2026 COMMENTS: This was my version of a #KattWilliams interview. 🙂 I cut and pasted comments below I made today, almost two years later.

@IsiahBradley

4 hours ago (edited) Listening to, and laughing about, this almost two years later…..

[2026] UPDATES:

There is now a book on the history of #TheVillageVoice. It’s called “The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture.”

There is a book about Coates’ run on the #MarvelComics character #BlackPanther. It’s called “Writing Black Panther: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles.”

2:02:45: “Freedom Fighter: My Life as a Soldier in the #BlackLiberationArmy,” #AshaBandele‘s collaboration with Black #politicalprisoner#SekouOdinga, is due to be out October 2026, as of this writing.

CORRECTIONS: 14:07 ; 2:01:55: Political prisoner #MaroonShoatz openly said the goal of his 2024 book #IAmMaroon was to get a film deal, a la “#TheHurricane.”

37:41: The James Baldwin essay that pissed #RichardWright off was “Everybody’s Protest Novel.” Baldwin’s obit of Wright was “Alas, Poor Richard.”

50:26: I meant ” AMIRI BARAKA’s daughters from Hettie…”

59:41: The #JohnHenrikClarke essay was called “The Alienation of James Baldwin.”

#TaNehisiCoates#ImixwhatIlike#TheMessage#Blackwriting#politicaleconomy#JamesBaldwin#AlexHaley#AmiriBaraka#CornelWest#MayaAngelou#magazinejournalismhistory#Palestine#literaryjournalism