As we approach the nineteenth anniversary of 9/11, today we turn our attention to the five-trillion-dollar “war on terror” and the construction the racialized terrorist in the American imagination with professor Deepa Kumar, author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire. Deepa Kumar is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, where […]
The History of Racism in the Midwest
There are myths that persist about the Midwest: that it’s just a “naturally” white space, that Black folks haven’t lived here that long, that it doesn’t have the same histories of slavery, racism, and violence as the South. Last week, in the wake of police violence and white vigilantism in Kenosha, Smithsonian Magazine published an […]
Lessons from James Baldwin’s America
The throughline of American history is the “value gap,” or the belief that white people matter more than others, argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr, and this belief disfigures our character and distorts who we purport to be. Today, Dr. Glaude joins Allen on the show to talk about our current racial and political moment and […]
Police Violence at Home and in Portland
Today, we hone in on two sites of police violence: at home and in the streets. First, we discuss the unseen epidemic of domestic violence among police officers and military personnel with Stacy Bannerman, including the uptick in domestic violence across households in the U.S. during the pandemic, the higher rates of partner abuse in […]
“People Fight Where They Are”: Riots Now and Through Time
Today on the show, Allen spends the hour putting the summer’s street protests in historical context by looking at the political valence of riots over time with Joshua Clover, author of Riot. Strike. Riot. Among other things, they talk about reclaiming the word “riot” as a response to state violence, the difference between strikes (the […]
Meet the Youth Activists of Madison’s “No Cops in Schools&...
The “No Cops in Schools” movement in Madison experienced a major victory last week when the school board voted unanimously to end the school district’s contract with the police department and remove SROs from Madison schools. Today, we talk to some of the youth activists who helped make it happen. Our guests are Cilena and […]
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