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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The Super Funky Soul Power Hour! 081613

This week’s edition of The Super Funky Soul Power Hour featured our interviews with Dr. Tukufu Zuberi and Richard Prince and then a bit of a tribute to Marcus Garvey (whose birthday was this week), Malcolm X and George Jackson as part of our on-going commemoration of Black August.  We also opened the show with…

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A Super Funky Day Of Tribute: Dr. Tony Martin, Donald Byrd, Bob Marley

Today Drs. H8, Mark Bolden, Quito Swan and Raymond Winbush joined the program to pay tribute to passing of Dr. Tony Martin and Donald Byrd and to commemorate the birthday this week of Bob Marley.  We re-aired some of the 1993 Gil Noble program Like It Is with Drs. Martin and John Henrik Clarke (full audio below) which dealt with Martin’s publication The Jewish Onslaught itself a response to the charges of…

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