Show Talk With Angela Butler

The guest on Show Talk with Angela Butler is activist Elijah Ricky Jason. He is the Executive Producer and Director of the award winning documentary about James Byrd. James Byrd was tied and dragged behind a truck by White Supermacists in Jasper, Texas.Because of the savage murder of James Byrd President Obama passed the Hate Crime Law. Byrd's documentary is based on his life up to his death in 1998.Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John William King or the murders of James Byrd. James Byrd documentary included the cast of Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King III,Maxine Waters, amongst others. Byrd while alive had performed with Run DMC, , New Edition, Ready for the World, The Gap Band. amongst others famous groups and artists. He was a singer, dancer, and musician, as well as a family man. So tune in to hear about the documentary, about James Byrd,and the executive producer and director Elijah Ricky Jason. Also about the town Jasper, Texas and how it was there filming the documentary of James Byrd for Elijah Ricky Jason.