This Is Hell's Black History / Black Future Series

A radical playlist of longform interviews on the politics of survival, protest and Black liberation.

Conversations with historians, scholars, and activists from This Is Hell's 24 year history.

New interviews posted daily.

"I would rather have bad race relations that can end up in anticolonialism,
than to have good race relations in a colony."

- Yannick Giovanni Marshall

 Africana studies scholar Yannick Giovanni Marshall explains how Black liberals work to police the possibilities of Black politics.

"It's not working. And it hasn't been working since Ferguson. It hasn't been working since Standing Rock. It hasn't been working since Occupy. It hasn't been working since the uprising in LA after Rodney King. It hasn't been working since the rebellions in Watts, Newark and Detroit."

- William C. Anderson

Writer William C. Anderson explains how capitalist logic obscures the structural robbery at the heart of society.

"If one is to demonstrate a kind of agency or autonomy
over their life and livelihood,
then one must steal their life back."

- Marquis Bey

African American studies scholar Marquis Bey explores the fugitivity of Black life in White America.