Media & Interviews
Barbara Ransby has lectured widely, moderated or participated in numerous forums and panels, and delivered keynote addresses throughout the country. Her topics include the subjects of her research on Black women intellectuals and activists, social movements, and specifically, Ella Baker’s grassroots organizing tradition and its links to the larger Black Freedom Movement, and Eslanda Robeson’s career as a writer, anthropologist and international anti-colonial activist.
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Features & Profiles
UIC historian Barbara Ransby wants to change the world, and now is her moment
Chicago Tribune
Black Women in Chicago, Getting Things Done
New York Times
2021
Episode 2: The Aftermath on “Because of Anita”—an exclusive podcast on the testimony that changed everything
The Meteor and Pineapple Street Media
Date: October 4, 2021
The Challenge to Our Movements
The Forge
Date: May 20, 2021
Discussing the Case for Reparations on Marc Lamont Hill Show
Al Jazeera
Date: April 9, 2021
2020
Who Was Ella Baker? Pt. 1
Ella’s Voice by the Ella Baker Center
Date: December 13, 2020
UIC historian Barbara Ransby helping to change the world
Chicago Tribune
Date: October 28, 2020
Let’s Get Ella Baker with Dr. Barbara Ransby
Hello Somebody with Nina Turner
Date: August 20, 2020
Movement for Black Lives: an interview with Barbara Ransby
The Institute of Race Relations (UK)
Date: July 24, 2020
Interview Barbara Ransby on the Biden Problem: Social Movements Must Defeat Trump & Also Hold Dems Accountable
Democracy Now
Date: July 2, 2020
Defund the Police: A Webinar on Police, Race, and Universities
Scholars for Social Justice
Date: June 20, 2020
Defunding Police: What it Means. Special guests include Barbara Ransby, Charlene Carruthers
BlackPAC
Date: June 12, 2020
Defund the Police 101 with Dr. Barbara Ransby and Charlene Carruthers
Women’s March webinar
Date: June 5, 2020
UIC professor named to Society of American Historians
AP News
Date: May 30, 3030
After Biden’s Super Tuesday Surge, Sanders Campaign Faces Questions About African-American Support
Democracy Now
Date: March 4, 2020
2019
Presentation: Racial Capitalism, Power & Resistance: Dr. Barbara Ransby
Neighborhood Funders Group for a Just Economy on Youtube
Date: October 19, 2020
Media and Democracy with Marc Lamont Hill and Barbara Ransby
Chicago Humanities Festival
Date: May 15, 2019
Interview: Chicago Makes Herstory: First African-American Woman and Gay Chicago Mayor Wins in Landslide
Democracy Now
Date: April 3, 2019
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Radical Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Featuring: Barbara Smith, Barbara Ransby and Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Date: March 7, 2019
Angela Davis & Barbara Ransby: We Stand with Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Courageous, Bold Black Woman
Democracy Now!
Date: April 30, 2019
2018
Five Years In, Hearing the Voices of Black Lives Matter
Village Voice
Date: July 30, 2018
Roundtable Discussion: History Of Women’s Movement
In the age of the #MeToo movement and #TimesUp and #SayHerName Margaret Prescod leads a discussion to get the perspective of women all of whom have been part of the movement of change for women: Mexico City-based Laura Carlsen, former elected official Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Ransby
KPFA Sojourner Truth Radio with Margaret Prescod
Date: September 21, 2018
Dr. Barbara Ransby: What the Defamation of Anita Hill Can Teach Us About the Kavanaugh Hearings (video)
Democracy Now!
Date: September 24, 2018
Ford Has Spoken Her Truth. Now the Senate Must Stand Against Sexual Violence by Barbara Ransby
Even if the senators believe Ford, the question is whether they believe her allegations matter.
Truthout
Date: September 27, 2018
Left of Black with Barbara Ransby (video)
Left of Black host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal sits down with historian Dr. Barbara Ransby about her new book, “Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century” (University of California Press, 2018).
John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University
Date: October 5, 2018
On Voting: Why don’t more people care?
WBEZ Worldview
Date: October 9, 2018
Making All Black Lives Matter: Barbara Ransby talks politics and protesting in 2018
The Chicago Reader
Date: October 10, 2018
Prespectives: Making All Black Lives Matter
The Chicago Reporter
Date: October 11, 2018
Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers #85 (podcast)
Mike Klonsky and Cook County Commissioner elect Brandon Johnson co-hosts with guests authors and activists Eve Ewing and Barbara Ransby
LUMPEN Radio Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers
Date: October 19, 2018
2017
Women Discuss Historic Movements for Change & the Road Ahead
With one day to go until Donald Trump is inaugurated as President of the United States, and two days until the much-anticipated Women’s March on Washington, where do the civil rights movements of today stand? Margaret Prescod leads a discussion with three longtime racial, gender and criminal justice activists: Dorie Ladner and Barbara Ransby
KPFA Sojourner Truth Radio with Margaret Prescod
Date: January 2017
Why Some of Us Are Marching an Extra Mile on May Day by Barbara Ransby
Why are some of us walking that extra mile? To show what a principled coalition looks like in one local context.
Truthout
Date: April 28, 2017
2016
“Black Lives Matter builds on a history of Black organizing,”The The Chicago Reporter
Date: July 2016
2015
“Chicago Police Officer Charged with Murder After Video Shows Him Shooting Laquan McDonald 16 Times,” Democracy Now!
Date: November 2015
2013
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson nominated as Teaching for Change’s Our Favorite Books for 2013
Date: December 2013
Panel Discussion on Rosa Parks and Eslanda Robeson at the Harlem Book Fair
Date: July 20, 2013
Barbara’s Interview with Lilian Care on 90.1FM (interview starts at 1:01)
Date: May 2, 2013
“Freedom Struggles”: Organization of American Historians’ Plenary on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation & the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington with presentations by Professors Clayborne Carson, Barbara Ransby, Tera Hunter & Scott Kurashige, moderated by Matthew Countryman of University of Michigan – Department of American Culture.
Date: April 2013
Interview with Matt Rothschild on The Progressive Magazine
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013
Interview with Melissa Harris Perry on the Melissa Harris Perry Show
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013
Interview on WHYY Interview on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane with guest-host Tracey Matisak
Date: Friday, February 15, 2013
Interview on Wake up with WURD hosted by Stephanie Renee
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2013
Interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
Interview with Laura Flanders on GRITtv
Date: February 2013
Interview with Rick Kogan on WBEZ Afternoon Shift:
Date: January 2013
2012
Barbara Speaking at the University of Richmond
Date: January 2012