Noam Chomsky & Rev. Osagyefo Sekou Discuss Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chomsky and Sekou on MLK from Rev. Osagyefo Sekou on Vimeo.

Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class warfare waged from above against the needs and interests of the great majority.
Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Editor-in-Chief of Spare Change News, has published two critically acclaimed collections of essays, 'urbansouls' (Urban Press, 2001) and 'Gods, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the Future of Democracy' (Campbell and Cannon Press, 2011). His forthcoming book, 'Riot Music: Hip Hop, Race, and the Meaning of the London Riots' (Hamilton Books, 2013) is based on his exclusive interviews in the aftermath of the London Riots 2011.