Bonus: Radical Family Histories (A Crossover with I Was Never There)
Zayd sits down with his mom, Bernardine Dohrn, along with Jamie and Karen Zelermyer of Wonder Media Network’s I Was Never There to look back at the pr...
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Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution.
Chapter 10: Inheritance
Zayd connects to other children of the underground. Out of the shards of the radical movements of the 1970s, a new generation fights to build a better...
Chapter 9: Revolutionary Suicide
Former members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carry out one last action together, with deadly consequences that reverberate ...
Chapter 8: Hard Times
The end of the Vietnam War means the end of the Weather Underground. Zayd’s parents and their radical comrades, still on the run from the FBI, plan a ...
Chapter 7: The Belly of the Beast, Part II
The Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army go to war with the United States government. For more of the story, check out: The...
Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I
The FBI targets the Weather Underground, and a split in the Black Panther Party gives rise to a new, more militant organization - the Black Liberation...
Chapter 5: New Morning
The Weathermen go underground, and become famous - and infamous - as counter-culture outlaws. For more of the story, check out: Thai Jones, A Radical...
Chapter 4: Bring the War Home
The Weathermen decide to bring the horrors of the Vietnam War back to America’s doorstep, planning an action that will change the future of the organi...
Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
In 1970, a former law student named Bernardine Dohrn declared war on the United States government. Decades later, her son Zayd Ayers Dohrn tells the s...
Chapter 3: I Am A Revolutionary
Jamal Joseph is radicalized at 15, and joins the New York Black Panthers. And a deadly attack by Chicago Police puts both Panthers and Weathermen on a...