Progressive Radio Network

The Radical Imagination

The Radical Imagination: Imagining the Legendary Activism of Jim Dunn

Host Jim Vrettos discusses the groundbreaking community organizing and activism of Jim Dunn — founder of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and H.U.M.A.N. — Help Us Make A Nation.  He will discuss Jim’s support for Eddie Carthan, who in 1977 became the first Black  mayor since Reconstruction in Tchula, Mississippi.   Jim Dunn’s wife Diana, co-founder of the Institute Ron Chisum, and political activist Shelia Collins, who’s completing a book on Eddie Carthan and one of the leaders of the Free Eddie Carthan Campaign, will join in the discussion.