Podcasts about watts rebellion

This week, Penni Malloy-Harper interviews bold storytellers: Anshulika Kapoor and Angela Page tell us about their short film, Harij Weds Sajili, which explores the dark underbelly of dowry practices in contemporary India while celebrating female agency. SOUL Magazine Founder Regina Jones and director Soraya Sélène tell us about their documentary Who the Hell is Regina Jones?, a documentary about Regina's journey that made history, from being married and pregnant at 15, through the middle of the Watts Rebellion of 1965, to emerging as a groundbreaking magazine publisher. Plus, hosts Katie Chambers and Janine McGoldrick share a study highlighting the state of disability representation on television. To be featured on the podcast email us at communications@nywift.org. For more great content go to NYWIFT.org.Special thanks to⁠ Elspeth Collard⁠, the creator of our podcast theme song.Social Media:Angela Page: Instagram: @angelapage1200 / BSKY: @angelapage.bsky.social / LinkedIn: Angela Page  Anshulika Kapoor: Instagram: @anshulika_kapoor / LinkedIn: Anshulika Kapoor Choudhuri / Website: anshulikakapoor.com Harij Weds Sajili: Instagram: @harijwedssajili / Facebook: Harij Weds Sajili Regina Jones: Instagram: @whoisreginafilm Soraya Sélène: Instagram: @soraya_seleneNYWIFT: Instagram:⁠⁠ @NYWIFT⁠⁠ / Twitter/X⁠⁠ @NYWIFT⁠⁠ / #NYWIFT

(4/29/25) Dominique and callers reflect on the civil unrest of 1992, what led up to it, where you were and the continuum of protest in Los Angeles and beyond. https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/ https://www.instagram.com/kbla1580/

Host Sandra Abrams chats with publishing trailblazer Regina Jones and Soraya Sélène, one of the co-directors of the new documentary, “WHO THE HELL IS REGINA JONES?” The film tells the remarkable story of Jones's journey from being a financially struggling young mother of five to witnessing the Watts Rebellion in 1965 to creating and running SOUL newspaper. SOUL became a nationwide publication, scoring scoop after scoop with some of the era's biggest artists, like Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder. SOUL was where Black artists could get coverage. After her marriage ended, the newspaper shuttered, and her mother died, Jones explains how as a Black woman she navigated all the trials of life during that tumultuous time. Regina and Soraya also reveal how the film came to life thanks in part to the amazing SOUL archive that Jones's grandson is preserving. To learn more about Who the Hell is Regina Jones, visit https://whoisreginafilm.com/ or follow the film on Instagram and Facebook @whoisreginafilmYou can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZRdpxKUxKULearn more about co-director Soraya Selene at www.sorayaselene.com and on Instagram @soraya_seleneLearn more about co-director Billie Miossi at www.billy-miossi.com and on Instagram @billy_miossi---Subscribe to learn more about filmmaking, production, media makers, creator resources, visual storytelling, and every aspect that brings film, television, and video projects from concepts to our screens. Check out the MediaMakerSpotlight.com show page to find even more conversations with industry professionals that inspire, educate, and entertain!We on the Women in Film & Video (WIFV) Podcast Team work hard to make this show a great resource for our listeners, and we thank you for listening!

In this gripping episode of Crime Time, Inc., we delve into the complex and tumultuous events of the Watts Rebellion of 1965. The episode starts with the pivotal arrest of Marquette Frye on August 11th and explores the deep-seated social and economic issues that ignited the six days of chaos in Los Angeles. Discriminatory housing practices, high unemployment, and systemic poverty are discussed as key factors that fueled the unrest. The conversation also navigates the spread of misinformation and the intense distrust between the Watts community and law enforcement. Listeners are taken through the harrowing accounts of looting, arson, and violent clashes, as well as the brave efforts of individuals trying to mediate peace. The role of the National Guard, media coverage, and varying narratives from law enforcement and residents are considered in understanding the rebellion's far-reaching impacts. The podcast highlights the fallout and the slow, challenging process of addressing the root causes of the rebellion, including poverty, unemployment, and inadequate housing. The episode concludes with a reflection on the lessons learned and the ongoing struggle for social justice and equality. Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of one of the most significant civil disturbances in American history and its enduring relevance today.00:00 Introduction to the Watts Rebellion00:20 The Arrest of Marquette Frye01:18 The Eruption of Violence01:36 The Human and Property Cost02:37 National Guard Intervention02:54 Efforts to Mediate and the Aftermath07:17 Media's Role and Different Narratives09:09 Post-Rebellion Reflections and Lessons11:10 The Brutal Sunday of the Rebellion13:12 The Fragile Calm and Long-Term Impact15:36 Systemic Issues and Root Causes16:55 Moving Forward: Lessons and Actions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to the Thurs. Aug. 22, 2024 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the arrests of several journalists during demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago; the African continent is dealing with an outbreak of the mpox virus heavily centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) are accusing Ukraine of being involved in terrorism in West Africa; and leading figures in the Palestinian resistance movement have held a meeting. In the second and third hours we continiue our commemoration of Black August with reexaminations of the Knoxville race massacre of 1919 and the Watts Rebellion of 1965.

SUB TO THE PPM PATREON TO ACCESS THE EPIC, 4 HOUR LONG SECOND INSTALLMENT IN THE "MHCHAOS AGENTS & JOHNNY ACID-SEEDS" SERIES: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Reminder that the PPM Moment of Truth campaign is nearing its conclusion—we've got two & a half weeks remaining to hit that 120 new subs goal. Pls consider supporting the show so that we can keep the Independent Cork Board Researchers Union lights on. Embarking on the longest, strangest trip in PPM history yet- Inside, you'll find a mammoth primary & secondary source assemblage which begins our construction of a deep history of the Columbia Uprising in '68, Students for a Democratic Society, the anti-war movement, the NYC activist milieu, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the Watts Rebellion & black urban insurgents in LA, various Black Panther & Black Panther in Exile party members, and the eventual militant SDS splinter group known as the Weather Underground... Zeroing in on all of said groups' targeting by American intel, COINTELPRO FBI informants, Johnny Acid-seeds, & MHChaos Agents... Not to mention the Grateful Dead's sound warlock & psych alchemist Owsley, who was perhaps responsible for more lasting brain damage among the '60s counterculture than any other singular person. He's closely tailed in the record books by Sasha Shulgin, that is, the Father of MDMA & a fellow synthetic drugs proselytizer, whose relationship w/ Owsley we'll peel back in some detail. (Full notes & index on Patreon). This first, "MHCHAOS Agents..." heroic dose and the following are built upon a lattice of excerpts from: John Potash - Drugs As Weapons Against Us David McGowan - Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain - Acid Dreams Mark Rudd - Underground: My Life with SDS & Weatherman Tom O'Neill - CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, & the Secret History of the ‘60s Peter Richardson - No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead Ron Hahne, Ben Morea - Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker and more, including a proverbial bibliotheca of pharmacological research papers, Rolling Stone profiles, STP Family forum postings, New Yorker articles, and a shit ton besides. (Full notes, index, & reading list on Patreon) Tracks & Clips: | The Monks - "Monks Chant" | | The Youngbloods - "Get Together" | | Audio from Merry Prankster Further Bus Tour | | Jerry Garcia Interview ('80s) | | Owsley talks about the Watts Acid Test & Synesthesia | | Malcolm X on the Harlem "Riots" & Police Brutality | | Watts Rebellion Newscast - Today in History | | Watts Rebellion, "Los Angeles After the Rioting" | | Columbia Revolt - Reel America | | Bernadine Dohrn on the Fred Hampton Assassination | | Richard Peel and the Lower East Side - "Up Against the Wall | | "Crisis in the Crowd" documentary program on the Haigh-Ashbury Free Clinic | | 1968 HAFMC news program including interview w/ Dr. David Smith | | Altamont Free Concert - Death of Meredith Hunter scenes from "Gimme Shelter" | | The Flying Burrito Bros. - "Six Days on the Road" (Live at Altamont) | | "Anti-war Demonstrators Storm Pentagon" Broadcast | | Los Barbudos - "The Bearded Men" (Cuban Communist Banger) |

In which we embark on the longest, strangest trip (episode) in PPM's nascent history thus far. Sub to the PPM Patreon to access all FIVE WHOPPING HOURS of this first installment in the companion miniseries to the Potash interview & the thorough index: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Inside, you'll find a mammoth primary & secondary source assemblage which begins our construction of a deep history of the Columbia Uprising in '68, Students for a Democratic Society, the anti-war movement, the NYC activist milieu, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the Watts Rebellion & black urban insurgents in LA, various Black Panther & Black Panther in Exile party members, and the eventual militant SDS splinter group known as the Weather Underground... Zeroing in on all of said groups' targeting by American intel, COINTELPRO FBI informants, Johnny Acid-seeds, & MHChaos Agents... Not to mention the Grateful Dead's sound warlock & psych alchemist Owsley, who was perhaps responsible for more lasting brain damage among the '60s counterculture than any other singular person. He's closely tailed in the record books by Sasha Shulgin, that is, the Father of MDMA & a fellow synthetic drugs proselytizer, whose relationship w/ Owsley we'll peel back in some detail. (Full notes & index on Patreon). This first, "MHCHAOS Agents..." heroic dose and the following are built upon a lattice of excerpts from: John Potash - Drugs As Weapons Against Us David McGowan - Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain - Acid Dreams Mark Rudd - Underground: My Life with SDS & Weatherman Tom O'Neill - CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, & the Secret History of the ‘60s Peter Richardson - No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead Ron Hahne, Ben Morea - Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker and more, including a proverbial bibliotheca of pharmacological research papers, Rolling Stone profiles, STP Family forum postings, New Yorker articles, and a shit ton besides. Tracks & Clips: | The Monks - "Monks Chant" | | The Youngbloods - "Get Together" | | Audio from Merry Prankster Further Bus Tour | | Jerry Garcia Interview ('80s) | | Owsley talks about the Watts Acid Test & Synesthesia | | Malcolm X on the Harlem "Riots" & Police Brutality | | Watts Rebellion Newscast - Today in History | | Watts Rebellion, "Los Angeles After the Rioting" | | Columbia Revolt - Reel America | | Bernadine Dohrn on the Fred Hampton Assassination | | Richard Peel and the Lower East Side - "Up Against the Wall | | "Crisis in the Crowd" documentary program on the Haigh-Ashbury Free Clinic | | 1968 HAFMC news program including interview w/ Dr. David Smith | | Altamont Free Concert - Death of Meredith Hunter scenes from "Gimme Shelter" | | The Flying Burrito Bros. - "Six Days on the Road" (Live at Altamont) | | "Anti-war Demonstrators Storm Pentagon" Broadcast | | Los Barbudos - "The Bearded Men" (Cuban Communist Banger) |

In this essay, adapted from his recently published book, Sam C. Tenorio (he/they) reconsiders the Watts Rebellion of 1965 and its ruinous disruptions, like arson, theft, and vandalism, as a cataclysm that clears material and discursive ground and proffers its own questions of property. It argues that the cataclysmic vantage of the Watts rebellion overflows on a state narrative meant to misapprehend both the political subjectivity of Black people and their conditions of possibility. Sam C. Tenorio is Assistant Professor in African American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. He writes about carcerality and black radical practice as well as black trans and trans of color critique. His most recent publications are Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality (NYU Press) and “White Carceral Geographies” (South Atlantic Quarterly).  Anarchist Essays is brought to you by Loughborough University's Anarchism Research Group and the journal Anarchist Studies. Follow us on Twitter @arglboro. Our music comes from Them'uns (featuring Yous'uns). Artwork by Sam G.

After the Watts Rebellion of 1965, Black architects Art Silvers and Robert Kennard designed a Late Modern building for the Mafundi Institute, a cultural organization. The Watts Happening Cultural Center opened in 1970 as a place of creative expression, community, and healing. The popular Watts Coffee House has called the building home for decades. Now commonly called the Mafundi Building, this neighborhood treasure needs some TLC and new programming by and for the community.We featured the Mafundi Building in Season 1, when it faced demolition and USC Materials Conservation students used it as their case study. MHC alum Rita Cofield, a lifelong community member and longtime champion of the building, joined us for the first episode. Now executive director of Friends at Mafundi and project leader of the Getty's African American Historic Places Los Angeles initiative, Rita returns with an update on exciting developments. We follow the update with the original episode. This is a long one, but stick with it—you'll be glad you did.See episode page for photos and linksConnect with us on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn

(Airdate 8/11/23) Luis Javier Rodriguez is the official Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. Luis is also a novelist as well as a community & urban peace activist, mentor, healer, youth & arts advocate, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He has 16 books in all genres (poetry, children's books, fiction, and nonfiction), including the best-selling memoir, "Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." His latest memoir is the sequel, "It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing." His last poetry book is 2016's "Borrowed Bones". Luis is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press, now for over 30 years, and more than 20 years ago he co-founded with his wife Trini Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley. https://www.luisjrodriguez.com/ www.tiachucha.org

August 11, 1965. Sparked by allegations of police brutality, racial tensions boil over in Los Angeles, igniting the Watts Rebellion.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

If you're a regular listener of the Not Real Art Podcast, you'll likely agree that art has the ability to educate, entertain, provoke thought, and illicit a wide range of emotions. Today's guest believes that, as long as you can make a viewer feel something, you're on the right path! Joining us is Michael Massenburg, an African American teaching artist and community organizer. Born in San Diego, raised in South Central Los Angeles, and based in Inglewood, Micheal says that he began his career at the Watts Towers Arts Center in Los Angeles, influenced by the Watts Rebellion, the Black Art Movement of the 1960s, and the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. His socially-informed practice speaks to historical, cultural, and personal narratives and incorporates a diverse range of materials, combining painting, collage, photography, and assemblage to explore the African diaspora experience in the Americas. Michael is also what you would call an “artivist” (or an art activist), devoting much of his time to art education, lectures, and community organizing. In today's episode, Michael shares how travel helped shape his perspective, why he believes that he was called to be an artist, and why labels like “Black art” are important. We also discuss how his former arts organization, The Collective, carried the torch for Black artists, and why Michael believes that artists and educators can be a voice for those who have had their own voices suppressed. Tune in for all this and more!Key Points From This Episode:Memories from Michael's childhood and how his upbringing inspired his love for travel.Some of the first journeys he made as an artist, including a life-changing trip to Haiti.The “three Americas:” Indigenous people, immigrants, and those brought over as property.How traveling shifted Michael's perspective on what it means to be an African born in America.Spiritual Nature, Michael's exhibition about the African diaspora experience in the Americas.Why he chooses to create work about community, family, sociopolitical issues, and history.Unpacking Michael's belief that artists and educators are the voice of the people.The story of how he realized that he was called to be an artist.How Michael gained his knowledge of business and entrepreneurship.The influence that Charles White had on Michael's decision to study at Otis.How The Collective carried the torch for Black artists who are no longer with us.Michael's take on the significance of labels like “Black art.”An experience in Barcelona that made Michael recognize art as a common language. A look at the Future of Dreams project that he created with a collaborator in Columbia.The importance of traveling “without entitlement.”Ways that Michael believes artists can minimize the problems of the world.For more information, please visit http://notrealart.com/michael-massenburg

In honor of MLK Day, we turn to 1972, when 100,000 people gathered at the LA Memorial Coliseum to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles to help heal the community. The gig featured some of the greatest artists on Stax Records, The Staples Singers, The Bar-Kays, and Carla Thomas, to name a few. And, of course, the iconic Isaac Hayes headlined the night. Today we share a previously unreleased version of the soul-funk anthem “Theme From Shaft (Live At Wattstax, Los Angeles, CA / August 20, 1972 / Version 1),” from the forthcoming release Soul'd Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection, out Feb. 24. 

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We're sharing a bonus episode from our friends at The Plot Thickens, a podcast from TCM about movies and the people who make them. Their new season is all about Pam Grier, the iconic Blaxploitation star of the 1970s. In this episode, we're taking you to Denver in the 1960s, where Pam grew up. She was a country girl during the Civil Rights era, and on her first trip to Los Angeles, she finds herself trapped there during the historic Watts Rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Growing up in Colorado, young Pam Grier endures racism and trauma, but finds solace in horses and the beautiful countryside.  As a teen, she visits Los Angeles for the first time, and gets caught in the middle of the historic Watts Rebellion.  But after winning a beauty pageant, she meets a Hollywood agent who encourages her to give L.A. a second chance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen to the Sun. Aug. 14, 2022 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our PANW report with dispatches on the continuing confusion surrounding the national elections in Kenya; 15 people have been found dead on the border between the Republic of Sudan and Libya; a shipment of grain from Ukraine is said to be destined for regions of Africa where there are food deficits; and a fire at a Coptic Church in Egypt has resulted in numerous fatalities and injuries. In the second hour we continue our focus on Black August with a reexamination of the 1965 Watts Rebellion which shifted the character of the African American struggle against racism and exploitation in the United States. Finally, we look at the public health situation on the African continent with reports from Africa Talk and the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based in Ethiopia.

On the thirtieth anniversary of the L.A. Riots, Andrew and Ryan talk about America's standing in the world before the riots, how the riots affected Angelenos and residents in L.A. County, this moment's lack of recognition, consequences (and lack thereof) of the events causing the riots, Stacey Koon's post acquittal life, the riots' relationship with the Watts Rebellion, the politics around Los Angeles at that time and the media that's taken a better effort to remember the riots than most historians and notable Angelenos have, all among many of the topics we traverse. This is not a linear retelling of the history, rather it is a retrospective meant to contextualize what happened and what has happened despite the outcome(s) of the events following April 29, 1992. The spine informing us in this episode is the National Geographic documentary "LA 92." For a straightforward, footage-driven retelling before, during and after the riots, click the link and give it a watch: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/movies-and-specials/la-92 Social media: Mars on Life: @marsonlifeshow on Twitter and Instagram Ryan Mancini: @mancinira (Twitter) and @manciniryan (Instagram) Andrew Martinez: @andrewomartinez (Twitter) Artwork by Zachary Erberich (@zacharyerberichart) "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mars-on-life-show/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mars-on-life-show/support

Alison and Scott are joined by LA Times columnist Frank Shyong to discuss Charles Burnett's 1978 debut Killer of Sheep, an unadorned and unsparing look into life in Watts after the 1965 rebellion.Watch along with us! You can watch Killer of Sheep for free with your LA Public Library card on Kanopy: https://lapl.kanopy.com/video/killer-sheep-0

Listen to the Sun. Aug. 15, 2021 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the defeat of United States imperialism in Afghanistan as the Taliban has entered the capital of Kabul; Haiti is racing to provide assistance to the population after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake; Ethiopians are accusing the U.S. and its corporate media outlets of bias in their coverage of the security situation in the north of the Horn of Africa state; and the opposition candidate in Zambia is reportedly leading in the results from the recent national elections. In the second hour we look in depth at the current developments in Afghanistan where the U.S. and its allies are urgently fleeing the country after two decades of occupation. Finally, we continue our focus on Black August as we look back on the historic Watts Rebellion of Aug. 1965.

While the Laker franchise tries to heal after their sixth loss to the Celtics in the Finals, the city of Los Angeles tries to heal in the wake of the Watts Rebellion. Amidst the racial strife, the league suffers with both sponsors and national relevance. Owner Jack Kent Cooke then makes the trade that changes the landscape of the NBA when his Lakers acquire Wilt Chamberlain. But the team's championship plans are thwarted once again by their East Coast nemesis, the Boston Celtics.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

This week we spend the entire hour speaking with Max Felker-Kantor, the author of an important new book, Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD. This book tells the story of the Los Angeles Police Department, from the Watts Rebellion of 1965, to the 1992 Spring Rebellion.

It's powerful protests and working class uprisings this week. Emily details the life of Mother Jones and her lifelong fight to protect worker's rights as we go on a few tangents related to Unionization. Then Brenton covers the Watts Rebellion and how riots and protests are only a symptom of much larger injustices.You can find ways to help the Black Lives Matter protests here: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#Mother Jones Resources: https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/Watt's Rebellion Resources: https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/watts-riotshttps://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/watts-rebellion-los-angeleshttps://time.com/3974595/watts-riot-1965-history/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103452604

In this episode, Eric sits down with artist and longtime friend Michael Massenburg, for an intimate conversation about what inspired him to become an artist. They discuss his experiences growing up in Los Angeles during the 1965 Watts Rebellion and significant moments that ended up informing his art. They reflect on the untimely death of Sam Cook who's song "A Change Is Gonna Come" became a symbol of the civil rights movement... the Killing of Latasha Harlins, the Rodney King verdict and LA Riots of 1992. Massenburg describes his journey of discovering art and what drives him as an artist. About The ArtistMichael Massenburg was born in San Diego and raised in Los Angeles California. Michael pursued his studies at California State University, Long Beach and Otis School of Art and Design. Massenburg has exhibited in galleries and museums, completed private commissions and worked on public art projects throughout the country and abroad. His list of public artwork clients includes Verizon, MTA Metro, ESPN, American Jazz Museum and the Fabulous Forum. He is also the recipient of various grants, including from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the California Arts Council. Along with his art-making practices, Michael is a teaching artist, community organizer and activist for various organizations and causes.Artist StatementIn this body of work, I want to investigate the language and imagery to explore the issues class, race and culture in their relationship through rituals. In each artwork, I assembled constructions of objects and images in an attempt to engage the subjects through representational, psychological and spiritual perspectives. Elements of decaying and blooming landscapes, earth mapping and the migration of life forms are all visual metaphors for the transformation of the unknown and the profound. Through these varieties of elements, my intention is to speak to the notion of what is the significance of life or the purpose of existence. This is the ongoing conversation that I want the artwork to engage in.

Greetings SOTAns, We hope you are all keeping well. In light of the recent social unrest in the Twin Cities, we are discussing a similar situation that happened in Los Angeles in 1965–The Watts Riots (aka the Watts Rebellion). Similarly to the unjust story of George Floyd in Minneapolis, these riots started with the arrest of a black man by a white officer and lead to community rebellion against systemic oppression against POC communities. The artist, Noah Purifoy, was a resident of Los Angeles and created sculptures out of the refuse from the riots. He later moved to Joshua Tree and spent the rest of his life creating assemblage art, resulting in his outdoor art museum, which we reviewed in the fall of 2018. We wanted to share more of his story, highlighting how his great art career was catalyzed by a striking social upheaval and how his legacy continues on through his art. References: https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/watts-riots http://www.noahpurifoy.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sota/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sota/support

This week's episode provides context for the hysteria and misinformation passed around amid the Black Lives Matter protests continuing across the nation. As the riots have rescinded, community artwork reminiscent of the art following the Watts Rebellion or the AIDS quilt, respectively, has appeared from coast to coast, but is it enough for rooting out systemic racism in government? To read the Smithsonian magazine piece we discussed: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-how-artists-are-responding-killing-george-floyd-180975036/ And just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...Los Angeles County and much of the United States has foregone stay-at-home orders to reawaken the economy, win some reelections and prepare everything for the Fourth of July. Phase 3 of reopenings began and cases are already beginning to skyrocket state to state. If you want more information from the LA Times article we touch on: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-10/la-county-reopening-gyms-museums-hotels-day-camps-arena-sports-friday For the listeners who want to help out, Sebastian has an itemized document you can download or purchase called "Read Their Names." While you can freely download it as an ebook, you can also purchase a physical copy; all royalties will go to the Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=QATpDwAAQBAJ&rdid=book-QATpDwAAQBAJ&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_viewport Pick up Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's "Set the Night on Fire" for 40% off now: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3164-set-the-night-on-fire Social media: Mars on Life: @marsonlifeshow on Twitter and Instagram Sebastian Schug: @dr_sebby (Twitter) and @drsebby (Instagram) Ryan Mancini: @mancinira (Twitter) and @manciniryan (Instagram) Artwork by Zachary Erberich (@zacharyerberichart) "Space X-plorers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mars-on-life-show/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mars-on-life-show/support

This time on “Gathering Ground,” Mary hosts two thought leaders and comrades in community-building and racial justice: Angelique Power (President of The Field Foundation) and Tracie D. Hall (Director of The Joyce Foundation's Culture Program).Tracie shares with listeners her experience growing up in Los Angeles in the years following the Watts Rebellion, and the inspiration she found in the people and artists breathing life back into its rich community. Angelique speaks to being a child of the "first generation of the Loving Generation"* in Hyde Park, Chicago, her history of work in homelessness, and the complicated relationship many of us native Chicagoans have with the city — one of concurrent love and skepticism.Mary, Tracie and Angelique go on to discuss Tracie's amazing, moving art Rootwork Gallery, and Enrich Chicago, which Angelique co-founded in 2014 to create pathways and skill-building opportunities for individuals of color to enter arts administration at all levels. The three discuss the state of philanthropy, the emotional labor of being a POC in the nonprofit sector, and much, much more.Angelique and Tracie will definitely be back for a future episode of “Gathering Ground,” but for now, enjoy this conversation that can only be called magical!* Angelique's mention of the "Loving Generation" refers to the generation of children born to the first interracial couples who were able to legally marry thanks to 1967's landmark case Loving vs. Virginia.

Last week, we heard the first part of a lecture by Max Felker-Kantor on policing in Los Angeles, from the Watts Rebellion in the 60s to the brutal police beating of Rodney King in the 90s. This week, he continues to talk about the police murder of Eula Love, and how her death affected the …

In this interview, Elizabeth Hinton sketches the relationship between the civil rights movement, urban uprisings and the beginning of the “War on Crime,” with a focus on the Harlem Riot of 1964, and the1 965 Watts Rebellion, which was triggered by police brutality and became a key law-and-order talking point.  She then moves through a …

Today’s episode is Black and White on Fire, Season 3 Episode 7 CW: Racism, Violence, Sexism and Language  Summer Contest!  Final week! Dawn and Rachel discuss donuts, Rex Manning Day, the complexity of eggs for breakfast, Hamilton and the shade Rachel throws at Dawn and future guest Sarah Ifft Decker’s Chicago visit. Oh let’s not forget Dawn covers her bougie, yet passive K12 education in the intro. Rachel gives a ringing endorsement on while all of us need library cards too. This episode centers around the Watts Rebellion of 1965. We provide a brief history toward the beginning of the episode. Also the entire subject sadly still feels very 2018. We do our best to discuss triggering language used in this episode.  Please know if you have feedback, we’re not experts and welcome you to email us. Our next episode is Season 1, Episode 6 Double Identity  Contribute to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/beckettfuture Or visit our website: http://beckettfuturepod.com Email us: beckettfuturepod@gmail.com Lastly, visit our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/beckettfuturepod/ Please like us and review us on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcatcher. We love you.

In this 38-minute podcast, Joe Lewis shares with listeners Noah Purifoy (1917-2004) the man, the social worker, the Director of the Watts Towers and pioneering arts advocate and activist. Known for his work with the vernacular, read “junk”, which started in 1965 using debris leftover from the Watts Rebellion, Purifoy worked steadily out of Los Angeles, spending the last 15 years of his life in Joshua Tree. Purifoy took debris, mixed it with the vernacular and social issues, and created unique and powerful works, reverberating far beyond the desert.  Lewis describes the influence that the Watts Rebellion had on Purifoy (min. 2), his standout pieces (min. 4), starting of the Foundation and his “studio” (min. 9) and the role of the natural elements in composing (and decomposing) his work. Joe then continues with how it worked in a “proper” museum, surround by white walls (min. 18), special memories (min. 22), his need to go out to Joshua Tree (min. 29) and how the Foundation deals with the elements to preserve his work and legacy.  Feted by the art world, including at LACMA, Purifoy's art transcends what has been termed “Junk Dada” - there is something intensely relevant in our times about inequality, mass consumption and polarization. Feed your soul. Keep listening.   

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández brings us the lengthy history of how authorities in Los Angeles have used imprisonment as a tool to control both labor and migration. City of Inmates takes the reader from a brief look at the Tongva Communities in the Tongva Basin, to the Spanish colonial era of the late 18th century, and through the Watts Rebellion in 1965. “This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation’s carceral core.” Our discussion delves into this painstaking history of incarceration, resistance, and rebellion in the changing city.  Featuring host Jeffery Jenkins (@jaj7d ‏), and guests Robynn Cox (@RobynnCox ‏), David Sloane (@dcsloane53 ), and Danielle Williams (@BDanielleW) @BedrosianCenter For links and more check out the showpage.

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (University of North Carolina Press) Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.  Praise for City of Inmates "In this compelling and comprehensive history of incarceration in Los Angeles, Hernandez demonstrates how authorities whether Spanish, Mexican, or American have long used imprisonment as a tool to control labor and immigration. Covering nearly two centuries of incarceration, Hernandez masterfully synthesizes the history of immigration and deportation, the history of crime and punishment, and the history of settler colonialism."--Margaret Jacobs, author of White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940  "Using settler colonialism as an analytical touchstone, City of Inmates extends arguments about mass incarceration's antiblack violence while challenging its commonly asserted origins in the Deep South or the northeastern United States. Excavating the deep histories of punishment in Los Angeles, Hernandez significantly broadens our understanding of mass incarceration's intersections with immigrant detention and colonial dispossession. Vast in scope and intimate in detail, this book is timely and necessary."--Ethan Blue, author of Doing Time in the Depression  City of Inmates is a pathbreaking work that not only considers together the histories of the regimes of domestic incarceration and immigration detention, the major mechanisms that plague the condition of African Americans and Latino/as in our time. It also incorporates histories of incarceration and removal of Native Americans, Chinese, and poor whites as modes of 'elimination' by white settler colonialism. City of Inmates is a bold work that will surprise and provoke.--Mae Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects  Kelly Lytle Hernandez's City of Inmates is a remarkable book. No historian has ever told California's history with the breadth and depth of its enduring significance quite like this. Since the Spanish colonial period every kind of American--from Native Americans to Mexican and Chinese Americans, to landless whites and African Americans--has passed through California's jailhouse doors with profound implications for the shape of our nation today. No telling or teaching of the past is complete without reckoning with these supremely urgent stories of our carceral history.--Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness  Kelly Lytle Hernandez is associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles

Listen to this edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the rebellion in Milwaukee in response to the police killing of an African American youth on August 13; in Queens New York an Imam and his assistant were gunned by an assassin on Saturday; the preliminary results of the national presidential elections in Zambia indicate that the incumbent Edgar Lungu has taken an early lead; and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has issued an assessment of the recently-held local governmental elections. In the second hour we continue our monthlong commemoration of Black August with special segments on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831 and the Watts Rebellion of 1965. Finally, we look back one year at the assassination of Hugo Pinell in a California prison after five decades of incarceration.

I had an amazing interview with Odie and Zola Salena Hawkins.Odie Hawkins has been given the title, “The Underground Master”, by a loyal constituency who have followed his career through his twenty four novels, short story collections, essays, television scripts, radio and film scripts. He takes pride in being the originator of the Pan-African Occult genre, as exemplified by “The Snake” and “Shackles Across Time”. He was one of the original members of the famed Watts Writers Workshop, established by Budd Schulberg, in the wake of the Watts Rebellion, 1965; and the Open Door Program, created by the Writers Guild of America, West, Inc. Louise Meriwether, John W. Bloch, Al Jenner, Robert Lewin, Harlan Ellison and Budd Schulberg, instructors. “Ghetto Sketches”, his first published novel -- on the required reading list – May 2010 - Professor Justin Gifford. University of Nevada, Reno. Department of English. Mr. Hawkins has recently published books of Socio-science fiction: Mr. Bonobo Bliss and Lady Bliss (with co-author Ralph Vernon).http://www.odiehawkins.com/index.htm Odie Hawkins show COMING SOON ON KLBP 99.1 THE LONG BEACH RADIO PROJECT.

Listen to this edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. We feature our regular PANW reports highlighting the request by the Namibian people for reparations involving the German genocide of 1904-07 where tens of thousands of Africans were slaughtered at the aegis of Berlin's Second Reich; the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was served with a letter of support from the Republic of Sudan in Zimbabwe just recently; the United States has re-established its embassy in Havana, Cuba after 54 years ushering in a new era of bilateral relations; while clashes have taken place in neo-colonial Libya in the city of Sirte between IS fighters and other groups amid the failure of United Nations brokered talks to stabilize the situation inside this North African state. In the second and third hour we focus on the legacy of Black August looking at the 50th anniversary of the Watts Rebellion which began on Aug. 11, 1965. Also we pay tribute to Hugo Pinell of the San Quinten Six who was assassinated on Aug. 12 in the California prison system. Finally we review an audio documentary on the legacy of resistance behind prison walls in the U.S.

Listen to The Michael Imhotep Show, Tues. Aug, 11th, 10pm-12midnight EST with host Michael Imhotep of The African History Network.  CALL IN WITH Questions/Comments at 1-888-669-2281.  POST YOUR COMMENTS.  WE MAY READ THEM ON AIR.  Listen online at http://tunein.com/radio/Empowerment-Radio-Network-s199313/ or by downloading the "TuneIn Radio" app to your smartphone and search for "Empowerment Radio Network" or at www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com.   1) Saturday, Aug. 9th was the 1 year Anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown.  We'll deal with Ferguson 1 year later and the need for Economic Boycotts. Why Black Lives 1st Have to Matter to Black People.  2) Njia Kai, Director of the 33rd Annual African World Festival will talk about the 3 day Festival taking place in Detroit, Aug. 14th-16th.  3) Aug. 11th is the Anniversary of The Watts Rebellion.  Will talk about this Rebellion.  4) In our Entreperneurship segment we'll talk about a 13 year old boy with his own business.  5) This date in African American History We focus on Educating, Empowering and Inspiring people of African descent throughout the Diaspora and around the world because right knowledge corrects wrong behavior.  We deal with current events, history, politics, education, economic empowerment, entrepreneurship, relationships, love, sex, health and more.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. In this program we will bring you our PANW reports on developments in Africa and throughout the Diaspora. The second hour continues our Voices From History segment examining the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in honor of the upcoming 86th anniversary of his birth on Jan. 15, 1929. This broadcast highlights the Selma to Montgomery March in light of the soon to be released film "Selma." The final hour looks at the Watts Rebellion which occured just a few days after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Later we continue our reflections on the urban rebellions during the period which coincided with Dr. King's final years, this time focusing on Newark in July 1967.