On January 10th of this year, hundreds of people from all over the country converged in Philadelphia to show this fire is still burning, despite all the attempts to extinguish it. Featuring interviews with Cornel West and others, and with speeches from legends like Mumia Abu-jamal and Angela Davis, Abby Martin provides a snapshot from the ‘Black Radical Tradition In Our Time’ conference held in Philadelphia.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Friday, March 4, 2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Cornel West Uncensor Radical Black History
Click here if you wish to access the full introduction to a video in relation to a conference held in January in Philadelphia regarding the black radical political tradition as a way to celebrate Black History Month. I would like to draw your attention to two interviews conducted by Abby Martin of Media Roots with African-American scholars in the video below (included in the article): Cornel West (2:54m-11:33m) and Margaret Stevens of Essex College in New Jersey (11:34m-14:02m); and in addition to an excellent speech delivered by Mumia Abu-Jamal (17:29-23:04m) by phone from prison.