Bean Soup Times Radio was popping today! This was a great conversation with Joe Ragsdale of the "Lest We Forget" Black Holocaust Museum and Glenn Towery, owner of Fairy God Brother Productions and Film Company, LLC that produced the DVD, Long Live the Spirit, a documentary about the Million Man March.  We discussed both of their projects as well as the impact of the Million Man March.

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Activists, scholars: U.S. can’t avoid responsibility for slavery

‘People were scared to have the discussion on reparations over the last year and half because they said we have a Black president and should not be discussing it. I want to thank Henry Louis Gates for his opinion editorial, published in the New York Times, because he actually is helping us reenergize the discussion on reparations.’ —Dr. Conrad Worrill

BY TOURE MUHAMMAD -CONTRIBUTING WRITER- | LAST UPDATED: JUN 27, 2010 - 7:12:49 PM

CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Although they believe Henry Louis Gates Jr. trivializes a most heinous crime against humanity—the European enslavement of African people—advocates say he has become an unwitting ally to the reparations movement. Read More

U.S. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia stand in ‘the Door of No Return' during a tour of Cape Coast Castle, a former slavery outpost, in Cape Coast, Ghana, on July 11. Photo: SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images

GHANA--Overcome with emotion, President Barack Obama told his tour guides that this whole Door of No Return was bull$#@!. "Somebody needs their ass kicked. This really was some bull$#@!. That's why I am going to make sure that every American gets access to health care. It's reparations through the backdoor."