Activist Reginald “Reggie” Petty raps with Filmmaker Taale Laafi Rosellini

Reginald “Reggie” Petty Founder, East Saint Louis Historical Society in conversation with Taale Laafi Rosellini Filmmaker/Director, African Family Film Foundation 2021-07-09 Reggie's purpose: “To improve human rights for everybody!” Reginald Petty, Peace Corps Director to four African nations. Activist, colleague and friend of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis. Musician drummer. President of the African American Heritage Association, Chicago. Founder of the East Saint Louis Historical Society. Reginald Petty raps with filmmaker Taale Laafi Rosellini about: As President of the African American Heritage Association in Chicago: leading with cutting-edge, positive and enlightening information about Africa and African America. Activism in the Civil Rights movement, being jailed for registering African American citizens to vote in Mississippi. Filmed interview of Reggie in Birth of the Cool—the new feature documentary on Reggie’s friend—Miles Davis, world-renowned trumpeter. Meeting with Kwame Nkrumah, Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba & Thomas Sankara. President Sankara realizing his dream projects of, by and for the people. Working with the African National Congress in Swaziland, educating youth in Africa and the USA about Apartheid in South Africa. Meeting and working with Winnie Mandela and Nelson Mandela. African knowledge of climate, history, astronomy, UFOs and extra-terrestrials, and the amazing Dogon people of Mali. As Founder of the East Saint Louis Historical Society: enlightening the public about the history of many citizens of East Saint Louis, Illinois who have made a remarkable and beneficial impact on humanity. The power of salt, Vitamin C, oxygen, water purification and ozone: inexpensive health alternatives that are saving lives in Africa and around the world! How children learn valuable, critical information from their parents and elders in Africa, as exemplified in Zam Zam! —the coming African Family Film Foundation feature documentary about a renowned dancer, farmer, family man & healer who teaches his 5-year-old son herbal medicine in rural Burkina Faso, West Africa.