Dr. Michael Conklin is the Powell Endowed Professor of Business Law at Angelo State University. He received his JD from Washburn School of Law, MBA […]
Episode 34 – Colonialism: Religion, Class, Race with Gerald Horne
Professor Gerald Horne discusses his book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth […]
Episode 33 – Black Power in Alabama with Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Hasan Jeffries discusses his book Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt. We talk about what made this rural Alabama County […]
Episode 32 – Racial Diversity with Pamela Newkirk
In Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business Pamela Newkirk exposes the decades-old practices and attitudes that have made diversity a lucrative business […]
Episode 31 – The Women of White Supremacy with Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
We begin with the shocking history of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Law which sought to identify citizens “passing” as white and how this law served to […]
Episode 30 – The Southern Manifesto with John Kyle Day
John Day looks at the congressional statement drafted and signed by 99 congressmen in response to Brown V. Board of Education. The statement, nicknamed the […]
Episode 29 – The Year of White Terrorism with David Krugler
Professor Krugler discusses his book, 1919: the Year of Racial Violence and How African Americans Fought Back. We specifically focus on Chicago and Knoxville riots […]
Episode 28 – Color of Law with Richard Rothstein
Richard Rothstein discusses his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which recovers a forgotten history of how […]
Episode 27 – Dave Brubeck’s Civil Rights Advocacy with Kelsey Klotz
Kelsey Klotz is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her PhD in Musicology with a certificate in American Studies […]
Episode 26 – The Eighth Amendment, Pt. 3 with Alexandra Natapoff
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Alexandra Natapoff discusses her book, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal.