Wanda's Picks Radio: Malcolm X Special Rebroadcast 5/18/2011

Today we are celebrating the life of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, a man who epitomizes transformation and revolutionary thought born May 19, 2011, (1925-1965). We are joined by friends and family who knew and admired him. Confirmed are: A. Peter Bailey, author, journalist, friend of Brother Malcolm, and Yusufu Mosley, activist, and practitioner of African-Centered Restorative Justice. We are also joined by scholar, artist, writer, teacher, Amiri Baraka. We close with an interview with Abraham Burton, who is headlining the Tenth Annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival, Saturday, May 21, 2011 at San Antonio Park. The Abraham Burton Trio performs at Eastside Cultural Center 2277 International Blvd., Oakland, CA   94606, Sunday: May 22, 2011, 6PM-two sets. Admission is $15. For more information: 510/533-6629 We open with "Eleanor  Bumpurs" featuring Jon Jang Sextet (David Murray, tenor saxophone: James Newton, flute; Chen Jiebing, erhu; Jon Jang, piano; Santi Debriano, double bass; Billy Hart, multiple percussion.  The work speaks to an African American grandmother who was murdered by the Bronx police for not paying her rent on time continuing the long history of legal lynching or as Amiri Baraka once broadly described as the Sisyphus Syndrome, the repeated pattern that is a sustained upward trend bred of fierce struggle and broad unity and then blunted and periodically turned around socially, politicially economically, by political reaction, social repression, VIOLENCE and most of all white supremacy reasserting itself. Alan DeWayne Blueford was an 18-year-old senior at Skyline High School, preparing to graduate in June. He was the youngest son of Adam Blueford Sr. and Jeralynn Brown Blueford. During the early morning hours of May 6, 2012, Alan was murdered by an officer – whose name has yet to be released – with the Oakland Police Department. His family is now seeking justice for his death.

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