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Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad will be Dr. Fulani’s guest at this month’s Interview by a Black Independent. Dr. Muhammad is the new Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is a prize winning author. In a recent NY 1 profile , Cheryl Wills had this to say about Dr. Muhammad: “A former professor of history at Indiana University, Muhammad recently authored “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and The Making of Modern Urban America.” He says he is ready to take the Center into the digital age and is eager to enlist the next generation to help him achieve his goal to keep history relevant.” Please join Dr. Fulani for a lively conversation with Dr. Muhammad on Friday, February 24th at 6pm.

The Hankster

In St. Paul, Minnesota, the Twin Cities Daily Planet has published interviews with two Green Party city council candidates. Johnny Howard is running in Ward 1:
“I want to change the culture of leadership,” says Johnny Howard who is competing in the race for the Saint Paul city council against incumbent council member Melvin [...]
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Each month Dr. Lenora Fulani interviews movers and shakers in the development community with a diverse audience of independents, progressives, and neighbors in the 2nd floor Gallery at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building in Harlem (125th Street).

Roscoe Orman, the actor who plays the beloved “Gordon” on Sesame Street, lit up the room on June 3, 2011, speaking about the history of black theater in NYC, the Free Southern Theater, and this special performance of a scene from Matt Robison’s controversial one-man play about Lincoln Perry called “The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit” created for Mr. Orman in 1993 on Broadway.

The Hankster

Former Houston Mayor Bill White charges that Governor Rick Perry is trying to hide the state’s financial problems until after election day.

On Friday Perry told KERA the upcoming budget gap might be around billion.

Bill White tells KERA’s Shelley Kofler in this video interview the deficit is probably double that, and there will be an additional shortfall this year [now estimated to approach billion.]

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Interview with Jeff Weems by Charles Kuffner at Off the Kuff

Jeff Weems is the Democratic candidate for Railroad Commissioner. Weems is a Houston-based attorney whose practice is entirely focused on the energy industry. It’s hard to overstate how much better qualified Weems is for this job than his no-name, no-experience opponent, who isn’t just ducking debates, he’s skipping TV appearances (though he did participate in this Trib face-off video) and avoiding editorial boards as well. Basically, he’s hoping that the R next to his name carries him across the finish line. If you want to know what a Railroad Commissioner does, why we should be calling the Railroad Commission something else, and why Jeff Weems should be doing the job, give a listen to the interview:

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Interview with Hector Uribe by Charles Kuffner at Off the Kuff

Hector Uribe is the Democratic candidate for Land Commissioner. Uribe is a former State Rep and State Senator from the Rio Grande Valley and a movie actor as well as [Kuff's] favorite candidate from this cycle. He’s running against two-term incumbent Jerry Patterson, who to his great credit has willingly engaged in open debate with Uribe, thus setting him apart from pretty much all of his Republican statewide colleagues. Though the tone of this campaign has been remarkably civil, there are many issues on which Uribe believes Patterson has done the wrong thing. You can hear all about it in the interview:

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Interview with Hank Gilbert by Charles Kuffner at Off the Kuff

Hank Gilbert who is running for Agriculture Commissioner. Gilbert ran in 2006 and was the top non-judicial vote-getter for the Democrats that year. Gilbert is a rancher from the Tyler area who has remained actively involved in state politics since his 2006 campaign. Other than the Governor’s race, this one has gotten more attention than any other. Gilbert has relentlessly attacked incumbent Commissioner Todd Staples on a wide variety of issues. You can hear more of that in the interview:

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Interview with Barbara Radnofsky by Charles Kuffner at Off the Kuff

Towards the top of the ballot is Barbara Radnofsky, who is the Democratic candidate for Attorney General. Radnofsky, the 2006 Democratic nominee for Senate, is an attorney and mediator who has remained very active in state politics since her previous run. Radnofsky has been strongly critical of two-term incumbent AG Greg Abbott for his headline-seeking (and frequently hypocritical) legal filings, as well as for the one he has chosen not to do, about which [Kuff] interviewed her before. All that and more in this interview:

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The Trib did an interview with Radnofsky a few weeks ago – audio and a transcript can be found here.

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