Renaissance Woman
Renaissance Woman explores how everything connects in our complex, ever-changing world. Each episode sparks curiosity and conversation, drawing on interdisciplinary ideas to encourage deeper thinking and new ways of seeing.
Renaissance Woman
Operation COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Assault on Democracy
For 15 years, the U.S. government waged a secret war against its own citizens. Under the guise of "national security," the FBI’s COINTELPRO infiltrated, sabotaged, and destroyed civil rights groups, Black liberation movements, and anti-war activists—violating the very freedoms it claimed to protect.
Leaders were surveilled, blackmailed, and assassinated. Movements were dismantled from within. And none of it was supposed to see the light of day.
This episode exposes the full story of COINTELPRO—one of the most flagrant abuses of power in American history—and how its shadow still looms over modern surveillance and activism today.
