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We are thrilled to make our podcast A People’s Anthology available to all listeners in this final week of Black History Month! Launched in December 2019, until now it has only been available as a Boston Review member benefit. A People’s Anthology is a reading series of radical essays and speeches, and a companion series to Jacobin’s People's History Podcast. This season highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.
Introduced and explained by historians and researchers, the texts are then read by a range of poets, scholars, and spoken word artists. Among the voices are familiar Boston Review contributors such as Nikhil Pal Singh and Joshua Bennett, as well as noted writers Jackie Wang and Asad Haider.
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