“An Amerikan Family”: Two Families, One Cause.

The Shakur family – legends in American history – forever shaped the fight for Black liberation. Writer and journalist Santi Elijah Holley joins us to talk about his new book “An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created” – a sweeping and detailed account of family, history, culture, and the deeply rooted influence fathers – and father figures – have on their children.

In this episode, we also hear a brief update on Jacob Blake’s health from his brother Pauly Jackson.   In the summer of 2020, Jacob was shot seven times in the back – in front of his kids – by a white officer in Kenosha WI, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.  The protests and national outrage that followed forever linked Jacob and his family to the Black Lives Matter movement, and made them instant – and prominent – figures in the ongoing struggle for racial justice.