We speak with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. about the city of Chicago, political prisoners and the state of politics. Later Poor News Network examines America’s War on impoverished communities. photo: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bobby Seale
Summer Fund Drive Special: In Conversation with Bobby Seale and John A. Powell
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
50 Years Ago: Antiwar Protesters Brutally Attacked in Police Riots at 1968 Democratic Convention; Bound & Gagged: Black Panther Party Chair Bobby Seale Describes His Trial After 1968 DNC Protests; 1968 DNC Protests, 50 Years Later: Organizers Recall Coalition Building & Running Pig for President.
50 Years Ago: Antiwar Protesters Brutally Attacked in Police Riots at 1968 Democratic Convention; Bound & Gagged: Black Panther Party Chair Bobby Seale Describes His Trial After 1968 DNC Protests; 1968 DNC Protests, 50 Years Later: Organizers Recall Coalition Building & Running Pig for President.
Today we’ll present to you the Pacifica Radio Archives introduction to the Black Panthers. Based on historic audio tapes preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives this sixth CD set is an attempt to bring you a window to the past to the hopes the dreams the difficulties and yes the missteps of the Black Panthers. … Continued
Hard Knock’s History and Activist Pack
1. Lineage: Conversation with Thinkers & Activists historian, journalist, and educator Dr. Jelani Cobb (Columbia University) who will be interviewed by his friend and comrade Alicia Garza, Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Co-Founder of #BlackLivesMatter. http://oakland.impacthub.net/event/lineage-conversations-w-thinkers-activists-jelani-cobb-alicia-garza/ 2. The Price of the Ticket: James Baldwin Revisited In the days leading … Continued
The day after the new US President is sworn in, Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, shares his stories, his reflections, and his strategies of the politics of the revolution with Oakland poet, educator, playwright, and screenwriter Chinaka Hodge. We hear from these two speakers whose experience includes a range of cultural … Continued
We check out some of the sights and sounds that took place over the weekend as the Black Panthers celebrated 50 years .