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Since October 2019, filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have been making it known in the press their disdain for Marvel Comics superhero films and how they are impacting the film industry. With all this going on we decided to syndicate our interview from last year with Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs, a professor of mass communication and print journalism whose most brilliant book Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates, available from Diasporic Africa Press, is one that we cannot recommend enough. Originally recorded when longtime Marvel creator and editor Stan Lee passed away, the conversation quickly embraced the wider history of Marvel and its brand of Cold War liberalism.

This week, we sit down for an extended conversation with Dr. Anthony Monteiro about our contemporary domestic and foreign politics. Monteiro brings to his analysis a lens informed by the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the finest philosophers of the last century. Venezuela, China, Tulsi Gabbard, Russia, all this and more for listeners to think about!

This week, we sit down for an extended conversation with Dr.

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In part two of our report on the Providence Community Safety Act and the illegal so-called “Gang Database” maintained by the Providence Police, we speak with longtime African American radical community organizer John Prince about being Black under the police reign of terror. Next we talk to Attorney Shannah Kurland, who recently authored the legal complaint that the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) filed in a lawsuit against the City, the Police Department, Mayor Jorge Elorza, and other Providence officials for the maintenance of the Gang Database despite municipal law demanding its abolition. With everything from police being blown up on exploding boats by the mob to sexually assaulting women and civilians monitoring their behavior, this is a set of interviews you won’t want to miss.

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For more info on the Community Safety Act and how Rhode Islanders can get involved, click here!

Folks, we are approaching the end of the year, meaning it is time for tax-deductible charitable donations. If you have the ability, please consider supporting members organizations of the coalition responsible for passing the Community Safety Act and holding the City of Providence accountable. So if you have the ability, please consider donating to Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) via and the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) via

Folks, we are approaching the end of the year, meaning it is time for tax-deductible charitable donations. If you have the ability, please consider supporting members organizations of the coalition responsible for passing the Community Safety Act and holding the City of Providence accountable. So if you have the ability, please consider donating to Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) via and the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) via

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Vanessa Flores Maldonado is a brave freedom fighter and organizer with the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM).

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Vanessa Flores Maldonado is a brave freedom fighter and organizer with the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM). She describes here the Community Safety Act (CSA) campaign, a multi-year struggle to pass a law to curb Providence Police brutality, and one of the department’s most vicious instruments of terrorizing Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), the so-called “gang database.” As we approach the end of the year, please consider making a tax-deductible charitable donation to PrYSM via . For more information on the CSA and how Rhode Islanders can plug in to support, visit .Photo Credit: Steve Ahlquist, UpriseRI.

After an extended summer hiatus we are coming back at you very shortly with your irregularly scheduled Washington Babylon podcast!

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This week, we bring you an extended special report on the immigration-incarceration industrial complex.

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This week, Ken is in transit and recovering from jet lag after a whirlwind worldwide reporting trek to parts unknown. So Andrew and Elliot sit down to chat about the dialectic of utopia and dystopia in this extended conversation!

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