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“Carry it On”
Assata Shakur reads her poem, the chorus is “Carry it On”, probably the title. The poem carries the listener through a history of black international resistance.
Assata Shakur Report from Cuba
Black Entertainment Television (BET) feature on Assata. Contains good actuality of Assata speaking on her court case, her representation in the media and the need to contextualize her case in the 60’s and the universal black experience. Tape cuts off about 5 minutes into the program.
Mark Essex
Dave Lampell delivers a short program documenting the shootout in New Orleans in 1974 where Mark Essex, a 23 year old Vietnam veteran killed police officers. The area was closed off, and calling on backup for reinforcements, police numbers were in the hundreds. They believed there to be more than one sniper. They shot Mark Essex over one hundred times, killing him the first night of the shootout. The police also took out many of their own in an insane display of force. The rest of the program gives a history of Mark Essex’s life in Kansas and suffering racism in the military. Great quotes about the racist State from his mother and sister.
Interview with Dharuba Bin Wahad
Date: 10/5/1999Call Number: PM 170AFormat: Cass AProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
General statements by Dhoruba Bin Wahad while he visited San Francisco in 1999.
Geronimo Pratt Interview
In this biography/interview of Pratt, Lisa Rudman gives insight on what it has been like for Geronimo Pratt and his last eighteen years in prison. Pratt had spent three years in Vietnam after high school where he discovered that the way soldiers treated people over in Vietnam was the same way police had treated people of the black community. Pratt was a victim of the cointellpro, where the FBI’s goals where to prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups and to prevent the rise of a masiah that would unify the militant black national movement. While over in Vietnam, Pratt was sprayed by a chemical that he still has side effects from and for some reason the prison refuses to treat him. In his case where Pratt was accused and convicted of killing a white women, Julio Butler who was the key witness in the case had committed perjury by saying that Pratt had admitted the murder to him when he was a paid informant that denied ever working with the police. Evidence to support this fact has surfaced since the conviction to prove that Pratt was framed and Pratt knows that he is being held for nothing other than his political beliefs. Pratt stated that “ they just don’t want strong black leaders in this country.”
Dhuruba Moore Interview
In this Interview Moore talks about the importance of the BLA, which lies in it’s concept. The concept was that a revolutionary arm struggle is a very vital aspect of any progressive movement for revolutionary change. This is a concept that the people of the movement had to be aware of in order to expose it to the people of te community. Moore states that “ locking up political prisoners is a way to waeken a movement.” Usually the political prisoner is the head of the movement. Moore also says that “ not only are brothers being captured for being apart of an organization but also for wageing concrete struggle against the power structure. Which makes their defense almost impossible in the court room, where the laws are determine by the ruling class.”
Nictche Tanifa on Sundiata Acoli
Call Number: JG/ 060AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Community ForumCollection: Sundiata Acoli
Judy Gerber interviews Nictche Tanifa of the Acoli Freedom Campain. Tanifa describes Sundiata Acoli’s involvement with the New York Black Panther party, his movement from community organizer to underground fighter, the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike and his subsequent arrest and imprisonment. Tanifa also discusses the harsh sentences used against political activists and the treatment of political prisoner and prisoners of war on the inside.
Defining Black Power - Part One
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches.
Rosa Parks 6:41 (1955)
James Baldwin 16:33 (5/17/1963)
Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X 21:32 (Debate in early 1960s)
Defining Black Power - Part Three
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches.
Elijah Muhammad 9:28 (early 1960s)
Malcolm X 12:01 (1/7/1965)
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure) 9:37 (8/25/1968)
Defining Black Power - Part Five
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches.
Eldridge Cleaver 12:29 (4/28/1969)
Maulana Karenga 11:31 (4/28/1969)
H Rap Brown (Jamil al Amin) 15:25 (1968)
