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Guest: Dr. Clarence Lusane is an author, activist, scholar, and journalist. He is a Professor and former Chairman of Howard University’s Department of Political Science.  He is the author of several books, including The Black History of the White House and his latest, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and democracy. The post Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson: The History and Future of the Twenty Dollar Bill and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Colia Lafayette Clark (July 21,1940 – November 4, 2022), was a committed Pan Africanist, she spent a lifetime in activist work in the areas of civil rights, human rights, women’s rights, workers rights and rights for the homeless and youth.  She was the Green Party’s candidate for the United States Senate in New York in 2010 and 2012. She was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and played a key role establishing equal voting rights in Selma, Alabama. She was also an organizer with the Birmingham campaign, as well as throughout Mississippi. She was chair of Grandmothers for the Release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Clark was born in rural Hinds county Mississippi and spent most of her childhood years in Jackson, Mississippi. Each fall until her late teens, Clark’s family migrated to the Mississippi Delta for cotton picking season. She was born into a land owning clan, but her young father and mother secured a share cropper contract with a local white farmer. The family was an activist family with her father and maternal grandfather working on projects with the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in the neighboring county of Copiah. The post A Civil Rights Warrior of the 1960s: The Legacy of Colia Lafayette Clark appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: How The Midterm Will Effect Congress Guest: Matt Laslo, Capitol Hill Correspondent who has been covering the election for Wired and The Raw Story. Part 2: Florida Goes Deep Red Guest: Mitch Perry is the Senior Reporter for the Florida Phoenix where he’s based in the Tampa Bay area.   Photo by visuals on Unsplash The post How The Midterm Will Effect Congress & Florida Goes Deep Red appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: Election Integrity Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of  Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is a national political reporter focusing on democracy issues. He is the author of The Georgia Way: How to Win Elections Part 2: Young Voters Guest: Marisa Moraza, senior campaign strategist with Power California.  https://powercalifornia.org/ The post Talking About Election Integrity & Young Voters appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peter Fritzsche, professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of the book Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich.  [Rebroadcast] The post How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nomi Prins is an economist, journalist, author, and former Wall Street executive. She is the author of many books including her latest Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever. The post Nomi Prins: How The Financial Markets Abandoned The Economy appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Geoffrey Kabaservice (@RuleandRuin) is a historian of the Republican Party and the Director of Political Studies at the Niskanen Center and the author of a number of books, including Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party. The post The 1994 Midterm Election & The Rise of Partisan Warfare appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jason Scott Smith is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches courses on modern American history, the Great Depression, and the history of infrastructure.  He is the author of Building New Deal Liberalism and A Concise History of the New Deal. The post The 1934 Midterm Election’s Transformative Influence on the New Deal Landscape appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: James N. Green is the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History and the author or co-author of several books on History of Brazil and Latin America, including his latest Brazil: Five Centuries of Change.  He is the Director of the Opening the Archives Project, the National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons. The post Brazil: Militarism, the Far-Right, and the Return of the Left with Lula appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Bess Williamson is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design.   The post A History of Disability and Design appeared first on KPFA.