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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Malcolm X: Who Was the Man Behind the Legend?

This was our one visit to Al Jazeera / and the last taping of the Riz Khan Show for a panel discussion on Viking Press’ A Life of Reinvention… Zaheer Ali had previously ignored an invitation to my radio show and after this panel, where unbeknownst to anyone involved the producer did not inform him prior to the…

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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid w author Frank Wilderson

“In South Africa, Mandela once called the author, one of the few African-Americans to help lead the ANC, ‘a threat to national security’—in short, a terrorist. Wilderson was named such because he and his colleagues continued to clandestinely push for socialism by any means necessary while Mandela had embraced the military-corporate establishment and the idea…

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