#ElombeBrath #PanAfricanism #Internationalism Cinque Brath of the Elombe Brath Foundation joined us to talk about this legendary figure and related politics, histories, ideas. SHOW NOTES: The Elombe Brath Foundationhttps://www.elombebrathfoundation.org/ NEW DISCORD!https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5Ez Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and author of The Myth and…
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Elombe Brath (1936-2014), whose writings from two decades have been collected here in a fundraising vehicle for the memorial foundation bearing his name, was the heir of Harlem’s street orators—those men who gathered at streetcorners before and after World War II and talked about the Africa inside. Armed with a century of books, pamphlets and documents, these people educated African villages across America about the relationship between history, culture, politics and society from the perspectives of the most powerful people who had ever been colonized.
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Dhoruba bin-Wahad was back with us this time to discuss the context and history of the speech he gave in 1990 on the occasion of Nelson Mandela‘s release and visit to New York City, an excerpt of which is now heard opening the film All Eyez On Me.
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