In Episode 19, we sit down with Arielle Iniko Newton. Arielle is a writer and organizer within the Movement for Black Lives. She currently serves as Senior Editor of RaceBaitr, and Executive Director and Founder of the Black Giving Fund. 

We talk with Arielle about the Black Giving Fund and it's mission, purpose and principles. We also talk about the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and why it will always be inadequate in the pursuit of Black Liberation. Arielle talks about BGF's work, giving directly to Black organizers, activists, content creators.

We also speak with Arielle about the great work she's apart of over at RaceBaitR.

In this week's short episode, we sit down with filmmaker and musician Boots Riley to talk about his debut film Sorry To Bother You, which hits theaters everywhere July 13th. Boots recently received Sundance Film Festival's Vanguard Award for the film. Boots talks with us about his artistic and organizing history, discusses how getting a film this is radical produced for mass consumption is possible in a society like ours, and discusses the importance of militant labor organizing in the left's ability to build power. 

This week we have two really exciting guests Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctor student in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. William C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian, MTV, Truthout, and Pitchfork among others. We had Zoé on the show all the way back in episode 2, and for William we've been wanting to have him on the show for a long time and this was a great opportunity. This week we're talking to them about their new book which comes on today June 5th on AK Press. So please, if you haven't already bought a copy, log on to AKpress.org or visit your local radical bookstore and get yourself a copy. 

"As Black As Resistance makes the case for a new program of self-defense and transformative politics for Black Americans, one rooted in an anarchistic framework that the authors liken to the Black experience itself. This book argues against compromise and negotiation with intolerance. It is a manifesto for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation."