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Our Ancestors Were MessyEslanda and Paul Robeson: Revolutionaries in the Making (Part 1)Eslanda Cardozo Goode and Paul Robeson meet and fall in love during the Roaring 20s in Harlem. They give up promising careers and devote themselves to climbing the ladder of fame and fortune. Can their relationship survive the success that follows? Starring Jason Reynolds
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2026-01-2853 minOur Ancestors Were MessyPaul and Eslanda Robeson: For the Rights of People. For the Rights of Workers. (Part 2)Essie & Paul’s passions lead them to the front lines of the fight to defeat fascism. Starring Jason Reynolds
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Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey 1898-1939 by Paul Rob...
2026-01-2852 min
Socialism ConferenceThe Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to FascismWayne Au, David Stovall, Jesse Hagopian, Barbara Ransby, Davarian Baldwin, and Bill Ayers speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2025. Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth. How should a broad movement for educational justice be framed and forged?The next Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago, September 4-7, 2026. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. ...
2025-10-281h 02
Block & BuildAuthoritarian Testing Grounds w/ Stacy SuhThis week on the show we take a look at the Trump administration's multifaceted attacks on immigrants as testing grounds for authoritarian control, how we got to this point, and what efforts are being made to push back. Joining to discuss is Program Director at Detention Watch Network, Stacy Suh.
Resources from this episode
Troops in the Street: What Does an Authoritarian Takeover Look Like? with Barbara Ransby and Barbara Weinstein
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2025-10-1345 min
Honing InBlack Queer Feminist Alchemy with Dr. Eric Darnell PritchardWelcome back to Honing In and to my interview with Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard.Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard (they/them) is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and Brown Chair in English Literacy and Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. They are also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. They earned their BA in English-Liberal Arts (magna cum laude) from Lincoln University, the nation’s oldest historically Black college and university (HBCU). They also earned an MA in Afro-American Studies and a PhD in English (with di...
2025-10-0857 min
Revolutionary Baddies PodcastBlack Feminism. Ladies, Are We Locked In?Where would we be without radical Black feminism? One obvious answer is, Revolutionary Baddies would not exist. They stand on the shoulders and move with the urgency and examples of ICONIC Black feminists that shaped history in spite of this country. In this episode, Brittany and Dee Dee give light to the necessary struggle waged against patriarchy and misogyny, as we fight white supremacy and imperialism. Our future depends on our ability to come together for these changes and make space for new ways of being. However, Black Feminism has been co-opted by mainstream US media and neoliberalism...
2025-06-041h 04
Haymarket Books LiveBlack Studies and the Fight Against FascismJoin us Robin D.G. Kelley, Barbara Ransby, Davarian Baldwin, Robyn Spencer-Antoine, Johanna Fernández, and Sarah Haley for a discussion on the fight to defend Black studies in the face of ongoing fascist attacks against education.Speakers:Davarian Baldwin is a leading urbanist, historian, and cultural critic. Baldwin is the author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities (Bold Type Books, 2021), Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (UNC, 2007) and co-editor, with Minkah Makalani, of the essay collection Escape From New York! The...
2025-04-041h 32
Secular Homeschool RevolutionRewriting Women’s History: Centering BIPOC VoicesThis Women's History Month, we're doing more than just adding names to a list. We're dismantling the traditional narrative and centering the powerful stories of BIPOC women. Join host Ashley as we dive deep into why it's crucial to rewrite history, moving beyond the often-told stories of white women to highlight the resilience, leadership, and groundbreaking contributions of Black, Indigenous, Latina, Asian, and other women of color. We explore the importance of intersectionality, the need for diverse role models, and how to actively integrate these vital stories into your homeschool journey and beyond. We'll discuss how the erasure of...
2025-03-0527 min
MusesEslanda & Paul Robeson (Essie & Paul)In this episode Dr. Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) are talking about two of the most accomplished people to have ever lived: Eslanda & Paul Robeson, who inspired Dan's song Essie & Paul, which you can hear on Bastille Presents... "&": https://bastille.lnk.to/ampersandstore.Actor, a singer, activist; doctor, author, manager. Catch the Robeson bug from Emma and Dan, as they tell you just how amazing they were. We also hear from Ciara Ismail of Bolt Strings, about the sound of the song.Due to the live recording next...
2024-11-271h 01
Mr. Hutchings HistoryAfter Selma, 1965: The Continuation or Disintegration of the Civil Rights Movement in the SouthWelcome to Mr. Hutchings History! In today’s episode, we examine the trajectory of the Civil Rights Movement in the South following the landmark Selma marches of 1965. Did the movement lose momentum after the Voting Rights Act, or did it evolve through local activism, grassroots efforts, and new ideological directions?
Key Topics:
Post-Selma Challenges: Explore the arguments for disintegration, including ideological splits, the shift toward economic justice, and the rise of Black Power.
Local Activism: Understand how grassroots efforts, particularly in Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi, sustained voter registration drives, challenged systemic inequality, and shaped the movement’s le...
2024-11-2234 min
Socialism ConferenceThrough Steadfast Movements to Liberation (Closing Plenary)Barbara Ransby, Nada Elia, Rossana Rodríguez, and Janene Yazzie speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2024. This session was sponsored by
From Palestine to Chicago and across the globe, protests and strikes are surging and moving toward longer-term visions of social transformation. The Socialism 2024 closing plenary will provide perspectives on what it takes for movements to thicken relationships, deepen solidarities, and grow into a force of our own to shape the coming political landscape and achieve a lasting liberation.
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2024-11-041h 00
Lost Prophets#5. Ella Baker, Septima Clark, and The Highlander Folk School (ft. Stephen Lazar and Daniel Marshall)This episode takes us into the long history of the Civil Rights Movement as we talk about the methods and legacies of two long-distance runners, Ella Baker (1903-1986) and Septima Clark (1898-1987).Baker was a legendary organizer who espoused a group-centered form of leadership and insisted that deep change required the long-haul “spadework” of community organizing. Clark, known as “the teacher of the Civil Right movement,” built a network of Southern Citizenship Schools, which were crucial to the emergence of Black voting power in the early 1960s.We also discuss the influence of the famous Highland...
2024-10-092h 39
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersWhen Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberationwith Guest Hosts Lisa Lee and Adam Bush interviewing Bill Ayers, and with surprise interventions from Light Ayli, Barbara Ransby, and Tom Morello.What is freedom? What are the "freedom dreams" that encourage us and move us forward? How do we get free? Join our brilliant guest hosts as they chop these questions up in dialogue with Bill Ayers.
2024-09-051h 13
KPFA - Democracy Now!Democracy Now 6am – August 23, 2024 (2-hour special)On today’s 2-hour show:
“Historic Moment”: Barbara Ransby on the Symbolism and Shortcomings of Kamala Harris’s Nomination
Watch: Palestinian-American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn’t Allow on Stage
Thousands March Against U.S. Arming of Israel as Harris Accepts Presidential Nomination
How Shirley Chisholm and Fannie Lou Hamer Paved the Way for Kamala Harris
“Two Faces of American Capitalism”: Juan González on What the RNC and DNC Reveal About U.S. Politics
“A Generational Fight”: Political Organizers on Kamala Harris, Defeating Authoritarianism and More
“A Testament to Our Power”: Chicago’s Little Palestine Resists Racism, Disenfranchisemen...
2024-08-2359 min
Interdependent StudyAnti-Apartheid Organizing on CampusThere are many similarities between student organizing and protests against South African apartheid in the 1980s and the student organizing and protests against the genocide in Palestine today. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss a piece in Hammer & Hope titled “My Time Organizing on Campus Against Apartheid in South Africa” by Barbara Ransby, which details her experience as a young college organizer working towards transnational solidarity and fighting racism, settler colonialism, and South African apartheid in the 1980s, as well as the connections to organizing work and protests taking place on college campuses today, and what we learn and take...
2024-08-2123 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersElla Baker & The Black Freedom Movement with Barbara Ransby and Asha Ransby-SpornThe dynamic and engaging Socialism 2024 conference will meet in Chicago from August 30 through September 2, shortly after the sure-to-be chaotic Democratic National Convention, bringing together thousands of socialists, activists, abolitionists, and organizers from across the country and around the world to name this political moment, build community, and gather strength for the struggles ahead. We hope you will join us. In anticipation of the coming gathering we’re looking back to the spirited Socialism 2023 conference, and highlighting an inspiring and relevant intergenerational conversation between legendary scholar-activist Barbara Ransby and the peace and justice organizer/activist Asha Ransby Sporn.
2024-07-111h 27
The Electronic IntifadaReclaiming higher education, with Barbara RansbyWatch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYI2rUPkNgg
Guest: Dr. Barbara Ransby, John D. MacArthur University Chair and Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois Chicago
2024-05-2235 min
UIC PodcastThis is UIC Weekly: May 10, 2024UIC biochemistry major named Goldwater scholar
Historian Barbara Ransby elected to American Academy of Arts and Science
UIC researchers advance technologies to power unmanned vehicles
2024-05-1002 min
This is UIC WeeklyThis is UIC Weekly: May 10, 2024Featured stories this week:
UIC biochemistry major named Goldwater scholar
Historian Barbara Ransby elected to American Academy of Arts and Science
UIC researchers advance technologies to power unmanned vehicles
2024-05-1002 minUIC PodcastThis is UIC Weekly: May 10, 2024UIC biochemistry major named Goldwater scholar
Historian Barbara Ransby elected to American Academy of Arts and Science
UIC researchers advance technologies to power unmanned vehicles
2024-05-1002 min
UIC PodcastThis is UIC Weekly: May 10, 2024UIC biochemistry major named Goldwater scholar
Historian Barbara Ransby elected to American Academy of Arts and Science
UIC researchers advance technologies to power unmanned vehicles
2024-05-1002 min
This is UIC WeeklyMay 10, 2024: UIC researchers advance technologies to power unmanned vehicles and moreThis is UIC Weekly: May 10, 2024
- UIC biochemistry major named Goldwater scholar: https://today.uic.edu/uic-biochemistr...
- Historian Barbara Ransby elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences: https://today.uic.edu/historian-barba...
- UIC researchers advance technologies to power unmanned vehicles: https://today.uic.edu/uic-researchers...
Visit https://today.uic.edu for these stories and more.
2024-05-1002 min
Radicals in ConversationOn Abolition Feminism with H.L.T. QuanWe’re excited to have H.L.T. Quan on the pod this month, as we publish her new book Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living.
Joined by Professors Barbara Ransby and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, the conversation circles the themes of the book, exploring topics such as radical love, transformative justice, and ungovernability in the South African context, including during the struggle against Apartheid.
Become Ungovernable reveals the mirage of mainstream democratic thought and the false promises of liberal political ideologies, offering an alternative approach: an abolition feminism drawing on a kaleidoscope of re...
2024-02-0850 min
Africa World Now ProjectPt III - applying Malcolm XImage: Fran Beal Thank you for tapping into Reflections on Malcolm X through the … 1990 Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle conference … this is the final installment, Pt. III – Applying Malcolm In this series, Africa World Now Project is sharing some of the sessions from this conference in an effort to engender serious engagement, in this very moment, a moment where it is essential to be intentional with one’s political practice with Malcolm. Not in the narrow confines of him as an individual or pigeonhole him to moments and soundbites, but to identify the tradition that produced Malcolm...
2024-01-041h 36
Socialism ConferenceElla Baker and the Black Freedom MovementBarbara Ransby and Asha Ransby-Sporn speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
Ella Baker (1903-1986) was a grassroots organizer who shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power the Black freedom struggle. What not everyone knows is that she was also a radical with socialist politics. Barbara Ransby discusses Baker's life and her political contributions, many of which hold lessons for organizers struggling for justice today.
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2023-12-1854 min
Edible Activist#144: Cuzzin' Talk: Food Justice, A Social MovementXavier's Top Recommended Reads for Black Food Organizers and Advocates:Black Rice by Judith A. Carney Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malinda Patrice Some Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and the Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malinda Patrice Some Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby Land Justice: Re-imaging Land, Food, and the Common...
2023-07-101h 05
Courage Becomes HerBONUS - SUMMER READS: I Won’t Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You with Ally Henny In this bonus episode of Courage Becomes Her, we continue our summer reads series with Ally Henny to talk about her new book, I Won’t Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You. Ally talks about her journey of being silenced, as both a child and an adult, and trying to find her voice. She shares about her experiences with racist and toxic leadership, and the tipping point of realizing that she could assert her voice and speak out against racism. She shares how we can contribute in a meaningful way to liberation from ra...
2023-07-0753 min
Surviving Society ProductionsS2/E4 Barbara Ransby, Derecka Purnell, Chantelle Lewis & Sophia SiddiquiA key note conversation with Barbara Ransby, historian, writer and long-time activist based in Chicago and Derecka Purnell, human rights lawyer and social justice organiser based in the US. Chaired by Surviving Society’s Chantelle Lewis and IRR’s Sophia Siddiqui.
Intro music: Passport on our face - John Pandit
2023-05-021h 01
Interdependent StudyDeSantis is up to no goodWe must do all we can to organize and fight against racism and fascism in our society. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss an op-ed piece called “Ron DeSantis’ Attack on Black Studies Is Textbook Proto-Fascism” by Barbara Ransby in Truthout, which calls out and examines Governor DeSantis’ recent and ongoing racist and fascist efforts, and what we should do in Florida and beyond to combat these dangerous measures and embrace history, learning, and justice.
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2023-02-1530 min
AirGoEp 313 - Jared Ball ReturnsWhat if we told you that we had a thoughtful, insightful, informed conversation about the relationship between American Black folks and American Jews, in the midst of the Kanye Kyrie Kerfuffle? Would you believe it? This episode is the proof that it is possible and in fact pivotally important. The guys are joined by repeat guest and friend of the show Dr. Jared Ball. Dr. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. He is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”, co-founder of B...
2022-12-011h 07
Listen, Organize, Act! Organizing & Democratic PoliticsS2.E.3.1: Ella Baker - Part 1This episode discusses the work of Ella Baker and the different traditions and influences that shaped her organizing and her understanding of democracy. Baker didn’t write much and what she did write is not widely available. Instead, her approach is taught through accounts of it by historians of the civil rights movement and her biographers. So it is her life and practice that I focus on in this two part episode. In part 1 of the episode I discuss Baker's biography, her vision of democracy, and her legacy with my colleague, Wesley Hogan. Wesley is Research Professor at the Fr...
2022-08-181h 26
Hello SomebodyLet's Learn from Ella Baker with Senator Nina TurnerSenator Turner highlights civil-rights trailblazer Ella Baker (1903-1986). SNT plants revolutionary seeds in us today as Ella Baker did to millions of others decades ago. One main thought? The time for radical change has always been now. #HelloSomebody LINKS: Ella Baker https://ellabakercenter.org/who-was-ella-baker/ Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker by Joanne Grant https://icarusfilms.com/if-ell1 Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Dr. Barbara Ransby https://barbararansby.com/ella-baker/ On...
2022-07-2839 min
Haymarket Books LiveAssata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and M4BL w/ Donna Murch & Barbara RansbyJoin Donna Murch and Barbara Ransby for a conversation about state violence, racial capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives.
This is a book launch event for Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives by Donna Murch, available at Haymarketbooks.org.
Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by award-winning Panther scholar Donna Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration.
“Donna Murch is one of the sharpest, most incisive, and elegant writers on racism, radicalism, and struggle today. In...
2022-05-171h 25
Haymarket Books LiveEslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson w/ Barbara RansbyJoin Dr. Barbara Ransby and Dr. Lynette Jackson for a conversation celebrating the release of Ransby's new memoir, Eslanda.
Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin's Russia, and China two months after Mao's revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment—an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women's rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the mo...
2022-04-291h 00
Strands of Our NationDr. Barbara Ransby - Episode 4In conversation with Dr. Barbara Ransby, a professor of African American Studies and the John D. MacArthur Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with students, professors, and community members discussing Dr. Ibram Kendi’s research on antiracism; the presidential inauguration and the future of democracy; and, what does it mean to work for equality, justice, and racial equity.
2022-04-2027 min
The ThoughtStretchers PodcastBob Moses, Civil Rights Leader/EducatorDrew Perkins talks with historian Stewart Burns about the life and legacy of educator and civil rights leader Bob Moses. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Union Institute and University Institute for Social Justice (TISJ) at Union Institute & University Algebra Project Young People's Project (extension of Algebra Project, led by its student alums) Laura Visser-Maessen, Robert Parris Moses (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2016) Barbara Ransby: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003) Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Univ. of...
2021-09-011h 42The ThoughtStretchers PodcastBob Moses, Civil Rights Leader/EducatorDrew Perkins talks with historian Stewart Burns about the life and legacy of educator and civil rights leader Bob Moses. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Union Institute and University Institute for Social Justice (TISJ) at Union Institute & University Algebra Project Young People's Project (extension of Algebra Project, led by its student alums) Laura Visser-Maessen, Robert Parris Moses (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2016) Barbara Ransby: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003) Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Univ. of...
2021-09-011h 42
AirGoBlack Freedom Convos Vol. 3 - Black Marxism, Internationalism, & Anti-Fascism w/ Barbara RansbyAirGo is partnering with friend of the show and self-appointed honorary cohost Eve Ewing to present Black Freedom Conversations, a suite featuring Eve in conversation with Black scholars toward collective Black liberation and learning. Each episode corresponds to lectures given by the featured scholar, which are available for free at https://www.blackfreedomlectures.org/. Episode three features Eve in conversation with Barbara Ransby. Ransby is the John D. MacArthur Chair, and Distinguished Professor, in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She also directs the campus-wide So...
2021-08-1859 min
Haymarket Books LiveCelebrating Black Women's Leadership w/ Angela Davis, Barbara Ransby, & moreJoin Barbara Ransby, Angela Davis, Andrea James, LaTosha Brown, and M Adams for “Celebrating Black Women’s Leadership, Then & Now” part of the 11th annual Beyond the Bars Conference.
Beyond the Bars - Towards Freedom: Violence, Safety and Abolition in 2021 This year marks the 11th annual Beyond the Bars Conference, coming one year after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in which multiple crises have unfolded, and the growth of social movements struggling for a more just and safe world have increased significantly. Given this, we hope to create deep and thoughtful conversations about the many forms of violence that our so...
2021-06-111h 07
1 big thingThe week in politicsNew decisions from the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden's busy week and the exclusive communications firm that helped the prosecution in Derek Chauvin's trial - a wrapup of this week in politics.
Plus, activists and the Chauvin verdict - one historian's perspective.
And, who’s ready for the Oscars?
Guests: Axios' Margaret Talev and Sara Fischer and historian and activist Dr. Barbara Ransby.Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Justin Kaufmann, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Amy Pedulla, Na...
2021-04-2311 min
ConvergenceBarbara Ransby: Capitalism and racism intertwine and feed on each otherIn this twelfth episode of Black…
2021-04-211h 01ConvergenceBarbara Ransby: Capitalism and racism intertwine and feed on each otherIn this twelfth episode of Black Work Talk, host Steven Pitts welcomes Barbara Ransby, professor of history at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Barbara has written extensively on the Black Freedom Movement on topics ranging from Ella Baker and Eslanda Robeson to the current Black Lives Matter movement. Our conversation took place soon after the…
2021-04-211h 01Black Work TalkBarbara Ransby: Capitalism and racism intertwine and feed on each otherIn this twelfth episode of Black Work Talk, host Steven Pitts welcomes Barbara Ransby, professor of history at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Barbara has written extensively on the Black Freedom Movement on topics ranging from Ella Baker and Eslanda Robeson to the current Black Lives Matter movement. Our conversation took place soon after the release of the videos of the Chicago police’s killing of 13-year old Adam Toledo and we began our talk examining the battle for justice in the face of police brutality. We moved on to look at the relationship between policing and political economy. During the episo...
2021-04-211h 01ConvergenceBarbara Ransby: Capitalism and racism intertwine and feed on each otherIn this twelfth episode of Black…
2021-04-211h 01
Black Work TalkEpisode 12: Barbara RansbyIn this twelfth episode of Black Work Talk, host Steven Pitts welcomes Barbara Ransby, professor of history at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Barbara has written extensively on the Black Freedom Movement on topics ranging from Ella Baker and Eslanda Robeson to the current Black Lives Matter movement. Our conversation took place soon after the release of the videos of the Chicago police’s killing of 13-year old Adam Toledo and we began our talk examining the battle for justice in the face of police brutality. We moved on to look at the relationship between policing and political economy. During the e...
2021-04-211h 01
AirGoEp 277 - The Mentorship Suite Vol. 3: Shanna BenjaminAirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. On this episode, we travel into the AirGo origin story to talk with the professor who brought us together–the brilliant Shanna Benjamin. An incredibly significant mentor for both Dame and Kiss, Shanna is the author of the recently published Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay. She talks about being mentored by Nellie McKay, how she approaches her work in and out of the classroom, and her memories of young Damon an...
2021-04-081h 29
New Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara RansbyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Author: Barbara Ransby Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives. A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power t...
2021-03-3030 min
Listen To This Spellbinding Full Audiobook — Perfect On The Go.Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara RansbyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/2778to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Author: Barbara Ransby
Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Format: mp3
Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
Release date: 03-30-21
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 36 ratings
Genres: Cultural & Regional
Publisher's Summary:
One of the most important African-American leaders of the 20th century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned 50 years and touched thousands of lives. A gifted grassroots organizer, Baker shunned the spotlight in favor of vital behind-the-scenes work that helped power t...
2021-03-309h 21
AirGoSawyer Seminar Vol. 1 - The Portal Project w/ Barbara Ransby and Stacey SuttonRead the transcript of this episode here: https://drive.google.com/file/u/2/d/1afPC0oxn3Q98vqnGMECaD8Mj8feZ7-Jl/view?usp=sharing AirGo is partnering with UIC's Social Justice Initiative to present The Sawyer Seminar, a series of conversations hosted by UIC scholars entitled Radical Care, Real Alternatives. On the first episode, we're sharing a talk between Prof. Stacey Sutton and Prof. Barbara Ransby about the Social Justice Portal Project, a collaborative think tank that crosses disciplinary boundaries to address the urgent questions of social justice faced by our communities. SHOW NOTES Social Justice Portal Project - https...
2021-03-0943 min
Someone You Need To Know with Rashanah BaldwinExploring The Black Agenda For The Biden/Harris Administration, Social Activism, Political Engagement, & More With Dr. Barbara RansbyIn this week’s episode of “Someone You Need To Know”, Rashanah discusses the Black agenda for the Biden/Harris Administration, economic empowerment, political engagement, and social activism with Dr. Barbara Ransby, Historian, UIC Professor, Activist, and Author.For years Dr. Ransby has been doing notable work not just nationally but internationally around social justice. “She was apart of the anti-Apartheid/ Free South Africa movement in the 1980s She is a founding member of the national organization Scholars for Social Justice and works closely with The Movement for Black Lives and the multi-racial coalition, The Rising Majority.Dr...
2021-02-1029 min
Living in the USAPandemic Aid: Harold Meyerson; plus Barbara Ransby, Ella Taylor--& Remembering Rennie DavisBiden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill: Harold Meyerson says he won't reduce it. Also: the Republicans, and the impeachment.
Plus: Biden and Black America: Barbara Ransby comments.
And Ella Taylor reviews "Dear Comrades!", the Russian film about a massacre of striking workers in Russia in 1962.
Finally, we remember Rennie Davis -- he died on Feb. 2.
2021-02-0552 min
The Nation PodcastsJoe Biden and Us: Joan Walsh; plus Barbara Ransby on Biden and Black America and Gary Younge on Storming the CapitolBiden’s inauguration marked a triumph of hope over fear, says Joan Walsh. First we celebrate, and then we go to work debating what is possible and what is necessary—all the things that real people really need. The next four years will bring progressives some political frustration and some disappointments, but that will be so much better than what we’ve had for the last four yers.
Plus: In Joe Biden’s first speech as president-elect, he promised Black America that he would have their backs. Now he needs to take prompt action to fulfill that pledge. Barbara...
2021-01-2143 min
Start Making Sense ClipsJoe Biden and Black America: Barbara RansbyIn Joe Biden’s first speech as president-elect, he promised Black America that he would have their backs. Now he needs to take prompt action to fulfill that pledge. Barbara Ransby comments--she’s a historian, writer, and longtime political activist, a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, best known for her award-winning biography Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement.
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2021-01-2116 min
AirGoEp 270 - Angela DavisYup, it's real–we can't believe it either. The guys have the extraordinary privilege and honor of talking with legendary Black revolutionary Angela Davis. She discusses her experience this summer during uprising, the remarkable popularization of abolition, the significance of addressing gender violence and inequality in the fight for liberation, and much much more. Wow! SHOW NOTES Grace Lee Boggs and Jimmy Boggs - http://boggscenter.org/ Audre Lorde - https://alp.org/about/audre Fumbling Towards Repair - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Creative Interventions toolkit - https://www.creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit/ George Jackson - http://www.hi...
2021-01-1458 min
Hello SomebodyLet's Get Ella Bakered with Dr. Barbara RansbyOur former history professor SNT prophesizes with respected historian, author, activist, intellectual and educator, Dr Barbara Ransby. These two history teachers make an intersectional analysis on where we’ve been and where we’re going by looking specifically at the Black woman’s experience in America and how that affects ALL people. Looking back to our foremothers and sisters like Ella Baker and Anita Hill, Turner and Ransby – bonded in defense of ourselves – present an educational prelude to how we must reimagine society in a fundamental way to see a future that embraces equality across race, class, gender, economics and wealth...
2021-01-0754 min
Ella's VoiceWho Was Ella Baker? pt. 1Follow Dr. Barbara Ransby on twitter.Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a Radical Democratic Vision is published by the University of North Carolina Pres.Phil Hutchings page on SNCC Digital Gateway.Alfredo Lopez' wikipedia page and his current project, May First Movement Tecnology.Visit our website at www.EllaBakerCenter.org.
2020-12-1357 min
Under the Tree: A Seminar on Freedom with Bill AyersKnow What Time It Is ft. Barbara RansbyVoter suppression may be the only strategy left for the reactionaries, but, truth-be-told, voter suppression is as American as cherry pie, baked deep in the national DNA. Founded on war and conquest, land theft and forced removal, ethnic cleansing and genocide, kidnapping and a complex system of generational slavery based on African ancestry, the US is hardly innocent in spite of the noisy protestations of the White Nationalists. It’s a settler-colonial, racial capitalist system, and the founding documents are crystal clear: power will be exercised by and for the few. A fundamental revolutionary duty—and really the responsibility of anyo...
2020-11-1240 min
Africa World Now ProjectThinking w/ Ella Baker w/ Zach Norris [Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights]Image: Ella Baker at the November 1974 Puerto Rican Independence Solidarity Rally Attempts to distort, rewrite, dilute, misdirect, and misguide the impact of our radical scholars, radical thinkers, activist, artist, and advocates are carefully planned practices by those who hold perceived positions of authority. The exclusion of important Africana thinkers and activist is not a matter of simple exclusion, but a matter of intentional attempts to disrupt the continuity of radicalization. Ella Baker words from a speech titled, “The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle” delivered at the Institute of the Black World in 1969, are still sharply true today. Ms. Bake...
2020-09-031h 18
The Feminist AgendaEpisode 4: Jasmine and Higher Education as a Political BattlegroundJasmine Banks (she/her), Executive Director of UnKoch My Campus. The vision of UnKoch My Campus is to preserve our democracy through protecting higher education from actors whose expressed intent is to place private interests over the common good.
Jasmine mentions the following tools in how she organizes her feminist agenda:
Slack
Temi
People and concepts mentioned in the podcast include:
The Koch Brothers
The nonprofit industrial complex
Loretta Ross
Barbara Ransby
"They Didn't See Us Coming" by Lisa Levenstein [Basic Books]
Ghost Tense - Gone [YouTube]
The Feminist Agenda logo is by V...
2020-07-3042 min
What's Stopping You? with Kelsey JonesEP 30: Dr. Ashley Farmer on Systemic Racism in America, Intersectionality & Active AllyshipToday's episode is one of my proudest moments as a podcaster. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Ashley Farmer, an author and educator of African American History and Black Radicalism. I took her course in African American History at The University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 2019, and it was one of the most eye-opening experiences of my college career. In this episode, we talk about Black History, how to be an active ally, grammatical and linguistic distinctions, police brutality, Black Lives Matter, and so much more. I really hope you enjoy this episode...
2020-07-281h 02
New DawnAnti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom“Anti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom” was a live conversation held on July 7, 2020. Megan Ming Francis moderated the discussion between Barbara Ransby, Juliet Hooker, and Vesla Weaver. They discuss what the current moment reveals, the power of radical imagination in black struggle, and how to keep the momentum.
Selected Publications by these scholars:
Francis, Megan Ming. Civil Rights and the Making of the American Modern State (2014).
Hooker, Juliet. Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (2017)
— Race and the Politics of Solidarity (2009)
Ransby, Barbara. Ella B...
2020-07-151h 06New DawnAnti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom“Anti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom” was a live conversation held on July 7, 2020. Megan Ming Francis moderated the discussion between Barbara Ransby, Juliet Hooker, and Vesla Weaver. They discuss what the current moment reveals, the power of radical imagination in black struggle, and how to keep the momentum.
Selected Publications by these scholars:
Francis, Megan Ming. Civil Rights and the Making of the American Modern State (2014).
Hooker, Juliet. Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (2017)
— Race and the Politics of Solidarity (2009)
Ransby, Barbara. Ella B...
2020-07-151h 06
The WheelhouseThe Wheelhouse: It's Okay To Cry. Or To Chant.The country is jolted by the death of George Floyd, and by nation-wide demonstrations against police brutality that sometimes turned violent. How did we get to this point? What should be done to make law enforcement and society more just? Guests: David Collins -- Columnist for The Day in New London (@DavidCollinsct) Bilal Sekou -- Associate Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Hartford (@bilalsekou) Colin McEnroe -- Host of The Colin McEnroe show, and a columnist at Hearst Connecticut. (@ColinMcEnroe) Some reading suggestions for people trying to un...
2020-06-0349 min
People's Historians PodcastBlack Feminist Organizing: 1950s to the 21st Century (w/ Barbara Ransby)In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby about Black feminist organizing from the 1950s to the 21st Century. Read about the event and find related resources.
2020-05-3054 min
Ignite A Transformative Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. Foner - editor, Clayborne Carson - introduction, Barbara Ransby - forewordPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/88447to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Panthers Speak
Author: Philip S. Foner - editor, Clayborne Carson - introduction, Barbara Ransby - foreword
Narrator: Korey Jackson, Robin Miles, Cary Hite
Format: mp3
Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
Release date: 05-19-20
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 39 ratings
Genres: Politicians
Publisher's Summary:
From its founding in 1966 to contemporary attempts to censure its history and revise its significance, the Black Panther party has aroused fear, hope, pride, vilification, and government-sponsored oppression. This is the first and only collection of the most vital, representative writings of the party. Here...
2020-05-191h 15
Noire HistoryNoire HistoirA book review of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement which was written by Barbara Ransby and tells the story of Ella Baker’s life. Visit the Noire Histoir YouTube Channel or website for the full review. Show notes and are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/ella-baker-and-the-black-freedom-movement-book-review.
2020-03-1422 minNoire HistoryNoire HistoirA book review of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement which was written by Barbara Ransby and tells the story of Ella Baker’s life. Visit the Noire Histoir YouTube Channel or website for the full review. Show notes and are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/ella-baker-and-the-black-freedom-movement-book-review.
2020-03-1422 min
AirGoEp 215 - #BYPSpotlight with Asha Ransby-SpornBlack Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. This month’s #BYPSpotlight episode features Asha Ransby-Sporn, an organizer, movement worker, and National Organizing Co-Chair for Black Youth Project-100. She also was one of the central organizers who pushed Columbia University to divest from private prisons over the past few years. We talk community organizing basics, what are some ways to bring people into the work, how we can begin to rethink our relationship to land, designing her hypothetical commune, and her relationship with her mom Barbara Ransby (who wa...
2019-11-281h 14
AirGoEp 201 - #BYPSpotlight with Barbara RansbyBlack Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. First up is Barbara Ransby, whose footprint on the Chicago and global social movement landscape is inimitable. A Professor of History, Gender and Women's Studies, and African American Studies at UIC, Barbara has grounded both organizing and scholarship for liberation in the lineages and lessons of Black women. She wrote the highly acclaimed biography Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, as well as two other books, and is the driving force behind the R3 Coalition...
2019-08-2258 min
Apans anatomiFeminism för de 99 procentenÄr feminism som är populistisk möjlig? Och marxistisk samtidigt? I manifestet Feminism för de 99 procenten försöker Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya och Nancy Fraser lansera en sådan plattform för den globala feministrörelse som växt fram de senaste tre åren. Den fjärde vågens feminism som en populism för att samla en majoritet. Utan att tumma på radikaliteten. En majoritetsfeminism, där alla ryms och som utgår från den sociala reproduktionen av arbetarklassen.
LÄS MER:
Feministiskt perspektiv: #8mars: Ostoppbara – feminister för alltid!
https://feministisktperspektiv.se/2019/03/12/8-mars-2019-varlden/
Upprop: Towards a feminist soc...
2019-03-1856 min
Podcast Archives - The DigBarbara Ransby on Black Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter is a poignant slogan and a powerful force for social transformation. It’s also shorthand for a huge array of organizations, mostly led by people that you’ve never heard of, working the daily hard grind of ordinary organizing that stitches together spectacular mass actions into a movement. That’s the subject of the new book Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century by Dan’s guest, historian and activist Barbara Ransby.
Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
Please s...
2018-11-2100 minThe DigBarbara Ransby on Black Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter is a poignant slogan and a powerful force for social transformation. It’s also shorthand for a huge array of organizations, mostly led by people that you’ve never heard of, working the daily hard grind of ordinary organizing that stitches together spectacular mass actions into a movement. That’s the subject of the new book Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century by Dan’s guest, historian and activist Barbara Ransby.
Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
Please s...
2018-11-2100 min
The AMp from VocaloThe Importance of Making All Black Lives MatterDr. Barbara Ransby joined Jill Hopkins on The Morning AMp to talk about her
most recently published book. As a professor of African American Studies at
University of Illinois Chicago, Dr. Ransby's book, "Making All Black Lives Matter",
outlines the scope and genealogy of the Black Lives Matter movement and its direct
impact on today's society.
2018-10-0414 min
The AMp from VocaloThe Importance of Making All Black Lives MatterDr. Barbara Ransby joined Jill Hopkins on The Morning AMp to talk about her most recently published book. As a professor of African American Studies at University of Illinois Chicago, Dr. Ransby's book, "Making All Black Lives Matter", outlines the scope and genealogy of the Black Lives Matter movement and its direct impact on today's society.
2018-10-0414 minPodcast Archives - The DigThe Problem with the Problem with AppalachiaFor many, conservatives and liberals alike, Appalachia provides a skeleton key for interpreting changes in American politics that might otherwise be difficult to comprehend. But the way conservatives and liberals talk about Appalachia tells us a lot more about conservatives and liberals than it does about the region. Elizabeth Catte, the author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia, puts the region and representations of it in historical and political-economic context.
Thanks to Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com. And thanks to University of California Press, which just published...
2018-09-1900 minThe DigThe Problem with the Problem with AppalachiaFor many, conservatives and liberals alike, Appalachia provides a skeleton key for interpreting changes in American politics that might otherwise be difficult to comprehend. But the way conservatives and liberals talk about Appalachia tells us a lot more about conservatives and liberals than it does about the region. Elizabeth Catte, the author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia, puts the region and representations of it in historical and political-economic context.
Thanks to Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com. And thanks to University of California Press, which just published...
2018-09-1900 min
Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism PodcastSpecial Episode on Intersectionality and CapitalismAll too often recently, some have claimed that an analysis that is intersectional militates against one that focuses on class. Well, we're very excited to bring you a special program this month. Rather than our normal interview format, we're featuring a panel that took place at the University of California-San Diego. David was able to participate in this exciting symposium on the topic of race, gender and the contradictions of capitalism. All the speakers also have recently released books. Ula Taylor is Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair of African American Studies at the...
2018-09-0154 min
The Lit Review PodcastEpisode 20 - Part 5: Connecting the Dots from Civil Rights To EcofeminismIn this very special five-part episode, Page sat down with SNCC freedom fighter and Chicago-native, Fannie Rushing, for an extended conversation about her organizing experiences, and the seven books that have helped to define them. Not wanting to cut a single word, the interview is broken up into five parts. Take your time to listen, but take the time. It is a gift to all engaged in the struggle to build a better world.
Fannie's Seven Books:
- Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
- Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
- Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Ce...
2017-07-3135 min
The Lit Review PodcastEpisode 20 - Part 4: Fannie Answers: What is Organizing?In this very special five-part episode, Page sat down with SNCC freedom fighter and Chicago-native, Fannie Rushing, for an extended conversation about her organizing experiences, and the seven books that have helped to define them. Not wanting to cut a single word, the interview is broken up into five parts. Take your time to listen, but take the time. It is a gift to all engaged in the struggle to build a better world.
Fannie's Seven Books:
- Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
- Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
- Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Ce...
2017-07-3132 min
The Lit Review PodcastEpisode 20 - Part 3: Fannie Rushing on Fannie Lou HamerIn this very special five-part episode, Page sat down with SNCC freedom fighter and Chicago-native, Fannie Rushing, for an extended conversation about her organizing experiences, and the seven books that have helped to define them. Not wanting to cut a single word, the interview is broken up into five parts. Take your time to listen, but take the time. It is a gift to all engaged in the struggle to build a better world.
Fannie's Seven Books:
- Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
- Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
- Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Ce...
2017-07-3128 min
The Lit Review PodcastEpisode 20 - Part 2: Fannie talks Capitalism, Racism, Colonialism, and HaitiIn this very special five-part episode, Page sat down with SNCC freedom fighter and Chicago-native, Fannie Rushing, for an extended conversation about her organizing experiences, and the seven books that have helped to define them. Not wanting to cut a single word, the interview is broken up into five parts. Take your time to listen, but take the time. It is a gift to all engaged in the struggle to build a better world.
Fannie's Seven Books:
- Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
- Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
- Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Ce...
2017-07-3136 min
The Lit Review PodcastEpisode 20 - Part 1: Fannie discusses her friend and mentor, Ella BakerIn this very special five-part episode, Page sat down with SNCC freedom fighter and Chicago-native, Fannie Rushing, for an extended conversation about her organizing experiences, and the seven books that have helped to define them. Not wanting to cut a single word, the interview is broken up into five parts. Take your time to listen, but take the time. It is a gift to all engaged in the struggle to build a better world.
Fannie's Seven Books:
- Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
- Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
- Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Ce...
2017-07-3130 min