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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Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, Keith Harrison. Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America. New York and Boston: Grand Central Publishing, 352 pp., $30. Edited by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick. The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker. New York: Ecco, 819 pp., $35….
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What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.Michael Eric Dyson.St. Martin’s Press, 294 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs This review admittedly asks an unfair question: If Michael Eric Dyson had written the 1961 film version of “A Raisin in the Sun” instead of the play’s creator,…
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