Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement joined us as part of our special WPFW 89.3 FM Ferguson and Beyond programming to discuss Operation Ghetto Storm and the Every 28 Hours report on police violence in the U.S. Important here was specifically Akuno’s ability to address media coverage, appropriation and omission of the report,…
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Today we took another look at the killing of Michael Brown and the issue of police violence from the perspective of the Operation Ghetto Storm/Every 28 Hours Report with Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; activist and scholar Rosa Clemente. We also talked about the uprising in Ferguson, MO. in the context of…
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This week we kept up the Black August theme by airing interviews with Mama Ayanna Mashama, Kamau Franklin and Jonathan Stith – National Organizer of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement… and much more… including sounds from Maimouna Youssef, Sima Lee, The Cornel West Theory, The Beat Tape Project and more… And click here for our other Black August related…
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