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Gentrification

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Free Em All Radio Special Broadcast w/ Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.!, 2020-01-13

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Abstract 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...
Dates: 2020-01-13

Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2020-01-01, 2020-01-01

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Abstract 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...
Dates: 2020-01-01

Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2021-01-20, 2021-01-20

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Abstract 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...
Dates: 2021-01-20