Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

We celebrate the release of long time political prisoner, Leonard Peltier, after nearly half a century of jail cell hell for ...

Today’s episode of La Raza Chronicles is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Winter Fund Drive. To support our mission, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732.

History is being made right now, both by the Trump administration, attempting to slash the federal workforce and the public services that it provides, and by federal workers and their supporters ...

Join Renée Camila for part one in a three-part series on medicine making basics. This week Renée focuses on the oldest herbal preparation: tea. She discusses the different between beverage teas and ...

Jessica Anderson is a human rights researcher based in Michigan, and one of the editors the new book Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation ...

Guest: David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University.  He is the author of several books on Slavery and Abolition including, Frederick Douglass: ...

The oil and gas industry desperately wants you to believe its products are part of a sustainable future. The facts say otherwise.

The intersection of immigration, border enforcement, new technology and specifically artificial intelligence, is racing toward more intense and more violent border enforcement strategies that are ...

Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her new book is The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic. Reconstruction: 1860 ...

Every year, more than 80,000 African Americans die prematurely. The medical establishment relies on genetics or dietary patterns to explain such appalling numbers. But sociologist George Lipsitz ...

A number of federal agencies rushed to make clear they would be scrubbing activities and events that “celebrate cultural awareness” in an effort to stay on the good side of the weird new White House.