Mother Country Radicals - Arts Initiative at Columbia University

Podcast Details

Zayd Dohrn was born underground—his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. In Mother Country Radicals, Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism—and help build a revolution.

Participant Details

Zayd Ayers Dohrn

Podcast Creator

Jamal Joseph

Film Professor

Carol Becker

Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts

Location

The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027

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About The Event

Mother Country Radicals creator Zayd Ayers Dohrn (’06 GSAS) discusses the making of the podcast with Film professor Jamal Joseph and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.

Zayd Ayers Dohrn is the Project Creator, Host, Writer, Producer, and Executive Producer of Mother Country Radicals. He is also a playwright and Director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University.

Co-presented by the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Barnard Center for Research on Women, the Center for Justice, Columbia University School of the Arts, the Department of History at Barnard College, the Department of History at Columbia University, and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies.

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Image: Artwork for Mother Country Radicals podcast/ courtesy of Crooked Media