For the first part of the program, Bobby Seale explodes the myth of the armed street gang promulgated by Ronald Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover. The Panthers were a group of professional, semi-professional, and college students who formed this anti-segregation, broad-spectrum civil rights movement whose legal use of arms Bobby would substitute for video cameras … Continued
We speak with Jilchristina Vest, Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith and former Black Panther member Ericka Huggins about the legacy of Black Panther women, BPP survival programs, and the mural in West Oakland that honors these women’s significant contributions. To find out more about the mural visit, https://www.wbppmural.com/ Ericka Huggins is an educator, former Black Panther Party member, … Continued
Senate Impeachment Trial
We speak with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. about International Revolutionary Day (12-04-20) and the legacy of Fred Hampton.
We speak with Jose Saldana a member of Release Aging People In Prison (RAPP) about the release of political prisoner and former Black Panther Party member Jalil Muntaqim, after nearly 50 years behind bars. We’ll also hear from historian Blair Imani as she discusses her book, Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the … Continued
We speak with former Black Panther Ericka Huggins about the legacy of the Black Panther women, the BPP survival programs, and discuss the details of a mural going up in West Oakland to honor these women. Guests: Ericka Huggins, former Black Panther Party member; Jilchristina Vest, West Oaklander, and organizer of Women of The Black … Continued
The Murder of Fred Hampton An unprecedented, historically significant documentary on the slain leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, killed in 1969 by Chicago police while he slept in his apartment. Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk were already shooting a portrait of this charismatic speaker and community organizer … Continued
We speak with Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru House about Gun control and how it relates to Black Liberation. He also discusses the significance of activist and Black Panther founder Huey Newton, born on February 17, 1942. image credit @ www.apspuhuru.org
on today’s show we hear speeches from Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Geronimo (Janome Ji Jaga) Pratt a decorated military veteran and a high-ranking member of the Black Panther Party in the United States; and Fannie Lou Hamer an American voting rights activist, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and … Continued
with Bernadine Dohrn, former Professor of Law at Northwestern University Involved with the Weather Underground Organization, an American militant, radical left-wing organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan in 1969. The pair are life partners. In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction, and a … Continued
