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!
Read moreAn Afrikan Air-Cleanse: The #MOBP and Garveyism
Is the overall argument that Black buying power is a myth antithetical to race-first ideologies? Are all those who adhered at one point or another to the myth the same in politically? It was a great pleasure to have this small clearing of air around the arguments in The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying…
Read moreBOOK 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…
Read moreBlack 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…
Read moreGrassroots 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. …
Read moreGarvey To Wahad: Legacies Of Black Resistance
Dhoruba bin-Wahad and Mwariama Kamau were back with us to discuss the killing of Michael Brown within the context of Black Liberation struggles, the Garvey Movement and Black August. Click here for the Every 28 Hours report on police killings of Black people in the U.S. from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
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