Summary: Join Tag and Scotty as they speak with Max Parthas, a former co-host of New Abolitionist Radio and the current executive producer and co-host of the Abolition Today radio show and podcast. We will be talking with Max about the latest developments in the New Abolitionists Movement to abolish slavery first by removing language from individual state constitutions and the US Constitution's exception for slavery and involuntary servitude, which allow both practices in the United States in federal, state and private prisons. Max Parthas is also the co-director of State Operations for ASNN and the Acting Director for the Paul Cuffee Abolitionist Center. Max Parthas is a multi-published, multi-recorded, Spoken Word Artist, Slavery Abolitionist, and Social justice Activist. Mentored by poetic activist legends Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets, and the leader of the Black Arts movement Amiri Baraka, Max comes from a proud lineage of artistic social changemakers. In addition to being named national Poet of The Year twice, he is the recipient of the Missouri CURE Marc Taylor Activism Award, the Will Bell Humanitarian Award, and the “In The Spirit of Malcom X” award from MX Media for his abolitionist activism. Max Parthas currently resides in Sumter, SC with Wife of 35 years Tribal Raine. An iconic Spoken Word Artist in her own right. Together they are known as Maximum Impact Poetry.@maxparthas abolitionistcenter@gmail.com.
