Ethnicity

“Gimme Some Truth: Obama and Torture, the National Epidemic of Police Brutality and Blowing the Whistle on Stop and Frisk”

Marjorie Cohn, author and Professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, examines the record of the Obama administration on Torture and concludes that the Obama regime has not only continued the Bush program, but taken it to whole new levels of barbarity. War crimes are being committed.

Dave Lindorff, journalist, talks about the national epidemic of police brutality and what's behind it.

John Hoberman, a professor at University of Texas, Austin, and author
of Black and Blue, a scathing exposure of the role of racism in
medicine and its impact on Black people, Black doctors and health
workers and all of us. Larry Everest,Revolutionary journalist and
author, digs into the current situation in Egypt and the stakes for the
Egyptian people, the imperialists and the people of the world. A resident
of Sanford, Florida talks about his repeated bouts with
police brutality and abuse and what it means to meet a movement for
revolution.

Dr. Christian Head is an award winning and highly respected surgeon Department of Head and Neck Surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Head helped found the Johnson Cancer Center Tumor Lab and was a highly regarded surgeon. Dr. Head stood out at UCLA for another reason - he is Black and because of that he has lived under a relentless barrage of racist insults including a slide show developed for a Residents' Roast which featured Dr. Head' s head photoshopped on to the body of a gorilla and being sodomized by his white boss. When Dr.

Oscar Brown Jr. - singer, songwriter, poet, playwright - talks about his life, his music, his poetry and his politics from his start as one of the first Black radio hosts to the influence of Paul Robeson and his life as one of the premier songwriters and performers in the country.

We spend an hour talking with jazz musician, composer and poet, William Parker about his life, his music and his mission to foment revolution and change the world. Parker recently composed a musical accompaniment to "All Played Out," a spoken word piece from Bob Avakian, and Parker talks about what inspired him to do this.

"A World to Change: Bringing Revolution to the Deep South, the
Oppression of Black People and a Musical Score for a Different
World."

On the 20th Anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, when all of the pundits and "wise-men" have declared the LA Rebellion a tragedy at best and mob violence at worst, Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, and Erin Aubry Kaplan, journalist and author, discuss the Rebellion as a very good thing for the people. Dix and Kaplan explore the roots of the rebellion and its significance then and now.

"A Story of the War on Drugs and the Devastation of Black People"

"The Second Killing of Trayvon Martin, A Song for Trayvon and Digging into Samuel Beckett through Waiting for Godot"

Li Onesto, Journalist, Revolution Newspaper, reveals how the system has launched a vicious counterattack in the case of Trayvon Martin, killing Trayvon's reputation as part of the attempt to justify the murder and chill out the anger of the people. Onesto also speaks to the National Day of Outrage and the need to step up resistance around this crime.

"An American Anthem: What's Behind Murdering Soldiers in Afghanistan, Racist Vigilante Killers in Florida and the Blind Arrogance of White Privilege on Stage"

Kathleen Barry, Professor Emerita/author, takes on the assertion that Sgt. Bales was simply a deranged soldier who went nuts and slaughtered 17 people, mainly women and children, in Afghanistan. Barry argues instead that this kind of sociopathic behavior is rooted in the training, mission and purpose of the US military.