Urban Unrest

27 February 2007 | Recommendations | Ernesto Aguilar

One of the big search requests here is for audio. Stands to reason a radio blog with have audio, right? Starting this week, I’m adding occasional audio. Our first feature is from the Pacifica Radio Archives.

“Revolution for Breakfast” is part of a three-CD Black Panther Box Set 3 CD (Archive Number: PZ0703a-c) and features some fine Black Panther recordings from the Pacifica Radio Archives: This is just a piece of the 25-minute block, but gives you a great look at the Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program. The entire set is:

CD 1: Black Panther Legacy, Part 1: Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale explodes the myth of the armed street gang promulgated by Ronald Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover. The Panthers were a group of professional, semi-professional and college students who formed this anti-segregation, broad spectrum civil rights movement whose legal use of arms Bobby would substitute for video cameras in 1995. This is an energetic and relevant look at the 60’s and 90’s, with a look at Seale’s current work and attitudes toward the Republican Congress, environmental deterioration and welfare ‘reform.’

RECORDED: 22 Feb 1995, California State Fullerton

CD 2: H. Rap Brown and Stokley Carmichael on contemporary Black issues, delivered on the occasion of Huey Newton’s birthday. Introduction by Elridge Cleaver.

RECORDED: 21 Feb 1968, Los Angeles Sports

CD 3: Revolution for Breakfast
On the child feeding programs put on by the Black Panthers and the Young Lords.

BROADCAST: August 1970.

You can order the set from the Pacifica Radio Archives.

MP3: “Revolution for Breakfast”

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