This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com

and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for

dig listeners like you.

One new book from Verso that might be of interest

is Futures of Black Radicalism,

edited by Gay Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin.

Black Rebellion has returned.

Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses.

There is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought.

Here, key intellectuals, inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J Robinson recall the powerful tradition of black

radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it

inspires. This book makes clear that new black radical politics is

thoroughly internationalist and redraws the links between black resistance and

anti-capitalism. Futures of black radicalism features the key voices in this new intellectual wave,

including Greg Burris, Jordan T. Camp, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and many more.

Futures of Black Radicalism, out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Newspapers may be in an unprecedented crisis, but they still know how to sell a good old-fashioned panic over sex or drugs.

Recently, the New Orleans Times-Picayune published a splashy, multi-part investigation

into sex trafficking on Bourbon Street, attempting to do just that.

The paper has described its reporting as exposing, quote, unfettered sex trafficking at adult venues along the legendarily boosy and licentious tourist trap.

But what the lengthy investigation actually did was sloppily conflate the problem of people being forced to have sex with other people for money

with another issue entirely, which is people selling sex consensually, or even just stripping.

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