Bob Rhodes is a legendary self-proclaimed (accurately) “idea man” who prefers the background to the limelight. He is one of the most brilliant still-living true Black Leftists who has yet maintained strong ties with the Black nationalist community. I had a chance to capture this portion of a conversation we had in the office of Dr. Conrad Worrill at the Jacob Carruthers Institute for Inner City Studies in Chicago February 21, 2015 as we set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.