The Communicators featuring Brother Leroy

  This week's two excting guest are: Dr. Ashanti can brainwashing be reversed? Dr. Kwabena Faheem Ashanti is a leading scholar in African American Studies. He has a Ph.D in counseling psychologist with post doctoral study in traditional African medicine and religion. Dr. Ashanti also a psychologist in the counseling department at North Carolina State University , lecturer and author of many publications including "Contemporary African Psychology: Metamorphosis," "Psychotechnology of Brainwashing" and "Voodoo in Mental Health.") Dick Gregory a champion for the down trodden!!! Activist/comedian Dick Gregory was arrested for civil disobedience several times, and his activism spurred him to run for mayor of Chicago in 1966 and for president in 1968. In the early 1970s Gregory abandoned comedy to focus on his political interests, which widened from race relations to include such issues as violence, world hunger, capital punishment, drug abuse and poor health care.