ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Music and "justice" as seen through the eyes of a prisoner on death row and musician at large.
One-half of the duo Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, Brian and Keith LaMar talk about life growing through three generations of American conflict and how music has helped them to free themselves from the bondage of hate and resentment.
Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
39 minutes
English
United States
8 episodes
since July 6, 2020
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In the second half of the season finale, Brian and Keith touch on education, the uptick in support for the Justice for Keith Lamar campaign, redemption and friendship. Some resources to support Keith Lamar: Keith LaMar's websiteFollow Keith on TwitterKeith on FacebookFollow Keith on InstagramK…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Keith's time out-of-cell is severely limited, due to the high numbers of prison staff out sick due to COVID, For this first of a two-part season finale, Keith lays it all out. Speaking from inside his cell, he talks about changes at the prison and reflects on an event that hit very close to ho…
Keith and Brian talk about a fallen Supreme Court heroine, Black heroines from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter and a fiery vocalist who, along with the great jazz icon Max Roach, moved the needle of black protest music early on in the sixties. With less than two weeks before the 2…
With an election only weeks away, Keith and Brian walk through how much to expect someone else to do for you post-election (hint: very little).
Keith turns the tables on Brian and gets him to spill the beans about his early life, how he found his musical path and the partnership that led him to be the bearer of a nearly 50-year legacy.
Brian and co-host Keith LaMar unpack the "Case for Reparations" and a song that asks an unanswerable question.
Who was John Lewis?
Congressman John Lewis' Wikipedia page:
Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Address to Congressional Hearing on Reparations June 2019
"Who'll Pay Reparatio…
With Keith LaMar for a second week, we turn to Keith's efforts to free himself from an unlawful conviction and how he has maintained his sanity having been on death row and solitary confinement for 27 years. Brian answers some questions about whether or not he feels playing messages that for …
Monthly co-host Death Row inmate Keith LaMar and I talk about the aftermath of one of the most unusual Independence Days ever and the continued disconnect between African-Americans and the holiday.We wind up on a more serene note discussing how the healing music of John Coltrane has inspired genera…
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