{"id":197,"date":"2006-02-17T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=197"},"modified":"2006-02-17T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T20:05:33","slug":"weekly-digest-021706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/02\/17\/weekly-digest-021706\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Digest &#8211; 02\/17\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?page_id=23\">weekly edition<\/a> is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Weekend_Edition\/2006_02_17_uprisingweekly.MP3&#038;m=1\"> <img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Audio Stream<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/uprising.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"graphics\/miniXml.gif\" width=\"25\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\"\/>Podcast<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/uprising.libsyn.com\/media\/uprising\/uprising_2006-02-17.mp3\">Mp3 Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week on Uprising &#8212; a Black History special edition<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Award winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni shares her thoughts on black history, and the recent loss of Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and her own mother. <\/li>\n<li>Former Black Panther, David Hilliard, explores the life of BPP co-founder Huey P. Newton, and his first authorized biography, Huey: Spirit of the Panther <\/li>\n<li>Plus Empire Notes on a &#8220;clash of civilizations,&#8221; and the Black Commentator on the recent elections in Haiti. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empire Notes<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empirenotes.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"graphics\/empirenotes.JPG\" alt=\"Empire Notes\" \/><\/a>Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commentary is about the widespread outrage on a &#8220;clash of civilizations,&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Empire Notes is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empirenotes.org\">www.empirenotes.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Nikki Giovanni, award winning poet, Professor of English at Virginia Tech.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikki-giovanni.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/theheretik.typepad.com\/the_heretik\/images\/nikki_giovanni_voices.jpg\" alt=\"internet\" \/><\/a>Nikki Giovanni is an award winning poet and writer. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943. She was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated with honors in history from her Fisk University. Since 1987, she has been on the faculty at Virginia Tech, where she is a University Distinguished Professor. She is the NAACP Image Award winner for Literature in 1998, 2000, and 2003. She won the Langston Hughes award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters in 1996 and was the first recipient for the Rosa Parks Women of Courage Award in 2001. She has been awarded 21 honorary doctorates from various universities nationwide. Her book include \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Feeling, Black Talk,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Judgement,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blues For All the Changes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Her CD, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, was nominated for a Grammy award. She has just completed a children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book about Rosa Parks. I met Ms. Giovanni at the California Institute of Technology on February 9th when she spoke on campus. <\/p>\n<p>After I spoke with her, she gave a lecture at Beckman Auditorium on the campus of Caltech in Pasadena to a packed audience. During her speech she shared some of her poetry. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikki-giovanni.com\">www.nikki-giovanni.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black Commentator on Haiti Elections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Glen Ford, co-publisher of The Black Commentator<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcommentator.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"graphics\/blackcommentator.JPG\" alt=\"Black Commentator\" \/><\/a>The Black Commentator is an online political magazine bringing you commentary, analysis and investigation from a black perspective. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commentary is on the recent elections in Haiti.  <\/p>\n<p>The Black Commentator is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcommentator.com\">www.blackcommentator.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Huey: Spirit of the Panther<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpanthertours.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/images-eu.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1560258373.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Huey\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: David Hilliard, former chief of staff for the Black Panther Party, co-author of Huey: Spirit of the Panther<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continuing our black history month coverage, we turn next to David Hilliard, the former chief of staff for the Black Panther Party. He has written a new book entitled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Huey: Spirit of the Panther.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It is the first ever authorized biography of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was formed in Oakland, California in 1966 and this year marks its fortieth anniversary. In the book, Hilliard details the life of one of the most misunderstood political leaders of the twentieth century. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Huey: Spirit of the Panther,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d includes never before released photographs, interviews and information about a man that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once called, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackpanthertours.com\">www.blackpanthertours.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Subversive Thought for the Day: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malcolm  X  once said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage. 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