Reconciling History As a Black Anarchist with Ashanti Alston
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 2 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today’s History Story — A Rallying Cry That Inspired Oppressed People Worldwide
It was in Plainfield, NJ, in 1971 where our guest - Ashanti Alston - joined The Black Panther Party, radicalized in the wake of the 1967 Newark Riots and Malcolm X’s assassination years earlier. Ashanti would begin his life as an anarchist on that day, and it has guided his every step – through the Panther Party, then the Black Liberation Army, his incarceration, and his work honoring the sacrifice of political prisoners in the name of Black liberation with The Jericho Movement.
Ashanti sits with us now with a 21st-century view of the impact of his radical brothers and sisters and the lessons learned from a lifetime of seeking Black liberation.
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| 0:00.0 | If you love Push Black's Black History Year, you'll love our newest podcast called Two |
| 0:10.0 | Minute Black History. |
| 0:11.7 | In only two minutes, you'll hear little-known stories about our people and reclaim the |
| 0:17.0 | knowledge we need to take action and advance our community. |
| 0:22.4 | To move towards the future, you've got to look to the past. |
| 0:26.6 | Learn the history you didn't get in school. |
| 0:28.7 | Tune in to Two Minute Black History, every Tuesday through Friday, right on the Black |
| 0:34.0 | History Year feed, and wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:52.4 | In 1966, while Marvel Comics was debuting their first black superhero, the Black |
| 0:58.4 | Panther, the world was also introduced to one of the most influential black power organizations |
| 1:06.0 | of all time, the Black Panther Party for self-defense. |
| 1:10.8 | The Black Nationalist Group rose in direct opposition to the police brutality that pummeled |
| 1:17.7 | members of non-violent civil rights organizations. |
| 1:21.6 | They demanded citizenship rights as well as economic and political power for our people |
| 1:26.9 | and they stopped it nothing to ensure it. |
| 1:30.0 | This is Jay from Push Black, and you're listening to Black History Year. |
| 1:34.1 | Created in the segregated and poverty-stricken streets of Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby |
| 1:40.0 | Seales, the Black Panther Party would spread their influence across the country as satellite |
| 1:46.7 | chapters were established in South Los Angeles, Detroit, New York, and Chicago. |
| 1:53.1 | It was in plain filled New Jersey, though, in 1971, where our guest, Ashanti Alston, joined |
| 1:59.8 | the Black Panther Party, radicalized in the wake of the 1967 Newark riots and the assassination |
| 2:07.7 | of Malcolm X years earlier. |
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