KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and former New York Times bureau chief in the Caribbean and Central America, West and Central Africa, Tokyo, and Shanghai. He is the author of the book Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. The post KPFA Special – Africa and the Making of the Modern World appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Douglas W. Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. His book Bringing Nature Home was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers’ Association. He is also the author of two New York Times bestsellers: The Living Landscape and Nature’s Best Hope.  His latest book is The Nature of Oaks. The post Fund Drive Special: Recreating Nature & Saving the Planet at Home appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Rachel E. Gross is an award-winning science journalist and the author of the latest book Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage. She writes for BBC Future, the New York Times, and Scientific American. The post Fund Drive Special: The Vagina: A History appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. He has published more than three dozen books, including The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Jazz and Justice, and his latest, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. The post KPFA Special – Gerald Horne: A History of Counter-Revolutions appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. www.thetricontinental.org He is the author of the book The Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism. He is the editor of Selected Ho Chi Minh. Previously he authored the renown book The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World.   The post Fund Drive Special: Vijay Prashad on Ho Chi Minh appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Vijay Prashad, is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author of the book The Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism. He is the editor of Selected Ho Chi Minh. Previously he authored the renown book The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. The post Fund Drive Special: Vijay Prashad on Learning from Movements in History for Socialism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mary Ziegler is a professor of law at UC Davis School of Law. She is one of the leading historians on the abortion debate and the author of several books including the award-winning After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate; and her latest, Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment. The post Fund Drive Special: How The Anti-Abortion Movement Radicalized The GOP appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Daniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Laws That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. The post 19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Maureen Ferran is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and virologist at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State.   Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash The post The B.A.5 Omicron Variant & The Rise of Monkeypox appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Harvey Smith, public historian, educator, People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group. He is the author of the book Berkeley and the New Deal. For information and updates about People’s Park visit: peoplespark.org The post People’s Park History and Struggle appeared first on KPFA.