joins us on her birthday to discuss 鈥渢he wind of freedom鈥� which billows through the North Carolina poet laureate鈥檚 new album of verse and song, 鈥溾�� (Soul City Sounds/2020).
Collaborator, jazz singer and six-time Grammy nominee also joins the conversation to discuss the paradox of celebrating a holiday about freedom when liberation remains a continuous process. Documenting that process is essential to maintaining momentum and exposing those who stand in the way of freedom struggles. INDY Week staff photographer captured the Raleigh demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd. Their photos 鈥� showing the ways unity and confrontation manifest in the gaze and stance between police and demonstrators.
Wilson talks about the importance of collective memory with host Frank Stasio and , professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies as well as African American and African diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Green discusses the ways the history of slavery is warped by modern white supremacy and guilt 鈥� and how black authorship can address those injustices. She is the author of 鈥溾�� (Ohio State University Press/2018).
Scalawag and 吉彩网网站 partnered to present a Juneteenth conversation featuring tracks from "The River Speaks of Thirst."
