This Month's Cassette Sharity

Haki Madhubuti, Recorded at Attica Prison (26 May 1978)

Haki Madhubuti, originally known as Don L. Lee, is a poet, publisher, and activist, well-known to those familiar with the Black Arts Movement and the Third World Press. This tape records what seems to be a discussion Madhubuti held with a group of convicts, explaining his own story and generally advancing a relatively positive, motivating, Afro-centric world view. This is a little after From Plan to Planet, but seems to be along those sort of lines.

The first side begins in media res, and the audio quality of the second side is horrible, as if someone put a blanket over the microphone. I've included the track anyway because, if you can crank your speakers high enough, or adjust your levels a bit via your equalizer, or know how to use Audacity, you can make the track sort of listenable. But my own remastering was too unpleasant to share: I think you can do better on your own with the original.

Both sides are here in one big zip.

And this is my December 2010 posting.