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Thu, Jul 31, 2025 18:00 PM

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Hosts: Margaret Kimberley
Topics:
  • Ericka Huggins – Biography of the Black Panther Party leader -
  • Football – Sports as an educational tool, the effort to establish a popular football (soccer) league in the U.S., and the Black community in Brazil -
Synopsis:

In this week’s segment, we discuss football, why it isn’t popular in the US, how it can be, sports as consciousness raising and the nation of Brazil and its Black population. But first we have the author of a new book on Ericka Huggins, her work with the Black Panther Party and her struggle for spiritual healing as a political prisoner.

Mary Frances Phillips is associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. She joins us from Detroit to discuss her biography of Ericka Huggins, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" which is published by NYU Press.  

Robert Wilson is a U.S. born philosopher who has lived in Brazil for many years. He is the author of The Football Manifesto and Club Handbook: Bringing the Beautiful Game to the People and Making the USA #1 in the World. As the World Cup of football, soccer to people in the US, is slated to be held here in 2026 he joins us from Rio de Janeiro to discuss his ideas on sports as a tool for organizing and political education.

Guests:
  • Mary Elizabeth Phillips – Author and professor -
  • Robert Wilson – Philosopher and venture capitalist -
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