In the premiere of Days of Revolt, host Chris Hedges sits down with internationally acclaimed activist and public intellectual, Dr. Cornel West to discuss the history of terrorism against black people in America. Figures such as Malcolm X, Ida B. Wells, and Ella Baker make up what West has famously called the “black prophetic tradition”, a movement profiled in his most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire. Hedges and West speak of this movement’s opposition to all shades of imperialism, as well as its importance for their contemporaries in fights such as #BlackLivesMatter.