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The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement w Meron Wondwosen
Feb. 10 | Meron Wondwosen of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement joined us this week. We discussed Afrikan liberation, organizing in the Obama era and the politics of gender and sexuality. We also heard music from Curtis Mayfield, Rah Digga, Donny Hathaway and...
U.S. Apartheid and The Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement
Feb. 3 | Imhotep Fatiu of the Baltimore-based Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement and Dedrick Muhammad, co-author of the recently-released State of the Dream Report 2012 joined us this week. This report concludes, among other things, that by 2042 the United States...
Dr. King Liberated, But Not Black Youth
Jan. 21 | We came back again this week with part two of The L’s Coming: Liberating Dr. King from DJ Sese and we talked with Dr. Joseph Richardson about the crisis of mass incarceration, particularly that of Black youth! It was all good on this edition of The...
Liberating Dr. King! The L’s Coming Mixtape: Real King, Real Politics, Real Beats w Sese
Jan. 13 | 10 hours before show time, its Dr. King’s birthday and the truly dope guest we had lined up cancelled last minute! What to do!?!? No worries. Scoop up my man’s mixtape, The L’s Coming: Liberating Dr. King from DJ Sese, and rolled to...
Super Black! The Politics of Comics and Pop Culture
Jan. 6 | We had an “academic barbershop roundtable” this morning on the politics of race and pop culture in the context of Black superhero comic books. Our guests were Drs. Adilifu Nama (author of Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes),...
Students Against Mass Incarceration and Skipp Coon!
Dec. 30 | Nishaun Battle and Ben Woods of Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI) along with the brilliant artist Skipp Coon joined the program this morning for a discussion of mass incarceration, political imprisonment and mass political organization and mobilization. ...
Special Voxunion Rebroadcast! African or American and the New Jim Crow: An Afternoon with Michelle and Leslie Alexander!
Dec. 27 | We had the pleasure this week of being joined by sisters, scholars and activists Michelle and Leslie Alexander. Each were kind enough to support our pledge-drive by offering their powerfully relevant and related books as thank-you-gifts and to discuss...
The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ with Dr. Charles Finch
Dec. 23 | How and why did Heru become Jesus and Aset become Mary? How is John Coltrane’s “Sheets of Sound” an extension of ancient African wisdom, specifically spiritual mathematics played out through music? All this and more as Dr. Charles...
Afro-Colombia, Occupy the Hood and Ka’Ba!
Dec. 16 | On this week’s show we were joined by Charo Mina-Rojas and Ajamu Baraka for a discussion of Afro-Colombia and the African World. We also heard from Uno the Prophet about Occupy the Hood in Boston and its struggles with the Occupy Wall Street campaign...
