Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
– Thursday, April 19, 2018 –
Three weeks after the April 4, 1968 assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, a student uprising broke out at Columbia University involving the Harlem Tenants Association, Student Afro-American Society, Black Students of Hamilton Hall Organization, and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), with the support of SNCC and other civil rights organizations. What was at stake? How did this major challenge to a university begin, and how did the mobilization manage to build a broad united front? What was the impact? What are its lessons for today? Our guests are Roy Roberts, a student at Columbia University at the time who was active in Students Afro-American Society and who was involved in the struggle; and Eric Mann, host of Voices from the Frontlines on Pacifica Radio’s KPFK, who was part of the struggle at Columbia University.
Then, high school students are planning another walkout to protest gun violence. Our guests are Southern California high school students Lea Yamashiro and Camille Hannant.
For our “Weekly Earth Watch,” we speak with Arely Diaz, an Indigenous immigrants rights and environmental activist.