The African Dawn Podcast

Winston James on Claude McKay’s Red Summer

February 04, 2023 Hosted by Kwesi Owusu
Winston James on Claude McKay’s Red Summer
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The African Dawn Podcast
Winston James on Claude McKay’s Red Summer
Feb 04, 2023
Hosted by Kwesi Owusu

In the first part of this mini-series, Winston James, the eminent scholar of Pan-African history talks to Kwesi Owusu about the life of Claude Mckay, the Jamaican-born, American writer and poet and the events that inspired his most famous poem, “If We Must Die”. Rare archival records, including the original recording of McKay’s poem, vintage music and powerful testimonies evoke the summer of 1919, one of the most sordid periods in American history.

The African Dawn Podcast. Untold stories breaking at dawn!

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In the first part of this mini-series, Winston James, the eminent scholar of Pan-African history talks to Kwesi Owusu about the life of Claude Mckay, the Jamaican-born, American writer and poet and the events that inspired his most famous poem, “If We Must Die”. Rare archival records, including the original recording of McKay’s poem, vintage music and powerful testimonies evoke the summer of 1919, one of the most sordid periods in American history.

The African Dawn Podcast. Untold stories breaking at dawn!