Fresh Air

Colin Kaepernick is still fighting – for justice and for his football career

The NFL tried to send a very clear message that if you protest police killing Black folks, if you fight for a better society and better community, we're going to try to take your career from you. I don't accept that that is going to be the end outcome of this, and will do everything I can to make sure that I change that narrative.

Fresh Air

Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert

I guess I kind of just feel like if you only engage in an action that you're certain is going to be successful, that's pretty cowardly, really. You know, I mean, we want to be strategic and effective as activists, but there's no guarantee in any of this stuff. And that doesn't mean it's not still a worthwhile way to spend your life.

Radiolab

The Shoe Thrower

What she found was a story about grief, anger, and the line where journalism ends and protest begins.

Fresh Air

Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run

Along with his father, Bill Ayers, she helped found the Weather Underground, a group committed to armed resistance against the government.

Code Switch

Being an “ally” is kind of cringe. Why? | Code Switch

There's just so much talk and that's why there's a cynicism. You get burnt out from all the talk and all the things that you know whether it's safety pins or some other thing to show like I'm on your team. Like after a while it's like I I don't need that. I want you to actually like those are people that are using their time. They're using their money. They're using their bodies to help a movement to to to to support others who don't have the same luxuries like to to use their body and their time and their money.