0:08 – Eugene Linden is a veteran climate and science writer whose new book is Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present.

1:08 – Ruth Wilson Gilmore joins us to discuss her latest book Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

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On today’s show:

0:08 – Michael Willrich, professor of history at Brandeis University discusses his book Pox: An American History.

0:33 – David K. Randall (@dkrandall), senior reporter at Reuters discusses his book Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague.

1:08 – Gene Slater discusses his book Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America.

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0:08 – We start this archival show on the theme of Juneteenth with a book talk by Ibram X Kendi (@DrIbram), Professor at Boston University and Director of that institution’s Center for Antiracist Research. The talk was presented by KPFA on May 4th of 2017, discussing his then-latest book, Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Since this talk, he was named on Time’s 2020 list of 100 Most Influential People, and in 2021 received a MacArthur Genius award.

0:33 – In the second hour, a conversation about municipal debt and inequality with Destin Jenkins (@destinkjenkins), Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His latest book is The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City.

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0:08 – As we head into the weekend of Juneteenth, we spend our first segment with Dr. Gregory Carr (@AfricanaCarr), Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University who joins us to chart the path of making Juneteenth a federal holiday. We start in Washington, where Carr meets figures like Opal Lee, who in 2016 famously walked 1,400 miles from Fort Worth, Texas to Washinton, DC to gain Congressional support for Juneteenth.

0:34 – We speak with Dr Jonathan Daniel Wells (@JonDWells), Professor of History in the Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies and History, and Director of the Residential College, at the University of Michigan, about his latest book is The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War. 

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