I and some others were asked recently by Dhoruba bin-Wahad to consider the story (below) from Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post at the end of 2017 called “History through Cuban Eyes: Noticiero ICAIC.” Specifically, we were being asked by bin-Wahad to produce stories and more discussion around the politics of art, media and popular culture…
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Malcolm X: Who Was the Man Behind the Legend?
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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