Angela Davis makes her first national television appearance in an exclusive interview with Tony Brown, following her recent acquittal of charges of kidnapping, murder, and conspiracy after the San Rafael courtroom shootout.
For the last few weeks, I have seen short clips of this famous 1963 interview with Malcolm X floating around Twitter. I thought it would be a good idea to share the complete interview so everyone has better context on his thoughts on racism, police brutality, white liberals, “puppet” civil rights leaders, and celebrity activists. It’s as if he is talking about 2020!
He tried to tell us!
I was browsing YouTube and stubbled upon this awesome 1973 discussion of black leaders of that day speaking about issues affecting the community, including Angela Davis, Stokley Carmichael, and Fannie Lou Hamer. One person who was invited and didn’t show up was Stanley S. Scott, a pioneering journalist was an aide to Richard Nixon at the time because he was “on assignment.”
I appreciate that the panel comprised of people from all different perspectives of the black experience. Unfortunately, they are discussing problems that still ring true in the black community.
Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the leading activists of the civil rights movement who helped thousands of black people register to vote in Mississippi.
She was also a survivor of police brutality. In June 1963 Hamer and some fellow activists were arrested for attempting to eat in a segregated restaurant. While in jail, she was beaten and assaulted by the police. She never fully recovered from the physical and mental wounds.