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Fascism American Style
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
19 Sep 2025
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Black Agenda Radio · Fascism American Style

A new anthology, From the Flag to the Cross: Fascism American Style, was recently published by OR Books. We're joined by co-editor Michael Steven Smith, a retired attorney, former board member of the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-host of the podcast Law and Disorder, a nationally broadcast program on 200 stations which has been on the air for 20 years, and Bill Mullen, a contributor to From the Flag to the Cross and the author of many books including “The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Lynching to Abolition.” Margaret Kimberley is also a contributor to From the Flag to the Cross along with Chris Hedges, Kshama Sawant, Richard Wolff, Henry Giroux and Dianne Feeley. Michael Smith joins us from Kerhonkson, New York and Bill Mullen from Indiana.

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