Today on Your Call: Who was Howard Zinn?

By Matt Martin

Published September 20, 2012 at 9:06 AM PDT

On today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Martin Duberman, author of Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left. The late historian, educator, and activist would have turned 90 this August. Zinn is most famous for his book, A People’s History of the United States. Duberman writes that Zinn felt he’d been “born with class consciousness.” Join us at 10am PST or post a comment here. How has Howard Zinn’s life and works affected your own? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:
Martin Duberman, historian and author of Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left

Resources:

Dangerous Minds: ON THE LATE HOWARD ZINN’S 90TH BIRTHDAY: A NEW BIOGRAPHY GIVES INSIGHT INTO HIS LIFE AND ACTIVISM

YouTube: Howard Zinn's speech at October 27 demo in Boston

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Matt Martin

Matt Martin was KALW’s general manager from 2006 through 2018. Under his leadership, KALW grew into one of the most productive and innovative stations in public radio. Programs launched at KALW during Matt’s tenure as GM include the award-winning local newsmagazine Crosscurrents, the design podcast 99% Invisible, and the Spanish-language narrative journalism program Radio Ambulante. He helped create the station’s Audio Academy, a year-long program aimed at developing new talents in public radio, and led the first broad-based strategic planning process in the station’s history.

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