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NEW FEATURE - LISTEN, WHITEY! THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF BLACK POWER 1965-1975
There's a new feature up in the Propaganda section about the book, LISTEN, WHITEY! THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF BLACK POWER 1965-1975. Chris Ziegler speaks to the author and record producer Pat Thomas. The book, named after the Folkways album of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton speeches—uses hundreds of records and related artifacts to outline a movement that roared to life when then-Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee chair Stokeley Carmichael went direct from a Mississippi jail to a Mississippi stage to a deliver the 1966 speech that would make him famous: "We been saying freedom for six years and we ain't got nothin'. What we gonna start saying now is Black Power!" Read More
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LISTEN, WHITEY! THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF BLACK POWER 1965-1975LISTEN, WHITEY! THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF BLACK POWER 1965-1975
There was a time as the ‘60s were turning into the ‘70s that pop was politics, and earlier this year writer and record producer Pat Thomas delivered a comprehensive book on arguably one of the most powerful and far-reaching artistic moments in American history... Read More