Show description for Sunday 2/19/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Joanne Griffith, editor of Redefining Black Power, new from City Lights Books.
"Redefining Black Power is an important, historical rumination on race, class, power and politics in the Age of Obama. The conversations with such figures as Van Jones, Michelle Alexander and civil rights icon Dr. Vincent Harding are thoughtful, probing, nuanced insights into the state of African-American political power at this historic moment. The book raises challenging questions, but rather than offer definitive answers, it provokes the reader to personally define 'Black power' and inspires all of us to continue the work of 'deepening the meaning of democracy.'" – Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
"I agree with economist Julianne Malveaux, who says the notion that Obama's election made America 'post racial' is utter nonsense, when you look at current rates of poverty, income and unemployment among black people. Van Jones, former Green Jobs Czar at the White House, intrigued me when he claims that the youth who believe that electing a black president changes nothing were right. Joanne Griffith, of the Pacifica Radio Archives, interviews these and other long distance runners for justice to provide a lively array of conflicting, complex and critical attitudes the first black U.S. president has evoked, to answer the question of whether it's time to redefine Black Power." -- Kathleen Cleaver
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Countee Cullen (read by James Earl Jones) | From The Dark Tower | A Hand Is On The Gate | Verve-Folkways | ||
| Langston Hughes (read by Ellen Holly) | I've Known Rivers | A Hand Is On The Gate | Verve-Folkways | ||
| Robert Hayden (read by Moses Gunn) | Frederick Douglass | A Hand Is On The Gate | Verve-Folkways | ||
| Paul Laurence Dunbar (read by Cicely Tyson) | We Wear The Mask | A Hand Is On The Gate | Verve-Folkways | ||
| Abbey Lincoln | Laugh Clown, Laugh | Abbey Is Blue | Riverside | ||
| Tadd Dameron | Just Plain Talkin' | The Magic Touch | Riverside | ||
| Kenny Dorham featuring Ernie Henry | Sposin' | 2 Horns / 2 Rhythm | Riverside | ||
| Eric Dolphy & Booker Little | Far Cry | Far Cry | New Jazz (Prestige) | ||
| Frederick Williams | Babylon A Turn The Screw | An Evening Of International Poetry | New Alliance | ||
| George Russell | All About Rosie | The 3rd Stream | RCA | ||
| Count Basie | Little Pony | Classic Count | CBS | ||
| Billie Holiday | Mean To Me | A Love Story | CBS | ||
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| Eric Dolphy | Out There | Out There | New Jazz (Prestige) | ||
| Sterling Brown (read by James Earl Jones & Moses Gunn) | Ol' Lem | A Hand Is On The Gate | Verve-Folkways | ||
| Helene Johnson (Read by Josephine Premice) | Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem | A Hand Is On The Gate | Verve-Folkways | ||
| Arna Bontemps (read by Leon Bibb) | Southern Mansion | A Hand Is On The Gate | Verve-Folkways | ||
| Langston Hughes (read by Ellen Holly) | Mother To Son | A Hand Is On The Gate | Verve-Folkways | ||
| Abbey Lincoln | Lost In The Stars | Abbey Is Blue | Riverside | ||
| Abbey Lincoln | Long As Your Living | Abbey Is Blue | Riverside | ||
| Tadd Dameron | Look, Stop & Listen | The Magic Touch | Riverside | ||
| Hank Mobley | The Breakdown | Roll Call | Blue Note | ||
| Steve Lacy | Criss Cross | The Staight Horn Of Steve Lacy | Candid | ||
| Edward Brathwaite (Kamau Brathwaite) | The Emigrants | Rites Of Passage | Argo (U.K.) | ||
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| Charles Mingus | Los Mariachis (The Street Musicians) | Tijuana Moods | RCA | ||
| Roscoe Mitchell & Anthony Braxton | Off Five Dark Six | Nonaah | Nessa | ||
| Roscoe Mitchell & Malachi Favors | A1 TAL 2LA | Nonaah | Nessa | ||
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| Art Ensemble Of Chicago | Theme De Yoyo (excerpt) | Les Stances A Sophie | Nessa | ||
| Interview With Joanne Griffith By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Joanne Griffith By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Joanne Griffith By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Joanne Griffith By Justin Desmangles | ||
| Art Ensemble Of Chicago | Theme De Yoyo (excerpt) | Les Stances A Sophie | Nessa | ||
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| Kenny Dorham featuring Ernie Henry | The End Of A Love Affair | 2 Horns / 2 Rhythm | Riverside | ||
| Bob Dorough & Bill Takas | Small Day Tomorrow | Beginning To See The Light | Laissez-Faire | ||
