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Kevin Alexander Gray

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Writer
Location	Columba, South Carolina
Introduction	Cultural name - Khalid Aikiiki Gamba (Eternal Friend & Warrior). Organizer-Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project. Hear me Sunday 4-5pm on "Live from the Land of Hopes and Dreams"on Sirius 146. Regular columns in The Progressive and Counterpunch. “A Call for a New Anti-War Movement” appears in How to Legalize Drugs: Public Health, Social Science and Civil Liberties Perspective edited by Dr. Jefferson Fish of St. John’s University. “The Legacy of Strom Thurmond” is in Jack Newfield’s American Monsters and “Soul Brother” featured in Alex Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair’s Dimes Worth of Difference. Essays on race & politics have appeared in The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy – “The Intensification of Racial Solidarity in the 1990s under the guise of Black Nationalism”; The Washington Post Outlook Section, Emerge,The American University Graduate Review & numerous other publications.
Interests	Reading, auto restoration, hiking, playing Latin and African percussion (drumming), rock hunting (granite), music collecting, college basketball, The North Carolina Tarheels basketball team, The Chicago Bulls, The Carolina Panthers, The Houston Rockets, The NY Knicks.
Favorite Movies	Cool Hand Luke, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paul Newman, Burl Ives & Liz Taylor), Citizen Kane, Hustle and Flow, The Godfather, Bourne, Blade, Lord of the Rings Trilogies, Broken Flowers (Bill Murray), In the Heat of the Night (Sidney Portier), Good Neighbors (Whoppi Goldberg and Danny Glover), Coen Brothers - O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo and No Country for Old Men, The Green Hornet, Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon (Bruce Lee), Hero and Fearless (Jet Li), Shaft (just the first and only the Richard Roundtree not Sam L. Jackson movie), Unforgiven, High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josie Wales (even tho' he's plays a Johnny Reb), Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood), The Dirty Dozen, Spartacus, Gladiator, El Cid, Anything with Burt Lancaster!, Forest Gump and The LadyKillers (Tom Hanks), The Grapes of Wrath (Henry Fonda), High Noon, Sgt. York- really all Gary Cooper movies!, Key Largo, Maltese Falcon and Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart), Vernon Florida, Jesse the Dancing Outlaw, Pulp Ficton, Power, When We Were Kings, The Motorcycle Diaries, Malcolm X, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and Rudy-especially the closing scene.
Favorite Music	R&B, Rock, Rap, Reggae, Jazz, Ska, Zedeco, Old School Country - James Brown, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, MC5, The Tower of Power with Lenny Williams, Sade Adu, Buckwheat Zedeco, The Ohio Players, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, Porter Wagoner, Patsy Cline, Bill Monroe, Queen Ida, Kitty Lester, Grace Jones, Celia Cruz, Talking Heads, Curtis Mayfield (with and without The Impressions), Marvin Gaye, Koko Taylor, Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, George Harrison and John Lennon, The Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Chaka Khan and Rufus, Jay Z, Tupac, Jaquar Wright, Janice Joplin, John Lennon, George Harrison, Cake, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, The Last Poets, Mos Def, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Leroy Hutson, The Stairsteps, The Orishas, War, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Parliament Funkadelic (George Clinton), Jimmy Cliff, Donny Hathaway, James Taylor, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Mahalia Jackson and Nina Simone.
Favorite Books	Carribbean by James Michener, James Baldwin's Collected Essays, The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Local People by John Dittmer, The Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier, The History of Western Civilization by Bertrand Russell, Blood Done Sign My Name and Radio Free Dixie by Tim Tyson, Race, Politics and Culture by Adolph Reed, Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, Blood in My Eye by George Jackson, You Send Me by Daniel Wollf, Peoples' History of the US by Howard Zinn, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, Nixon's Piano by Kenneth O'Reilly, A Testament of Hope-The Essential Writings of MLK edited by James Washington, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, Every Cook Can Govern by C.L.R. James, American Monsters edited by Jack Newfield and Mark Jacobson (I have an essay in the collection entitled - "The legacy of Strom Thurmond").