Gravitational Waves Detected! What They Are and Why It's Important. Plus, Black History: The Politics and History of the Black Panther Party; Emmett Till and the Deadly Impact of Jim Crow
Weekly Program
Joshua Smith (Professor of Physics, Calif. State University, Fullerton); Joshua Bloom (Author); Bob Avakian (Chairman, Revolutionary Communist Party)
Joshua Smith, with LIGO, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which announced last week that gravitational waves, ripples in space-time caused by bodies in motion, had been detected. Joshua Bloom on "Black Against Empire: the History and Politics of the Black Panther Party." We listen to âEmmett Till and Jim Crow: Black people lived under a death sentence,â from Bob Avakian's speech, Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible and What It's All About.â
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Henry Carson - Assistant Producer Jeff Pryor - Production Assistant Alex Brenner - Production Assistant Federico Garcia â Engineer
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