This week’s Jazz and Justice “redux” featured a too rare visit from DC’s legendary artist Face and a discussion with Dedrick Muhammad regarding his latest report on The Recession and Native America. Culminating Native Heritage Appreciation Month and another Thanksgiving holiday we thought it important to invite Mr. Muhammad back on to discuss his report and then to have Face, “the original hard rhymer,” put those conditions into his appropriately angry poetry and song. Face, who listeners compare to John Coltrane, Amiri Baraka and the entire Black Panther Party, lived up to his hype adding an often missing cultural form back to our airwaves. In this edition we also heard from Leonard Peltier and George Lipsitz.
Dedrick Muhammad and the Native American Recession
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As a Black Indian Native Issues concern me and my wife as we are both from Oklahoma! There is friction between the so called Indians and Black Indians because of Tribal Rights for Black Freedmen .Indeed the legacy of Slavery that some tribes owned,bought, and sold Blacks.
This is a Reparations Case!!
Their is a current Federal Case Relating to the treaty of 1866 as concerns Black Indian Economic Rights. Many Indian Tribes fought on the side of the south during the civil war. This reparations case is being petitioned to the Supreme Court of the U.S. The Lawsuit also involves Dr Claude Anderson and The Black Freedmen. Black Indians have always been here even before the Transatlantic Slave Trade the majority of Native Americans Were Dark skinned Indians.
It would be nice to Contact her and do a show with Angela Molette The Top Black Indian historian on the Unknown History of Black Indians in This Country. You can contact her at
Or contact me at 4056009166
Sincerely,
Angela Molette (Tuscaloosa Ohoyo)
Black Warrior Woman
Representative/Spokesperson
Black Indians United Legal Defense and Education Fund
Chief United Tuscaloosa Band of the Choctaw Nation
2023 E. Randolph Avenue
Enid, Oklahoma 73701
(580) 278-9019 Cell
(580) 234-3583 Business
(580) 237-6989 – Museum Fax (580) 237-6587
Email: achoctaw1866@aol.com
Oh by the way great show and keep up the good work. Wonderfull guest the Face did not disappoint!!!!
I’m still waiting to hear Face do my fave poem from the Bar Nun days “You Never Told Me” – that was amazing! Bring it back Face!
Also, really liked that Wynton Marsalis tune “Where Y’all At?” Can you please play it on the show again?