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GRITtv: Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes
The symbol of the black panther was an export from Alabama. That's right. It didn't come from the streets of Oakland, but from the struggle for freedom in the rural south, where the cat was once common and eventually became a symbol on ballots during the voting rights drive in Lowndes, Alabama. That is just one of the remarkable stories in Hasan Kwame Jeffries' new book, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt. A professor of history at Ohio State University, Jeffries discusses the legacy of the African-American struggle for freedom and the roots of the civil rights movement, which he traces back to the moment of emancipation.
Email this pageGRITtv Jan. 18, 2010
As we celebrate the life and legacy of U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King, we take a look back at another recent discussion of one of the biggest civil rights struggles of our time: the fight to liberate the Palestinian people. Not long ago, the UN Human Rights Council released the Goldstone Report, sharply condemning Israel's actions in the recent fighting between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza strip. Today we rebroadcast our show from the day that report was released, with activists Diana Buttu, a former spokesperson for the PLO, Neve Gordon, senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion Univesity and Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, to discuss the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. Then, Hasan Kwame Jeffries talks about the legacy of the African-American struggle for freedom. And author and poet Remi Kanazi performs some of his new work. We also looked at community banking, back in the news as the hearings start up over the financial crisis, and the fight over the health care bill still isn't over either. We can't say for certain what Martin Luther King would do were he still with us. Still, we thought it an appropriate acknowledgement of his legacy of concern and struggle for the rights of all people, while we take the day to honor his memory, to re-air this program.
GRITtv: September 15, 2009
International pressure is mounting on Israel to end the occupation. More than 1,000 filmmakers, actors, and writers recently called for a protest of the Toronto Film Festival’s spotlight on Tel-Aviv. You can read the Toronto Declaration here. Meanwhile an international boycott is growing. Neve Gordon, in a recent editorial, explains why it is time to boycott Israel.
GRITtv: Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes
The symbol of the black panther was an export from Alabama. That's right. It didn't come from the streets of Oakland but from the struggle for freedom in the rural south. That is just one of the remarkable stories in Hasan Kwame Jeffries' new book, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama?s Black Belt. A professor of history at Ohio State University, Jeffries discusses the legacy of the African-American struggle for freedom and the roots of the civil rights movement, which he traces back to the moment of emancipation.
