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Interview with Dennis Bernstein
Date: 7/11/1996Call Number: SS 040AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoProgram: KPFACollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Dennis Bernstein on the Black Movement and Black church burnings.
Focus on Race in Black History Month
Date: 2/2/1996Call Number: JG/ 097Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Focus on Race in Black History Month. Interview with Charlene Kotherine, publisher of 'Venus' magazine and an activist in the African American Gay community in Atlanta, GA. Kotherine discuses the recent rally of gay and lesbian blacks in honor of Bayard Rustin at the Atlanta Martin Luther King celebrations, done in hopes of raising visibility for the movement and educating the larger black community about black gays and lesbians. She notes
a recent more positive reception towards the gay community as a whole in Atlanta and increasing numbers of black gays and lesbians who have come out in the past five years. Kotherine believes nonetheless that coming out still unfortunately remains a privlidge of high economic status for blacks. She notes the need for a separate black gay and lesbian movement outside the mainstream gay and lesbian movement in Atlanta because of unique race concerns and the black need for acceptance from within the power bases of their community which has thus far been hesitant to accept them. She notes the steps forward that black gays and lesbians have made at organizing over the past year, including organizing a black gay pride parade.
Justice/Injustice
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: V 273Format: VHSProducers: Ron Hunnings, Lisa FromartzCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Former prisoners, activists and advocates speak out on the U.S. criminal justice system. Topics include political prisoners, women in prison, the death penalty, and the politics of incarceration. Music, art and poetry are from Art Against Death: the art and writings of political prisoners, traveling exhibition to benefit the legal defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Racism and the War on Drugs
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: CD 793Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
In a panel discussion, several speakers express their views about how racism and the war on drugs are connected. Racism is found in every step of the criminal justice law enforcement process. Blacks and Hispanics are unfairly targeted in the drug war. The speakers advocate that federal law enforcement change, and that mandatory minimums, crack laws, and guideline sentences be revised.
On the KKK and the 1996 Republican National Convention
Date: 8/16/1996Call Number: JG/ 158BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy opens the episode with a reading from a newspaper article that was not widely publicized in the national newspapers. The article focused on an event where two KKK members plead guilty in Charleston in Federal Court to burning down two Black A.M.E. churches. Judy questions why the article was hidden from public knowledge.
Judy then moves on to speak primarily about the Republican National Convention that recently occurred in San Diego. She challenges news reports and newspaper articles claiming that many Blacks and Latinos were present at the convention, while in reality, there were only 100 Blacks/Latinos of the 2000 people in total attendance. Judy also mentions the various protests that occurred during the convention.
The Death Penalty in Georgia and in General
Date: 8/2/1996Call Number: JG/ 160BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber plays recordings of speeches by two men Pierre Sonay, the secretary general of Amnesty International, and Steven Bright, the director for the Southern Center for Human Rights. Both men speak out against the death penalty and both choose to relate the death penalty in Georgia to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Less than 40 miles away from the Olympic stadium, more than 100 men were being held on death row, which is ironic because the Atlanta Olympic committee purports itself as the capital of human rights. Pierre and Bright both cite evidence that the Georgia death penalty disproportionately targets black men, re-affirming the racist nature of criminal justice in the United States.
25th Anniversary of the Murder of George Jackson
Date: 8/23/1996Call Number: JG/ 164Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber reads some published letters from George Jackson who spent 11 years in prison, 8.5 in solitary confinement, for being accused of stealing $70 from a gas station. Judy reads letters from Jackson’s book of published letters entitled Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. A year after publishing the book he was murdered in San Quentin Prison by a guard in a security tower. Judy reads 7 letters dated between September 1965 and April of 1970. These letters are sent to George’s mother, brothers, and finally his lawyer. These letters are read in memory of George Jackson and in light of the fact that it had been 25 years since his murder in prison.
Williams "Song in Exile" Celebrated
Publisher: Daily ChallengeDate: 11/1996Volume Number: NovemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Robert F. Williams!
A Legacy of Resistance: Tributes to Robert and Mabel Williams
Publisher: Robert Williams Tribute CommitteeDate: 11/1/1996Volume Number: 1-NovFormat: ProgramCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Tributes to Robert and Mabel from revolutionaries from all over the world.
A Tribue to Brother Rob Williams
Publisher: Patrice Lumumba CoalitionDate: 11/1/1996Volume Number: 1-NovFormat: FlyerCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Event flyer for a tribute to Brother Rob Williams
