Strange Fruitz Risinz Present: A Conversation with Herman and Iyaluua Ferguson

ON TONITE SHOW ARE HONORED TO HAVE 2 Living Legends  with us  Mr.Herman and Iyaluua Ferguson.We will speaks with Herman Ferguson who's over 90 years young, and his wife Iyaluua Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was a dedicated colleague of Malcolm X. His book An Unlikely Warrior: The Evolution of a Revolutionary chronicles his journey from growing up in North Carolina to becoming a founding member of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) to being an eyewitness to his leader’s assassination in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in 1965. He also helped to organize the Republic of new Afrika and was a member of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM). As a member of RAM, Herman was arrested for conspiracy to assassinate Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and Whitney Young of the Urban League. Herman was sentenced to 3 and a half – 7 years, but he fled the country and surfaced in Guyana where he lived and worked for the next 19 years. In 1989 he returned to the United States where he was promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven years. Today he has been released and serves as the co-chair of the Jericho Movement, and as the chair of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.