Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Ep #69--Martin Terrell (Part 1 of 2): Without a Compass--Steering Blackness Down Every Road

THE UBUNTU PEOPLES Podcast with Oronde Ash

Ubuntu Peoples Podcast, Ep #69--Martin Terrell: Without a Compass--Steering Blackness Down Every Road (Part 1 of 2)

Early in 2018 Mr. Martin Terrell published *Without A Compass*, his memoir on growing up and growing into the Black man his is, at age 71, educated, accomplished, willing to artfully express truths in a world of racial, social, political abstractions. We talk about him being on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma that fateful Sunday, 17 yrs old and running; Of returning home to Cincinnati ready to act on Dr. King's example; Being colored vs negro vs Black; Male teachers as father figures; The deeper meaning of a Windsor knot; When daddy is the enemy at home; White girls, marijuana and sex; The drug raid, arrest and doing time in the work house sweeping human feces; Model City, Ohio State and the National Guard shootout on campus.

1. Book... http://www.chapelhillpress.com/product/without-a-compass

2. Selma movie... http://www.avaduvernay.com/selma 3. UNCF... https://www.uncf.org/