Jay Jackson the Great-grandson of Albert Jackson Toronto's first Black postman talks about his legacy. Jackson discusses the police shooting of Garfield Belfon, a Canadian-born African teenager who was murdered by the Toronto police in the 1950s. He also talks about singing at the world-famous Apollo Theater in 1963 with his Toronto-based vocal group, The Pharaohs. They consisted of Eric Mercury, Arnold Winn, Roland Williams, Gary Gabriel and Jackson.

We also interview Dr. Gerald Horne who holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr Horne discusses The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Brexit, the French election, and South Africa. He is the author of: The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America; Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary and thirty other books.

Tribute to Archie Shepp who will be eighty on May 24th

• Archie Shepp & Chuck D - "The Reverse"
• Chuck D (Public Enemy) & Steve McCraven (Archie Shepp Band) - Interview
• Archie Shepp speaking in 1978
• Archie Shepp - "Revolution"
• Archie Shepp - Artists and Memory of Slavery
• Taj Mahal - "Satisfied 'N Tickled Too"
• Papa Wemba with Carole Frederick's sister of Taj Mahal- "Fa Fa"
• Otis Redding LIVE "FA-FA-FA-FA-FA (Sad Song)"
• Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - "Moanin'"

Diasporic Music on Uhuru Radio With Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali & Malinda Francis

Interview with Tiki Mercury Clarke

Tiki Mercury-Clarke who history will record as one of the all-time greatest Canadian jazz artists, is a multi-talented Canadian-born singer-pianist, storyteller, lyricist, composer and cultural historian. She has become a keeper of Afrikan ancestral wisdom, and, in harmony with tradition, a vessel for the often hard to find, authentic, African North American musical expression called jazz.

Tiki promotes her artistic talents and creations and makes them available online for bookings and/or purchase. Whether an evening of sultry, edgy jazz or a storytelling presentation, any performance by Tiki Mercury-Clarke demonstrates why she has been called "the crown jewel in Canada's diadem of divas."

http://tikimercuryclarke.com/home.html

Tribute to Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 - June 30, 1995)

Phyllis Linda Hyman was an African singer-songwriter and actress. Hyman had an African consciousness and at one time in history she was a member of the Congress of African People (CAP). She was a member in the 1970s when CAP was a proponent of Black Nationalism and was lead by Amiri Baraka. In later years CAP moved to Marxism-Leninism Mao Tsetung.

Hyman She is best known for her singles from the late 1970s to the early 1990s: "You Know How to Love Me"; "Living All Alone" and "Don't Wanna Change the World".

Hyman was honored by Toronto's anti-apartheid Biko-Rodney-Malcolm Coalition (BRMC) for refusing to entertain in Apartheid South Africa. Hyman was offered $100,000 to perform for four weeks in 1981. She was given a piece of pot created by Jose Garcia a founding member of the Afro American Progressive Association one of the first black power groups in Canada.

Dr. Gerald Horne will discuss: Why Trump? Crisis with China. His recent visit to South Africa. New role of Russia. Death of Fidel. Brexit and maybe more.

Musical Salute to Donny Hathaway: Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 - January 13, 1979) was an African born in the United States. The Chicago-born St. Louis reared was a jazz, blues, soul and gospel singer, songwriter, arranger and pianist. Hathaway signed with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, "The Ghetto", in early 1970, Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music." His enduring songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas", "Someday We'll All Be Free", "Little Ghetto Boy", "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know", signature versions of "A Song for You" and "For All We Know", and "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of many collaborations with Roberta Flack. "Where Is the Love" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1973. At the height of his career Hathaway was diagnosed by the State as a "paranoid schizophrenia" and was known to not take his prescribed medication regularly enough to properly control his symptoms. On January 13, 1979, Hathaway's body was found outside the luxury hotel Essex House in New York City; his death was ruled a suicide

Chairman Omali Yeshitela will discuss: "If Jesus was a revolutionary why is your preacher an Uncle Tom?"

Music from Lisa Simone, Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright, Angélique Kidjo, Nina Simone, and the Dramatics featuring William "Wee Gee" Howard, Ron Banks, Willie Ford, Larry Demps and Elbert Wilkins.

This week we rewind an episode originally aired October 23, 2016, with guest John Woodford.
John Woodford was born in Chicago in 1941 and grew up in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He earned his BA (Magna Cum Laude) and MA in English Language and Literature from Harvard University. His journalism jobs have included editor-in-chief of Muhammad Speaks Newspaper and executive editor of the University of Michigan's alumni publication Michigan Today. His other posts have been at the New Haven Register, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, Ford Motor Co. publications, the Ann Arbor Observer and Ebony and Jet magazines. He has also contributed to the Black Scholar and Against the Current journals. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, with his wife, Elizabeth. They have three grown children and four grandchildren.

Reflections on the October 25, 1983 US invasion of Grenada. Speeches from Prime Minister. Maurice Bishop. US Imperialism invaded Grenada on Oct. 25, 1983. Elombe Brath, the Chair of the Patrice Lumumba Coalition (PLC) taught us that US imperialism invaded 111 countries before the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1917. The Toronto-based Biko-Rodney-Coalition (BRMC) along with the Albany, NY based Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism united with Brath and the Los Angeles chapter of PLC on the question of the cultural boycott of South Africa.

Music
The Mighty Sparrow, Peter Tosh, King Short Shirt, Elaine Brown, Ann Peebles, Young Hearts, and S.O.S. Band

Guest: John Woodford
John Woodford was born in Chicago in 1941 and grew up in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He earned his BA (Magna Cum Laude) and MA in English Language and Literature from Harvard University. His journalism jobs have included editor-in-chief of Muhammad Speaks Newspaper and executive editor of the University of Michigan's alumni publication Michigan Today. His other posts have been at the New Haven Register, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, Ford Motor Co. publications, the Ann Arbor Observer and Ebony and Jet magazines. He has also contributed to the Black Scholar and Against the Current journals. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, with his wife, Elizabeth. They have three grown children and four grandchildren.

Reflections on the October 25, 1983 US invasion of Grenada. Speeches from Prime Minister. Maurice Bishop. US Imperialism invaded Grenada on Oct. 25, 1983. Elombe Brath, the Chair of the Patrice Lumumba Coalition (PLC) taught us that US imperialism invaded 111 countries before the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1917. The Toronto-based Biko-Rodney-Coalition (BRMC) along with the Albany, NY based Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism united with Brath and the Los Angeles chapter of PLC on the question of the cultural boycott of South Africa.

Music
The Mighty Sparrow, Peter Tosh, King Short Shirt, Elaine Brown, Ann Peebles, Young Hearts, and S.O.S. Band

Originally aired on 2013-07-14, Nova Scotia born social activist, singer-songwriter and guitarist, Faith Nolan, and African Canadian author, singer and songwriter, Dan Hill. Hill had two major hit songs, "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard. He refused to perform in South Africa during apartheid and did not permit his record label at the time, 20th Century Fox, to release his music in South Africa during that period. Hill supported the Toronto-based Biko-Rodney-Malcolm Coalition.

Tribute to jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd (December 9, 1932 - February 4, 2013). Byrd played hard-bop and bebop jazz, soul, and funk music for over 40 years and recorded many albums as a bandleader and sideman. Byrd won many awards and is recognized as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. Visit Norman's blog. Norman O. Richmond aka Jalali on Facebook.

Omali Yeshitela - detailing the 1st week of the month long Cadre Intensive of the African People's Socialist Party, dialectical materialism, and horizontal violence and the increasing zones of militarization throughout the African community in the United States. Yeshitela is the Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party and the African Socialist International APSPUHURU.ORG

Luwezi Kinshasa- presenting an alternative view of the History of Africa and the recent news from South Africa of President Jacob Zuma signing into law the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill- a claims process for African families forcibly removed from their land under the White apartheid regime's rule to apply for compensation. Kinshasa is the Secretary General of the African Socialist International - ASIUHURU.ORG

Dr. Samori Camara - discussing charter schools, the recent closing of all public school - elementary, junior high, and high school in New Orleans, the movement for home schooling of African children, Camara's home schooling teacher program - The Warrior Teacher and his school Kamali Academy - Kamali Academy

Yejide Orunmila - highlighting the struggle of African Women and the African Revolution. Orunmilia is the Information and Education Director of The All African People's Development & Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) - DEVELOPMENT FOR AFRICA

Interview with Ira McKinley, a community activist, filmmaker, and co-producer and director of the documentary film 'The Throwaways', a timely and provocative look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black males in America. "The Throwaways courageously explores the most pressing racial justice issue of our time: the mass incarceration and profiling of poor people of color." - Michelle Alexander, author The New Jim Crow. Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement returns to discuss the upcoming mayoral election in Jackson, Mississippi on Tuesday, April 22nd and the campaign of mayoral candidate Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Akuno is an educator and writer and hosts a blog at blackagendareport.com and facilitates the blog Navigating The Storm.

We bring you the sounds of South Africa with Miriam Makeba, Lucky Dube, Soweto Gospel Choir, and Brenda Fassie. Musical tribute to Chicago-born singer-songwriter and half of music duo Womack and Womack, Linda Cooke-Womack. She is co-writer of the hit song "Love TKO", recorded by the late Teddy Pendergrass and several others, and she is the daughter of the late great soul and gospel singer Sam Cooke. Visit Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali on Facebook.

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

Today's show features two special segments - the first on the death of Little Bobby Hutton and the second on two speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We will look at the assassination of Little Bobby Hutton, the first member of the Black Panther Party. Hutton was 18 years old, when he was killed by Oakland Police on April 6, 1968, two days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther Jr.

In the April 30, 1967 speech by Dr. King,"Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam," he said,"America and most of its newspapers applauded me in Montgomery when I stood before thousands of negroes getting ready to riot when my home was bombed and said 'We cannot do it this way.' They applauded us in the sit-in movement when we nonviolently decided to sit-in at lunch counters. They applauded us on the Freedom Rides when we accepted blows without retaliation. Oh the press was so noble in its applause and so noble in its praise when I was saying be nonviolent toward Bull Connor. There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say be nonviolent toward Jim Clark but will curse and damn you when you say be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children "

In Dr. King's April 3rd, 1968 speech,"I've Been to the Mountaintop,"he said, "Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'" In less than 24 hours King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

Next week,Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African Socialist International and the African People's Socialist Party will join us here on Africa Live to discuss both Little Bobby Hutton and Dr. Martin Luther King and these speeches.

On this episode of Africa Live, in a segment entitled,The Frontline Is Everywhere - Dedan Sankara talks with Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa of the African Socialist International about the development of his forthcoming book on Patrice Lumumba, the death of Chokwe Lumumba; a recent story that was widely circulated on the internet, 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization, by Mawuna Koutonin of Silicon Africa.com; on the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpsville Massacre we discuss the future of South Africa /Occupied Azania post-Mandela and the importance of building the African Socialist International; and the recent trial of two African Muslims,Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in the UK that killed Lee Rigby, a British solider because they believed that he had killed other Muslims during never ending cycle of wars.

We will play an excerpt from Walter Rodney's presentation entitled, A Historical Class Analysis of Guyanese Society. Walter Rodney (23 March 1942 - 13 June 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and preeminent scholar, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980. He is the author of Walter Rodney Speaks: the Making of an African Intellectual (1990); A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 (1981); How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972); A History of the Upper Guinea Coast (1970); The Groundings with my Brothers (1969).

Rodney viewed the role of the academic as a revolutionary role that required them to be solidly grounded in the African community and committed to the struggle and liberation of Africa and Africans.

Richmond interviews Nova Scotia born social activist, singer-songwriter and guitarist, Faith Nolan and African Canadian author, singer and songwriter, Dan Hill. Hill had two major hit songs, "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard. He refused to perform in South Africa during apartheid and did not permit his record label at the time, 20th Century Fox, to release his music in South Africa during that period. Hill supported the Toronto-based Biko-Rodney-Malcolm Coalition.

Tribute to the legendary jazz trumpeter Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd III, simply known as Donald Byrd. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Byrd attended Cass Technical High School. He played hard-bop and bebop jazz, soul, and funk music for over 40 years. He recorded many albums as a bandleader and sideman. With a Ph.D. in music education, Dr. Byrd taught music at a string of colleges and universities, including HBCU Howard University, where he earned his J.D. and helped form the student-musician jazz fusion group The Blackbyrds. At North Carolina Central University he inspired another student-based group called 125th Street NYC Band. Byrd won many awards and is recognized as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. Donald Byrd joined the ancestors on February 4th, 2013. Visit Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali on Facebook.

Tributes to Odetta on Freedom Now and on Diasporic Music. Odetta, who grew up in Los Angeles, California is unsung. View the following video: Odetta Speaks About Her Life as an Activist. Enjoy listening to reggae music created outside Jamaica from Nigeria, South Africa, Belize, and Nicaragua.

Visit Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali on Facebook.