The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Life of Howard Zinn
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🗓️ 3 November 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Historian Howard Zinn remains a model for left-wing intellectuals who want to not only convey ideas to a public beyond academia but also take action to transform the world that it is their profession to explain. Dan interviews Keeanga Yahmatta-Taylor, a leading intellectual of today's resurgent socialist left, on her foreword to a new edition of Zinn's autobiography, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at Patreon.com |
| 0:05.2 | and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for Dig listeners like you. |
| 0:16.4 | One that you might like is the 2019 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner. A stylish diary filled with radical historical dates |
| 0:21.4 | from across the world. |
| 0:23.2 | The 2019 Verso Radical Diary is a beautifully designed |
| 0:27.0 | weak to view planner where you can keep track of the year ahead. |
| 0:31.2 | Alongside illustrations and book excerpts it features significant radical dates from |
| 0:36.0 | throughout history including the English Civil War and Black Panther |
| 0:39.5 | movement through to the protests of 1968 and feminist emancipation, |
| 0:44.0 | touching on the lives of revolutionary such as Angela Davis, Rosa Luxembourg, |
| 0:48.0 | and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 0:50.0 | The 2019 edition includes illustrations from Savage Messiah, Laura Oldfield Ford's brilliant |
| 0:57.7 | psycho geographic graphic novel, as well as extracts from brand new Verso Books, |
| 1:03.5 | including Revolting Prostitudes, New Dark Age, |
| 1:06.8 | and Paradise Rot. |
| 1:09.0 | The 2019 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner. |
| 1:13.0 | Out now from none other than Verso Books. |
| 1:17.0 | Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel |
| 1:28.9 | Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. His story in Howard Zinn died in 2010. |
| 1:37.7 | Today he remains a model for left-wing intellectuals in how to convey ideas to a broader public beyond academia, and also |
| 1:47.4 | in terms of taking direct action to transform the world that it is an intellectual's profession to explain. |
| 1:55.0 | Teaching at Spellman, a Black Liberal Arts College for Women in Atlanta, |
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