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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is my interview with Robin Kelley on his classic book Freedom Dreams, The Black

Radical Imagination, first published in 2002, and then republished last year in a new

edition.

I don't have much to say by way of introduction because this interview, like the book,

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