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Veteran community organizer Marie Nahikian hosts The Usable Past, where activists share their stories of past and present organizing for better housing, food, banks, jobs, environmental and social justice. A Brooklyn resident, Marie most recently worked with U.S. Housing & Urban Development under President Obama and has participated in building 5,000 affordable homes in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and New York. Marie has been a neighborhood, civil rights, housing and labor organizer, a community journalist, and in 1977 was a founder of WPFW-FM Pacifica radio in Washington, DC.
Update frequency:
bimonthly
Average audio length:
36 minutes
English
United States
18 episodes
since Sept. 26, 2018
episodic
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In this episode, The Usable Past with Marie Nahikian connects the 2022 explosion of young bipoc, lgbt, Black and Latino women who are gardeners, food producers, investors & entrepreneurs to the rich history of Philadelphia, “America’s Garden Capital.” Hear a conversation with Blaine Bonham who …
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The Venture Café conversation, EARTH DAY 2021-Where Are We Now is focused on how the growing levels of bad air, water, fracking and fossil fuel impacts the lives of people who live in Philadelphia & Pennsylvania. This edition is also available on YouTube, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-…
Our windows framed Underhill Avenue. We saw everything. Cars lost tires & hubcaps, shots fired, Labor Day eating roti, goat & jerk, Primrose's rum punch, our son dancing in W. Indian Children's parade. Daily commerce centered on a bodega, opened by Mohammed, an immigrant from Yemen; we fond…
Episode 11: In this Underhill Story about life on Underhill Avenue & Eastern Parkway, a black Brooklyn woman
becomes an international circus star.
Episode 10: A Washington, DC resident had a personal relationship with the U.S. Capitol Building, ranging from
arrests to haircuts to John & Yoko Lennon.
Susan is an aerial artist, dancer and choreographer, an international circus star, a black woman who went to Brooklyn public schools, graduated from Stanford University and worked on the human genome project. Then she went to Paris.
Over 20 years, Marie Nahikian had distinct and personal experiences within the U.S. Capitol building. This special edition describes how the U.S. Capitol Police were always in control and that it is inconceivable that terrorists were able to breach the building. This edition documents visits for ha…
This is an only in Brooklyn story about building community in the most unexpected places. Ellen Dede, the organizer, has followed Torello Cabrol's water aerobics class for over 20 years; she is joined on the podcast by Bill Kahn, a newcomer and Marie Nahikian, The Usable Past host who joined the …
Shirley Chisholm, Brooklyn's own, the first African American woman elected to Congress & in 1972, she was the
first woman nominated to be President. Conversation with Barbara Bullard, a Brooklyn Bed-Sty resident at the
forefront of working to protect Chisholm's legacy and a producer of a plann…
Called "the founding mother of contemporary black politics" by Congressman John Lewis, this Episode provides a unique perspective on protecting the legacy of an historic leader during this time of Black Lives Matter. Host Marie Nahikian explores what motivates Barbara Bullard to take on a life comm…
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