Civil Rights

A moderated panel discussion held at the Seventh Annual Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Toby Chow (University of Chicago) Brandon Johnson (Chicago Teachers Union) August Nimtz (University of Minnesota) Adolph Reed, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania) Moderated by Brendan Finucane. Description Beneath a consensus of avowed anti-racism, the American Left remains conflicted about whether and how to politicize race. [Read More]

_LAST SUMMER, SPENCER A. LEONARD interviewed Clyde Young, a veteran member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The interview was broadcast on June 31, 2011 on the radio show Radical Minds on WHPK – FM Chicago. What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. A shorter version of this interview ran in the broadsheet edition of Platypus Review issue 43._ Spencer A. Leonard: Everyone hears a lot about the 1960s, the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. [Read More]