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Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irreplaceable hole in their movements.
In this week’s edition of Making Contact you’ll hear about the life and work of social justice leaders, many who spent their entire lives fighting for racial and economic justice, and though they’ve passed away they inspire us to do our work today.
Black Liberation activists like Chokwe Lumumba, Darby Tillis freed from wrongful conviction and imprisonment, Yuri Kochiyama anti-imperialist supporter for political prisoners, and young George Carter who was a “rethinker” of schools in New Orleans.
On today’s edition of Making Contact we honor and revisit the lives of just a few of those fallen heroes who passed away this year.
- Chokwe Lumumba, former mayor of Jackson MS
- Morgan Powell, Bronx River Sankofa founder
- Charity Hicks, Detroit People’s Water Board co-founder
- Darby Tillis, death penalty opponent
- Yuri Kochiyama, civil rights activist
- Ted Gullickson, San Francisco Tenants Union director
- George Carter; Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools participant
- Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues
- Eddie Ellis, prison reform advocate
- Mark Naison, Fordham University African-American history professor
- Lila Cabbil, Rosa Parks Institute president emeritus
- Diane Fujino, author of Heartbeat of Struggle, the revolutionary life of Yuri Kochiyama
- Taiyo Na, author
- Randy Shaw, Tenderloin Housing Clinic executive director
- Qasim Davis, Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools project manager
- Perry Cobb, Darby Tillis’ co-defendant
- Dr. Divine Pryor, executive Director of the center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions
Host: Andrew Stelzer
Producers: Laura Flynn, Jasmin Lopez, George Lavender
Contributing Producers: Wayie Ly
Lean More
Leslie Feinberg
http://www.transgenderwarrior.org/
WBAI Mourns Passing of Producer Eddie Ellis
http://www.wbai.org/articles.php?article=2148
Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions
http://centerfornuleadership.org/
Remembering Yuri Kochiyama- APEX Express
https://apexexpress.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/6515-yuri-kochiyama-tribute/
Heartbeat of Struggle, the revolutionary life of Yuri Kochiyama
http://www.amazon.com/Heartbeat-Struggle-Revolutionary-Kochiyama-Critical/dp/0816645930
Charity Mahouna Hicks joins the ancestors
http://michigancitizen.com/charity-mahouna-hicks-joins-the-ancestors/
Rosa Parks Institute
Detroit People’s Water Board
http://www.peopleswaterboard.org/
Darby Tillis, who fought wrongful convictions after he was freed, dies at 71
Bronx River Sankofa
https://bronxriversankofa.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BronxRiverSankofa
With a Brooklyn Accent-Mark Naison
http://withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com/
Teen killed in New Orleans believed in the power of food justice and gardens
http://grist.org/food/teen-killed-in-new-orleans-believed-in-the-power-of-food-justice-and-gardens/
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools
Tenant ‘hero’ Ted Gullicksen has died
http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/10/14/tenant-hero-ted-gullicksen-has-died/
Tenderloin Housing Clinic
San Francisco Tenants Union
‘The Legacy of Chokwe Lumumba Must Not Be Buried With the Man’
http://www.thenation.com/blog/178538/mayor-who-brought-economic-democracy-vision-mississippi
VIDEOS ETC.
Bronx River Sankofa Tour
http://www.bronxnet.org/tv/viewvideo/1993/bronx-currents/bronx-currents–bronx-tour-2012
Morgan Powell discusses The Bronx River’s Afro-American Heritage in 100 Pictures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RbkkOIoWv8
Darby Tillis – “The Death Row Shuffle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1cNUE29Hc
The Death Row Blues by Darby Tillis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUkpeH2q0M
Humanizing Justice – Eddie Ellis at Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPsHYaZe-yw
Interview with Charity Hicks
http://detroitinterviews.tumblr.com/post/87709112777/charity-hicks-on-april-26-2014-at-cass-corridor
