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Guest: James D. Tabor is a Biblical scholar, a retired Professor of Christian Origins and Ancient Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  He is the author and co-author of many books including, The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity; Paul and Jesus: How Paul Transformed the Gospel of Jesus; and Why Waco: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America co-authored with  Eugene V. Gallagher. Resources: James D. Tabor youtube channel James D. Tabor Blog The post The Plan that Almost Brought a Peaceful End to The Siege in Waco, TX appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. Greg King has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation efforts. He is the author of The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods. The post The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: W. Caleb McDaniel is associate professor of history at Rice University in Houston. He won the Pulitzer price in History in 2020 for his book, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. The post Henrietta Wood: A Legacy of Slavery and Reparations in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness trainer and author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. The post Before We Were Trans: A 3,500 Year History appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.  He is the author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. The post In Conversation with Norman Solomon appeared first on KPFA.

Part I: Trump’s Handling of Classified Documents Guest: Mel Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. He was an analyst at the CIA for 24 years. Part II: The Rising Ocean Guest: Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor and Founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Permanent Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Sea Change: Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. The post The Rising Oceans & Trump’s Handling of Classified Documents appeared first on KPFA.

Trump Federal Indictment & The History of the Espionage Act of 1917 Part I: Trump Indictment Guest: Mitch Perry is the senior political reporter for the Florida Phoenix. Part II: The History of the Espionage Act (Repeat) Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. The post Trump Federal Indictment & The History of the Espionage Act of 1917 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: William A. Darity Jr. is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and founding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. With A. Kirsten Mullen, he is author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. Most recently, he is one of the editors of The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America. His latest is  The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice co-authored with Kirsten Mullen. Guest: A. Kirsten Mullen is an independent scholar, folklorist and the founder of Artefactual, an arts consulting practice, and Carolina Circuit Writers, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. Her most recent book is From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century and The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice. The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice Edited by William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, & Lucas Hubbard The post A History & The Case for Black Reparations appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Richard White is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Stanford University.  He is the author of Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University. The post Money, Power, & Murder: The Beginnings of Stanford University appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: James T. Costa is professor of biology and executive director of the Highlands Biological Station at Western Carolina University. He is the author of Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. The post Radical By Nature:The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace appeared first on KPFA.