Podcasts

Podcasts and Other Interviews

• “This Day in Esoteric Political History” with Jody Avirgan, Nicole Hemmer, and Kellie Carter Jackson, Radiotopia, 11 March 2025, Part 1 and 13 March 2025, Part 2
• “Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative” (India), 13 February 202
• “Heartland Labor Forum” with Christina Dismang, KKFI, 6 February 2025
• “New Books Network” with Mickell Carter, 21 January 2025        
• “The San Francisco Experience” with Jim Herlihy, 9 January 2025 https://www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com/freemans-challenge-the-murder-that-shook-americas-original-prison-for-profit-talking-with-profes/
• “Point of Learning” with Peter Horn, 1 January 2025, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/freeman-s-challenge-with-robin-bernstein--63531168; https://hornedconsulting.org/pointoflearningpodcast/freemans-challenge
• “CJ Knows Show,” December 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MGD4wGfwd8&t=23s
• “First Things First” with Dominique DiPrima, KBLA, 20 November 2024, https://p.ftur.io/kblaam/16833 
• “Drafting the Past” with Kate Carpenter, 5 November 2024, https://draftingthepast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-55-robin-bernstein-and-the-disco-ball-of-integrity/
• “Urban Connections,” KKFI, 2 November 2024, https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/robin-bernstein-phd-author-cultural-historian-and-professor-on-the-entangled-origins-of-prisons-for-profit-and-anti-black-racism-in-america-and-beyond/
• “Books that Make You” with Desiree Duffy, 30 October 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7l9ldPn0w
• “Being Well Informed” with Claudia Barber, 22 October 2024, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-prison-for-profit-system-historical-information/id1642612244?i=1000674085159, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDc8ZAnMqhI
• “The Rufus Williams Show,” WVON, 17 October 2024, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qlOIei1auQ2krmZU-MmHnp3mYB6p2mcy/view?pli=1
• “Matir Asurim: Jewish Care Network for Incarcerated People,” 25 September 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2DjsNlrrEU, https://matirasurim.org/carceral-systems-and-freemans-challenge/
• “Your Shout Radio” with Toby Gribben, 14 September 2024, https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8mvx35ichwrwg1q00iqv8/Robin-Bernstein-1.wav?rlkey=f17atxpxa2v0qqyh9vb1bsklp&st=n072zxmg&dl=0
• “The Partially Examined Life” with Erik Fleming, 9 September 2024, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-thought-leadership-freemans-challenge-featuring/id1471711734?i=1000668841761
• “Against the Grain” with C.S. Soong, KPFA, 3 September 2024,  https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/how-carceral-slavery-began/id78900506?i=1000668209641
• “Lean to the Left” with Bob Gatty, 24 August 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSkrGApu7nY
• “New Books in History” with Ari Barbalat, New Books Network, 23 August 2024, https://newbooksnetwork.com/robin-bernstein-freemans-challenge-the-murder-that-shook-americas-original-prison-for-profit-u-chicago-press-2024
• “The Conversation with Al McFarlane,” KFAI, 21 August 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MtsTIhNZkQ
• “Keen On” with Andrew Keen, Episode 2185, 12 August 2024, https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2158-robin-bernstein-on-the
• “Labor Jawn” with Gabe Christy and Young Sam James, 12 August 2024, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freemans-challenge-interview-with-dr-robin-bernstein/id1596705348?i=1000664994884 
• “Freedom Now” with Gerald Horne, KPFK Radio, 10 August 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKtnr4MAysM
• “Social Society” with Brandon Clark, 4 August 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP4Z0yzh3vo
• “This Week in History” with Daniel Gamblin, 29 July 2024, https://redcircle.com/shows/1cbbc2c6-915d-4400-9651-df96b2723508/ep/6bd50cd6-9448-410e-a705-e7dc88dbbb42
• “Wake Up with WURD” with Solomon Jones, WURD, 24 July 2024, https://soundcloud.com/onwurd/wake-up-with-wurd-w-solomon-jones-72424-dr-robin-bernstein
• “The Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums” with Daren Jaime, BronxNet, 22 July 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61Ztbfm9hc
• “The Academic Life” with Christina Gessler, 18 July 2024, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freemans-challenge-the-murder-that-shook-americas/id1539341620?i=1000662609608
• “Everyday Injustice” with Davis Vanguard, Episode 242, 8 July 2024, https://www.davisvanguard.org/2024/07/everyday-injustice-podcast-episode-242-americas-original-prison-for-profit/
• “That Said” with Michael Zeldin, 1 July 2024, https://redcircle.com/shows/9628320e-8ac7-43bc-b394-79d0ca7fc4d7/episodes/8230cb9d-15f2-4c9f-8ab1-542f5626720b
• “Scheer Intelligence” with Robert Scheer and KCRW (Los Angeles), 28 June 2024, https://scheerpost.com/2024/06/28/americas-prisons-are-slave-labor-factories/
• “The Rob Burgess Show,” Episode 248, 28 June 2024, http://www.therobburgessshow.com/2024/06/ep-248-robin-bernstein.html
• “Unsung History” with Kelly Therese Pollock, 24 June 2024, https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/Auburn/
• “Civics and Coffee Podcast” with Alycia Asai, 22 June 2024, https://www.civicsandcoffee.com/freemans-challenge-with-dr-robin-bernstein/
• “Explaining History Podcast” with Nick Shepley, 16 June 2024, https://shows.acast.com/explaininghistory/episodes/william-freeman-and-americas-first-profit-driven-prisons
• “A Public Affair” with Ali Muldrow, WORT FM, 12 June 2024, https://www.wortfm.org/how-the-north-invented-for-profit-prison-labor-with-robin-bernstein/
• “The Tavis Smiley Show,” KBLA1580, 11 June 2024, https://post.futurimedia.com/kblaam/playlist/listen-15874.html
• “Prison Pipeline Podcast” with Emma Lugo, KBOO (Portland, Oregon), 20 May 2024, https://kboo.fm/media/121481-freemans-challenge-robin-bernstein
• “Versus History Podcast” with Patrick O’Shaughnessy, 2 May 2024,  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/historychappy36647/episodes/2024-05-02T11_21_19-07_00
• “Public Defenseless” with Hunter Parnell, Episode 232, 2 May 2024, https://sites.libsyn.com/387569/231-robin-bernstein-the-new-york-prison-that-started-our-for-profit-prison-industry
• “History Hack,” Episode 980, 1 May 2024, https://shows.acast.com/6390a7261a770900119d7b8d/episodes/66321ba93eb92b0012997bba 
• "Speaking Out of Place” with David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji, 21 April, 2024, https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/04/21/race-violence-and-for-profit-prison-a-conversation-with-robin-bernstein/
• “Unpacking History” with John Piche, Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library, 28 February 2024, https://heightslibrary.org/1619-project/unpacking-history-interviews/auburn-prison-and-the-murder-that-shocked-america-with-robin-bernstein/