Tag Archives: civil rights
Exile on Hate Street
The news is recently filled with images of protests triggered by the murders of black teens by white police. However, reports about the similarities between these happenings and the Civil Rights protests 50 years ago are tightly controlled and focused on fantasies of reconciliation without retribution. It’s as if we’re suddenly all supposed to wake [...]
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Tagged civil rights, Huey Newton, Kidnapping, KKK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP, Robert Franklin Williams
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Petey Greene is Talking
Petey Greene was a pioneer of shock radio and television who became the voice of his black community in Washington, DC from the 1960′s — the 1980′s. He achieved international fame for his hilarious, outspoken, outrageous rants and interviews and for his tireless activism for civil rights, poverty rights and the rights of prisoners. Greene [...]
