Marshall “Eddie” Conway and Dominque Stevenson joined us this morning to discuss their new book:Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther (AK Press). Conway, who has entered his 41st year of incarceration for the alleged (if not proven!) killing of a police officer, discussed with Ms. Stevenson the history of his development of…
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This was our one visit to Al Jazeera / and the last taping of the Riz Khan Show for a panel discussion on Viking Press’ A Life of Reinvention… Zaheer Ali had previously ignored an invitation to my radio show and after this panel, where unbeknownst to anyone involved the producer did not inform him prior to the…
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Manning Marable titles his book’s epilogue “Reflections on a Revolutionary Vision.” However, his conclusion is more of a eulogy for the revolutionary ideas so carefully put to permanent rest throughout its preceding pages. Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention positions itself alongside, if not atop, a previous work by Marable’s protégé Peniel…
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