Happy Black August!! The final episode of this very special Black August series, Revolutionary Baddies delves into this question of the future. Generally, each episode is dedicated to honoring powerful history but our visions for the future can be just as powerful. Grounding in the words of brother George Jackson, “If we fail through fear and lack of aggressive imagination, then the slaves of the future will curse us, as we sometimes curse those of yesterday. I don’t want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated..”. Who would you be if you were free? How can we envision our societies, hearts, minds, and behaviors beyond capitalism? So much of the violence, policing, punishment, colonization, and wars have been visions by people grounded in destruction and hegemony but what would the other side of this spectrum look like? We have the opportunity to bring the potential of a caring and just society to life, but we got to have VISION!!!

Question for our listeners-

Who would you be if you were free?

Links for the show: Season 1. Episode 13

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

A Few Rules For Predicting the Future by Octavia E. Butler

Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon

Founder of Zionism

The Neoliberalism of Public Spaces and the Infringement of Civil Liberties

Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara

Escuela Nacional de Arte(Cuba)

“I Wish I Knew What It Would Feel Like To Be Free” by Miss Nina Simone

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