On today's special episode of Loud & Clear, host Brian Becker is joined in a special roundtable discussion by historian and scholar Professor Dr. Anthony Monteiro, who recently organized a huge conference in Philadelphia called The Black Radical Tradition, and by Eugene Puryear, a leader of the Stop Police Terror Project and a contributing editor to LiberationNews.org website. This riveting discussion analyzes the dynamic resurgence of the radical movement for racial and social justice, the historic parallels with the earlier mass movements led by Martin Luther King Jr., Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party, and the intersection of class power and racist oppression as a hallmark of the evolution of the US social and economic order.
A range of issues are discussed including the police murders of black people including Michael Brown and Tamir Rice that helped to ignite the movement in the last few years, why the African-American community faces such tremendous challenges even under a black President, and whether the movement can reach the levels of the Black Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 70s.
