ShowAfrica Live
Broadcast TitleBurning Spear interviews Krystal Muhammad, Chairwoman of the New Black Panther Party / The Lynching of Alfred Wright
Broadcast Date2014-04-27
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Summary

Africa Live brings news, analysis, and from the African Internationalist perspective and music and audio culture from various parts of the African Diaspora.


On today's show we will start with a exclusive report: Omowale Kefing, Senior Editor of the Burning Spear Newspaper and Uhuru News.com interviewing Krystal Muhammad, Chairwoman of the New Black Panther Party. This interview with the newly appointed chairwoman took place on Monday April 14, 2014 in Houston, Texas.


The New Black Panther Party was initially founded in Dallas, Texas and would later bill itself as a national organization with Dr. Khalid Muhammad as it's Chairman. Upon the Death of Comrade Khalid Muhammad, the organization was then headed by Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz.


This is interview is important because of the work that the Party is doing in Hemphill, Texas around the murder and lynching of an African man in November 2013. After being missing since November 23rd, Alfred Wright's body was founded by volunteer searchers. His eyes were gouged out, throat was slashed, tongue and ears cut off out. The local coroner and sheriff have ruled Alfred Wright's death an accidental drug overdose.