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Podcast: Black History Year
Episode: Reconciling History As a Black Anarchist with Ashanti Alston (Jan 2023)
Description: It was in Plainfield, NJ, in 1971 where our guest - Ashanti Alston - joined The Black Panther Party, radicalized in the wake of the 1967 Newark Riots and Malcolm X’s assassination years earlier. Ashanti would begin his life as an anarchist on that day, and it has guided his every step – through the Panther Party, then the Black Liberation Army, his incarceration, and his work honoring the sacrifice of political prisoners in the name of Black liberation with The Jericho Movement.Ashanti now has a 21st-century view of the impact of his radical brothers and...