The San Quentin Six (1972) AfroMarxist 2024-08-31 | A documentary on the six Black and Chicano prisoners who, following George Jackson's death, were charged on charges of murder and conspiracy, known as the San Quentin six. The men charged were David Johnson, Willie Tate, Fleeta Drumgo, Johnny Larry Spain, Luis Talamantez, and Hugo Pinell. Featuring interviews by George Jackson, Associate Warden James Park, attorney William Kunstler, Rick Beban of the Marin County Grand Jury, Warden Louis Nelson, Raymond Procunier, Elaine Brown, Bruce Bales, and many more.
Paul Robeson Interview (1958) AfroMarxist 2024-08-18 | Paul Robeson, noted actor and political activist, relates his personal history and views in this interview with Elsa Knight Thompson, and Harold Winkler, then president of Pacifica Foundation. Discussion of his life as the son of a former slave, his life as an expatriate during the 1930s, his involvement in the civil rights movement, views of socialism, and the problems facing the emerging African nations.
Political Prisoners in the USA - Mumia Abu Jamal AfroMarxist 2024-04-24 | Christof Arnold interviews Mumia Abu Jamal
Political Prisoners in the USA - Geronimo Ji -Jaga Pratt AfroMarxist 2024-04-21 | An overview of the case of jailed Black Panther leader Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt. "Pratt spent twenty-seven years in prison, eight of those years in solitary confinement. Johnnie Cochran continued to work on his case, and he was joined by a radical law student, Stuart Hanlon. Pratt was granted a new trial in 1996 and was released in 1997, with the judge ruling that the original conviction should be vacated because the Los Angeles district attorney’s office had concealed crucial information from the jury, such as the fact that the key witness for the prosecution, Julio Butler, was a paid FBI and police informant. Pratt also won a civil suit for wrongful imprisonment and was awarded a $4.5 million settlement.After being released from prison, Pratt dedicated his life to working for those wrongfully incarcerated. He moved to Tanzania with the daughter of Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver and that is where he passed away on June 2, 2011."
Michael Manley Interview (1975) AfroMarxist 2024-02-17 | Bill Moyers in conversation with Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, on the emerging needs of an inter-global society.
What Happened to the Black Revolution? (1977) AfroMarxist 2024-02-04 | Discussions on the political and social unrest of the 1960's; interviews with Julian Bond and Roger Wilkins seek to determine what the "Black Revolution" was really about.
Martin Luther King at Santa Rita prison (1968) AfroMarxist 2024-01-15 | After Joan Baez, her mother, and Ira Sandperl were incarcerated at Santa Rita prison in California after an anti-war demonstration at the Oakland induction center, Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Santa Rita and spoke first to the imprisoned activists and then the supporters and activists outside. This is a recording of the public speech recorded on January 14, 1968. King delivers a speech, explains his support of the anti-war activists, and takes questions from the press.
History of the Negro People; 4; Brazil: The Vanishing Negro AfroMarxist 2024-01-14 | This vivid documentary, filmed in Brazil, explores the experience of 30 million Negroes in the country reputed to be a "racial paradise." Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado, historian Gilberto Freyre, Professor Thales de Azevado an anthropologist, Columbia University professor Marvin Harris, and other experts on Brazil appear in on-camera interviews. Ossie Davis is narrator. In Brazil, a melting pot of people and races, the experience of the Negro differs fundamentally from that of the North American Negro. Ossie Davis and guest experts explore Brazil's past and present for an explanation and appraisal of this unique experience.
History of the Negro People; 3; Slavery (1965) AfroMarxist 2024-01-14 | His dramatic and choral work starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and the choral group "The Voices Inc." is a portrait of life under slavery. Based on the actual testimony of former slaves, the tragic and sometimes humorous experiences of life in the old South is told - joining the white folk's church, outwitting the master, going to the Fourth of July barbecue, working in the fields, and finally, being liberated by the victorious Yankee troops. ("Everybody was singing. We was all walking on golden clouds)."
History of the Negro People; 2; The Negro and the South (1965) AfroMarxist 2024-01-07 | The meaning of that enigmatic term "the Southern way of Life" to the South's 43 million whites and 11 million Negroes is the subject of this program. Interviews with whites and Negroes present the view from both sides of the fence. Host Ossie Davis comments on the life of the Negro in the South, past and present. Interviewed on camera are several white citizens in Mississippi including Mayor William Elliot of Oxford, Sheriff Boyce Bratton of Lafayette County, and Circuit Judge Walter O'Barr. Among the Negroes interviewed are a mechanic, a teacher, and a minister, the Rev. W. H. Redmond. The cameras also visit white and Negro classrooms where children are taught Southern history from the same textbooks in different schools.
History of The Negro People ;1; Heritage of The Negro (1965) AfroMarxist 2024-01-07 | The little-known heritage of the Negro is explored in this premiere program. Host Ossie Davis, Basil Davidson (British writer and historian on Africa), and John Henry Clarke examine the civilization and achievements of ancient Africa and their significance to the American Negro today. Footage shot on location in Africa reveals traces of the old African cultures - Nubian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, and the West African civilizations of Mali, Songhai, Ashanti, Ife, Benin, and Timbucktoo. Mr. Davidson, author of "The African Past," "Black Mother," and other books on Africa, emphasizes that African history as recorded by white historians has traditionally ignored the old civilizations of Africa below the Sahara.
Kwame Ture Interview (1988) AfroMarxist 2023-10-01 | Discussion centers on SNCC, voting registration in Lowndes County, the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr.'s views on the Vietnam War, the tactic of nonviolence, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the James Meredith March and many other subjects.
George Jackson Interview (1971) AfroMarxist 2023-09-24 | Interviewed three weeks before his death [on August 21, 1971], George Jackson discusses prison conditions, the role of Black women in Black liberation, and his personal and political ideology. The interview took place at San Quentin Prison. Contains sensitive language.
Messenger from Violet Drive (1964) AfroMarxist 2023-07-09 | This program is a documentary report on Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the controversial Black Muslim movement. While consisting primarily of an exclusive interview - one of the first filmed - with Elijah Muhammad, the half-hour program also includes the views of two leading Negro spokesmen on the Black Nationalist movement in the United States.
Puerto Rican Solidarity Day (1975) AfroMarxist 2023-07-05 | Highlights of last year’s Puerto Rican Solidarity Day held at Madison Square Garden with 20,000 in attendance. Includes speeches from Angela Davis and Jane Fonda.
Black Power Origins: W.E.B Dubois AfroMarxist 2023-04-22 | Ted Vincent discusses the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois, author, scholar, and founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Pan African Congress, and the Niagara movement.Credit To: Pacifica Radio Archives
Kwame Ture Interview (1981) AfroMarxist 2023-03-04 | Interview with Kwame Ture, author and civil rights leader known to most Americans as Stokely Carmichael who discusses socialism as a solution to the capitalist system.
Angela Davis Interview (1989) AfroMarxist 2023-02-11 | Angela Y. Davis discusses the Black Panther Party, the prison system, women in prison and in the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X, and self-defense.
Thank You, Rosa Parks (1990) AfroMarxist 2023-02-04 | This episode of At Week's End with Neil Boggs discusses Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. When Rosa Parks rebelled against the norms of 1955, she had no idea her act of defiance would be the stepping stone that it was for Black people in America. Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man in a time when Black people, especially in Montgomery, Alabama, were viewed as inferior and treated as second-class citizens. She is today considered to be the mother of the civil rights movement and visited Albuquerque recently for the observance of Black History month throughout the United States.
Minority Presidential Candidates (1968) AfroMarxist 2022-11-26 | Presidential Candidates from the Communist Party USA, Socialist Labor Party and Socialist Workers Party
Huey Newton Interview (1989) AfroMarxist 2022-10-16 | Discussion centers on the Black Panther Party, Police-community relations in Oakland, California, Bobby Seale, and Fred Hampton.
Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light (1993) AfroMarxist 2022-03-06 | "'Audre Lorde: A Burst Of Light' is much more than the story of an African American poet who died of cancer in November 1992, told through words, music and poetry. This program not only recounts major turning points in Lorde's developments as an artist but recaptures the essential message of her life: that survival is possible in a hostile world. From her birth in Harlem in 1934, the daughter of West Indian immigrant parents, Audre Lorde overcame the challenges of race and sex discrimination, homophobia, the cultural and intellectual repression of the 1950s, and a [fifteen-year] battle with cancer.
Intercommunal Day of Solidarity (1971) AfroMarxist 2022-02-12 | On March 5, 1971, the Black Panther Party held an event at the Oakland Auditorium called "Revolutionary International Day of Solidarity" for Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins, Angela Davis, and Ruchell Magee, and also to honor Party Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton on his release from prison. Huey P. Newton was the featured speaker. This event advertised an appearance by Kathleen Cleaver, too, but the female voice on this recording was noted by the recorder as being Elaine Brown. The event also included live performances by the Reverend Charles Bronson, the Grateful Dead, The Lumpen, and The Vanguards, some of which appear on this recording.
Angela Davis speaks on Organization and Political Prisoners (1973) AfroMarxist 2022-02-05 | Angela Davis speaks at Popejoy Hall at UNM (Nov 19, 1973). She speaks about the power of organized masses of people speaking against racism and oppression. She shares a message of freeing political prisoners.
Black History: An Afrocentric View by John Henrik Clarke (1973) AfroMarxist 2021-11-13 | Dr. John Henry Clark discusses African World History
The African Revolution : Out of the Dark ( Part 1) AfroMarxist 2021-10-09 | This first program sets the scene for the series, exploring the past and present of Africa, as well as taking a look to Africa's future.A six-part study of Sub-Saharan Africa, based on a fifteen-country tour that was undertaken by broadcaster Harry Ruskie.
Elaine Brown and Kwame Ture Interview (1993) AfroMarxist 2021-10-02 | Former Black Panthers Elaine Brown and Kwame Ture, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, discuss the ideological principles of the Black Panthers that remain relevant today. Credit To: Charlie Rose
Black Leadership: A Discussion 30 Years after the March on Washington (1993) AfroMarxist 2021-08-29 | The panel features Rev. Al Sharpton, Stanley Crouch, Charles Johnson, Kathleen Cleaver, and Eleanor Holmes Norton
Kathleen Cleaver on the Black Panther Partys politics (1972) AfroMarxist 2021-08-14 | "KPFA's Yolanda de Freitas, Jean Wiley of Third World Media News, and Cheryl Johnson of the Third World Women's Alliance interviews Black Panther Party communications secretary Kathleen Cleaver (1945-) upon her return to the United States after having spent three years in Algeria. She begins with an explanation of the situation in Algeria, the reason for her visit to the United States, and then talks about the changing emphasis of the Black Panther Party politics and about the feminist movement. Cleaver provides a concise history and explanation of the internal controversy that led to the rumored "Panther Split." Regarding the Women's Liberation movement, she emphasizes the importance of women's becoming political and aware of the struggles of all oppressed people."
Marvel Cooke talks joining the CPUSA AfroMarxist 2021-08-10 | Marvel Cooke (1903-2000) was an American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist. In 1928, she was the first woman reporter at the New York Amsterdam News and the first African-American woman to work at a mainstream white-owned newspaper. While working for Amsterdam News in the 1930s, Cooke helped create a local chapter of the Newspaper Guild, held union meetings in her home, and joined the Communist Party. She later went on to volunteer as national legal defense secretary for the Angela Davis Defense Fund in 1971.Credit to: Tamiment Library
Angela Davis on Cuba, Fidel Castro and the U.S Embargo AfroMarxist 2021-07-19 | Credit to : The Tamiment Library"Angela Davis talks about her experiences in Cuba and her feelings about Fidel Castro. She discusses Cuban Americans and her opposition to the US embargo."
Africa Liberation Day (1972) AfroMarxist 2021-05-23 | Filmed highlights of the May 27, 1972 African Liberation Day held in Washington, DC to demonstrate support for Black freedom fighters in Africa and to foster Pan-Africanism.#AfricaLiberationDay
Mumia Abu Jamal - Toward a New Jerusalem AfroMarxist 2021-04-24 | To listen to more of Mumia and support him go to: http://www.prisonradio.org#FreeMumia
Angela Davis in Columbia (1974) AfroMarxist 2021-03-28 | An excerpt of a Angela Davis speech delivered in Columbia, MO circa April 1974. Davis discusses race issues in America, William Shockley, and the ongoing Watergate scandal.
Betty Shabazz (1971) AfroMarxist 2021-03-14 | Mrs. Betty Shabazz (May 28, 1934 _ June 23, 1997), educator, activist, and wife of Malcolm X, speaks on the eve of Malcolm X's birthday at McClymonds High School in Oakland, California as a guest of Merritt College. She speaks about her and Malcolm's efforts within the Black Civil Rights movement and takes questions from the audience.
The Black Woman! (1970) AfroMarxist 2021-03-07 | Black poetess Nikki Giovanni interviews singer Lena Horne in this special Black Journal program focusing on the Black woman.In another segment, a panel of six prominent Black women discuss the role of the Black woman in today's society. Participating in the panel are Verta Mae Grosvenor, author of "Vibrations Cooking"; Jean Fairfax, NAACP Legal Defense lawyer; Martha Davis of the Harlem Drug Fighters Union; Marion-Etoile Watson, producer for Metromedia Television (Channel 5, New York City); Bibi Amina Baraka (Mrs. LeRoi Jones); and Joan Harris, hostess of NBS's "Positively Black."
John Henrik Clarke Interview (1973) AfroMarxist 2021-02-27 | A discussion of Black history with Professor John Henrik Clarke, about his book on great men of color from history.
