Religion Means Alive S1 EP1: Interview w/ Professor Garret Felber

Today on Religion Means Alive Imam Alfred Mohammed and his son will be speaking with Dr. Garret Felber. Felber is a Professor of African American studies at the University of Mississippi. His recent book "Those Who Know Don't Say", chronicles the he Nation of Islam during the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. In doing so, he reveals a multifaceted freedom struggle that focused as much on policing and prisons as on school desegregation and voting rights. The book examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalists to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination. It captures the ambiguous place of the Nation of Islam specifically, and Black nationalist organizing more broadly, during an era which has come to be defined by nonviolent resistance, desegregation campaigns, and racial liberalism.