Hey, I'm Shannon Rice, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and this week's Lectures and History podcast is all about underground newspapers from the 1960s.

Boston University professor Angela Ard's discussion includes the work of Emery Douglas.

His art during the civil rights movement visualized a situation that did not yet exist in order to encourage an eventual realization.

Learn more in a moment. Class starts right after this.

So good afternoon, it's good to see everybody today.

We're continuing our conversation of the underground press

with two publications called La Raza and the Black Panther newspaper in the

book that we've been reading our texts for this class John McMillan's The Smoking

Typewriter he has suggested that the outgrowth of these publications

that we've been studying from the 60s, these student radical outsider publications, grew

out of an activist group called Students for Democratic Society, and their work was defined

by the 1962 Port Huron statement, right?

And it's humanistic values of social interdependence and participatory democracy. So we've spent the last month kind of mapping all of that, east, west, north, south, trying to get a sense of that whole network, right,

that is the underground press.

But today we want to start trying to complicate that narrative,

right, to think of who is included

in that particular historical scholarship

on the underground press.

And so talking about two contemporaneous publications, they're from the 1960s,

I'm going to talk about La Raza today, and I hope to get to a little bit of the Black Panther tomorrow,

and then we'll continue our conversation of them both on Thursday.

And I want to start with them because they are two publications that were definitely inspired

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