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Mother Country Radicals

Zayd Ayers Dohrn (CU GSAS '06, Mother Country Radicals creator), Jamal Joseph (Columbia University), and Carol Becker (Columbia University School of the Arts)
Mar 9, 2023 | 6:30pm
Panel Discussion
The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Columbia University
Co-Sponsors: Lenfest Center for the Arts, the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, the Center for Justice, Columbia University School of the Arts, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and BCRW

Presented by the Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University 

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.

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About Mother Country Radicals, “a family history of the Weather Underground:”

“Zayd Dohrn was born underground—his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI.

“Now 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.”

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.

Image credit: Crooked Media

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