BET's "Our Voices" hosted by Bev Smith featured Haki Madhubuti, Useni Perkins, Nkechi Taifa and Ronald Steele, discussing solutions to the then 25% incarceration rate for African American males, ages 20-29. Madhubuti said we need to rally around ideas. I suggested that that idea be reclaiming our natural history and heritage that we were forced to abandon to survive 240+ years of slavery; a history that can turn us away from prisons and self-destruction to education and self-preservation, but Bev didn't get it; she kept begging the question, no matter how much we answered. I think that Bev, like many before her and since, was was looking for a simple, sound-bite solution. Mar. 31, 1990.
In 1962, a confrontation with the LAPD outside a mosque resulted in the death of a Nation of Islam member. It was an event seized on by an outraged Malcolm X, who would condemn it in an impassioned speech. From the Series: The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X http://bit.ly/2Dun05T
KQED News report from February 17th 1968 at the Oakland Auditorium, featuring excerpts from speeches on Black Power and African American self-determination by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael). These are delivered as part of the Huey P. Newton birthday rally, to protest Newton's arrest and imprisonment in 1967. Al-Amin states that: "Unlike America would have us believe, the greatest problem confronting this country today is not pollution and bad breath. It's black people! ... You see that's just one of the big lies that America tells you and that you go for because you're chumps!" Ture instructs the audience that: "We must first develop an undying love for our people ... an undying love as is personified in brother Huey P. Newton ... If we do not do that, we will be wiped out." Opens with a brief glimpse of Al-Amin, Ture and James Forman on-stage together. It should be noted that Al-Amin was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Forman was the international affairs director of SNCC and the group's former executive secretary and Ture was the former chairman of SNCC, who, during this rally, was appointed as the honorary prime minister of the "Black Nation" (the Oakland-based Black Panther Party (BPP).
An episode of KPIX-TV's People Are Talking, examining images and challenging stereotypes of black men in American society, presented by Ann Fraser and Ross McGowan on January 15th 1988. Features discussion with members of the audience and guests Huey P. Newton, Ishmael Reed and Jawanza Kunjufu. This program was aired to honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.
Btw the interviewers are SUCH idiots ugh. Also really sad because this is like 1 year before Huey got killed :(
This show features Playthell Benjamin on a panel discussing an article he published in the Village Voice regarding Afro-American /Asian relations in New York City, The conversation is frank and gets contentious at times.
Earnest White, host of D.C. Cable TV "Capital Viewpoints" talks to a panel in a discussion on male/female relationships, along with Nkechi Taifa and Grady Poulard. Mar. 2, 1990.
BET's "Our Voices" hosted by Bev Smith featured Haki Madhubuti, Useni Perkins, Nkechi Taifa and Ronald Steele, discussing solutions to the then 25% incarceration rate for African American males, ages 20-29. Madhubuti said we need to rally around ideas. I suggested that that idea be reclaiming our natural history and heritage that we were forced to abandon to survive 240+ years of slavery; a history that can turn us away from prisons and self-destruction to education and self-preservation, but Bev didn't get it; she kept begging the question, no matter how much we answered. I think that Bev, like many before her and since, was was looking for a simple, sound-bite solution. Mar. 31, 1990.
