Surveilling Our Father w Jamil Muhammad

Pictured: Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Leonard Carson Ball Recently researchers of the history of The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in Cincinnati, Ohio turned up FBI – as well as Secret Service and Military Intelligence – surveillance of, among others, our father Leonard C. Ball (pictured here shaking…

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The Super Funky Soul Power Hour for October 25, 2013

This week’s edition of The Super Funky Soul Power Hour included recent discussions with Jamil Muhammad about federal government surveillance of our father Leonard C. Ball and our godfather Thomas J. Porter while leadership of the Cincinnati chapters of The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Dr. Rickey Vincent…

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Live From Channel Zero w Ericka Blount Danois for October 25, 2013

Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs was on hand to for the launch of our new segment, Live From Channel Zero w Ericka Blount Danois, our new weekly look at “popular culture” from a Black perspective. We three chopped it up about the seminal television program Soul! and the recent Soul Summit, Boardwalk Empire and more!

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Enemies of the State? The Super Funky Soul Power Hour for October 18, 2013

This week we were joined by Joseph Torres of Free Press who talked with us about an upcoming event he is convening, Enemies of the State? Government Surveillance of Communities of Color (October 24, 2013 – Bus Boys and Poets, 14th and V, NW, Washington, DC – event video below).  We then aired an edited version of a very unedited longer discussion with Dhoruba bin-Wahad…

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Assata Shakur, Excluding the Nightmare After the Dream by Dhoruba bin-Wahad

Extending our earlier discussion of Herman Wallace and the Political Context of Black Self-Defense Dhoruba bin-Wahad continued with this frank – and highly explicit* – discussion of the shortcomings of many current strategies chosen by those looking to free political prisoners.  Our conversation picks up with bin-Wahad discussing Alice Walker and much of what he sees as flaws with…

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