Pacifica Radio Archives has teamed up with City Lights Books to publish Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America, a new book edited by Joanne Griffith that addresses some of the key issues for Black America: mass incarceration, media portrayal, the role of black leadership, democratic participation and economic disparity.
A companion piece to the book, this MP3 disc contains an audio mix of contemporary roundtable discussions and interviews transcribed within Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America, plus other historic audio selections from the Pacifica Radio Archives:
Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America 2012 includes audio from the interviews conducted by Joanne Griffith which were transcribed for the project: Michelle Alexander, Lynn Washington, Jr. Van Jones, Julianne Malveaux, and Dr. Vincent Harding. (PZ0862, 59 minutes)
Redefining Black Power: The Roundtables 2009 are town hall-style conversations sponsored by Pacifica stations KPFA 94.1 FM - Berkeley, KPFK 90.7 FM – Los Angeles, WBAI 99.1 FM – New York, WPFW 89.3 FM – Washington, and Youth Radio in Oakland, designed to reopen the discussion into the meaning of Black Power. (PZ0786.01-03, 90 minutes)
Defining Black Power (1995) is the classic African-American studies standard from Pacifica Radio Archives, used in classroom curricula around the world. This journey begins in 1954 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus: a simple yet courageous act that ushered in the modern-day civil rights movement. But as these historic voices reveal, the actions of Rosa Parks also sparked a debate over which strategy African Americans should use to gain equality and human rights: integration, separation or revolution? This compilation serves as a history lesson for the young—and a reminder to those who lived through those times—that the issue of African American political power is complex and the field of thought on the subject is diverse. Voices include Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hammer, James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Elijah Muhammad, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton, Martin Luther King, Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, H. Rap Brown, John Hope Franklin, Maulana Karenga, and Amiri Baraka. (PZ0468a-c, 213 minutes)
The Black Panther Party selections highlight the original founders of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, as well as the legacy of other influential Black Panther Party members like H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, and Elaine Brown.
Total running time: 10 hours 56 minutes
Presented in MP3 format on a single compact disc.
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