Episode 4: Bringing the War Home

Political Junkie Podcast · Nov 18, 2022 · 42m

When I was a kid in the 1960s and `70s, I occasionally accompanied my mother to the post office in the Philadelphia suburb where we lived. While Mom waited in line, I would slide over to a corner of the bulletin board next to the service windows that housed the FBI’s Most Wanted posters. And there they were—Angela Davis, a Black philosophy professor from the University of California, on the run as an accessory to a murder committed in a courthouse during a hearing for Soledad Brother George Jackson, as well as white women in the Weather Underground—Bernardine Dohrn, Kathy Boudin, Judith…