Robert Lee Johnson Author, Historian and former Black Panther member of the Compton Branch

Echoes of Blackness 

Podcast @ Skid Row Studios

Michael Blaze & Author Robert Lee Johnson

Robert Lee Johnson 

Author, Historian and former Black Panther member of the Compton Branch

Robert Lee Johnson was chairman of the projects committee of the History Council at the California African American Museum; He was co-coordinator of the Compton branch of the Black Panther Party and founding member of the Coalition Against Police abuse. Mr. Johnson lectures on local history and mentors a civil rights class at Otis College. His family moved from Watts to Compton in 1961.

Images of America- COMPTON by Robert Lee Johnson

Book Description:

Compton is a city of myth and misunderstandings. Today, it is known as the city of “hip-hop dreams and gangsta fantasies.” Its history, however, is not as well known. Author Robert Lee Johnson reminds us of a glorious history from 1867 to the 1970’s.

Compton's first Black Mayor 1969

Echoes of Blackness

Black Panthers 2014 ArtshareLA 

Echoes of Blackness by Michael Blaze - Storyteller Michael D. McCarty

Echoes of Blackness 

Host Michael Blaze

Tonight's Show Features Storyteller Michael D. McCarty

Tonight’s Special Guest are Storyteller Michael D. McCarty (Have Mouth Will Use it) and Melvin Ishmael Johnson of The Qumran Report also seen on Skid Row Studios programming. Tonight we’ll learn what it is to become a professional Storyteller.

 Please take a moment to view our show on Storytelling and the Black movement of the 20th Century 

MICHAEL D MCCARTY THE STORYTELLER

                                        www.havemouthwillrunit.com/

MICHAEL'S TALES WILL SPARK THE IMAGINATION AND STIMULATES THE GREY MATTER IN A WAY THAT'S ENTERTAINING AND ENGAGING, USING FOLKTALES, HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL STORIES DEPENDING ON THE AGE OF THE AUDIENCE, MICHAEL IS ALSO A FORMAR BLACK PANTHER WITH FRED HAMPTON IN CHICARGO. EMAIL: AGRIOT@EARTHLINK.NET

Our second guest from The Qumran Report is 

Melvin Ishmael Johnson

If you have a story and would like to be a guest contact Michael Blaze for upcoming shows: echoesofblackness@outlook.com. Please check Skid Row Studios Listing For Our Next Presentation.

Echoes Of Blackness Blazing-Skid Row Studios

  

Echoes of Blackness

           Host Michael Blaze

                echoesofblackness@outlook.com

 Join special guest Michael D. McCarty for my first show with Skid Row Studios in DTLA

Storyteller Michael D. McCarty has travel the world several times as a folklore Griot bringing joy, love and education to the masses with his unique technique. Our other guest for that evening is Melvin Ishmael Johnson host of The Qumran Report listen and watch online at:
                                                                                                            www.skidrowstudios.com

                                                                                       
 Show airs live Feb 6th 2015, 7 pm call in # (800) 893-9562                                              

                                                

Michael D. McCarthy 

                                                                                                         

 As a child in Chicago my Mother 

told and read me stories and 

imprinted in my mind he joy 

and power of reading."If you can 

read you can do anything!" 

she reminded me constantly. 

                       (world Renowned Storyteller)

                                                                                                                    Have Mouth Will Run It 

http://www.havemouthwillrunit.com/

Michael has been a professional Storyteller for the past 22 years and counting!

Michael D. McCarty - "High John the Conqueror"

                 

                                     The Qumran Report