13/02/2025
Norman Richmond: Robert F. Williams, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba, Franz Fanon Centenary Diasporic Music Horne Report
February 13, 2025, Norman (Otis) Richmond, aka Jalali, joins the show to discuss the centenary of the birthdays of Robert F. Williams, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba and Franz Fanon. 2025 marks 100 years since the birth of Robert F. Williams, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba and Franz Fanon. Norman discusses this important centenary
and lives and legacies of these revolutionaries.
Norman Richmond, is an activist, journalist, historian, music historian, radio host, revolutionary and much much more.
Norman was born in Arcadia, Louisiana, and grew up in Los Angeles. He left Los Angles after refusing to fight in Vietnam because he felt that, like the Vietnamese, Africans in the United States were colonial subjects.
After leaving Los Angeles in the 1960s Norman moved to Toronto, where he co-founded the Afro American Progressive Association, one of the first Black Power organizations in that part of the world. Before moving to Toronto permanently, Norman worked with the Detroit-based League of Revolutionary Black Workers. He was the youngest member of the central staff. When the League split he joined the African People’s Party.
In 1992, Norman received the Toronto Arts Award. In front of an audience that included the mayor of Toronto, Norman dedicated his award to Mumia Abu-Jamal, Assata Shakur, Geronimo Pratt, the African National Congress of South Africa, and Fidel Castro and the people of Cuba.
In 1984 he co-founded the Toronto Chapter of the Black Music Association with Milton Blake. Norman began his career in journalism at the African Canadian weekly Contrast which was owned by Al Hamilton. He went on to be published in the Toronto Star, the Toronto Globe & Mail, the National Post, the Jackson Advocate, Share, the Islander, the Black American, Pan African News Wire, and Black Agenda Report. Internationally he has written for the United Nations, the Jamaican Gleaner, the Nation (Barbados),the Nation (Sri Lanka), the Zimbabwe Herald and Pambazuka News. Currently, he produces Diasporic Music a radio show for http://blackpower96.org/http://www.th...
and Radio Regent http://www.radioregent.com/
and writes a column, Diasporic Music for the Burning Spear Newspaper.
And of course, the radio show, the Horne Report, which airs on Black Power 96 Radio on Sundays at 3:30pm ET and replays of the show can be found on Activist News Network.
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