Unabridged Conversations: The Black Radical Tradition Podcast

Bk Scholar Productions

This podcast features unedited interviews from most of the participants in the documentary film Conversations: The Black Radical Tradition (2021) produced by Bk Scholar Productions. Each interview is introduced by the director, filmmaker and interviewee Edwian "Eze" Stokes.

  1. Pam Africa

    02/17/2022

    Pam Africa

    In this interview Pam Africa, a veteran activist and member of MOVE, a family of committed revolutionaries founded by JOHN AFRICA, discusses her time in the organization and speaks on the importance of the Black radical tradition.

    8 min
  2. Yasmeen Sutton

    02/09/2022

    Yasmeen Sutton

    In this interview Yasmeen Sutton, a former finance manager for the Black Panther Party, discusses her time in the party and her current work with political prisoners.

    32 min
  3. Sundiata Acoli

    02/09/2022

    Sundiata Acoli

    In this interview with Sundiata Acoli, convicted of first-degree murder of a State Trooper during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973, discusses the events of that day and his time in the Black Panther Party.

    16 min
  4. Yaa Assantwa Nzingha

    02/09/2022

    Yaa Assantwa Nzingha

    In this interview Yaa Assantwa Nzingha, a member of the Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition, discusses her life as an educator and her activist work with political prisoners.

    33 min
  5. Sonia Sanchez

    02/09/2022

    Sonia Sanchez

    In this interview Sonia Sanchez, who has lectured at more than five hundred colleges and universities in the United States, discusses her time in the Black Arts Movement and its contributions to African American life.

    1 hr
  6. Sekou Odinga

    02/09/2022

    Sekou Odinga

    In this interview Sekou Odinga, captured and charged with attempting to murder police in October of 1981, discusses his life as a former political prisoner.

    27 min
  7. Ruby Sales

    02/09/2022

    Ruby Sales

    In this interview Ruby Sales, who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960’s as a teenager at Tuskegee University, discusses her time as a freedom fighter in Lowndes County, Alabama and what it means to be a radical Black woman.

    57 min
  8. Nellie Hester Bailey

    02/09/2022

    Nellie Hester Bailey

    In this interview Nellie Hester Bailey, the co-founder of the Harlem Tenants Council, discusses how she got involved in radical politics and her perspective on Black liberation as a journalist.

    44 min
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This podcast features unedited interviews from most of the participants in the documentary film Conversations: The Black Radical Tradition (2021) produced by Bk Scholar Productions. Each interview is introduced by the director, filmmaker and interviewee Edwian "Eze" Stokes.

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