From W.HYYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, growing up underground and on the run.

We talk with Zaid Ayers-Dorn. His mother, Bernadine Dorn, was a leader of the SDS, the Student Anti-Vietnam War Group.

She also led a faction that broke away and formed the weather underground,

advocating armed resistance. In his new memoir, Zaid wrestles with questions.

What turns somebody into a revolutionary? How did my mom go from a law student and a civil

rights activist to a top ten most wanted fugitive and a person who advocated bombing government

buildings.

We also hear from writer Jessman Ward.

She's a two-time National Book Award winner, a MacArthur fellow, and the author of Salvage

the Bones and the memoir Minwee Reed.

Her latest book is an essay collection on grief, motherhood,

and survival. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya

Mosley. Terry has our first interview. Here she is. As the child of parents who were

radicals in the 60s and revolutionaries in the 70s, my guest, Zade Ayers-Dorn,

spent his early years underground with parents who were on the run disguising themselves with fake

identities. Zaid Ayers-Dorn's name gives you a sense of his story. His mother, Bernadine

Dorn, was a leader of the 60s radical student group, SDS,

students for a democratic society, which opposed the war in Vietnam and racism.

She and Zade's father, Bill Ayers, helped found the more militant faction that split off from

SDS in 1969 and became the Weather Underground, committed to

armed resistance against the government. For years, Bernadine was on the FBI's 10 most

wanted list. Zaid is also named after Zaid Malik Shakur, the Minister of Information for the New York

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