Marshall, Joseph Ph.D. — Black Lives: Alive and Free
Keeping young black men alive and free is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is Dr. Joseph E. Marshall, who in 1987 co-founded the Omega Boys Club of San Francisco, now called “Alive and Free,” of which he is the executive director.
Alive and Free is a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth and a surrogate family support system for young black men and women, based in San Francisco, California, to encourage their academic pursuits and obtain financial help for college.
Joseph Marshall is also the host of Street Soldiers Radio, broadcast every Sunday evening on KMEL 106.1 FM at 8 pm. In 1994 he received a McArthur Foundation Genius Award for his skills and accomplishments.
Dr. Joseph E. Marshall and I visited by phone, from his office in San Francisco, California on May 4, 2015, and began our conversation with his description of Alive and Free.
The books Joseph Marshall recommends are “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” and “Street Soldier: One Man’s Struggle to Save a Generation – One Life at a Time,” by Joseph Marshall and Lonnie Wheeler.
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