Los Angeles Community Action Network Organizers Becky Dennison and Pete White

Los Angeles Community Action Network Organizers Becky Dennison and Pete White

I’m very pleased to have back on the show, Becky Dennison and Pete White, co-directors of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, known as LA CAN. LA CAN builds leadership among Downtown LA’s very low-income and often homeless community members,...

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Historian Gerald Horne discusses his new book, Negro Comrades of the Crown

Historian Gerald Horne discusses his new book, Negro Comrades of the Crown

Professor Gerald Horne, professor of History and African American Studies at Houston University, discusses his new book Negro Comrades of the Crown:  African-Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation. Gerald has written over 30 books, with...

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The Revolutionary King

The Revolutionary King

Dr. Martin Luther King was a constantly evolving person and was intellectually and political courageous. The system’s manipulation and re-writing of his life to suit its self-congratulatory purposes is cynical and venal—and once again, an effort to suppress the...

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Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln: Where are Frederick Douglass and the 200,000 armed runaway slaves?

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln: Where are Frederick Douglass and the 200,000 armed runaway slaves?

My thesis is that the film does a great historical disservice by portraying the Civil War as a debate among white people about Black people, who, in the film, hardly exist. I am especially disappointed and baffled by the decisions...

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Help Prevent School Closure / Reconstitution of South Los Angeles Schools

Help Prevent School Closure / Reconstitution of South Los Angeles Schools

Community Meeting For information call: (424)240-8510 Thursday, November 27, 6:30pm African-American Cultural Center 3018 W. 48th Street, LA, 90043 (at corner of 9th Avenue) After years of instability and lack of support from LAUSD, Crenshaw High School has been on its way back. A...

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Alex Caputo-Pearl and Reverend Eric Lee: Policy Attacks Continue on LA’s Historical Black and Brown Public High Schools

Alex Caputo-Pearl and Reverend Eric Lee: Policy Attacks Continue on LA’s Historical Black and Brown Public High Schools

Alex Caputo-Pearl, lead teacher of the Social Justice Academy at Crenshaw High School, and Reverend Eric Lee, president of the Los Angeles branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference talk to us about recent efforts by Los Angeles School...

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