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The Last Negroes at HarvardJohn Woodford talks with Jeffrey Sachs & The Rising Broadcast about Ukraine2024-04-0324 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardA Madman’s Will: John Randolph, 400 Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom. Gregory May is a historian who writes about the early American republic is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After working as a Supreme Court law clerk, Greg practiced law in Washington, DC and New York for thirty years. He lives in Virginia. His book tells the untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821. Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773–1833), which—...2023-06-2849 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardImpermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern AmericaKorey Garibaldiis Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His courses focus on histories of citizenship, imperialism, cultural and economic thought, and the African diaspora.2023-03-1657 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardTruth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision JusticeJudith Herman is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital. Herman has spent the majority of her career addressing issues arising from posttraumatic stress and in particular, incest. She talks about her new book.2023-03-0955 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardWe Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming JusticeTamara Nopper is a sociologist, writer, and editor. She is the editor of We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice… a book of Mariame Kaba’s writings and interviews 2023-02-261h 03
The Last Negroes at HarvardShielded: How the Police Become UntouchableJoanna Schwartz is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She teaches Civil Procedure and a variety of courses on police accountability and public interest lawyering. She is one of the country's leading experts on police misconduct litigation.She has written a new book titled Shielded: How the Police Become Untouchable (Viking, February 14, 2023)2023-02-2355 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardRace in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in VietnamGerald Goodwin is an adjunct professor of history at Le Moyne College and adjunct professor of political science at Onondaga Community College–SUNY.When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their military experiences were shaped by the racial environment of the home front. War is often viewed as a crucible that can transform society, but American race relations proved remarkably durable. 2023-02-171h 00
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Big Fix: The Hunt For the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer & Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret WarBrett Forrest is a national-security reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where his investigative work often focuses on the former Soviet Union. He has covered the war in Ukraine and was the first reporter into the Kiev suburb of Bucha following Russia’s military withdrawal… where he broke news of alleged atrocities.Brett has two new books: The Big Fix: The Hunt For the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer & Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret War 2023-02-0957 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardEating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in AmericaPsyche A. Williams-Forson is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park.
Her book illustrates how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. Black people's relationships to food have historically been connected to extreme forms of control and scarcity—as well as to stunning creativity and ingenuity. In advancing dialogue about eating and race, she urges us to think and talk about food in new ways in order to improve American society on both personal and structural levels.2023-02-0351 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardHalf American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.Matthew Delmont is a Professor of History at Dartmouth. He is also in the Harvard College Class of 2000 (Lowell House).
His new book is filled with compelling narratives that outline with nuance, rigor, and complexity how Black Americans fought for this country abroad while simultaneously fighting for their rights here in the United States. 2023-01-2752 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardWhat the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous "Doll Test" and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the WorldTim Spofford tells the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between two Black scholars who highlighted the psychological effects of racial segregation. The Clarks' story is one of courage, love, and an unfailing belief that Black children deserved better than what society was prepared to give them, and their unrelenting activism played a critical role in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.2023-01-2159 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardA Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative ActionGeoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His new book (with co-author Lee C. Bollinger) is a timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.2023-01-1256 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved theClara E. Mattei is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research (NYC). Her new book explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives. Those motives are the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below. 2023-01-0655 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardDiabetes: History of Race and Disease Arleen Tuchman is a Professor of History at Vanderbilt University specializing in the cultural history of medicine. Her book traces the radical shift over the course of a century in beliefs about which populations were most likely to develop diabetes, from Jews in the early twentieth century to Native Americans, African Americans, and Hispanics today. 2022-12-2956 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe “Psychology of Disagreement”Julia Minson is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
She is a decision scientist with research interests in conflict, negotiations and decision making.
Her primary line of research involves the “psychology of disagreement” – How do people engage with opinions, judgments and decisions that are different from their own?2022-12-1459 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardDemocracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation SocietyVictor Pickard, a Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, talks about his new book and the “news and information deserts” throughout the nation. 2022-12-0759 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardRhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the BeatMacklin Smith and Aurko Joshi
discovered their mutual love of rap music at the University of Michigan, where Macklin Smith taught a popular course in rap poetry… and Aurko Joshi was a student. 2022-11-2655 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardAmerican Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten CrisisOur Harvard’63 classmate Adam Hochschild talks about his new book2022-11-1758 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardCommunity as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color and Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global PerspectiveLorgia Garcia Pena talks about her two new books. She is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar and the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University. She taught at Harvard University from 2013 to 2021… and was denied tenure in 2019.2022-11-0455 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter HettProfessor Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.2022-10-2758 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardAmerican Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First ParamedicsJournalist, TV writer and former paramedic, Kevin Hazzard talks about his new book.2022-10-2250 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardTed Rall... talks about cartoons & politicsTed Rall is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, and Los Angeles Times. His latest books are Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party (June 23, 2020) and The Stringer (April 20,2021)2022-10-0257 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardTrash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First CenturyPatricia A. Turner talks about her new book. She is Professor of African American Studies and of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on racial dynamics as they surface in folklore and popular culture. 2022-09-2257 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardOn Critical Race Theory: Why it matters & Why you Should CareVictor Rayis the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Victor Ray talks about his new book. He was born in Pittsburgh and raised in western Pennsylvania. After receiving his bachelor of arts in urban studies at Vassar, he earned his PhD from Duke University in 2014. His research applies critical race theory to classic sociological questions. 2022-09-1552 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial ReckoningEve Fairbanks writes about change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values, and our ideas of ourselves. A former political writer for The New Republic, her essays and reportage have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Born in Virginia, she now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her new book is titled The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning.
A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really...2022-09-081h 01
The Last Negroes at HarvardPaper Lanterns & HiroshimaClassmate and Podcast group member Peter Grilli talks about Japan and Hiroshima. August 6, 1945 was the day that the United States dropped the atomic bomb!
Peter was one of the producers of a documentary titled PAPER LANTERNS. It tells the story of an atomic bomb survivor and his life long calling to tell the stories of the 12 American POWs killed by the bombing of Hiroshima.2022-08-1858 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardHabits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist ReconstructionTerrance MacMullan is a professor of philosophy and honors at Eastern Washington University, Department of Philosophy. He has written a book titled, Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction.
The book offers a revised and updated look at the concept of whiteness in the United States and offers a distinctive way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits and how to change them.2022-08-1158 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor David Fischer: African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American IdealsIn his new book the University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. 2022-08-0356 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardOutmaneuvering the Supreme CourtAaron Tang is a law professor at the University of California, Davis.
On June 23rd, he wrote a New York Times Opinion piece titled There's a Way to Outmaneuver the Supreme Court, and Maine Has Found It.2022-07-2858 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Tomiko Brown-Nagin talks about the "Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery" reportIn 2019, Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin was appointed chair of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery which is anchored at the Radcliffe Institute. In April of this year, the Committee issued a landmark report detailing Harvard University’s direct, financial, and intellectual ties to slavery. Harvard has committed $100 million dollars to redress harms to descendant communities in the United States and in the Caribbean.2022-07-1859 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardGunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized AmericaRyan Busse is a former firearms industry executive who quit. In his new book he
shows us how America's gun industry shifted from prioritizing safety and ethics to one that is addicted to fear, conspiracy, intolerance, and secrecy. 2022-07-1355 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas... Gal Beckerman talks about his new bookGal Beckerman has written a book about the engines of social change and examines why revolutions ignite and then flame out.2022-07-0758 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Struggle for Environmental Justice in Detroit... Professor Josiah Rector talks about his new book.Assistant Professor Josiah Rector from the University of Houston specializes in 20th century U.S. urban environmental history and the history of the environmental justice movement.
He has written a book titled, Toxic Debt: Race, Capitalism, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Detroit.2022-06-2958 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardFree Renty: Lanier v. Harvard UpdateFree Renty tells the story of her efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty.
This past Thursday the Massachusetts Surpeme Court ruled that Tamara Lanier COULD sue Harvard for EMOTIONAL DISTRESS over its possession of photographs that depict her enslaved ancestors.
But, the Court justices affirmed a lower court’s DISMISSAL of Lanier's property claims to the photographs.2022-06-2502 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardDavid Grubin & Tamara Lanier talk about the documentary: Free Renty: Lanier v. HarvardFree Renty tells the story of Tamara Lanier's efforts to force Harvard University to surrender possession of a daguerreotypes(da·guerre·o·type) of her great-great-great grandfather, an enslaved man named Renty. The daguerreotype was commissioned in 1850 by a Harvard professor named Louis Agassiz. He wanted to use it as part of his research to "prove" the superiority of the white race. The film focuses on Lanier and tracks her lawsuit against Harvard.2022-06-2158 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Samuel Moyn talks about his book: Humane:How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented WarSamuel Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University.
His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies.
Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical—to ban torture and limit civilian casualties—have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? 2022-06-1655 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Didier Fassin talks about his book: Policing the City: An Ethno-graphicOur guest is Professor Did-ee-aa Fassin from the Institute for Advanced study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a French anthropologist and sociologist who has adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order… a graphic book titled Policing the City: An Ethno-graphic
For 18 months, Professor Fassin observed up close the daily life of an anti-crime police unit in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris.2022-06-091h 01
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Michael Brenner talks about misguided American activities in Ukraine.Michael Brenner is Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He challenges American activities in Ukraine and says that American dissent on Ukraine is dying in darkness.2022-06-0157 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardMarxist-Leninist writer Greg Godels talks about the Russia- Ukraine WarGreg Godel writes in MLToday: "Amidst echoes of 1914 and World War I, the political left– far less potent than a century ago– is split between the contestants in a European war.
As in 1914, the rush to pick sides in the conflict in Ukraine clouds all judgment, conjuring the adolescent emotions engaged while witnessing a schoolyard fight. Some on the left portray Ukraine as an innocent victim of a notorious bully and the bully’s long history of belligerence.
Others, long cognizant of the nefarious role of the US and NATO in bringing perceived rivals, renegades, or defiers to their knees, see Ru...2022-05-2557 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardHarvard Crimson reporter Simon Levien writes about A Secret at the Hearth of Adams HouseSimon Levien, a student investigative reporter for The Harvard Crimson writes that ""A fireplace in Adams House has racist caricatures sculpted into its pillars. Without a word, administrators boarded them up to divert attention away. Three years on, they have yet to formally, publicly acknowledge these sculptures or their literal cover-up."2022-05-1853 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Patricia Banks talks about her book: Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate AmericaMount Holyoke College Professor Patricia Banks takes a look at how Black Culture has been leveraged by corporate America.2022-05-1258 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardHarvard Professor Roland Fryer talks about the low level use of force by policeFryer is an economist and the youngest African American to receive tenure at Harvard. He applies empirical methods to social issues beyond traditional economics.2022-05-0558 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardClassmate Ezra Griffith talks about Othering & the Mechanisms of OtheringEzra was born 1942 in Barbados… is a psychiatrist. He is Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry the Yale University School of Medicine
He is also Emeritus Professor of African and African-American Studies at Yale University. He was in the Harvard College Class of 19632022-04-2857 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Victoria Wolcott talks about her new book LIVING IN THE FUTURE: UTOPIANISM AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTProfessor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, Victoria Wolcott talks about her new book.2022-04-2158 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor John Logan on The Amazon Labor UnionJohn Logan. He is a professor of labor and employment studies in the College of Business at San Francisco State University.
He has published widely on labor-management relations, employer opposition to unionization and labor law in the United States and globally. 2022-04-1354 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardMichael Walzer talks about Just and Unjust WarsMichael Walzer is a professor emeritus at the Institute of Advance Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1977 he wrote the landmark book JUST AND UNJUST WARS: A MORAL ARGUMENT WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS2022-04-0754 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardDr. Holly Pinheiro talks about his new book: The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial JusticeDr. Holly Pinheiro... an Assistant Professor at Furman University talks abiout his upcoming book2022-03-3154 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Sam Jackson talks about Oath KeepersSam Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany.
His book is titled Oath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group2022-03-2358 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardDavid Lelyveld '63 talks about Caste & Race in India and the United StatesDavid Lelyveld is a retired Professor of History at William Paterson University in the United States, is the author of Aligarh’s First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India (1978, reprinted 2003) and co- editor of A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective (2005).
David received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has held faculty and administrative positions at the University of Minnesota, Columbia and Cornell.2022-03-081h 15
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Russian Invasion of UkraineMember of the Harvard College Class of 1963 talk about Putin & Ukraine2022-03-0337 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardJohn McCluskey '66 author, athlete & teacher. First black Quarterback at HarvardBack in 1964, when John McCluskey was a Junior at Harvard, he became the first African American to start at quarterback. He has retired from Indiana University as a professor of African American and African diaspora studies. He grew up in Middletown, Ohio.2022-02-2346 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardHarvard Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald talks about Economic & Wealth InequalityDr. Killewald investigates the gendered intersection of work and family. She takes on questions such as: How does marriage and parenthood affect wages? How do wives’ earnings shape their time in housework?
In a second line of research, she analyzes how wealth inequality persists across generations and the role of inter-generational processes in the racial wealth gap. 2022-02-1941 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardSara Mayeux... Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century AmericaSara Mayeux, Associate Professor of Law and of History at Vanderbilt Law School, talks about her new book.2022-02-1055 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardClaude Clegg... The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of ObamaProfessor Claude Clegg... Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill talks about his new book, The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama2022-01-2755 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Kevin Boyle -The Shattering: America in the 1960sIn his new book,Northwestern University Professor Kevin Boyle captures the inspiring and brutal events of this passionate time with a remarkable empathy that restores the humanity of those making this history. Often they are everyday people like Elizabeth Eckford, enduring a hostile crowd outside her newly integrated high school in Little Rock, or Estelle Griswold, welcoming her arrest for dispensing birth control information in a Connecticut town. Political leaders also emerge in revealing detail: we track Richard Nixon’s inheritances from Eisenhower and his debt to George Wallace, who forged a message of racism mixed with blue-collar grievance that Ni...2022-01-1353 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardLNAH Daily: Should the word "Negro" be bannedAre the language police at it again? Has Negro become another "N-word"?2022-01-1016 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardLNAH Daily: The Antonio Brown Meltdown... some thoughts about what happened with that Antonio Brown meltdown and the Tampa Bay Bucs2022-01-1011 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor Todd Gitlin talks about his upcoming book, journalism & the state of the nationTodd Gitlin is professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph.D program in Communications at Columbia University. His upcoming book: The Opposition will be published in the spring.2021-12-3054 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardKate Clifford Larson... Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou HamerHistorian and Harriet Tubman scholar, Kate Clifford Larson talks about her new book: Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer2021-12-1655 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardChester Higgins..... Sacred NilePhotographer and journalist Chester Higgins talks about his new book Sacred Nile... the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. His images illustrate how faith migrated up and down the River Nile from Ethiopia to Egypt leaving vestiges of ancient practice in today's worship.2021-12-0255 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardRon Jacobs... journalist & authorRon Jacobs writes for CounterPunch magazine and talks about an article he wrote about the recent Virginia election for Governor titled THE CONFEDERACY VOTES FOR A WHITE SUPREMACY - IS THAT NEWS?
He is also the author of DAYDREAM SUNSET: THE 60s COUNTERCULTURE in the 70s2021-11-1759 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardHarvard Law Professor Randall KennedyProfessor Kennedy talks about race, the Supreme Court and his new book, SAY IT LOUD!: ON RACE, LAW, HISTORY, and CULTURE2021-11-0456 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardArshay Cooper ... rower, author, filmmaker (A Most Beautiful Thing)He is a Rower, Benjamin Franklin award-winning author, A Golden Oar recipient for his contributions to the sport of rowing, motivational speaker, and activist, particularly around issues of accessibility for low-income families.
His book and new documentary is titled A Most Beautiful Thing… narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio.
It tells the true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives.2021-10-2143 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardVernon Morris... atmospheric scientistThere has been an increase in Black atmospheric PH.Ds, Vernon Morris, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Arizona State University has trained most of them.2021-10-0751 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardAdam Hochschild... journalist, historian, author & our Classmate!Adam Hochschild talks about his books, about writing and about being at Harvard with us2021-09-2354 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Magnolia Mother's TrustAisha Nyandoro is head of Springboard to Opportunities. Their Magnolia Mother's Trust program provides $ 1,000 a month for one year to Black mothers living in extreme poverty in Jackson, Mississippi.2021-09-0732 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardJuliette Kayyem talks about COVID-19, the Unvaccinated and AfghanistanJuliette Kayyem is a former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama and is faculty chair of the homeland-security program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home.2021-08-2840 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardAndrew J. Bacevich Jr. talks about his new book: After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World TransformedAndrew Bacevich is an American historian specializing in international relations and foreign policy. He is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University. He is a retired Army Colonel.
In his new book, After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed, he writes that American foreign policy must change, "the threats are here at home... where we live"2021-08-2254 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardBob Moses (1935 - 2021)Civil Rights leader and educator Bob Moses died on July 25,2021. We speak with his daughter, Maisha Moses. She carries on his work and is Executive Director of the Young People's Project... so that we all reach our full human potential.2021-08-1254 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardCritical Race TheoryGary Peller is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is an expert on Critical Race Theory. He is a contributor to and co-editor of: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement2021-08-0456 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardProfessor David Greenberg is writing a biography of John LewisDavid Greenberg, Professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, is currently writing a biography of the late Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis.2021-07-2854 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardCaleb Scharf talks about his new book: The Ascent of InformationCaleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University, argues that information is alive in a very real sense. All the data we create-- all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-- amounts to an aggregate lifeform. Indeed, we must start to be concerned about our "information footprint."2021-07-1954 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardAmerica on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960sElizabeth Hinton... Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University and Professor of Law at Yale Law School ... talks about her new book.2021-06-3056 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardUrban Universities are ruining our Cities!Professor Davarian Baldwin from Trinity College talks about his new book... In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities2021-06-1155 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921Dr. Karlos K. Hill from the University of Oklahoma talks about one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.2021-06-0356 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardAncient African History: NubiaDebora Heard... PH.D. candidate specializing in Nubian Archaeology at the University of Chicago... sets the record straight about ancient African history.2021-05-1954 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardSoul CityThis is a book about the 1970 visions and dreams of civil rights leader Floyd McKissick... who would attempt to build a new, predominately black city in North Carolina2021-05-0656 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardBlack RepublicansBlack Atlanta businessman and political activist Leo Smith explains why he is a Republican2021-04-2255 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardHarvard KlansmenHarvard Klansmen in 1924 pose for a graduation photo at the foot of the John Harvard statue in Harvard Yard... a look at undisclosed racism at Harvard.2021-04-1320 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe History of Race In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Ages—metaphors that guided the development of notions of race in the centuries that followed. 2021-04-0758 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe History of RaceCord J. Whitaker, Associate Professor of English at Wellesley College, talks about his new book "Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking"2021-04-0702 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardBlack Panther Lynn French talks about the murder of Fred HamptonLynn French was a Black Panther from 1968 to 1973. She was in Chicago when Fred Hampton was murdred by police. She was an advisor on the movie Judas and the Black Messiah2021-04-0233 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardHarvard Forward vs The Harvard Board of OverseersHarvard Forward is an alumni group that is working to elect three candidates to the Harvard Board of Overseers in 2021 on a platform that pushes Harvard to live up to the University ideals: becoming a climate leader, tackling racial injustice, aligning our investments with our values and making governance more inclusive.2021-02-2750 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardKhary Polk talks about his book Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898 - 1948Dr. Khary Polk is an Associate Professor at Amherst College. He talks about his book: Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Workers Abroad, 1898 - 19482021-02-0446 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardCraig Hickman'90... talks about Politics, Being Black, Being Gay & OkraCraig Hickman... a black member of the Harvard College Class of 1990. He is a Democratic politician serving in Maine and openly gay. He is also an organic farmer. 2021-01-1937 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardEzra Griffith talks about his book: Race & Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce & Belonging: Did we feel that we belonged at Harvard?Race & Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce
Belonging: Did we feel that we belonged at Harvard?2020-12-111h 13
The Last Negroes at Harvard... Post-Election PoliticsMarxist-Leninist writer and blogger, Greg Godels and former Fox News anchor, Larry Sparano join us to talk about what happened in the 2020 Presidential Election.2020-11-3032 min
The Last Negroes at Harvard... A conversation with Coleman Cruz HughesWe have a sometimes heated conversation with critical thinker and podcaster, Coleman Cruz Hughes about police brutality and the morality of the Black Lives Matter movement.2020-10-2537 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardA conversation with classmate Lance Morrow about his new bookLance Morrow has a new book out about the drama of money in America. It is titled God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money2020-10-1529 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe First Presidential Debate... and moreA debate about the debate... and racism in the year 20202020-10-0321 minThe Last Negroes at HarvardCan Donald Trump be stopped from appointing a new Supreme Court Justice?Can the Democrats stop Donald Trump from appointing a new Justice to the Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg?2020-09-2809 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardIs it deja vu all over again for the Democrats in Michigan?Michael Moore says that Joe Biden's ground game in Michigan is worse than Hillary Clinton's. John Woodford, who lives in Michigan agrees!2020-09-2117 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardWomen from the Harvard/Radcliffe Class of 1963A conversation with four women from the Harvard/Radcliffe Class of 19632020-09-1826 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardA conversation with journalist Larry SparanoA conversation with former long-time Fox 40 News (Binghamton, New York) anchor Larry Sparano. He says he is a liberal Democrat... but, we have some doubts about that!2020-09-0839 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardPolice DecertificationIs police decertification the answer to police brutality and "bad apple" cops?2020-08-2432 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardWhite PrivilegeOn July 7, 2020, Matthew Alemu...scholar of race, culture and Black men... wrote an opinion piece for the Detroit Free Press.
He wrote that (quote):
Solidarity is not acknowledging your white privilege, but relinquishing it
The PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan is our guest.2020-08-1234 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardWhite Fragility... anti-racism that ignores racism?White Fragility... the latest neologism. Writer and blogger, Greg Godels says that it is a way to be anti-racism without dealing with racism.2020-08-0930 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardFood DesertsGlenn Ford talks about bringing food and economic prosperity to inner city and rural areas that lack both.2020-07-2823 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardVoter SuppressionWe talk about efforts to suppress the black vote and a little bit about the black college experience that we did not get2020-07-1429 min
The Last Negroes at HarvardThe Last Negroes at HarvardAn introduction to the 18 black members of the Harvard College Class of 1963. There were 18 of us. We were the largest number of Blacks ever admitted to Harvard at that time.2020-06-2928 min