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Guest: Nobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog: A Grain of Sand, with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, produced by Paredon Records in 1973, and 120,000 Stories, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2021. Her memoir Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution will be released in June this year. The post Nobuko Miyamoto: From Japanese Internment to Hollywood to Third World Liberation [Re-broadcast] appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1 – The Infrastructure Package Guest host Max Pringle talks to David Dayen. Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect.  He is the author, most recently, of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.  You can find his most recent posts on prospect.org.   Part 2 – How American Journalism Works Mitch Jeserich  talks to Robert M. Smith. Guest: Robert M. Smith, former New York Times White House correspondent. He is the author of the book Suppressed: Confessions of a Former New York Times Washington Correspondent.   Feature image by Jordan Hibbert on Unsplash The post The Infrastructure Package & How American Journalism Works appeared first on KPFA.

Guest host Max Pringle speaks with Andrew Bacevich is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University and founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy. He is the author of The Limits of Power, Washington Rules, The Age of Illusions, and his latest, After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed.  The post America’s Role in the World: A New Approach to National Security 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: Alice L. Baumgartner is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. The post Go South: Mexico and the Abolition of Slavery appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ernest Freeberg is a distinguished professor of humanities and head of the history department at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of three award-winning books, including The Age of Edison. His latest, A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement. The post Birth of the Animal Rights Movement: The Life & Times of Henry Bergh appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Lillian Faderman is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Surpassing the Love of Men, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle.  Her memoir Naked in the Promised Land has been re-published.  Among her many honors are Yale University’s James Brudner Award for exemplary scholarship in lesbian and gay studies, three Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association awards, the Monette-Horwitz Award, the American Association of University Women’s National Distinguished Scholar Award. She teaches literature and creative writing at California State University at Fresno. The post Naked in the Promised Land appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello and her latest, On Juneteenth.   Photo: Emancipation Day celebration in Richmond, Virginia, 1905 on Wikipedia. The post The Meaning of Juneteenth and the Black Experience in Texas appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Marc Stein, professor of history at San Francisco State University and editor of the book The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History. The post A History of The Stonewall Riots appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robert Kanigel is Professor Emeritus of Science Writing at MIT and the author of several books for which he has received many awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEH “Public Scholar” grant.  His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; it has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and was the basis for the film of the same name starring Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel. Professor’s Kanigel latest book is Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry.   The post Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer appeared first on KPFA.