Public Intellectuals Radio

Public Intellectuals' Teka Lo speaks with Dr. Carl L. Hart. Dr. Hart is a psychologist and neuroscientist. He is a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Hart is known for his research in drug abuse and drug addiction. Hart is one of the first tenured African American professors of sciences at Columbia University. In this interview, we discuss his latest book, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear.

Public Intellectuals Teka Lo speaking with Monique Rodwell and attorney Cynthia Hardaway. Ms. Rodwell is the mother of Branden K. Rodwell, Justin Rodwell, Jaykil A. Rodwell, and Jasper D. Spivey, who were all detained after Branden and Justin had their Fourth Amendment Rights violated in Newark, New Jersey.

Transportation Alternatives is now part of UAW 2110, a Public Intellectuals speaks with Transporation Alternatives Dulcie Canton on unions, nonprofits, the Black & Latinx working class,  and labor.

Public Intellectuals Radio speaks with Lakisha Watson-Moore founder of Empower Mississippi. Empower Mississippi is a diverse coalition of people looking to empower the residents of Mississippi by Getting Out The Vote (GOTV). Moore talks with PI Radio about her hopes, dreams, and future for Mississippi.

Fourth-generation Mississippian and Cornell graduate Shawn Jackson is running for Mayor of Vicksburg. Vicksburg was the site for a critical battle in the Civil War. Mississippi’s 40 percent Black voting base passed Measure 2 in November 2020, possibly putting one of the final nails in the coffin of the 1890 Mississippi Plan. Currently, Vicksburg is a port city with historical roots, charms, and challenges.

Public Intellectuals Radio host Teka Lo interviews Shawn Jackson to find out her plans and visions for Vicksburg and Mississippi, the next Southern state that will flip Blue in 2024.

Public Intellectuals Radio editor Teka Lo interviews The Yellow House Library founders, Chiwan Choi and Babatunde Babafemi. Choi is a poet, writer, and editor at Cultural Weekly and founder of Writ Large Press.  Babatunde Babafemi  (Femi) is a poet and writer based in Nigeria.  The Yellow House Library is a physical lending space and an electronic lending library in Bayelsa, Nigeria.

Public Intellectuals’ editor Teka Lo speaks with Dr. Cintli about Los Angeles Journalism, the Los Angeles Sheriff, Rubén Salazar, Biden/Harris, Alex Padilla, both houses of Congress voting to authorize the creation of the National Museum of the American Latino, and the Chicano, Native, and African American story that begins before the ships.

Roberto Cintli Rodríguez, Ph.D. (Dr. Cintli) is an associate professor in the Mexican American Studies Department at the University of Arizona. He is a longtime-award-winning journalist/columnist who received his Ph.D. in Mass Communications in 2008 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Justice: A Question of Race, a book that chronicles his two police brutality trials, and the co-producer, with Patrisia Gonzales of “Amoxtli San Ce Tojuan,” a documentary on origins and migrations. His “Our Sacred Maíz is Our Mother” (University of Arizona Press, 2014) advances the thesis that Mexican/Central American peoples were not created in 1848 (war) or invasion (1519) but rather with the creation of Maíz some 7,000 years ago. He recently completed “Yolqui: A warrior summonsed from the spirit world” (University of Arizona Press, 2019) on violence against the Black-Brown-Indigenous communities of the United States.

Public Intellectuals' editor Teka Lo and contributor Jack O'Kent give a preview of our January WEB DuBois "Black Reconstruction." We discuss, race, Reconstruction, Marxism, class struggle, white nationalism, poor whites, and more.

Teka Lo and John Kawakami discuss Generation X, politics, race, and more on this episode of Public Intellectuals Radio. 

Public Intellectuals’ editor Teka Lo in conversation with Debt Collective's Dr. Richelle Brooks.