turn of the twentieth century. As part of our Black History Month […]
