May 4 - Michael Slate Show: The Disappearance of Tens of Thousands of Migrants on the US-Mexico Border; "Native Son," stage version of Richard Wright’s novel

Received via email.  We Recommend:   Friday, May 4, 201810 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live Website  Twitter,  Facebook

This Week:   This week's show: Kate Morgan of No More Deaths on The Disappearance of Tens of Thousands of Migrants on the US-Mexico Border; Native Son, the stage version of Richard Wright’s classic novel New Report Exposes the Real Scope of Deaths on the Border - Tens of Thousands of Disappeared - and the Actions of the US Border Patrol in this Crime Against Humanity We'll talk with Kate Morgan of No More Deaths, one of the people who worked on the new report, Disappeared, How the US Border Enforcement Agencies are Fueling a Missing Persons Crisis. This report calls attention to a significant, albeit under-reported outcome of contemporary US border policing strategy and practice -- the disappearance of tens of thousands of migrants and refugees in the expansive wilderness north of the US-Mexico border. Get the full report here. Connect with No More Deaths on Facebook Native Son: Antaeus Theatre Company presents Nambi E. Kelley’s gripping adaptation of Richard Wright’s classic novel We'll sit down with Director Andi Chapman and Actors Noel Arthur and JonChaffin from Native Son. Suffocating in rat-infested poverty on the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s, Bigger Thomas struggles to find a place for himself in a world whose prejudice has shut him out. After taking a job in a wealthy white man’s house, Bigger unwittingly unleashes a series of events that violently and irrevocably seal his fate. Peter Finlayson of Footlights Magazine wrote, "A full immersion of audience into the hearts and minds of a full spectrum of characters. Self loathing, unbridled passions, inescapable happenstance, misplaced compassion, presumptions and being lost in a world of unrelenting pressures, this is the roller coaster of Native Son. Antaeus stages a production of Native Son that will be spoken of for years, should be seen by everyone, and is a defining moment of the full capacity of intimate theatre. Miss this, and you are missing the very best of what theatre has to offer." Contact Antaeus Theatre