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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The Black Power Mixtape Remixes Black Power

It would be difficult to argue that the filmmakers of the recently-released documentary Black Power Mixtape did not intend the irony that came with some concluding comments from singer Erykah Badu. Her point was that Black people had to document and tell their own stories or disappear. That these comments came at the end of…

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Defining Black Power: Dr. Jared Ball Debates Peniel Joseph

Drs. Jared Ball and Peniel Joseph debate the meaning of Black Power as defined in his work, Dark Days and Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama.*  We also invite those interested to listen HERE to our discussion with Dr. Quito Swan about his work on Black Power for an update and more appropriate…

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