Black Internationalism, with Khury Petersen-Smith

Khury Petersen-Smith joins the show to discuss internationalist organizing and ideologies among Black communities in the US.

Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He researches US empire, borders, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the US carries out and supports around the world. Khury's work focuses especially on US militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific, and movements that resist it. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement, which was signed by over 6,000 Black activists, artists, and scholars, and he is the co-founder of Black 4 Palestine.

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