Today, we're continuing our limited run of the new Jacobin Sports Show. If you'd like to keep listening, please subscribe! You can find links to Apple, Spotify, and other podcast apps here: https://anchor.fm/jacobinsports/In this latest episode, Matthew and Jonah discuss the NFL's conference championship games. They're then joined by Dr. Robert Greene II (@robgreeneII) to discuss the late Hank Aaron's astonishing yet somehow overlooked career, the whitewashing of Aaron as a Black man and icon, and the complexities of his life in and out of baseball. The pod closes with a look back at the death of Kobe Bryant and what his life and passing signify to different people, both in and out of sports.Dr. Robert Greene II is a professor of history at Claflin University, lead associate editor of the award-winning Black Perspectives blog and book review editor for the Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians.Follow the Jacobin Sports Show on Twitter! @JacobinSportsEmail us: jacobinsports@gmail.com
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Folge vom 28.01.2021Sports Show: The Legacy of Hank Aaron w/ Robert Greene II
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Folge vom 28.01.2021The Vast Majority: The Marxism of Leo PanitchAll of us at Jacobin are still grieving the death of longtime Marxist scholar Leo Panitch, a former guest of this podcast who died last month at the age of 75. Micah talks to contributing editor Chris Maisano about Leo, whose work has shaped Jacobin perhaps more than any other single thinker. Read Chris's long essay on Panitch here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2021/01/leo-panitch-<wbr />marxism
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Folge vom 27.01.2021The Dig: Pakistan Hyperreality with Fatima BhuttoDan interviews author Fatima Bhutto on social media subjectivities; Pakistani history, politics, and identity; and her novel The Runaways.Support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDigJoin a Dig Book Club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club
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Folge vom 27.01.2021A World to Win: No Holding Back w/ Ian Lavery and Laura SmithIn this week’s episode of A World to Win, Grace talks to Ian Lavery MP, former Chair of the Labour Party, and Laura Smith, former MP for Crewe and Nantwitch, about their new project No Holding Back, which you can find online and on Twitter.We discuss whether the Labour Party is still the party of the working classes, the likely impact of Brexit on the UK, and how the Left can rebuild trust with communities across the country in the wake of the pandemic.Remember that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron.Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.