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Black Liberation Army - Fact or Fantasy
Date: 1/1/1974Call Number: PM 165Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Ron Magee, Rest of the News, Claude Marks, Bruce Soloway, Mark SchwartzProgram: Rest of the NewsCollection: BLA
Interviews and discussion concerning the Black Liberation Army and it’s alleged members. The question is raised as to the actual existence of the group which some claim to be a fabrication of the media and police to justify increased repression of Black revolutionaries. Various criminal trials of black activists are looked at to reveal how the local Police, FBI, News Media, and U.S. Justice System have worked together to pursue a repressive course to combat what they see as a threat to the very structure of American Society. Interviews detail use of police violence and torture to intimidate and demoralize the black radical movement. The cases of the “New York Five”, Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur), and Fred Hilton are described, along with the killing of Fred Hampton and the imprisonment of Muhammad Arif and Victor Cumerbash. Black Liberation Army prisoners (Herman Bell and Gabriel Torres) are interviewed extensively. Family members speak to the violence and repression of the police at a press conference. The murder by police of Twyman Myers is extensively addressed.
Discussion among black women about white liberals, radicalism and solidarity.
Black Women discussing many issues that face them including white liberals and fear, and the media and its outlets.
Panel discussion on the crisis of racism, PART 1
Date: 5/1/1962Call Number: KP 094Format: Cass A & BProducers: Public Affairs Department of WBAI, Pacifica RadioCollection: Black Liberation
A panel discussion moderated by Murray Kempton, James Farmer, William Worthy, and Malcolm X, discussing the crisis of racism in the US. James Farmer, National Director of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), speaks about the problems of hatred, racism, and exclusivity. He says that racism is the misuse of words that mean different things to different people, and is really the belief of the superiority of one race over another. William worthy, an American journalist, poses the question: if a Civil Rights Movement involves white money, does it betray the movement? He speaks about how serious racism is in America, and that whites need a devastating event to get them to overcome their set ways. Next, Malcolm X speaks about how it is impossible for black Americans to realize the same dream as whites. He also speaks about withstanding the racism if it means one could know and fight the enemy. Malcolm X tells the people that it is ok for black people in America to fight back in self-defense because theirs is the most colonized country in the world. The panel discussion ends with a question and answer session about racism and atrocities against blacks fighting for equality.
Interview with Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown
This tape is a series of interviews between Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown. They both met each other in prison.
(I believe) in This interview it is Assata that asks Bo to comment on this question: “Is there ways to prevent people (which has happened in the past alot) from getting engaged in armed struggle, by becoming very isolated?”
Interview with Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown
Same as PM212
This tape is a series of interviews between Assata Shakur and Rita Bo Brown. They both met each other in prison to discuss the isolation of those involved in armed struggle.
“Malcolm X: The Last Message”
Malcolm X delivered this speech in Detroit, Michigan February 14, 1965: the same evening his home was attacked in New York. In his speech, Malcolm X provides an extensive and in depth analysis and explanation of the condition of Black people both in the United States as well as around the world. He examines the colonial powers and provides several examples of terror committed on the part of the United States and other Imperial powers against Africans, African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Central and South American and all other non-white people across the globe. An extensive portion covers important issues in Africa and their direct relation to struggles in the US. Malcolm defines his view of Power in an oppressive society and speaks to the issue of religion, specifically Christianity and Islam. The idea of fear and false propaganda created by ruling powers are highlighted as methods "the man" employs in hopes to create a permanent and unchallenged vibe of ignorance in the Black community. The Media and press are thoroughly explored, discussed and critiqued. He explains how the media removes all responsibility of society and places it on the Black community. He continues on to compare and contrast situations of political and racial oppression in the US as well as all around the globe. He describes organized attacks of genocide against innocent villages at the aid of United States political, military and economic forces. He continues on to interpret the situation of Black people in the US and focuses on how all images given to Black people of themselves are always negative or uncivilized. This very extensive speech covers much of Malcolm X's thoughts on the situation of Imperialism and what must be done immediately to protect not civil rights, but human rights across the globe.
They Know We're There: Pacifica Comes to Mississippi
Date: 8/17/1964Call Number: KP 391Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: Voices from the South
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews reporter Chris Koch who has just returned from 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi on what he witnessed there and the impact on the South of the civil rights movement. (Koch went on to become very prominent in public radio circles).
Robert F Williams events graphics
Photographs by Scott Braley of Robert Williams CD release event in Oakland May of 2005 & Mabel Williams, Kathleen Cleaver event with Angela Davis in March of 2004.
Mabel Williams, Kathleen Cleaver & Angela Davis Photos
Photographs by Scott Braley of Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination event in Oakland
Robert F Williams CD release events photos
Photographs of Robert Williams CD release event in Oakland. Includes John and Mabel Williams, Amiri and Amina Baraka, Bobby Seale and Yuri Kochiyama.
