Marcus Garvey and Black August w Omowale Afrika

Omowale Afrika joined us to discuss #BlackAugust #MarcusGarvey and the #RBGCentennial #RBG100th commemorative week and conference. We talked about the relevance of Garveyism to today’s struggles, to the coming presidential election, #BlackLivesMatter and more!

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BOOK REVIEWS: ‘Lady Presidents’ and Black Radical Dreams Between Garvey And The Civil Rights Movement

  Set The World On Fire: Black Nationalist Women And The Global Struggle For Freedom. Keisha N. Blain. University of Pennsylvania Press, 264 pp., $34.95. James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Sara Rzeszutek. The University Press of Kentucky, 384 pp. $30.   Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs ONCE…

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Black Power, The Garvey Movement and African Fighting Sciences with Cleophas Jacobs

Cleophas Jacobs joined Dr. Hate, Mwariama Kamau and Jared Ball for more discussion of Black Power, The Garvey Movement and African Fighting Sciences.  We also talked about hip-hop’s Marcus Garvey cultural memory and the adoption by prominent Black intellectuals of Richard Nixon’s intentionally distorted definition of Black Power.  Specifically, we looked at this morning’s truly…

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Grassroots Mosiah – Community And Organizational Reflections Of Marcus Garvey

R.I.P. Baba Oduno. * This week Dr. Hate returned to lead our continuing Black August reflections on the history of the Garvey movement.  In the discussion were Dr. Ahmed Assalaam, Potentate and Supreme Commissioner of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA); UNIA member, organizer and scholar Baba Tarik Oduno and UNIA-ACL international organizer Mwariama Kamau. …

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