What becomes available when Black people come together? How do we understand Mike Brown, a child unjustly slain by the state as a kind of Christ? Poet and Scholar, Joshua Bennett joins the WBI show to discuss operating out of an archive of air, the shape of Black ideas, Black exuberance and joy. We chop it up about the praxis of police abolition, the choreography of anti-colonial navigation in the academy, the indebtedness of America to Black folks and the the debt owed by America to Black folks. Read Owed, the second book released by Bennett this year and check out this episode. His many references are in the show notes.

Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis
Links to the episode:
Still Life With First Best Friend
Against Consuming Images of the Brutalized, Dead, and Dying
Being Properly Once Myself
Sobbing School
How It Feels to Be Colored Me, by Zora Neale Hurston
Owed to Eminem by June Jordan
Legendary Nikki Giovanni Speaks on her "Thug Life" Tattoo + New Book "Chasing Utopia"
CHANGE: A World Without Prisons - Ruth Wilson Gilmore in Conversation with Mariame Kaba
NAACP | NAACP History: Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Mis-Education of the Negro
In the Break — by Fred Moten
Gwendolyn Brooks | Primer for Blacks