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Crack Babies, the Contras, and the CIA
During the 1980s, the war on drugs became defined by cocaine and crack. In this episode, Chris Calton explains how the potent mix of politicans and fake news created the myth of the "crack baby", while the CIA became drug runners for the Contras.
Minister Farrakhan Schools the Students at U.C. Berkeley
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan speaking at the 2012 ABC conference at UC Berkeley on March 11, 2012.
Black Panthers White Lies
What made the Black Panther Party successful, as well as politically dangerous? In his very personal talk, activist and historian, Dr. Curtis Austin tells his story of being labeled a 'felon' as a result of his research on the Black Panther Party. Dr. Austin details the major successes of the Black Panther Party and the key action behind those successes. Using his personal experience, years of research, and some gruesome realities, Dr. Austin contextualizes the recent outcry by people across the United States against the legacy of the Black Panther Party and the Black Power Movement. Dr. Curtis Austin is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS) at the Ohio State University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in U.S. History from the University of Southern Mississippi and his Ph.D. in American History from Mississippi State University. While serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies in AAAS, Austin teaches courses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, the Black freedom struggle, and the history of American race relations. He is currently writing a book on the Black Power Movement and conducting research for a book that examines the history of radicalism in Black liberation movements. Dr. Austin has won numerous awards that honor his work including the C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Award. In 2007, his book, "Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party", won the Choice Library Journal’s Outstanding Academic Book Award.
Witness The Roots of the LA Crack Epidemic
Here's how it became an epidemic... and what might come next.
Joe Biden 2021 Presidential Inauguration Ceremony
Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States and delivers his inaugural address.
FBI director J Edgar Hoover says FBI won't protect civil rights workers
FBI director J Edgar Hoover says FBI won't protect civil rights workers
The Man Who Armed the Panthers
The man who armed the Black Panthers turns out to have been an FBI informant. FBI files, uncovered by journalist Seth Rosenfeld, reveal that Richard Aoki, a prominent activist in the 1960s who was the first to supply the Black Panthers with guns and weapons training, was also an undercover FBI source. A mysterious character who always sported sunglasses, even at night, Aoki was a militant leader of the Third World Strike and an activist with the Asian American Political Alliance at UC Berkeley. The revelation about Aoki's role as an informant emerged from FBI files obtained by Rosenfeld and an interview with the FBI agent who says he recruited Aoki. Rosenfeld has spent the last 30 years researching the history of the FBI and radicals in Berkeley for his new book, "Subversives," published August 21, 2012.
Angela Davis | Civil Rights activist | Death of George Jackson | This Week | 1971
With the slaughter of guards and prisoners at Attica prison, New York, and two weeks before the savage killings at San Quentin prison in California, the turmoil in American jails headline news One of those who died at Sen Quintin was George Jackson where life and mysterious end epitomises both the crisis in the prison system its paradoxical combination of liberal idealism and violent repression and the new wave of political rebellion among black convicts. George Jackson would have boon thirty this Thursday. His graphic letters from prison and his stubborn refusal to co—operate’: with the system made him a hero of the America Loft: bin death a martyr. How and why did he die? The California prison authorities have not yet revealed the whole story. their account has ninny puzzling features. For THIS WEEK, Peter Taylor has investigated the life and death of George Jackson .- with exclusive interviews with the warden of San Quentin, Jackson’s mother, and Angela Davis now America’s most famous black prisoner, talking on TV for the first time since she was arrested a year ago.