History
In this fifth episode, Ted Vincent discusses Cyril V. Briggs, founder of the Marxist oriented "African Blood Brotherhood" of the 1920's. Briggs later became a Communist Party member, and at the time of the recording was active in the Black power movement.
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The program focuses on the impact of Malcolm X on Black political and intellectual leadership in the United States. Host Topper Carew speaks with Dr. John H. Clarke (historian and Cornell University professor), Owusu Sadauki (National Chairman of the African Liberation Day Committee) and Bobby Seale (co-founder of the Black Panthers) about the impact of Malcolm X's work on their personal ideologies, the opinions of Black Americans, and their struggle for Black rights in the United States. Interviews are separated by segments of archival news footage featuring Malcolm X talking about his political philosophies.
Ms. Betty Shabazz (May 28, 1934 - June 23, 1997) speaks at Northeastern University on Malcolm's life and the condition of Black people in America.
The Escape of Assata Shakur [2 Nov 1979]
A conversation with Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, about the progress and the problems in turning his African revolution into a new African nation.
As nations go, Tanzania is in its infancy. It was born in April 1964 of a union of Tanganyika, a former British colony, and Zanzibar, tiny islands off the East Coast of Africa which were formerly Arab dominated. This program explores many of the problems facing this struggling nation - poverty, sickness, education, and lack of trained manpower. Beyond this, the program focuses on Tanzania's policy of non-alignment in the Cold War and its willing acceptance of foreign aid from both Free World and Communist Bloc countries.
As nations go, Tanzania is in its infancy. It was born in April 1964 of a union of Tanganyika, a former British colony, and Zanzibar, tiny islands off the East Coast of Africa which were formerly Arab dominated. This program explores many of the problems facing this struggling nation - poverty, sickness, education, and lack of trained manpower. Beyond this, the program focuses on Tanzania's policy of non-alignment in the Cold War and its willing acceptance of foreign aid from both Free World and Communist Bloc countries.
Ted Vincent explores the work of Harry Haywood (born Haywood Hall), who, in addition to being a member of the African Blood Brotherhood, also initiated the Black Belt Republic scheme into the Communist Party, and continued as a Black Nationalist theorist
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A panel discussion on the violence in South Africa between the Inkatha Freedom Party and The African National Congress (ANC). Panelists include: Chris Hani, Harry Schwarz, and Sipo Mzimela.
Ted Vincent discusses Hubert H. Harrison, a socialist and Garveyite, who participated in the Harlem Renaissance, as well as Samuel Alfred Haynes, a Garveyite columnist with a noteworthy social consciousness.