The Malcolm Effect

#35 Climate Justice is Racial Justice - Athian Akec

Are you aware how racism plays a role in climate justice activism? Athian helps me unpack how the two are connected.

 

Athian Akec is an 18 year old activist, writer and speaker. His main areas of focus are climate change, youth violence and racial inequality. As a part of this he's written for the Guardian, Independent, Huffpost, I-d magazine, Huck Magazine, Hunger Mag and other national newspapers. Additionally he's spoken in the House of Commons as a part of the UK Youth Parliament. Athian also sits on the board of a youth charity and a commission in Camden focusing on economic renewal following the pandemic.

 

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#34 Choppin' It Up - Christian Joseph

A catch up with my dear friend Christian on some of the things we’re thinking about currently. 

 

Christian Joseph is a recent college graduate, who has a keen interest in political economy and questions that concern Black liberation 

 

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#33 Race, Capitalism and the Myth of the Black Capitalist - Dr. CBS

We often here that you cannot separate race from capitalism or that we can reform capitalism and make it more ethical. Listen in as I discuss with Dr. CBS on what is the link between race and capitalism, the myth of black capitalism, black liberals and advice on how we should organise

Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is the 2020-2021 Visiting Scholar in the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago and an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is the co-lead of the Black Alliance for Peace Research & Political Education Team. A scholar of critical Black studies, political theory, political economy, and intellectual history, Burden-Stelly is the co-author, with Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Black Scare/Red Scare: Antiblackness, Anticommunism, and the Rise of Capitalism in the United States. Burden-Stelly’s published work appears in journals including Small Axe, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, and the CLR James Journal. Her public scholarship can be found in venues including Monthly Review, Boston Review, and Black Perspectives. She is the host of “The Last Dope Intellectual” podcast, which is part of the Black Power Media network and the co-editor of The Black Agenda Review.

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#32 What Comes After The Race Report? - Khadijah Diskin

We are still reeling from the government’s terrible race report. Listen in to my conversation with Deej about what our focuses should be in terms of organising and going forward. 

 

Khadijah Diskin is a PhD Researcher in Psychology. Her research explores the psychosocial dimension of Black students experiences in British higher education, using Lacanian discourse analysis to interrogate the intersubjective convergences of race, coloniality and neoliberalisation.

 

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#31 Has Racism Ended In Britain? - Dr. Nick Guyatt

The Government’s Race report has concluded that there is no institutional racism in the U.K. 

Listen in as I discuss with Dr. Nick Guyatt as we unpack the report

 

Nick Guyatt teaches American history at the University of Cambridge in the UK. He’s written about history, race and politics for the Guardian, the New York Times, the London Review of Books and many other publications. His most recent book is Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (Basic Books, 2016). 

 

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#30 Marxism; Myth Busting - Vijay Prashad

A lot of you asked me to do a breakdown of commonly used terminology that we hear in politics and economics. So I sat down with Vijay Prashad, where we talk all things Marxism. 

 

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, commentator, and a Marxist intellectual. He is an executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books.

 

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#29 Rest is Revolutionary - Nabila “Nebulosity” Wasi

Loved this conversation surrounding the role of meditative practices in activism

 

Nabila “Nebulosity” Wasi, M.A., Wellness Entrepreneur and Founder of MindBodySol Wellness, is an Educational Leader/Educator, a Program Management Professional, Certified Holistic Health Coach and Yoga Teacher, community organizer, researcher, multi-genre storyteller, and abolitionist. Her current programming and research emphasis is rooted in holistic and prophetic wellness, anti-racism education, distance learning and instructional design, social impact storytelling, transformation coaching, and women’s leadership development.

For her commitment to leadership, social justice, and cultivating community, she was selected as a Champions for Change Leaders of Color Fellowship.

 

She holds a Master of Arts degree from California State University, Sacramento in Education Leadership, as well as a BA in Psychology and Spanish, with a minor in African/African American Studies from the University of California, Davis. As a lifelong seeker of sacred Islamic knowledge, she has studied under a variety of renowned Islamic teachers, attended courses at Zaytuna College, and traveled the world spreading and studying Islam.

 

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#28 What does it mean to be a Pan-African Feminist? - Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent

What does it mean to be a pan African feminist? In this episode I had the privilege to speak to Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent as she helped unpack these terms.  

Layla Brown-Vincent is a member of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party-GC and currently works as an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  

Layla earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University in her home state of North Carolina where her research focused on Black racial identity formation in Latin America and the US and its impact on Black Radical Organising in the era of Black Lives Matter.  She is currently working on her first book manuscript Return to the Source: The Dialectics of 21st Century Pan-African Liberation based largely on her dissertation research.  

Layla spent all of 2020 as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study where her research expanded to examine the crisis of racial capitalism and the COVID-19 pandemic.  In the fall of 2021 she will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research. Her most recent scholarly work “The Pandemic of Racial Capitalism: Another World Is Possible” can be found in From the European South: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities.

 

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#27 How to love black people (Politically) - Janine Francois

In this episode I discuss with Janine on how we adopt a politic that is the highest form of love for black people.

Janine Francois is a Black British Feminist, Critic and Writer and her practices deconstructs whiteness (and race) within cultural and academic institutions by way of writing, curating/ producing, research and teaching. Janine is also a Ph.D candidate at University of Bedfordshire/ Tate.

 

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#26 'The F Word' - Dr. Aaron Winter

Always a pleasure speaking to Dr. Aaron Winter. In this episode we discuss Fascism, Populism, The Right, Deplatforming and much more

 

Aaron Winter is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of East London. His research is on the far-right with a focus on racism, mainstreaming and violence. He is co-editor of Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (Routledge 2010), Historical Perspectives on Organised Crime and Terrorism (Routledge 2018) and Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge 2020), and co-author with Aurelien Mondon of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso 2020). He is also an associate editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and co-editor of the Manchester University Press (MUP) book series Racism, Resistance and Social Change.

 

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