Hampton, Fred, Jr., Chairman, 1969-
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Found in 77 Collections and/or Records:
Free Em All Radio Special Broadcast w/ Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.!, 2020-01-13
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This special broadcast was recorded live in Oakland, California at a Moms 4 Housing rally. Three working moms created the activist organization to draw attention to the housing crisis in Oakland after they reclaimed and began living in an unoccupied house with their children. The broadcast of mostly background audio and conversations begins after several songs play. One of the moms speaks at a press conference. A filmmaker making a movie about a young girl named Destiny living in the house...
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2020-01-13
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2019-01-02, 2019-01-02
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2019-01-02
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2019-01-09, 2019-01-09
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2019-01-09
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2019-01-16, 2019-01-16
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2019-01-16
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2019-01-23, 2019-01-23
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2019-01-23
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-01-01, 2020-01-01
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In the first episode of 2020, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., the Lady of Rage, and callers review major events in 2019. Hampton talks about the campaign to restore Hampton House and mentions an update to the disappearance of Kierra Coles in 2018. He discusses discriminatory policing, failures of the Chicago Transit Authority, and unequal distribution of resources in the city. A man and his nephew call in to ask Chairman Fred’s opinion about violence within Black communities and how it distracts...
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2020-01-01
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-01-08, 2020-01-08
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2020-01-08
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-01-15, 2020-01-15
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Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. speaks with six callers about topics including discrimination in medical care, environmental justice, and prison reform. After several songs play, he discusses Tashonna Ward, a twenty-five-year-old woman who died after waiting hours for medical care at a hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He speaks with Milwaukee-based activist Vaun Mayes about medical discrimination and housing insecurity in the city. Next, an indigenous activist from British Columbia named...
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2020-01-15
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-01-22, 2020-01-22
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This episode of Free ‘Em All radio focuses on the crisis in Puerto Rico. After several songs play, Chairman Fred discusses the Moms 4 Housing victory in Oakland, California. He then mentions the recent release of Delbert Africa and other members of the Philadelphia Black liberation organization MOVE who were sentenced to prison in 1978 after a police shootout of their headquarters. Rosa Clemente, a Black Puerto Rican organizer, journalist, and activist calls in to discuss devastation in...
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2020-01-22
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-01-29, 2020-01-29
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In this episode, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. mentions an upcoming mobilization related to the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police. He discusses a complaint he brought against prison guards while imprisoned and discusses the importance of reporting grievances even if they will not be addressed. He references the Nuremberg Trials in relation to the lack of justice for atrocities committed during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. A caller joins briefly to congratulate the Chairman on his work to...
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2020-01-29
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-02-05, 2020-02-05
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In this episode, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. gives an update about state funding for the restoration of the Fred Hampton Pool in Maywood. He encourages listeners to avoid being reactionary and taking the long view of history to see how oppressive situations were created. Delbert Afrika, a member of the Philadelphia Black liberation organization MOVE, calls in after being released from prison after 41 years.
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2020-02-05
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-02-12, 2020-02-12
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This episode covers range of topics, including a recent incident in which a man named Robert Williams shot at a police precinct in New York City, the release of MOVE member Chuck Africa from prison, and the school to prison pipeline. Lady of Rage, Chairman Fred, and several callers discuss the effects of psychiatric medications on children and Black communities. They express concerns about how pharmaceutical trials exclude Black subjects, mistrust about the incentives that pharmaceutical...
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2020-02-12
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-02-19, 2020-02-19
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This episode, dedicated to Huey P. Newton on his birthday, begins with a broadcast of a compilation of Newton’s speeches. Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. discusses “bureaucratic capitalism” with a caller. A woman calls from prison and asks listeners to support several prison reform bills in the Illinois legislature, including Senate Bill 3233 (Parole for All) and House Bill 2054 (Truth in Sentencing). Another caller describes the connection between the prescription of ADHD medication and the...
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2020-02-19
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady Of Rage 2020-02-26, 2020-02-26
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Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. opens this episode by playing audio of police officers in Orlando, Florida aggressively arresting a six-year-old girl. He analyzes the contradictions that the interaction reveals. Jared Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University, joins the livestream on Facebook for a discussion about the power dynamics created by capitalism and colonialism that connect the situations Chairman Fred discusses on the show. Ball and Chairman Fred discuss how...
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2020-02-26
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady Of Rage 2020-03-04, 2020-03-04
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In this episode, Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. discusses a mass shooting at the Molson Coors Beverage Company plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 26, 2020. A filmmaker named Joseph Chopin joins the call to talk about his plans for a film project about former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. Chairman and Chopin discuss Mayor Washington's political impact on Chicago's political "Daley Machine." Milwaukee-based activist Vaun Mayes calls in to report on the impact of the Coors plant shooting...
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2020-03-04
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-01-06, 2021-01-06
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This episode covers the police shootings of Tamir Rice and Jacob Blake, and contains criticism of the U.S. government’s response, or lack thereof, to violent white supremacists, especially in contrast to the reaction to demonstrations led by Black communities. The episode also covers the shortcomings of electoral strategies, and the connections between the legacy of slavery in the U.S. to the modern way the state runs prisons, their police forces, and imperialist endeavors overseas. Four...
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2021-01-06
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-01-13, 2021-01-13
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On this episode, Chairman Fred and the Lady of Rage discuss various active programs of the Black Panther Cubs, the imprisonment of Orlando Watley, political education, propaganda, and firsthand experiences with political imprisonment. Melvin Farmer calls in to discuss gang violence and mass incarceration. Kanahus Manuel calls in to discuss the Peace and Dignity Journey prayer run and the territorial liberation movement for Indigenous communities. Three other callers discuss the Stop the...
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2021-01-13
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-01-20, 2021-01-20
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Chairman Fred and the Lady of Rage discuss the making of the film Judas and the Black Messiah, and how that project connects to saving the Hampton House, Chairman Fred Hampton Sr.’s childhood home. The hosts also cover the limits of electoral strategy in making political change, the impossible choice the Black community has between two evils, the prison industrial complex and C number prisoners in Illinois, the #MeToo movement, and international struggles against U.S. imperialism in places...
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2021-01-20
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-02-03, 2021-02-03
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This episode contains discussion of institutional memory within the American context, the attempted siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Black Panther Party history, the impacts of imprisonment on the individual, and the inspiration behind a new song from Don P. Ramsey Orta calls in to discuss his experience with the state and the police after filming the murder of Eric Gardner by New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo. Chairman Fred and the Lady of Rage also discuss the film Judas...
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2021-02-03
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-02-10, 2021-02-10
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This episode was recorded during screening of Judas and the Black Messiah. Chairman Fred and The Lady of Rage discuss the One Prisoner Once Contact program, prisoner uprisings in St. Louis and Kansas, and the importance of accountability to movement building. Two listeners call in to report on conditions related to Covid-19 in prisons, the relationship between capitalism and the pandemic, and Chairman Fred’s influence on the film Judas and the Black Messiah. The episode ends with a speech...
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2021-02-10
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-02-17, 2021-02-17
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This is the first episode recorded after the release of Judas and the Black Messiah, a movie about William O’Neal and his infiltration of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in order to aid in the assassination fo Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. Chairman Fred and the Lady of Rage take calls from several listeners who speak about the birthday of Huey P. Newton, the murder of Tyrone West, the Texas power outages, how to establish a chapter of the Black Panther Cubs, and purging...
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2021-02-17
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-02-24, 2021-02-24
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This episode focuses on the importance of political education and the understanding of revolutionary and People’s history in organizing efforts in the Black community. Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage discuss the educational foundation of the Black Panther Party Cubs and the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC), the Rainbow Coalition, and the fallacy of Black on Black Crime. The hosts speak to Brother Fleetwood, author of Hip Hop Tried 2 Kill Me, as well as the family...
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2021-02-24
Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-03-03, 2021-03-03
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2021-03-03
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- River Forest, IL 60305
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