In this special edition of imixwhatilike! we hosted a panel focused on class politics within the movement for Black lives. Story Transcript JARED BALL, TRNN: What’s up world, and welcome to this special edition of imixwhatilike! here at the Real News Network. I’m Jared Ball here in Baltimore, and what we’re doing in this special […]
Author Archives: Tom Porter & Jennifer Bryant
Tom Porter among many things, is a former member of CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) and SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). He was a longtime friend of Coretta Scott King and at one point was the head of the King Center in Atlanta. Porter has been an adviser to Jesse Jackson, has been a longtime radio host, jazz critic, and author. And as we will discuss a bit later, he was also a longstanding close friend of Amiri Baraka.
Porter is among our leading elect intellectuals, philosophers, and has been the head of the Antioch College Graduate School, served in the U.S. Navy, and once showed Stokely Carmichael (or Kwame Touré) what a real gun was. He is my /ˈjɛgnə/ and godfather and a man of many quotes, among them two of my favorite: I don't mind when my ideas are stolen--I am a thinking man; I will have others: and I am never surprised when I'm asked to leave; only by how long I'm allowed to stay.
Jennifer Bryant works at Right to Income and involves the development of a DC Black Workers Center. Jennifer is co-host of Voices with Vision on WPFW 89.3FM and does Cuban solidarity work with the Venceremos Brigade. She holds a B.A. from Howard University and an M.A. from St. John's University.
