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Revisit History (with Prof. Robin D.G. Kelley)

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Pod Save the People

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Myles, De’Ara and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including Oklahoma State Board of Education downgrading Tulsa schools  accreditation over implicit bias training, nursing homes suing friends and family to collect on patient bills, Beyoncé pays homage to historical figures on the Renaissance album, while superstar Kelis accuses Beyoncé of disrespect. DeRay interviews author and historian Professor Robin D.G. Kelley about his new book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.

 

News

DeRay https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/28/1113134049/nursing-homes-are-suing-friends-and-family-to-collect-on-patients-bills

De'Ara https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/07/29/beyonce-samples-barbara-ann-teer-speech-on-alien-superstar-and-fans-are-obsessed/?amp

Myles https://www.thefader.com/2022/07/29/kelis-accuses-beyonce-neptunes-disrespect-over-renaissance-track

Kaya https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/30/crt-oklahoma-tulsa-schools-shame-white/

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Drake. I'm gonna pause here for the people. In this episode it's me,

0:06.7

DR Akaya and Miles talking about the news that you don't know from the past week,

0:11.4

the under-reported news, and this week we even focus a little on Beyonce. And I

0:16.2

sit down and talk to Professor Robin Kelly to talk about his new book Freedom

0:19.6

Dreams, The Black Radical Imagination. We tell what his work is a black historian,

0:23.7

his experience documenting the ongoing struggle for black liberation, and I learned

0:27.0

a lot. There were pieces of history in this book that I was like,

0:31.0

here I wish I read this during the protest. Here we go. My best for this week is to

0:38.3

try and find those historical pieces about liberation. I learned so much

0:43.7

Professor Kelly's book the way that other activists long before I was even

0:49.9

somebody's dream or idea I fought and so much of it I wish I had learned

0:58.0

earlier but all of it comes in new times. So I'd say pick a piece of history and learn

1:02.7

that as my advice for this week. Here we go.

1:08.5

Family, welcome to another episode of Todd Save the People. I am DR A

1:14.1

Ballinger. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at DR A Ballinger. I'm Miles

1:18.4

Lee Johnson. You can find me on Instagram and Twitter at Ferro Rapture. I'm

1:22.5

Kaya Henderson. You can find me on Twitter at Henderson. Kaya. This is Drey at

1:27.5

DIY on Twitter.

1:32.2

She's done it again. She has done it again. I'm trying to do I'm trying to do

1:41.0

I'm trying to do it again. I'm trying to do it again. I'm trying to do it again.

1:49.4

It's amazing. It's amazing. It's all the things. There's every type of

1:54.8

version of house music while paying homage to all the people that you need to

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