ShowAfrica Live
Broadcast TitlePresentation by Omali Yeshitela, Dr. Raymond Winbush; Aleta Alston-Toure
Broadcast Date2013-10-13
Record Date2013-10-13
SummaryAfrican Socialist International Chairman Omali Yeshitela's presentation as a people's advocate at the 4th session of the World Tribunal on Reparations to Black people in the United States, held in Akron, Ohio in 1985. Dedan Sankara discusses reparations with Dr. Raymond Winbush, author and director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Director of The New Jim Crow Movement and InPDUM member, Aleta Alston-Toure, talks about the case and conviction of Marissa Alexander, the Free Marissa Now campaign, the criminal justice system and current struggles of African people in Jacksonville, Florida. Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 20 years of incarceration in Florida for self-defense.