Major developments of 1968 - covering the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and how to carry on his Legacy. Black Leaders discuss. with interviews from Fannie Lou Hamer, John Singleton and also a discussion panel featuring Kathleen Cleaver, Amiri Baraka and many more.

Commenting on the death of Dr. King, Mayfield notes that black people took to the streets because "symbolically we had been shot too." On the subject of the Poor People's Campaign he indicates the futility of "appearing to a Congress that wouldn't pass a rat bill."

The growth of the black consciousness, and the course of dissent. Kathleen Cleaver contends that television has been the greatest stimulus for the black revolt since "black people are in a position to have instantaneous information about what's going on and are in a position to react to that." Bill Strickland notes that the most potent demonstration of 1968 - at the Chicago convention - was almost exclusively white. There, the police problem became public knowledge. Chicago, however, was not the first "police riot," Strickland notes, listing also Newark and Watts.

The election of Nixon means that "the whites are getting themselves together, and we'd better do the same," says Mayfieild.

Black Journal began as a monthly series produced for, about, and - to a large extent - by black Americans, which used the magazine format to report on relevant issues to black Americans.

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