Episodes
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
HAP 97 - American Dream - Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
The story of Martin Luther King Jr. up to 1963, focusing on the development of his philosophy of nonviolence.
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
HAP 96 - A Lover’s War - James Baldwin
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
In "The Fire Next Time" and other writings, the essayist and novelist James Baldwin seeks to dispel the illusions surrounding racial and sexual difference.
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
HAP 95 - Black and Blue - Ralph Ellison
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Ralph Ellison provides a new metaphor for the experience of racism in his Invisible Man and tackles topics of art and identity in his essays.
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
HAP 94 - How Did You Happen? - Richard Wright
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Famous for his incendiary novel Native Son, Richard Wright responds in his multifaceted writings to sociology, communism, colonialism, and existentialism.
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
HAP 93 - Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Interview guest Carole Boyce Davies joins us to talk about the radical ideas of Claudia Jones.
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
HAP 92 - Half the World - Claudia Jones
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Claudia Jones argues that Communism provides the remedy for racism and imperialism.
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
HAP 91 - Massa Day Done - Oliver Cox and Eric Williams
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Two Trinidadian political thinkers: sociologist Oliver Cox analyzes the nature of racial prejudice, and historian Eric Williams connects capitalism to slavery.
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
HAP 90 - Move Fast and Break Things - C.L.R. James
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
The Trinidadian historian and cultural critic C.L.R. James applies Marxist analysis to the Haitian Revolution, American cinema, and Shakespeare.
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
HAP 89 - Separate but Unequal - E. Franklin Frazier
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier critiques the Harlem Renaissance and the “black bourgeoisie” for failing to embrace values that will empower black Americans.
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
HAP 88 - The Surreal Deal - Aimé and Suzanne Césaire
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Negritude thinkers Aimé and Suzanne Césaire embrace surrealism and reflect on the relationships between poetry, knowledge, and identity.