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First Things First With Dominique DiPrimaThere is Not a Single Blue State in America" with Dr. James Lance TaylorDr. James Lance Taylor is author of the book Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama, which earned 2012 "Outstanding Academic Title" - Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. He is a former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), an important organization of African American, African, and Afro Caribbean political scientists in the United States.https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/james-lance-taylor https://www.dominiquediprima.com/
2025-09-0442 minFirst Things First With Dominique DiPrimaOur Arts & Culture Will Save Us - Again with Dr. James Lance Taylor(Airdate 2/10/25) Dr. James Lance Taylor is the author of Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama, which earned 2012 "Outstanding Academic Title" - Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. He is a former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS). On this podcast Dr. Taylor helps illuminate the moves by the Republican administration and calls out the role of the arts and our culture as resistance.https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/james-lance-taylor https://www.dominiquediprima.com/
2025-03-1043 min
First Things First With Dominique DiPrimaWelcome Back to the Real America with Dr. James Lance Taylor(Airdate 11/19/24) Professor James Lance Taylor is author of the book Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama. He is a former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), an important organization of African American, African, and Afro Caribbean political scientists in the United States, 2009-2011. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco. https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/james-l... https://www.dominiquediprima.com/ https://kbla1580.com/
2024-11-2142 minFirst Things First With Dominique DiPrimaAre Biden and Trump Equally Racist? w/ Dr. James Lance TaylorProfessor James Lance Taylor is from Glen Cove, Long Island. He is the author of the book Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama. He is a former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS). https://www.instagram.com/jamestaylor1699/ They say “all politics is local.” The KBLA morning show offers news, commentary and conversation from a uniquely unapologetic perspective.
2024-05-1541 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSBlack Women and the Reproductive Justice MovementThis episode of the Freedom Plow podcast looks at Black Women and the Reproductive Justice (RJ) movement. Our two guests are academicians and scholar activists with decades-long experiences in the reproductive justice movement. Dr. Tonya M. Williams is the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cosumnes River College in California and previously worked at Johnson C. Smith University. She spent years in the reproductive justice movement working in California and the Deep South, including as a Program Director at SPARK, a Black-led Reproductive Justice organization in Atlanta. She has also produced groundbreaking research on reproductive justice activism at bot...
2020-06-181h 05
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSArm in Arm, Stronger Together: Labor Organizing on College CampusesThis episode of the Freedom Plow podcast looks at labor organizing on college campuses such as unionization and collective bargaining; struggles for better wages and social benefits; and campaigns against privatization. These battles have been propelled by campus workers (faculty, staff, graduate students) affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, Communication Workers of America, United Autoworkers, Service Employees International Union, Unite HERE, and other unions. Our guests are Dr. Nikol Alexander-Floyd and Patrick Scott. Dr. Alexander-Floyd is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and an Associate Member of the Political Science Graduate Faculty at Rutgers University-New Brun...
2020-03-3152 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSBlack Politics, Neoliberalism, and Class ConsciousnessIn this episode of the Freedom Plow, we talk to Dr. Cedric Johnson about a wide range of topics including neoliberalism, reparations, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. Dr. Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at the University of Chicago at Illinois. He was the editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and co-editor (with Robert C. Smith and Robert G. Newby) of What Has This Got to Do with the Liberation of Black People? The Impact of...
2020-02-031h 16
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSBlacks, Public Opinion, and the 2018 and 2020 ElectionsThis episode of the Freedom Plow looks at black public opinion and the 2018 and 2020 elections. Dr. Ray Block is Associate Professor at Penn State University and the co-author (with Sekou Franklin) of Losing Power: African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics. He is a research analyst for the African American Research Collaborative and Latino Decisions, and one of the lead investigators of a 9,400-person poll during the 2018 mid-term election. Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera is the Political Research director and Managing Partner at Socioanalitica Research and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Humanist Studies. He was one of the lead...
2020-01-1452 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSDr. Kathie Stromile Golden and the Value of International Education and Study Abroad ProgramsIn this episode of the Freedom Plow, Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden talks about the value of international education and study abroad programs as well as her unlikely path from small-town Louisiana to world-wide traveler. Dr. Golden is the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU). She has spent three decades creating and administering international education and study abroad programs, having traveled to 70 countries on all seven continents. Prior to her appointment as Provost, she was the Director of International Programs and Special Assistant to the President at MVSU. She previously served as Proje...
2019-12-2836 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSFrom the Bayou to the Bay: Robert C. Smith and the Evolution of Black PoliticsDr. Robert C. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at San Francisco State University, is one of the country’s best minds on black politics. Dr. Smith has authored and co-authored a dozen books. His final book, which will be published next year is called, From the Bayou to the Bay. The book documents his life journey from rural Louisiana to the San Francisco Bay Area and acts as a guidebook for understanding the struggle over black studies on college campuses on the West Coast and the evolution of black politics from the 1970s to the 21st century.
2019-12-241h 08
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSFive Years After the Police Killing of Tamir RiceFive years ago, 12-year old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a police officer in Cleveland, Ohio. Rice, who was playing with a toy pellet gun, was shot by the officer within two seconds after he got out of his police car. The incident was the latest in a series of police killings and excessive use of force incidences in the city. A Department of Justice investigation completed a few weeks after Rice's killing found persistent and systemic patterns of misconduct by the Cleveland Police Department. This episode looks back at how local organizers and activists in Cleveland eng...
2019-11-251h 03
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSAfrican Americans and the Politics of Immigration in the U.S. SouthThis episode of the Freedom Plow podcast explores African Americans and the politics of immigration in the U.S. South. We have two guests. Dr. Niambi Carter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Howard University. She is the author of American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship. Dr. Jennifer Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of The Browning of the New South. This podcast was recorded in August 2019. The guests make reference to two events that occurred in August: the mass s...
2019-11-2352 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSState Preemption, Takeover, and Black PoliticsThis episode of the Freedom Plow podcast looks at state takeover and preemption. In recent years, state lawmakers have undermined local governments across the country, especially black and Latino-governed cities and school districts. The guests for this podcast are: Dr. Domingo Morel, author of Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in Newark; Dr. Meghan Wilson, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, whose work focuses on public finance, urban development, race and ethnic politics, and state and local government; and Dr. Harold Love, J...
2019-11-1055 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSRadical Self-Care and Blacks in the AcademyThis episode of the Freedom Plow looks at radical self-care and blacks in the academy. Our guest is Dr. Julia Jordan-Zachery. She is the Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. She is the author of numerous publications including Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics and Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag (co-edited with Duchess Harris). Much of her work inside and outside the classroom has focused on radical self-care and work-based trauma impacting African Americans and women. In 2018, she facilitated a webinar on self-care for Ideas on Fire, an academi...
2019-10-2844 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSNorris Henderson, the Angola Special Civics Project, and the Voice of the Incarcerated/Formerly IncarceratedIn this episode of the Freedom Plow Podcast, we interview Norris Henderson, one of Louisiana’s prominent criminal justice advocates. Mr. Norris is the founder and executive director of Voice of the Experienced (VOTE). He spent 27 years in prison on a wrongful conviction. While in prison he was at the forefront of incarcerated activism. He and others developed the Angola Special Civics Project—an electoral organizing and civic engagement initiative, in which justice-involved persons inside of the state’s prison system, mobilized their friends, family, and voters to support criminal justice legislation. Since leaving prison in 2003, Mr. Henderson has been at...
2019-10-1513 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSDr. Christina Rivers & Inside-Out Prison Exchange ProgramsIn this episode of the Freedom Plow Podcast, we talk to Dr. Christina Rivers, Associate Professor of Political Science at Depaul University. Several years ago, as part of her broader research interest in mass incarceration, she began teaching courses in the Stateville Correctional Center (SCC), a maximum security state prison in Illinois. The courses are offered through Depaul’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange program. In this episode, Dr. Rivers talks about the value of Inside-Out programs for justice-involved persons, as well as faculty and students.
2019-10-1539 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSCharisse Burden-Stelly and the Black Radical TraditionDr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is one of the country’s foremost experts on the black radical tradition. She has an impressive research portfolio examining blacks and the Cold War, imperialism, repression, and the black left. Her new book, authored with Gerald Horne, is titled W.E.B Dubois: A Life in American History.
2019-10-0842 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSBlacks and the Politics of GentrificationIn this podcast, we look at gentrification and its impact on public health, affordable housing options, and political representation. We have three guests for this episode. Dr. James Jennings is Professor Emeritus at Tufts University and is one of the leading scholars on urban politics. Chanera Pierce has worked on fair housing policy in Detroit and recently worked as the Policy Coordinator at the Fair Housing Center in New York City. Ari Theresa is a civil rights attorney focusing on Zoning and Administrative Law. He is principal partner of Stoop Law, which is located in the Anacostia neighborhood of South...
2019-10-0759 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSMichelle Boyd and InkWell Academic Writing RetreatsMichelle Boyd, PhD is an award-winning writer and scholar, a writing coach and retreat facilitator, and the founder of InkWell Academic Writing Retreats. She spent the first part of her career studying the political significance of black racial identity. In 2008, her book Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville won a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association. In 2015 she founded InkWell, where she specializes in helping stuck, scared scholars free themselves from fear and build a satisfying, sustainable writing practice. Michelle has helped hundreds of scholars - from all ranks and a wide range of institutions and i...
2019-10-0338 min
The Freedom Plow - A Podcast By NCOBPSThe Freedom Plow PodcastSee http://www.ncobps.org for more information about NCOBPS.
Listening devices can determine the quality of the sound. The theme song is "Freedom" by Lizz Wright.
2019-09-2101 min
A Moment of TruthThe Realities of Black LeadershipInterview with Dr. James Taylor Professor James Lance Taylor is from Glen Cove, Long Island. He is author of the book Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama, which earned 2012 "Outstanding Academic Title" - Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. (Ranked top 2 percent of 25,000 books submitted and top 8 percent of 7,300 actually accepted for review by the American Library Association). Rated “Best of the Best.” The hardback version sold out in the U.S. and the paperback version was published in 2014.He is a former President of the National Conference of Blac...
2019-08-0559 min