Mic Crenshaw is a Portland hip-hop artist and community activist. He is involved with Housing Is For Everyone, a local housing rights movement organization. For information on his recordings, videos, biography and contact information, go to miccrenshow.com. Housing Is For Everyone can be reached at 971-266-4311 orhousingisforeveryone@gmail.com. their website, housingisforeveryone.org, will be up and running in September.
Dr. Jared Ball teaches communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, hosts a program on WPFW, part of the Pacifica radio network in Washington, D.C. and is the author of "I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto." He also co-edited "A Lie of Invention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X."
You can find out more about him at www.voxunion.com
Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, independent journalist and hip-hop activist. She was the vice-presidential running mate of Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the 2008 elections. She's also the founder of Know Thy Self Productions. Currently, she's a doctoral student in the WEB DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass-Amherst.
Her website is www.rosaclemente.com.
More perspectives on the March on Washington commemorations and Dr. King's legacy can be found at blackagendareport.com. Glen Ford, the Esecutive Editor of Black Agenda Report, was also invited to be on the show, but was unable to appear. He wrote an article for the Report called "The Black Mis-Leaders Love-Fest with Power on the Mall."
Ahjamu Baraka was also invited, but was travelling back to Colombia, where he lives. His article, "Obama Should Not Be Welcomed at the March on Washington Commemoration" appeared on www.counterpunch.org August 19. He also wrote "The Assassination of Martin Luther King and the Peace Movement" for Counterpunch on April 4.
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