Lorenzo and JoNina offer a scathing criticism of today's Black nativist and reparations-based movements. In this episode, they unpack the reactionary politics and limitations of Black US nationalist movements like ADOS, FBA, and Black Voices for Trump. By pointing out their shared xenophobia and anti-Black sentiments, they talk about why it's important to build social revolutionary politics instead. Listen and learn, and don't forget to support us on Patreon.

Co-host Lorenzo Komboa Ervin interviews JoNina Abron-Ervin about her new book Driven by the Movement, which collects the stories of twenty rank-and-file people in the Black liberation struggle between 1965 and 1975. These activists came from across the US and all walks of life--single working mothers, clergy, students, teachers, military veterans--to organize against police brutality, poverty, hunger, substandard schools, and colonialism. Listen as JoNina recounts her struggles bringing the text to wide publication and details what she hopes the project will accomplish.

Buy this landmark text on AKpress.org or wherever books are sold.

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Listen to Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin speak with the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), one of the nation's few independent architecture schools. They discuss urbanism, architecture, and planning in a rare speculative treat. In part two of this two-part episode, JoNina talks about the significance of urban rebellions, the Kerner Commission, spatial deconcentration, and the killing of Yulanda Ward.

This event took place in front of the Mobile Architecture Platform Apparatus (MAPA), a bicycle-powered mobile archive of scanned building parts for co-envisioning new worlds out of dismantled old ones, part of the "Views of Planet City" exhibition at the SCI-Arc Gallery (September 13, 2024 – February 14, 2025).

You can watch the full video on Youtube with an introduction by John Cooper. Additionally, thanks to Theo Parrish for letting us use his track "Serengeti Echoes" in the show.