Best Of: Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s childhood on the run / Writer Jesmyn Ward
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Public media is no longer federally funded, but the NPR network remains yours, in service to and powered by you. Keep public media public with a donation today at donate.npr.org and thank you. From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, growing up underground and on the run, we talked with Zayd Ayres Dorn.
His mother, Bernadine Dorn, was a leader of the SDS, the Stutton Anti-Vietnam War Group. She also led a faction that broke away and formed the Weather Underground, advocating armed resistance. In his new memoir, Zayd wrestles with questions. What turned somebody into a revolutionary? How did my mom go from a law student and a civil rights activist to
a top ten most wanted fugitive and a person who advocated bombing government buildings. We also hear from writer Jessmine Ward. She's a two-time National Book Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and the author of Salvage the Bones and the memoir Men We Reaped. Her latest book is an essay collection on grief, motherhood, and survival. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
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