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Black radio stations were crucial to the success of the civil rights movement in Birmingham Alabama during the 1950s and 60's. Our guest on today's show is Bob Friedman who is the founder of The Birmingham Black Radio Museum.  Bob developed this project.  to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the...

The guests on this episode of The Radical Imagination were major New Left leaders who have continued their lifelong dedication and activism to social causes.

Host Jim Vrettos holds a conversation with Mark Rudd, Al Haber and Robert Ross.

This is a profile piece of Eugene Fodor who was a violin virtuoso and a master interpreter of the modern and classical repertoire. He made his solo debut with the Denver Symphony at 10, began touring at the age of 12 and won numerous competitions in his teen years. Gene passed on February 26th 2011...

Jim Vrettos interviews historian Keisha Blain & activist Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove for a conversation about the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer. Blain has sought to restore Hamer to her proper place in history through her book "Until I'm Free"

As the world careens from one seemingly endless and more intense crisis to another, many have developed a moral amnesia and psychological numbness to the human vulnerability and fragility in and around us.  We seem unaware and incapable of having rational discourses on power, privilege and position...

Our guest today on the Radical Imagination has spent his life writing about, examining and actively trying to transform America's traumatized soul and dysfunctional political system.  Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the first Gulf War and was a foreign correspondent...

This is the 2nd part of our series on voices from the Puerto Rican Socialist Party and Puerto Rico's struggle for independence.  The issues are long-standing, nuanced and complicated. 
 

 ur guest today on the Radical Imagination is Judy Jorrisch, a community and labor union organizer and activist who has spent a lifetime fighting as an advocate for democracy in the U.S., Africa and Latin America.  She's worked on dozens of local, state and national electoral campaigns and was one...