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Analyzing Trump: Aberration and Continuity
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
28 Mar 2025
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Black Agenda Radio · Analyzing Trump: Aberration and Continuity

Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is the author of Black Scare Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. She joins us from Detroit to discuss the political moment as Donald Trump again takes office. How does he differ from other presidents? How is he the same? Are we living under fascism, and what does that mean? Dr. Burden-Stelly provides analysis.

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