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Guest: Dr. Chris Beyrer is Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights. Professor of Epidemiology, Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is Senior Scientific Liaison of the COVID Vaccine Prevention Network.   Photo by CDC on Unsplash The post The Pandemic & the Omicron Variant appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mark A. Bradley, author of the book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. Mark Bradley currently is the director of the Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives and Records Administration. He is also a former Justice Department Lawyer and CIA officer. The post A Bloody History of Coal Mining in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of four books, including West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has developed several online projects, including the Invasion of America and, with Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana. The post Dispossession: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Carolyn Forché is a poet, editor, translator, and activist and a professor at Georgetown University.  She is the author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. The post Witness and Resistance to a Brutal Civil War in El Salvador appeared first on KPFA.

  Guest: Sudhir Hazareesingh is a British-Mauritian historian. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy.  He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Mémorial d’Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, a Prix d’Histoire du Sénat for the second, and the Grand Prix du Livre d’Idées for the third. His latest book is Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. Photo Credit: Anonymous on Wikimedia The post The Making of a Haitian Revolutionary: From Toussaint Breda to Toussaint L’Ouverture appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Joanne B. Freeman is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University.  She is a leading authority on early national politics and political culture. Author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and editor of The Essential Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton: Writings, and her latest, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.   Photo credit: John L. Magee – December 2005 on Wikimedia  The post Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Matthew Sturgis is a historian of the 19th century and the author of acclaimed biographies, his latest, Oscar Wilde: A Life.     The post Oscar Wilde: A Life appeared first on KPFA.

Part I – Analysis of the High Profiles Murder Trials in Wisconsin and Georgia Guest: John Burris is a civil rights attorney, based in Oakland, California, known for his work in police brutality cases representing plaintiffs. Part II – The Fight for Freedom of Enslaved Women in Revolutionary America Guest: Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University.  She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, which won the Georgia Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award.  Her latest is Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America   The post The High Profile Murder Trials in Wisconsin and Georgia & The Fight for Freedom of Enslaved Women appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Supply Chain Guest: Robert Kuttner is a Cofounder and Coeditor of The American Prospect and a Professor at Brandeis’s Heller School. His new book, Going Big: FDR’s Legacy and Biden’s New Deal, will be published in April. Part II. The Science and Spirit of the Ocean Guest: Jonathan White is an active marine conservationist, a sailor, and a surfer.  He is the author of the book Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean.   Photo credit: Maurizio Pesce – Tesla Factory, Fremont (CA, USA) on Wikimedia Commons The post The Supply Chain Before Covid-19 & The Current Inflation appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.  She is a world-renowned geologist, and a leading voice on the role of science in society and the reality of anthropogenic climate change.  She is the author of several books including her latest, Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean.       The post The Ocean in a Warming World appeared first on KPFA.