Conversations with black leaders and activists exploring current African American political and cultural life.

REDEFINING BLACK POWER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
By Joanne Griffith-Poplar

1: The Movement for the Expansion and Deepening of Democracy in America
A Conversation of Context with Dr. Vincent Harding

2. What about the Brother at the Bottom of the Well?
Law in the Age of Obama with Professor Michelle Alexander

3. Dollars and Sense? Race, Recession and Recovery
Racial equality and economic parity with Dr. Julianne Malveaux

4. Barack Obama: The New Crack?
A Story of Revolution with Ramona Africa

5. Probing the President: The Mediäs Paralysis of Analysis?
A Conversation on race, the press and the White House with Linn Washington

6. It Matters What Needs to be Done
Politics and Green Activism with Van Jones

7. A Quiet Victory for Emotional Justice
The impact of the First Family on the African American Psyche with Esther
Armah


Epilogue


Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

About Pacifica Radio

Bibliography and Audio References

Joanne Griffith is an award-winning international broadcast journalist who has reported, produced and hosted programs for the BBC, NPR and Pacifica Radio. She has spent her 15-year career telling the stories of tragedy and triumph throughout the African Diaspora. Based in LA, Griffith hosts a weekly radio program for BBC Radio.