As part of an ongoing tribute to Black August I am again re-posting a remastered version of the original 2006 George Jackson FreeMix Radio Mixtape. The mixtape features DC-area artists and activists reading portions of Jackson’s work and a bunch of good music from folks like Public Enemy, Dead Prez, Blitz, Hasan Salaam, Asheru, Head-Roc,…
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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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The experience of the last five weeks shows that Wall Street “occupiers’ fear of liberal co-optation is fully justified.” Media mogul and debit card finance capitalist Russell Simmons escorted Kanye West and Al Sharpton into the Zuccotti Park occupation mix, in yet another attempt “by the soft liberal Left to co-opt anything that has any…
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