This Juneteenth marks 160 years since US troops arrived to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation in the last remaining holdouts of Texas. This Juneteenth also comes 160 years after the beginning of the Reconstruction Era in the United States. That is the period of political and economic rebuilding that followed the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery and the establishment of citizenship and political rights for Black Americans. The American political institutions’ container for Reconstruction infamously dissolved into Jim Crow and a generations-long pendulum-swinging of policy and political economy. But Black Re:Construction has never ceased forging toward progress. In this finale to Activest’s season 1, coinciding with our celebration of Juneteenth 2025, we’re joined by co-founder Napoleon Wallace to unpack his new remix of Gil Scott-Heron’s seminal 1971 recording of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Rights and ownership of the original audio recording belongs to the artist and their publishers. Players you'll hear from the original record are: Ron Carter (bass), Hubert Laws (flute) and Bernard Perdie (drums). Napoleon’s remix was engineered by Yuri Vaysgant who also developed Napoleon’s AI voice reader, heard in the recording. In our live conversation you hear Napoleon speaking through the reader on his (eye) pad.Some of the Greatness We Reference in This Episode...Equity & Ownership: Napoleon Wallace & The Reconstruction of Black Wealth (free viewing here when you share your email address)Impact Alpha: Playbook for Shared Prosperity Black Farmer Fund ​​https://blackfarmerfund.org/The Seed Commons https://seedcommons.org/The Boston Ujima Project https://www.ujimaboston.com/Chicago TREND https://www.chicagotrend.com/The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative https://ebprec.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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