Block 31 of Ahmed Abdullah Weeksville Oral History (Q27012)

Ahmed Abdullah: That’s a good question and it goes back to my work with the Sun Ra [Arkestra] band in fact. I lived in Manhattan from 1978-1988 on the Lower East Side, and I was involved in many organizations and a lot of self-determined efforts as far as the music was concerned at that time and I spent 10 years working with Sun Ra during that time; I worked with him from 1975-1978 almost cons...