Jackie Robinson: baseball, the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter strikes
US athletes led a series of protests and strikes against racism and police violence on 28 August 2020, the scale and militancy of which has no historic parallels in US history. The fact that a wave of protests broke out on the date that was marking Jackie Robinson Day seemed apt.
Telling it like it is: an interview with folk-soul artist Abu Talib (Bobby Wright)
Folk-soul singer Abu Talib (formerly Bobby Wright) talks about the political climate of the early 1970s, his “people’s farm” in the Bronx and the reissue of his single, Blood of an American.
A tribute to legendary jazz pianist McCoy Tyner
A personal tribute to the legendary pianist McCoy Tyner: Jazz, Communism and Islam.