For Hip-Hop: Amiri Baraka and Black Radical Art

For Hip-Hop: Amiri Baraka (October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014) and Black Radical Art Jared A. Ball “There is, of course, the syndrome Lenin spoke about when he said that once opponents of the bourgeoisie are dead the rulers transform these class enemies into ciphers or agreeable sycophants of Imperialism (however “askew” they might…

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Marion Barry, Amiri Baraka and Rebellion in Ferguson

Black Liberation Movement veteran, philosopher, ethnomusicologist and godfather Mr. Tom Porter joined us to discuss the late “Mayor for Life” Marion Barry and old friend Amiri Baraka.  We also were joined again by Association of Black Psychologists’ Dr. Marva Robinson for her first-person account of the latest from Ferguson.  We heard from Mumia Abu-Jamal and…

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