CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe by Alex Smith, Part One

CZM Rewind: Part One: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them

Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care Original Air Date: 10.20.2025 See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe by Alex Smith, Part One

Prince Shakur reads Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part Two: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan Sources: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html]  https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill [https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill]  https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ [https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/]  https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html [https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html]  https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d]  The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery [https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery]  https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill [https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill]  https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf [https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf]  https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill [https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill]  https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948]  https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ [https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/]  https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass [https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass]  https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ [https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/]  https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm]  https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm [https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm]  https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ [https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html]  https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill [https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill]  https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ [https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/]  https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html [https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html]  https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d]  The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield  https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery [https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery]  https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill [https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill]  https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf [https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf]  https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill [https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill]  https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948]  https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ [https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/]  https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass [https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass]  https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ [https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/]  https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm]  https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm [https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm]  https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ [https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)

Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.