Category: Interview

Author and independent writer William C. Anderson interviews veteran organizer and former Black Panther and political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin on the current political crisis, fascism, and rising relevance of Black anarchism.

Last month, I had a chance to interview Sylvia Wynter about the pandemic, Black studies, and radicalism in our current moment. What began as a series of catch-ups over the course of the pandemic, turned into this short interview—a glimpse into the conversations we've had over the last several months. This interview revisits some major themes in her work(s), with the added context of our current/ongoing context of the pandemic/rebellion/authoritarian politics. Most importantly, this conversation spotlights her commitment to realizing the Third Event, a break defined by language and storytelling, as the way out of our current and persistent predicaments.

“We can and must always make ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian American’ signify more than American exceptionalism.”  —Yen Le Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama, “Transpacific Entanglements” I begin with this quote in order to center transnational activism and to introduce the conversation that I’ll be having with activist Jungmin Choi, which is a continuation of a […]

Eusi Kwayana is one of those people we should seek out. You may not hear his name as often as those of other African and Caribbean revolutionaries, but his story is just as important. After learning about Kwayana, I read his 1972 book The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics, in which he rigorously details […]