Samori Marksman Revolutionary PanAfricanist Journalist Died Today

From S. E. Anderson, 23 March 1999

Brothas & Sistsa, Friends & Comrades:

This is just a note to inform you that Brotha Samori Marksman, radio producer and Program Director of WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York City died today, March 23, 1999. He was in his fifties. Specifics of his illness and memorial services will be forthcoming. Brotha Samori was a longtime revolutionary Panafricanist journalist who fought the Good Fight and always made sure that his radio programs and WBAI in general spoke Truth to Power.

He was an excellent example of and a promoter of serious radical Black intellectual activism. Brotha Samori’s decades of journalist work has been in the tradition of Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass and CLR James: White Supremacy, capitalism, imperialism, sexism and Black/Third World reactionary collaborators were exposed to us through his sharp and informed analysis.

When Brotha Samori died today, we lost a powerful voice for revolutionary change. But he would want us to know that his spirit lives on through our re-dedication to the Black Liberation Movement and to the struggle for a Capitalist-free world.

S. E. Anderson, a Friend and Comrade