A People’s Anthology

We are excited to be reviving our Boston Review podcast offerings this Winter! As Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project gear up to present “A People’s History,”—a six-episode radio series about tenant organizing and urban rebellions in twentieth-century Boston—we will be producing a spin-off podcast to accompany the main series.

Looking at figures from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective, “A People’s Anthology” will explore six key primary texts from the urban rebellions of the 1960s and 70s. Introduced and explained by historians and researchers, we’ve teamed up with a range of poets and spoken word artists to read the texts. Among the voices you can expect to hear are familiar Boston Review contributors such as Nikhil Pal Singh and Joshua Bennett, as well as noted writers Jackie Wang and Asad Haider.

Episode one, on Claudia Jones’s 1949 essay An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!—to be read and introduced by Africana studies professor Carole Boyce-Davies—arrives November 25th exclusively for Boston Review members. Become a member today to get early access, or sit tight until 2020 when it will become publicly available.

For now, you can whet your appetite with some content on similar topics: Sekou Franklin on what we can learn from the Watts Rebellion, Howard Zinn himself on the radical movements of the 1960s, and our podcast archive from years gone by.