Pictured: Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Leonard Carson Ball Recently researchers of the history of The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in Cincinnati, Ohio turned up FBI – as well as Secret Service and Military Intelligence – surveillance of, among others, our father Leonard C. Ball (pictured here shaking…
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Tom Porter, long-time activist, educator and radio host (Jazz and Justice, Mondays 1-3p WPFW) joined the show this week with Head-Roc, “The Mayor of DC Hip-Hop.” We all talked about the boundaries of Black allegiance to the state and its constraints on options considered for making change. We talked about the recent upheaval blamed on YouTube and racist…
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Activists and scholars gathered at Morgan State University April 4, 2013 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event’s focus was the particular relationship Dr. King had at the end of his life with the state, its mass media and leading civil rights leadership which meant a particular…
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