Based on the 2000 tragic memoir by the late Edith Ware McClinton entitled "Scars From a Lynching,"  the 2022 radio theater play adaptation "Scars Brought Into Focus: The Silver Screen Of The Mind * Images * Memories" by Clarice K. Abdul-Bey and Ameria Jones tells the story of the McClinton family's connection to four different lynchings in Arkansas while also linking the racist American history of lynching and the death penalty. 

“Mrs. McClinton carries the credentials of a griot and the strength of a warrior, strong and brave enough to pass her horrific story on to those who need to hear and learn...”, says Cozetta Gray Guinn in the memoir introduction.

This is a special joint All Hallows' Eve 2022 presentation by Jadestone Vintage Soul, Washitaw Foothills Youth Media Arts & Literacy Collective, the Arkansas Peace & Justice Memorial Movement, the APJMM Pulaski County Community Remembrance Project, From Noose to Needle AR, and Afrodesia Studio of Performing Arts, with generous support from the 8th Amendment Project and the Tides Foundation.  A special thanks also go to Joyce Williams and Suzette Cannon, the daughter, and granddaughter, respectively, of the late Edith Ware McClinton, for giving Clarice K. Abdul-Bey their permission for this adaptation. 

***TRIGGER WARNING: Some of the scenes in this narration may be considered graphic and/or offensive.  Listener discretion is advised.***

During Spring Break 2022, Baba invited his classmates from the UA-Clinton School of Public Service to do a takeover.  This is the result:

PLAYLIST

1. The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin [INTRO]

2. People Get Up & Drive That Funky Soul by James Brown [INTRO]

3. Is This The Future? by Fatback

4. Got To Be Some Changes Made by The Staple Singers

5. Here Comes The Sun by Richie Havens

6. People Make The World A Better Place by Shirley Jean and The Relations

7. Bruca Manigua by Buena Vista Social Club featuring Ibrahim Ferrer

8. Databank by Prince

9. Free My People (f. Simmy & Kid Cruise) by Greentea Peng

10. Black Folk (f. Alex Isley & Masego) by Tank and the Bangas

11. Theme from the Motion Picture "Cleopatra Jones" by Joe Simon & The Mainstreeters [OUTRO]

Baba, Iya & Lorne tha Jazzy Leo commemorate the life and legacy of al-Hajj Abdul Malik al-Shabazz-al-Sabann (a.k.a. Malcolm Little, Detroit Red, Malcolm X & Brother Omowale) on the 57th year since he was assassinated.

PLAYLIST

1. People Get Up & Drive That Funky Soul by James Brown [INTRO]

2. My People...Hold On by Eddie Kendricks 

3. Message to the System by Segments of Time 

4. Malcolm X by Hal Singer 

5. Blackenized by Hank Ballard 

6.  Slave by Prince 

7. Malcolm X by Earl Sixteen 

8. Malcolm X by Dennis Brown 

9. Black Is Back by Lakim Shabazz 

10. Power to the People, Free Our People by Black Panther Kids

11. Theme from the Motion Picture "Cleopatra Jones" by Joe Simon & The Mainstreeters [OUTRO]