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Legends Only - A Pop Culture PodcastInto Orbit & Back? I Think I've Done EnoughT. Kyle and Brad discuss their Summerween side quest, an update on the Swiftie community from last week, the Brooke Hogan-Tyla conspiracy theory on Discord, Addison Rae celebrating one year of "Diet Pepsi," tour venue upgrades and VMAs snubs, Zara Larsson out-acclaiming while opening for Tate McRae, Mariah Carey learning that Katy Perry went to space, High Fashion Editorial! featuring Janet Jackson wearing Kylie Minogue, Rihanna's cotton candy Issey Miyake dress, Christina Aguilera serving on a beach, TikTok Talk featuring the "Rubbin my p--y" country song, new music from Deadmau5, Tom Brownlow, Yves, PinkPantheress, Ethel Cain, Miley Cyrus, Amaarae, Chappell...
2025-08-1151 min
Emancipated19. The criminalization of journalism in El Salvador, Ángela Aurora interviews Julia Gavarrete. EPISODE IN SPANISH.In this episode, Ángela Aurora, a Salvadoran journalism professor and visiting scholar at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, interviews Julia Gavarrete, a Salvadoran journalist working for the digital newspaper El Faro. They discuss, in Spanish, the growing criminalization of journalism in El Salvador, the use by the administration of the current Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele of spyware to monitor journalists' phones and computers, and more broadly about the present state of emergency that, in the name of the war on gangs, has justified the repeal of basic rights. Since April the state of emergency has allowed authorities to intercept c...
2022-06-0332 min
Emancipated18. Deported Veterans, a discussion on deportation of U.S. noncitizen service members and immigration law.In this episode, Marta Valier discusses deportations of immigrants from the U.S., more specifically about the deportation of veterans, with Héctor Barajas, director and founder of the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana, Mexico, ACLU immigration attorney Andrés Kwon, and photographer Joseph Silva, author of the photographic exhibition Deported Veterans at the Museum of Social Justice of Los Angeles, which will stay open until July 17. Visit our webpage, CSUN Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, explore our Border Studies archive, and see some of the digitized images of the Julián Cardona Collection.Epis...
2022-05-1318 min
Emancipated17. Abecedario de Juárez, a conversation with Alice Leora Briggs.In this episode we present a slightly edited version of a conversation with artist Alice Leora Briggs, as interviewed by professor José Luis Benavides and Marta Valier. In her newest book, Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon, she and Mexican journalist Julián Cardona, bring to the forefront life in the Mexican border city of Juárez during the Six Years of Death, from 2006 to 2012, when Mexican President Felipe Calderón launched the so-called war on organized crime sending federal forces into the city and violence exploded. This book decodes and visually represents the new language that rose from...
2022-04-0930 min
Emancipated16. The indigenous resistance against megaprojects in the Guatemalan Ixil region, a discussion with anthropologist Giovanni Batz.In this episode Marta Valier talks to Giovanni Batz, President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, about his upcoming book, titled The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Megaprojects and Ixil Resistance in Guatemala. He discusses the Ixil resistance, and the struggle against megaprojects in Guatemala analyzing topics like state-sponsored violence, the persecution of human rights defenders and activists, the negative impact of megaprojects on the indigenous communities, and the historical land inequality in Guatemala.Visit the Bradley Center. You can also browse Richard Cross's photos of the Mayan re...
2021-12-1735 min
Emancipated15. A student presenting clips from the The Black Power Archive Oral History Project.In this episode, Marta Valier talks to Brandon Lien, a Cal State University Northridge (CSUN) student that has been working for the last year at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center on The Black Power Archive Oral History Project, a collection of oral histories documenting the African American experience in Los Angeles. We wanted to hear from a student's perspective what it’s like for younger generations to work with oral histories archived at the Bradley Center. Lien, a film student in his third year at CSUN, shared with us three of his favorite audio clips he discovered working at the...
2021-12-0352 min
Emancipated14. Tijuana, ¿estación de tránsito?En este episodio, Marta Valier habla con Aída Silva Hernández, una académica de Tijuana que ha estudiado y trabajado con migrantes durante los últimos veinte años. Ella habla de cómo la ciudad fronteriza mexicana al sur de San Diego ha cambiado en el último siglo, de una ciudad donde los migrantes iban y venían cuando entraban y salían de los EE. UU. para encontrar trabajo, a una ciudad en la que se quedaban atrapados durante años, esperando. mientras trataba de solicitar asilo en los EE. UU. La espera, diseñada específicamente po...
2021-11-1923 min
Emancipated13. From migration to movement, a discussion with anthropologist Amelia Frank-VitaleIn this episode Marta Valier talks to Amelia Frank-Vitale, an anthropologist that studies the migration of undocumented Central Americans in Mexico. She discusses the caravan of 2018, when strength came in numbers and more than 7,000 migrants joined forces to travel through Central America and Mexico forging a movement that reclaimed the migrants right to mobility in a region where the migration regime dictated by the U.S. forces them into clandestine, and deadly, movement.Visit the Bradley Center website. Also, visit our digital collections and curriculum website.Episode hosted and produced by Marta Valier.
2021-11-0530 min
Emancipated12. Laura Gottesdiener on her report, A drug-trafficking mayor ravaged a local economy, fueling the flight from Honduras.What are the structural impacts of the rise of corruption and fusion of politics and drug trafficking in Honduras? How do they impact local employment, land use, poverty, and hunger? What happens when the drug lords and the legally elected officials destroy the legal agriculture activity that the local rural population depends on? In this episode Marta Valier talks to Laura Gottesdiener, a correspondent for Reuters based in Mexico who wrote the special report on the links between corruption, criminality, drug trafficking, and migration in Honduras, explaining in practical terms way how these dynamics work at the local level. H...
2021-10-2225 min
Emancipated11. Douglas Oviedo on his play, Caravaneros.Guillermo Márquez and Marta Valier talk with Douglas Oviedo, an Honduran writer, musician, and performer who wrote the book Caravaneros, a dramatization about his travel with the caravan of fall 2018, when around 7.000 migrants, mostly from Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, joined forces to walk together reclaiming their right to pass through Central America and Mexico to travel to the United States. This episode is in Spanish. Visit the Bradley Center website.Also, visit our digital collections and curriculum website.Episode hosted and produced by Marta Valier.
2021-10-0827 min
Emancipated10. Ada Trillo on documenting the caravan in 2020In this episode, Marta Valier talks with Ada Trillo about her latest exhibition, La Caravana del Diablo 2020. Trillo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, born and raised in the bi-national border region of Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. In her work, she focuses on the violent impact of the U.S. border policy on migrants. Trillo is the most recent affiliate to the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, and in this episode, she explains how she set up to fly to Honduras to join the caravan in January 2020, where she joined the migrants fleeing violence and poor economic conditions and documented...
2021-09-0930 min
Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness with Tony NesbittNorm Nathan's Vault of Silliness - Ep 43For Episode 43 here on Norm Nathan’s Vault of Silliness the label on the cassette reads June 22nd, 1996. Tom Howie is producing.
We had just moved into new studios at WBZ and let’s just say they were not ready for primetime but that’s what the overnight show is for, right? Pretty much a live, On-Air test study.
Let’s call this one the “Shhhh-ping Show!”
Stay tuned for the riveting explanation of that term and a deluge of technical silliness.
Norm was on the previous night filling in for Bob Raleigh...
2021-06-2547 min
Emancipated9. Todd Miller on Borders (Part 2)In this episode, Marta Valier talks with Todd Miller about his newest book, Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders, 2021. Miller has more than 20 years of reporting and writing about borders and in his latest book he exposes their fragility and debunks all of the typical justifications we hear about their legitimacy, making the case for their dismantling and abolition. #BradleyCenterCSUN #BorderVisit the Bradley Center website.Also, visit our digital collections and our border studies collection.Episode hosted and produced by Marta Valier.
2021-06-1732 min
Emancipated8. Todd Miller on Borders (Part 1)In this episode, Marta Valier presents segments of an oral history interview with Todd Miller, conducted by José Luis Benavides and Pilar de Haro for the Bradley Center. Miller has more than 20 years of reporting and writing about borders—from their massive expansion in the U.S. (Border Patrol Nation, 2014), to their role in preventing climate refugees to migrate (Storming the Wall, 2017), and their central role in protecting the international imperial system (Empire of Borders, 2019). In part 2, we will bring you a conversation about Miller's newest book, Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders, 2021. #BradleyCenterCSUN #Bord...
2021-06-0339 min
Emancipated7. Richard Cross's anthropological work at Palenque de San BasilioMarta Valier talks to Guillermo Márquez about the visual anthropology work that photographer Richard Cross did in Colombia, where he was invited in the late 1970s by anthropologist Nina S. de Friedemann to visually document life in the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque. #BradleyCenterCSUN #Palenque #SanBasilio #ColombiaVisit the Bradley Center website.Also, visit our digital collections and curriculum website.Episode hosted and produced by Marta Valier.
2021-05-0722 min
Emancipated6. Documenting the 2020 BLM Protests in LAMarta Valier talks to Keith Rice and his granddaughter Taylor Walker. Keith is the historian and archivist at the Bradley Center, and last summer he and Taylor decided to document the BLM protests in our serving area for the Center. Some of their images are now part of a digital exhibition depicting protestors occupying intersections, marching in the streets, delivering valiant and inspiring speeches, and displaying thought-provoking signs that collectively demanded equality for the lives of Black people. Visit the Bradley Center website.Also, visit our digital collections and this digital exhibition.Episode h...
2021-04-2231 min
Emancipated5. Afro-Tradition, Environmental Racism, and Black Place-Making in Mexico (Part 2)Panel discussion “Environmental Racism, Gender, and Black Place-Making in Mexico's Costa Chica,” with filmmaker Ebony Bailey, Historian Jayson Maurice Porter, and Anthropologist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Event: February 5, 2021. California State University, Northridge. Episode produced by Marta Valier.Visit the Bradley Center website.Also, visit our digital collections and curriculum website.
2021-04-0823 minEmancipated4. Afro-Tradition, Environmental Racism, and Black Place-Making in Mexico (Part 1)Q&A with filmmaker Ebony Bailey about her documentary "Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro-Tradition in the Heart of Mexico," followed by the panel discussion, “Environmental Racism, Gender, and Black Place-Making in Mexico's Costa Chica,” with Ebony Bailey, Historian Jayson Maurice Porter, and Anthropologist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Event: February 5, 2021. California State University, Northridge. Episode produced by Marta Valier.Visit the Bradley Center website.Also, visit our digital collections and curriculum website.
2021-03-2533 minEmancipated3. Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador (Part 3)Our podcast, Emancipated: Voices and Images from the Archive, continues with the third chapter of Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador, a series produced by our archival researcher Marta Valier and co-hosted by Rosie Rios and Marta Valier, using oral histories with people who lived in El Salvador during the Liberation War (1980–1992). This chapter centers on El Rescate human rights representative Linda Garrett’s encounter with Salvadoran political prisoner Héctor Bernabé Recinos Aguirre, illegally detained for more than four years for organizing the first national strike in 1980. Recinos Aguirre c...
2021-03-1127 minEmancipated2. Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador (Part 2)Our podcast, Emancipated: Voices and Images from the Archive, continues with the second chapter of Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador, a series produced and hosted by our archival researcher Marta Valier, using oral histories with people who lived in El Salvador during the Liberation War (1980–1992). In the second chapter, we keep following Linda Garrett on her trip to San Salvador as a human rights representative for El Rescate and we meet Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, known as Santiago, who also traveled to San Salvador from Nicaragua with the intent...
2021-02-2518 minEmancipated1. Toña’s Crossing the River and Other Stories of Fight and Resistance from El Salvador (Part 1)In this first chapter, we hear from Linda Garrett, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Democracy in the Americas; and Toña Rios, who migrated to Los Angeles from El Salvador in 1981 and is now a pastor at Baldwin Park United Methodist Church in Los Angeles County. Marta Valier produced and hosted this series based on oral histories with people that lived in El Salvador during the liberation war (1980–1992). The 1970s brought to El Salvador increasing government repression, including the creation of government-organized death squads to combat opposition movements and in 1980 a series of failed military juntas too...
2021-02-0409 min
Break The Boxes Stories (BTBS)Season 1. Ep 7: The history and legacy of L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley (w/ Lorraine Bradley)In the final episode of our first season Azmera and guest host Dennis Ojogho sit down with Lorraine Bradley, eldest daughter of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and Chairman of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Foundation. Listen as they discuss her fathers legacy, her work as a public servant, and the lacuna of African American history in the American education system. Follow @breaktheboxes.stories and email: breaktheboxes.us@gmail.com with any feedback + questions! #breaktheboxes
2021-02-0455 min
public words projectEpisode 26 with Mr. Keith Rice Board President of the Museum of Social JusticeDr. Marla Parker wraps up the day at the Museum of Social Justice. What a day! Mr. Keith Rice our final interview for the day. Amazing life, amazing story, fantastic input, all for your ear enjoyment!
Listen in and guess who is from Detroit!
https://www.museumofsocialjustice.org
Sherwin “Keith” Rice, President of the Board is a historian and archivist at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge. Prior to becoming a historian Keith had careers as a computer technician for General Electric and a as studio and live sound engineer for Earth Wind and Fire guitarist Al McKay.
2019-03-0935 min
Futility ClosetThe Mystery of Fiona Macleod When the Scottish writer William Sharp died in 1905, his wife revealed a surprising secret: For 10 years he had kept up a second career as a reclusive novelist named Fiona Macleod, carrying on correspondences and writing works in two distinctly different styles. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll explore Sharp's curious relationship with his feminine alter ego, whose sporadic appearances perplexed even him. We'll also hunt tigers in Singapore and puzzle over a surprisingly unsuccessful bank robber. Intro: In 1904 Mrs. Membury, of Hyde Corner, Bridport, Dorset, set out...
2017-01-1633 min