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The History They Tried to Erase: Congo, Cuba and Black Liberation
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D continued a far-reaching conversation with organizers and artists Obi Egbuna Jr. and Russell Shoatz III about Black liberation, political prisoners, cultural resistance and their double album honoring Assata Shakur and Pauline Lumumba. Airing on August 11, the recognized 53rd anniversary of Hip Hop, the discussion connected the culture’s revolutionary potential to liberation struggles stretching from Mississippi and Cuba to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Egbuna challenged what he called the “amputated narrative of the African experience,” which…
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