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Growing up in the Black Nation
Geronimo Ji Jaga reflects on how growing up in the Black Nation among enemy forces gave him a deep respect for defenders of the community.
My History of Resistance
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt recounts his personal history as a soldier in Vietnam, how he trained black communitiesin the US in self defense and was targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO program.
Geronimo Ji Jaga on Black Liberation
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Ji Jaga explains the emergence of the Black Panther party as a small piece of the Black Liberation movement.
Prison to COINTELPRO
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Ji Jaga speaks on the political aspects of his imprisonment and provides historical context to his situation.
Vietnam & Detroit Rebellion
Geronimo Ji Jaga discusses his experience of returning from a year of combat in Vietnam only to be ordered to repress an riot in Detroit that largely consisted of Black and disenfranchised peoples.
I'm in it to win!
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt asserts his mission as a revolutionary activist.
James Baldwin and American Identity
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Black Liberation
In this speech given in 1963 James Baldwin addresses the genocide and slave labor that is largely denied by the history of the 'formation' of the United States.
Black Liberation Part 1
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Black Liberation
Sweet Honey In The Rock - "Give Your Hands to Struggle"
James Baldwin - about his visit to a slave station near Dakar in Senegal. He expresses his pain as he tries to imagine how the slaves might have felt as they awaited the middle passage. How they were met with the gun and the bible when they arrived and how white America denies and even justifies this history
Sweet Honey In The Rock continued
Freedom medley - a mix of songs from the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960’s