{"id":7868,"date":"2023-01-17T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7868"},"modified":"2023-01-17T08:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:42:38","slug":"mother-country-radicals","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/mother-country-radicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Country Radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Presented by the Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Mother Country Radicals <\/em>creator <strong>Zayd Ayers Dohrn<\/strong> (&#8217;06 GSAS) discusses the making of the podcast with Film professor <strong>Jamal Joseph<\/strong> and <strong>Carol Becker<\/strong>, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu\/spring-2023-events\/mother-country-radicals\">ATTEND<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>About <a href=\"https:\/\/crooked.com\/podcast-series\/mother-country-radicals\/\"><em>Mother Country Radicals<\/em><\/a>, \u201ca family history of the Weather Underground:\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cZayd Dohrn was born underground\u2014his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cNow 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\u2014and help build a revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Zayd Ayers Dohrn <\/strong>is the Project Creator, Host, Writer, Producer, and Executive Producer of <em>Mother Country Radicals<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: Crooked Media<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Country Radicals creator Zayd Ayers Dohrn (&#8217;06 GSAS) discusses the making of the podcast with Film professor Jamal Joseph and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7870,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}