Still Not Free: Students Sue for the Constitutional Right to Literacy; Escaped Slaves Find Freedom in the Dismal Swamp; âBirth of a Nationâ and the Attacks on Nate Parker
Weekly Program
Alisa Hartz (Attorney); Richard Grant (Author and Journalist); Sunsara Taylor (revcom.us, StopPatriarchy.org)
Alisa Hartz, Public Counsel, on a lawsuit vs Michigan charging that it holds Detroit low income students of color prisoner in schools where they are denied their human right to literacy and knowledge of the world. Richard Grant, Recent archaeological discoveries show how escaped slaves found freedom deep in the Great Dismal Swamp. Sunsara Taylor - Just before the release of âBirth of a Nation,â a âcontroversyâ was created based on director Nate Parker's 17-year-old *acquittal* on rape charges.
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Henry Carson - Assistant Producer Jeff Pryor - Production Assistant Matt Cwiklinski - Production Assistant Teddy Robinson - Engineer
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