Kemet, Cabral and Afro-Latinas!

In this edition of iMiXWHATiLiKE! we talked with Dr. Charles Finch about the African foundations of religion, science and philosophy; we then spoke with Dinizulu Gene Tinnie about Amilcar Cabral; filmmaker Valerio Lopes about his new/free  documentary on Cabral, Cabralista, and Yvette Modestin on Afro-Latinas!

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Afro-Latina Women Warriors w Yvette Modestin

Yvette Modestin of Projecto Colon and co-author/editor of Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora joined us this week.  She shared with us her own life story of being an Afro-Latina from Colon, Panama and the politics of gender, race and ethnicity in the context of anti-colonial/imperial movement-building.  In the second half of the show we heard from some of the contributors to A…

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Afro-Colombia, Occupy the Hood and Ka’Ba!

On this week’s show we were joined by Charo Mina-Rojas and Ajamu Baraka for a discussion of Afro-Colombia and the African World.  We also heard from Uno the Prophet about Occupy the Hood in Boston and its struggles with the Occupy Wall Street campaign there and we had in-studio commentary and performance from Ka’Ba.  All this plus music from Immortal Technique, Mos Def…

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South Africa and Social Death Beyond Mandela with Frank Wilderson

Dr. Frank Wilderson joined us again to discuss South Africa beyond Mandela, Afro-pessimism, Anti-Blackness, Steve Biko, Chris Hani, Winnie Mandela and more.  We talked also about armed struggle, political compromise and suppressed concepts and histories related to South Africa and the world.* *January 25, 2014

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Black Rock and Misfits

November 22, 2014 – We had a real Black Misfits conversation with bassist, music guru and radio producer Luke Stewart and the iMiXWHATiLiKE crew about Black rock, Afro-Punk and misfit race relations.  It was a laid back but heavy and fun conversation.  Initially our discussion was intended to be part of Stewart’s forthcoming tribute to…

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