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"In Conversation with Dr. Ruby N. Sales"
Founder, The Spirit House Project
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:: What Southern Past tells us about the rise of white Supremacy
:: Weapons of Southern Resistance Living
:: There is NO Black Generational Divide
:: Black Denial, Apathy and Confusion
“White supremacy is a deep socio-spiritual scab that reeks with the stench of antisemitism, oozes the pus of Islamophobia, and festers beneath the hard crust of Christofascism, heterosexism, classism, and sexism .” - Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Director, The Spirit House Project
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" An 11-Week Series Discussion Forums into the looking glass of "The Handmaid's Tale"
The consequences in the story are lessons that we must all seriously consider.
Episode 8: “American Democracy Under Siege: The Players and the Game” :: March 10th :: 8 pm ET LIVE
Guest: Dr. Cynthia Ann Baron, Co-Chair, Caucus on Class, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Racial History Erasure: Shorting Black Victories”
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:: The Fear of Black History
:: Weapons of Critical Race Theory
:: Anti-Black Public Policy
In this final episode of the OUR COMMON GROUND 2022 Black History Month celebration, we offer a conversation that charts the history, development, and continued salience of Black History education and Critical Race Theory, and why its transformative potential makes it such a target for opponents of a democratic society that claims and respects Black people.
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" An 11-Week Discussion Series
The consequences in the story are lessons that we must all seriously consider.
Episode 7: “American Democracy Under Siege: White Supremacy”
Guest: Dr. Raymond A. Winbush,Director, National Urban Research Institute, Morgan State University
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Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Black Women Visioning Black Power"
We look at the precision and power of the leadership, guidance, counsel, and direction contributed by Black power giants:
Fannie Lou Hamer ::: Ella Baker ::: Angela Davis ::: Michelle Alexander
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 11-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale"
How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: "IN-FORMATION: Malcolm and Stokley"
Tonight, we look at the early activist eras of Kwame Toure’ aka StokelyCarmichael and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X). We follow them as they begin to make Black history.
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 11-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale"
How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider
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Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: The Fire of Freedom Fighter Bayard Rustin
Most do not know or understand the powerful role that Bayard Rustin played in the ignition of the Civil Rights Era and his guidance in the movement with key political players. We acknowledge his love and dedication to Black people and the place he called his country tonight.
Featuring his debate with Malcolm X, a discussion with James Baldwin, and his Firebomb speech.
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale"
How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider
"CIVICS 201 : Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement"
Saturday, January 29, 2022 ::: 10 pm ET
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WE are facing a tidal wave of restrictive voting legislation across the country and the trend will continue into 2022.
Tonight we present some of the information you need to translate and interpret these efforts in your state. How much do you really know about voter suppression and disenfranchisement happening in your state? Enough to organize and initiate the kind of mobilization needed to resist with effective push-back tools? How do you translate what you are being told by your state representatives as opposed to the reality of the legislative actions being taken?
If you are not engaged in some activity of resisting these oppressive moves, now is the time. Now. Months from now will be too late.
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale"
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his Week at OUR COMMON GROUND
“Shorting the Odds: States’ Race to Anoracy”
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ABOUT THIS EPISODE
ANOCRACY
A political system that is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
In this episode of OUR COMMON GROUND, we discuss the rabid weaponization of states' rights in the effort to take control of power in government and thwart the rights of the people by disassembling the democratic process and democracy which protects their agency as citizens.
Join me in bringing in my 2022 launch around the sun once again. OCG Party !!
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale"
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"King Day: To Forget Is to Forfeit"
Since 1983, communities and organizations have celebrated King Day through various, creative and serious celebrations and forums. A national monument in Washington has been erected in Dr. King's honor. However, there seems to be a diffusion in what we teach, remember and understand about Dr. King's contribution to this country. The holiday seems to have become somewhat less deliberative in our celebrations.
We now have generations of Black children, a new scholarship that tends to marginalize the power of his transformative power in our own communities. We read and quote his words outside the context and the import of the history he ignited.
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale"
How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider.
"The Final Season: Black Aspiration in a Dying Democracy"
We enter the last Season of OUR COMMON GROUND examining the dire and troubling nature of our country. Each time, we think it cannot get worse, it does. Indeed it does. The system of white supremacy has embedded itself, perhaps permanently, in our system of government and has been normalized in our politics. How must we respond and sustain the spirit that carried us across the unstable bridges of the past?
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"If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale"
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This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND
OUR COMMON GROUND 2021 Season Review & Close
Looking back at the information, ideas, lessons, and insight during this 2021 Season. As we close, we celebrate our 35 years of broadcasting. Thirty-five years later, I can say that I'm still learning how to amplify Black voices. Still mastering the skill to raise this heavy struggle, manage so much rage and articulate the constant need for assessment of the narrative, but not the history from which it rises. Talking race in courage and with hope continues to be the mission. I salute and am grateful to the hundreds of OUR COMMON GROUNDVOICES who have met with us and offered their keen intelligence and body of knowledge to serve the Black nation. And, to our listeners, we are always appreciative of your support of our programming.
Our final, and the 2022 and Season of OUR COMMON GROUND will premiere on January 8, 2022. We wish you a holiday season filled with the joy and magic of your faith and hope that you will be lifted by the spirit and richness of Kwanzaa.
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"In Discussion with
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: The Origins of White Supremacy Culture"
REBROADCAST OF May 29, 2009 Episode
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Dr. Frances Luella Welsing was an American psychiatrist and prominent race theorist. She was a proponent of Black supremacist melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture. In this 2009 episode of OUR COMMON GROUND, we talked with her once again about her profound significant theoretical and analytic research and writings on global white supremacy and how it manifests in America. Dr. Welsing first joined us in 1987.
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REBROADCAST OF January 22, 2011
OUR COMMON GROUND
Featuring, ALFO, of The ALFO Show,Co-Hosting
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Guest, Kevin Gray and Neill Franklin OUR COMMON GROUND once again welcomes . . .
Kevin Gray is a CounterPunch.org political magazine contributor and civil rights organizer who resides in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a contributing editor to Black News, a former President of the SC ACLU, and was Jesse Jackson's SC campaign manager in 1988. There’s no keener mind, no sharper eye focused on the condition of black politics. He is a frequent co-host and guest with Dave Marsh’s heard on Sirius radio each Sunday. Gray is Founder of the Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project and the former managing editor of Black News in Columbia.
Neill Franklin, the National Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and a former law enforcement officer.
We will talk with him about a growing hostility by police on marijuana reform and about the discrepancies and how far some law enforcement with lie to argue them.
Janice will return LIVE on January 6, 2021
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OPEN MIC NIGHT
"A Broken Democracy"
While the Republicans fight for a new Confederacy, just what price will Black Americans pay because the Democrats are not vested in Democracy?
Will cars on the new roads built by the Biden Infrastructure Bill, pass by Black people still protesting voter suppression or another dead Black body at the hands of police? Who will challenge the severely partisan SCOTUS ?
::: 30 Years later, remembering Professor Anita Hill :::
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"In Conversation with Dr. Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D."
Director of the Institute for Urban Research
Morgan State University MD
Too many Black leaders (elected, appointed or anointed) have opted for access to power, rather than challenging or seeking to hold actual power. Too many have opted merely for a “piece of the pie” rather than building the institutional and community-based capacity to question the baker and determine how the pie will be sliced. So today most of the Black leadership passively acquiesces to the calculated marginalization of the Black electorate by the Democratic Party.
We invite Dr. Ray Winbush to join us to talk about the issues on the landscape of Black life and community – the demand for chattel slavery reparations, voter suppression, police reform because it seems the Biden administration has big dreams but no heart to claim them.
Dr. Winbush is a research professor and the Director of the Institute for Urban Research. As a scholar and activist, he is known for his systems-thinking approaches to understanding the impact of racism/white supremacy on the global African community.
Author, The Warrior Method :: Should America Pay? :: Belinda's Petition ::
This Week's "WORD UP" Segment ::: Professor Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Excerpt of discussion of great men of color from history.
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"BURNING IT DOWN: BUILDING ANEW”
Guest: Kim Brown, Host, BURN IT DOWN LIVE
NonBougie Black America
"Burn it Down with Kim Brown" calls out systemic issues within our society and envisioning a new world. She talks about how to restructure and create systems that are inclusive of everyone. She keeps it real, and actively destroys myths that the media and politicians love that we believe, like American Exceptionalism. She makes microphones rumble.
Burn It Down with Kim Brown is the place where you can set oppression ablaze. Black woman-led independent media that DGAF about taking on the establishment. Subscribe today- and you'll see why Tucker Carlson hates us so much.
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"Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting”
Guest: Dr. Terrie M. Williams, Ph.D.
American entrepreneur, public relations expert, author, therapist, and philanthropist. CEO, The Terrie Williams Agency
Author, “Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting”
Rebroadcast of 3//19/09 Interview
Black Pain identifies emotional pain—which uniquely and profoundly affects the black experience—as the root of lashing out through desperate acts of crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, workaholism, and addiction to shopping, gambling, and sex. Few realize these destructive acts are symptoms of our inner sorrow.
Saturday, October 2, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET
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"Compromise & Capitulation: Starring Harry Potter and the StormTroopers"
In Conversation with Dr. James Lance Taylor, Ph. D.
Chair of Dept. of Political Science, University of San Franciso
He is former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS),
The political fires are raging in the U.S. Through a robust campaign of GOP gaslighting in the face of Democrats clamoring for cooperation, and bi-partisanship, the American people who overwhelmingly voted for a Biden Administration waits for many deliverables promised without hope. A pandemic continues to claim citizens; the VRA of 1963 has become a useless relic of days gone by failing to protect disenfranchised the vulnerable populations for whom it was designed. From the Infrastructure bill to the George Floyd Act and the glimmering of an increasingly politically biased Supreme Court the foundation of democracy rumbles,
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“The Attica Massacre 50 Years Later: America’s Human Rights Crisis Continues”
Attica has never been over. Slavery has never been over.
Is there anything more to learn about the Attica prison uprising? The truth is that it was a massacre of inmates protesting the lack of acknowledgment of their humanity. Demanding to be regarded as humans and the right to be treated as more than animals. Did we learn? We are just telling something of the truth about what happened there. Will that truth or a false pronouncement of being a global leader of human rights make the American prison system saner, and humane?
The prison system is one of the demonstrations that slavery bears harm in this nation. Let’s talk about abolition. Until the continuing existence of slavery in America is ended, the nation’s prison camps will be the largest plantations ever seen on the planet.
Guests:
Max Parthas and Yusuf Hassan
Co-Hosts, Abolition Today New Abolitionist Radio
MAX PARTHAS is the Co-director of state operations at Abolish Slavery National Network.
YUSUF HASSAN is an Abolitionist, legal analyst, prisoners' rights advocate, entrepreneur, tech expert, community developer, USMC vet, screenwriter.
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“The Glitch in the Matrix”
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Saturday, September 11, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET
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The Matrix represents a system of control that operates completely in the mind. As a complex, machine-driven program, it appropriates any personal, political, or ideological leanings and renders them wholly false. It allows illusions but no action. The problem with the matrix that most people of control and power depend upon has a glitch.
So many Americans are beginning to understand more and moving beyond the energy field of the matrix. The glitch in the matrix ? Black people. We discuss it at OUR COMMON GROUND tonight.
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“As America Fails: Finding Solidarity”
Guest: Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan
When democracies fail, they fall with the great divide taking a prominent and urgent matter for every citizen. Defining friends and foes? Easy. Comrade, allies, and enemies? Not so. The trauma of Black in America will amplify that dilemma. " We welcome Dr. Djene Bajalan as our guest this week.
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"Election 2020: Playbook and the Price"
Guest: Dr. James Lance Taylor, Ph.D.
May 2, 2020 - 10 pm EDT
Original Broadcast Date: May 2, 2020
Chair, Department of Politics, former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), an important organization of African American, African, and Afro Caribbean political scientists in the United States, 2009-2011.
On March 3, Joe Biden began putting together the coalition of minority and white-suburban supporters that made him the nominee via wins in ten of the 14 states holding contests that day. African-Americans were his base: According to exit polls, he won 58 percent of black voters across this vast landscape. Will it hold. What plays will this base make and for what are Black people holding him accountable in return for our vote? Will the “Black agenda” survive going forward? Under what political infrastructure will “this base” hold the line? We will talk with Dr. James Taylor, a renowned political scientist, and professor about the urgency of the issues going toward a Joe Biden nomination and the Democrats historical failure to address them.
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::: REBROADCAST OF July 5, 2014 Episode :::
In Conversation with Cynthia McKinney
"Confronting the New Amerikkan Empire"
OUR COMMON GROUND OPENED the 2ND Session of 2014 on July 5, 2014. We were honored to have as our guest, Cynthia McKinney former U. S. Congresswoman, international human rights activist, and former Presidential candidate, to discuss domestic and foreign policy in the new Amerikkan Empire
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REBROADCAST of LIVE Interview-October 25, 2015
"Demanding Justice and Dignity for OUR Children"
Our Guest: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
Executive Director, Co-Founder, Co-Chair
Dignity in Schools Campaign
Racial Justice NOW !
A South Carolina Black female student was brutally attacked, thrown from her seat, and tossed across the room by a school police officer even though she had obeyed orders to put her cellphone away. Police intervention was employed when her teacher did not think that she put it away fast enough, Horrified students watched and videotaped the incident. Where are Black children safe? How can this girl's humanity be so blatantly challenged?
Roxane Gay (NYT) writes: "Far too little attention is being given to who the young girl is...When that officer saw her, sitting quietly, defiantly, she was not allowed to be human. She was not allowed to have a complex story. She was held to a standard of absolute obedience. She was not given the opportunity to explain the why of her defiance because she was a black body that needed to be disciplined by any means necessary."
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OPEN MIC
::: Who were the losers in OH-11?
::: Remembering Dr. Ronoko Rashidi
::: Who Controls the Black Agency?
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A Tribute to Black Truth Warrior, Glen Ford ::: OUR COMMON GROUND Remembers
Remembering Glen Ford, CEO/Executive Editor, The Black Agenda Report
This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND we remember Glen Ford. Glen made his transition on Thursday, July 28, 2021.
Glen Ford was the Founder, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, an important publication, blog, and radio station.
Ford co-founded Black Commentator (BC) in 2002. The weekly journal quickly became the most influential Black political site on the Net. In October 2006, Ford and the entire writing team left BC to launch Black Agenda Report (BAR).
We have lost a brilliant, insightful strong voice, his persistence, his sacrifice, his passion, and the spirit of an INFORMED, LIBERATED, and FREE Black nation. His service and work will resonate for many Black generations and years to come.
Always a Truth Warrior, now a Beloved Ancestor.
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“Global White Supremacy: Baltimore to Palestine”
Rev. Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Founder, Director, The Spirit House
Faith Activist Liberationist, Journalist & Author
From promulgating the racist birther conspiracy theory to exhorting vigilante Proud Boys to “stand by,” Donald Trump has amplified white nationalist ideas in the United States. But neither Trump’s emergence nor his impact can be understood fully by looking at the United States in isolation. Rather, Trump must be understood for his place in a long line of Anglophone leaders who claimed to speak for besieged whites, with precedents including Ian Smith, the leader of the white minoritarian regime of Rhodesia, and Enoch Powell, the British MP who infamously warned of “rivers of blood” if Britain did not halt non-white immigration. Moreover, white nationalism is global not only in its history but in its present manifestations: white nationalists worldwide have hailed Trump’s actions and would be emboldened by his reelection.
Resistance and Rebellion Rebroadcast : 05-26-15 Episode
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Rev. Dr. Susan K. Williams Smith
Faith Activist Liberationist
"Rest for the Justice Seeking Soul"
"The fight for justice and equality is an exhausting daily grind—and the work is never over. That’s why it is incumbent upon all who speak and advocate for the less fortunate to practice self-care. You can’t fight when your tank is empty. Her ideas and thinking about Black resistance and the history and foundation of faith as fundamentally part of Black culture are essential." - Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith
Author, "WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME - The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America “ and "The Book of Jeremiah: The Life and Ministry of Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.“
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In Conversation with Pascal Robert, The Thought Merchant
Co-Host, THIS IS REVOLUTION Podcast & OUR COMMON GROUND IN-TER-LOCU-TOR
Pascal is an essayist and Political Commentator on Black Politics, US Economic and Financial politics and Haiti. He is a graduate of Hofstra University and Boston University Law School.
Somehow 20 percent of African American males supporting someone who is a male like Donald Trump is not a quirk. Do we tend to have a false consensus about how Blacks tend to vote? We talk with Pascal Robert tonight about how it happens, what it means, and whether it simply a message of some sort. Just what are they thinking?
Pascal is a son of Haiti. Growing up in Miami, he was schooled by his father and, uncles in history, culture, and the stories of Haiti’s resistance to imperialism. We talk with him about that history and review how in that history Haiti became one of the poorest nations in the world.
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
(Performed by Actor, James Earl Jones)
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is a speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Douglass, who himself escaped enslavement years before, gave the speech on July 5, 1852 at an Independence Day celebration in Rochester, New York.
During the 1850s, Frederick Douglass typically spent about six months of the year traveling extensively, giving lectures. During one winter -- the winter of 1855-1856 -- he gave about 70 lectures during a tour that covered four to five thousand miles. And his speaking engagements did not halt at the end of a tour. From his home in Rochester, New York, he took part in local abolition-related events.
On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"
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::: Breaching the Centrality of American Whiteness :::
An OUR COMMON GROUND LISTEN :: LEARN :: LIBERATE BROADCAST
We take a look at a variety of observations addressing the issue of Black freedom struggle, whiteness, voter suppression, and Black resistance in an era of new attacks on Black freedom and agency. Features include Rev. William Barber, 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kwame Toure', Bob Hebert, and Carol Anderson.
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::: "Juneteenth: A Celebration of the Emancipation of the Slaves" :::
An OUR COMMON GROUND #HISTORYMATTERS SPECIAL
We provide a history of the event and the celebration of Juneteenth as we celebrate its first year as a national holiday.
Juneteenth is specifically a celebration of Black emancipation. Race-based chattel slavery intentionally ensnared people of African descent and labeled them as property. Juneteenth was made possible because of the courage and resilience of Black people who persistently fought for their liberation. American Black freedom struggle is the central place in Juneteenth celebrations.
Returning LIVE 6/26/21 "REPARATIONS: The Debt That Is Owed"
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::: “Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed” :::
An OUR COMMON GROUND Reparations Discussion Series
Episode #2: “Reparations: The Paradigm Shift”
Examining the demand for reparations through many eras of Black Struggle: Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, the Black Power eras and Black Lives Matters protests.
Guest: Dr. Rutledge M. Dennis, Sociologist, Anthropologist: Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; expert scholar and author in the areas of urban politics, research methods in race and ethnicity, Black Intellectuals, W.E.B.Du Bois, the Black Middle Class, race and ethnic politics, comparative and theoretical approaches to race and ethnicity.
What is the debt that is owed ?
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Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed ::: Reparations Series
Episode #1: "The Debt That Is Owed": Reparations & the Descendants of US Chattel Slavery
Guest: Dr. William "Sandy" Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen Co-Authors, "From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century",
A. Kirsten Mullen is a lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history, and politics; Darity Jr. is an American economist and researcher.
The wealth of the United States was for the most part greatly enhanced by the exploitation of African American slave labor: some argue it is the bedrock for the U.S. economy and capitalism. However, former slaves and their descendants are among the poorest demographic in America. Accordingly, reparations would be valuable primarily as a way of correcting modern economic imbalances. The call for reparations has intensified in 2020. More injustices and discrimination have continued since slavery was outlawed in the US. Black communities and civil rights organizations have called for reparations for those injustices as well as for reparations directly related to the US chattel slavery system. What is the debt owed ?
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The Tulsa Massacre
So that we never forget.
Memorial Day marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence and domestic terrorism in U.S. history. When the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma — known as "Black Wall Street" — was burned and bombed to the ground by a white mob. An estimated 300 Black Americans, descendants of slavery were killed and over 1,000 injured. Whites in Tulsa actively suppressed the truth, and Blacks were intimidated by more violence into silence. But efforts to restore the horrific event to its rightful place in U.S. history are beginning this 100 years later. Black children of my generation were taught to know and never forget. Tulsa was not the only sight of violent pogroms attacking Blacks in that era. Tonight, we teach the story of Tulsa.
June 5, 2021, we begin our series "Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed" with guest, Dr. William J. "Sandy" Darity.
"Black in America's "Weimar" Moment"
Pascal Robert ::: Co-Host, THIS IS REVOLUTION Podcast &
OUR COMMON GROUND IN-TER-LOCU-TOR
Seventy-five years ago, Hitler came to power, ending the Weimar Republic. Did Germany's experiment with democracy between 1919 and 1933 ever stand a real chance? Is America at that same juncture and will democracy have more of a chance? We'll analyze the similarities in our current political environment.
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"When We Stand: The Intersection of Black Justice, Wealth and Health"
Guest: Malik Ali, CEO/Founder, Justice, Wealth and Health, SC
JWH's Mission is to save lives from Injustice, Poor Health, and Lack of Financial Wealth.
Marching has stopped
Protesting has stopped
Making the Next Stand
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"Black Hustlers: Tap Dancing and Soul Corrosion”
What Tim Scott did was not brave. It was not honest and it was not leadership. He lied to the American people on behalf of a Republican Party that neither values nor respects him. How does a Black man relieve himself of all dignity and his own history? What life experiences lend themselves to a man to renounce the truth about his Black experience and ally himself with racists who have no honor for his manhood?
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In Conversation with Efia Nwanganza
Pioneer Human Rights Activist ::: Pioneer Black Talk Host ::: Civil Rights Attorney
Exec. Dir., Malcolm X Center, Greenville, SC
"Black Truth on Black Justice"
ABOUT EFIA NWANGANZA
Efia Nwangaza is a lifelong civil/human rights activist and freedom fighter who first worked for the liberation of African/Black people as a child in her Garveyite parents' apostolic faith church, in her birthplace of Norfolk, Virginia.
"The Chauvin Trial: Black Truth on Black Justice"
It was a defense based on that Black people deserve to be murdered. The path that is drenched by the grief and tears of a people in their witness to this, not just injustice, but America's brand of Black justice.
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“Seeking Mercy"
Podcast
Janice will return on April 24, 2021 ::: LIVE
Tonight, we offer discussions on criminal justice and the history of lynching with Bryan Stevenson. He is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a law professor at New York University School of Law.He's the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. He is the author of, "Just Mercy"
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“Evil Well Financed and Determined: Jim Crow Under Law"
Disenfranchisement Laws aka "Jim Crow
OCG Hosts, Janice Graham & Dr. James L. Taylor
Jim Crow” was developed as a derisive slang term for a Black man. It came to mean any state law passed in the South that established different rules for blacks and whites. Jim Crow laws were based on the theory of white supremacy and were a reaction to Reconstruction. In the depression-racked 1890s, racism appealed to whites who feared losing their jobs to Blacks.
Politicians abused Blacks to win the votes of poor white “crackers.” Newspapers fed the bias of white readers by playing up (sometimes even making up) Black crimes and reporting based on Black stereotypes.
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“Is There No Return to Sanity?”
"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"
In the 2nd hour, OCG Political Contributor, Dr. James Taylor will join us to talk about the targeted killing of Asian-Americans and the relationship to racial hate of Black people in America.
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“Under the New Confederacy: Can There Be Any Justice?”
One year later, we remember Breonna Taylor.
We ask, can there be any kind of Justice in Amerikka in the "new Confederacy"? The Chauvin trial is underway. What do we expect and how much will we tolerate further?
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“Aligning Black Policy Priorities Into the Game of Electoral Politics”
Guest: Professor Willie Legette
Political Systems Analyst and Organizer
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, South Carolina State University; Lead Organizer, Medicare for All-South Carolina; Labor Party candidate for SC Senate; Common Dreams contributor
We talk with Professor Willie Legette, political analyst, as to how we might resolve the conflicts and problems of voting for who we "like", votes that are often divorced from policies that address our political, economic, and community needs. Are we voting electoral race politics and needing class-basis policies? Just how does the "Black vote" calculate?
A whole new way of thinking is required. That and a "resistance campaign" against voter suppression.
Every period of our history has taught America something about its own failings, and us about the righteousness of our struggle. Without Black struggle Americans would not be faced with ideals of democracy.
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OCG Black History Month 2021
"Black History: Always the Road to Black Power"
OPEN MIC NIGHT
Do we see Black history as a road leaving tools, vision, and truth all along the way?
Every period of our history has taught America something about its own failings, and us about the righteousness of our struggle. Without Black struggle American would not be faced with ideals of democracy.
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"A History of Black Political Movements in America” Session lV
“Practical Strategies for the 21st Century Black and Peoples’ Movements”
February 25, 2021 ::: 8pm ET
Session IV: Black political diversities and ideologies. Examining class, economics, religion, spirituality, art, gender, sexuality, and how they have factored in Black movement history.
Four-Week Lecture Series
Dr. James L. Taylor, Ph.D.
Each Session: Thursdays 8- 10 pm EST :::
February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021
All Black political movements in America's history were hailed as significant struggles of Blacks to achieve full equality. Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Lives Matter movement were signs of progressively more effective strategies, complimented themselves in history. They were complex events that took place in times transforming society and culture throughout the United States, Their resonance and legacy reflect that complexity. We live today in the legacy of political movements that occurred right after the Emancipation of slavery and before the turn of the century. We need to know and understand the networks that compose the many Black struggles that created movements that brought us to our current political struggles.
An OUR COMMON GROUND BHM Special
OCG Black History Month 2021
"White Redemption: On the Black Faultline"
OPEN MIC NIGHT
Focus . . . .
Where should be, “You’re Not Off The Hook” because nothing has not happened to make it so.
We should not be living on the Black Faultline not understanding that White live under a myth about ‘Black Forgiveness’.
It seems America wants redemption without buying a ticket to the party.
re·demp·tion
/rəˈdem(p)SH(ə)n/
noun 1.1. the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil
Accountability before forgiveness is not a novel idea. But America believes it only for itself.
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"Supporting the Legacy of Jimmie "Doc" Horne : Black Tennis History"
Tonight we honor, Jimmie "Doc" Horne Sr., by supporting the public tennis center which bears his name. He is a tennis standout once barred from white courts in an era of segregation, did not wait for somebody else to design a program to expose city kids in West Palm Beach to the sport. Nor did he wait to be paid. Retiring after 34 years as a teacher in area schools, he just showed up and did it. His generosity and commitment helped make him a community legend, say those who gathered to remember him. There are few in the WPB Black community who played tennis who didn't learn it or at least, in part from “Doc” Horne. In 1990, the city of West Palm Beach proclaimed March 17 as Jimmie "Doc" Horne Appreciation Day. The tennis facilities at Gaines Park are named for him. Mr. Horne passed on December 2, 2008, at age 88.
"A History of Black Political Movements" Session lll
February 18, 2021
Session 3: Black political diversities and ideologies. Examining class, economics, religion, spirituality, art, gender, sexuality, and how they have factored in Black movement history.
Four-Week Lecture Series
Dr. James L. Taylor, Ph.D.
Each Session: Thursdays 8- 10 pm EST :::
February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021
All Black political movements in America's history were hailed as significant struggles of Blacks to achieve full equality. Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Lives Matter movement were signs of progressively more effective strategies, complimented themselves in history. They were complex events that took place in times transforming society and culture throughout the United States, Their resonance and legacy reflect that complexity. We live today in the legacy of political movements that occurred right after the Emancipation of slavery and before the turn of the century. We need to know and understand the networks that compose the many Black struggles that created movements that brought us to our current political struggles.
An OUR COMMON GROUND BHM Special
"Darkness in American Medicine: Surviving Medical Apartheid" #BHM
OCG Black History Month 2021
Theme: What We Endured, Survived, Yet, Achieved"
Page 1: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Page 2: The 2nd Impeachment Trial at the Senate
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"A History of Black Political Movements" Session ll
Four-Week Lecture Series
Dr. James L. Taylor, Ph.D.
Each Session: Thursdays 8- 10 pm EST :::
February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021
All Black political movements in America's history were hailed as significant struggles of Blacks to achieve full equality. Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Lives Matter movement were signs of progressively more effective strategies, complimented themselves in history. They were complex events that took place in times transforming society and culture throughout the United States, Their resonance and legacy reflect that complexity. We live today in the legacy of political movements that occurred right after the Emancipation of slavery and before the turn of the century. We need to know and understand the networks that compose the many Black struggles that created movements that brought us to our current political struggles.
An OUR COMMON GROUND BHM Special
“Ashes to Ashes: Addressing Racial Injustice in America - The Reckoning"
Guest: Dr. Shirley J. Whitaker, MD, Author, Filmographer, Activist
"Ashes to Ashes" are the final words in typical African American funeral services. FROM 1882-1968, 4,743 LYNCHINGS OCCURRED IN THE UNITED STATES. OF THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE LYNCHED 3,446 WERE BLACK (72%). THE MAJORITY OCCURING IN THE SOUTH (79%). This too is Black History. Many of those who were murdered by the Klan to maintain the reign of white supremacy never received their “Ashes to Ashes”. Ashes to Ashes, the film and project memorialize the more than 4,000 African Americans who were lynched during the Jim Crow era. Tonight we talk with her about reaching back and understanding that these dead, the method by which they died is Black History too.
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"A History of Black Political Movements" Part 1
Four-Week Lecture Series
Dr. James L. Taylor, Ph.D.
Each Session: Thursdays 8- 10 pm EST :::
February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021
All Black political movements in America's history were hailed as significant struggles of Blacks to achieve full equality. Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Lives Matter movement were signs of progressively more effective strategies, complimented themselves in history. They were complex events that took place in times transforming society and culture throughout the United States, Their resonance and legacy reflect that complexity. We live today in the legacy of political movements that occurred right after the Emancipation of slavery and before the turn of the century. We need to know and understand the networks that compose the many Black struggles that created movements that brought us to our current political struggles.
An OUR COMMON GROUND BHM Special
"Black Masculinism: Black Male Studies Agenda"
Dr. T. Hasan Johnson, Ph. D., Founder, The Institute for Black Male Studies
He is the developer of the concept of “Black Masculinism” and frequently publishes on anti-Black misandry, anti-Black male heterophobia, intra-racial misandry, and White supremacy.
For more information: For more information, visit: https://www.instituteforblackmalestudies.com/
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“White Collar Crime: How Whiteness Presides"
Professor Jennifer Taub, Esq., Author, "Big Dirty Money"
Professor Jennifer Taub, Esq. Author, "Big Dirty Money" Legall scholar and advocate, devoted to making complex business law topics engaging inside and outside of the classroom. Her research and writing focus on corporate governance, banking and financial market regulation, and white-collar crime. Her advocacy centers on “follow the money” matters, in opposition to corruption. She is a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law.
“The wealthy have the resources either to exert political influence or become lawmakers themselves”. But Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."
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"The RSVP: Invitations to Insurrection"
Guests: Makani Themba, Chief Strategist, Higher Ground Change Strategies
Dr. James L. Taylor, Dir., Political Science, USanFrancisco
For years now, the domestic terrorists that breached, attacked, and mobbed the US government have been issued invitations from the highest levels of government, including a mob boss President, to "standby". On January 6th, they accepted those invitations.
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“White Collar Crime: How Whiteness Presides"
Professor Jennifer Taub, Esq.
Author, "Big Dirty Money" Legall scholar and advocate, devoted to making complex business law topics engaging inside and outside of the classroom. Her research and writing focus on corporate governance, banking and financial market regulation, and white-collar crime. Her advocacy centers on “follow the money” matters, in opposition to corruption. She is a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law.
“The wealthy have the resources either to exert political influence or become lawmakers themselves”. But Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."
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32nd Annual OUR COMMON GROUND 2020 Kwanzaa Teach-In and Celebration
Kwanzaa is not an alternative to religions or faiths, but, offers a common ground to reaffirm our identity, dignity, & excellence in history & culture, providing us with a value system that serves as a framework and foundation that strengthens us to trust and claim our Struggle.
A celebration of the richness of our African and American history and cultures. Examing our paths of victories by perseverance and survival, past, present, and future.
Passing on a set of principles that have brought us across, that build bridges and portals to move us forward. Umoja. UNITYKujichagulia. SELF-DETERMINATIONUjima. COLLECTIVE WORK and RESPONSIBILITY and UPLIFTMENT of COMMUNITYUjamaa. COOPERATIVE ECONOMICSNia. PURPOSEKuumba. CREATIVITYImani. FAITH
Extending our Wishes for a Wonderful, Soulful, and Reflective 2020 Holiday Season.
To our Listeners, Guests, and Supporters and their families, the Blessings of the holiday and a New Year filled with ENOUGH.
Janice, Duane Alford (ALFO) and L.Michelle Odom
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The ALFO Show Fridays, 10 pm ET
"Playing the Numbers"
Tonight we feature the history of the gambling practices within the Black community, known as "the numbers". At one time, this popular form of gambling was considered an underground self-sufficiency and grassroots business undertaking. Problems were many from local law enforcement and larger criminal activities. It disappeared as the large mafia operations took over completely and states fought back with legal alternatives.
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"Compared to What?" Black Political Capital Deficit: Sure Didn't Take LongBiden and the Civil Rights Leadership COVID-19 Update & VaccinesAmendment 14: Sedition
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The full recording of a Dec. 8, 2020 virtual meeting, attended by President elect Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and civil rights leaders.
"Niggle Nation: A State of Dubiety"
::: "niggle" verb :::
To make often criticisms or objections about matters.
::: "dubiety" noun :::
A feeling or attitude that one does not know the truth, truthfulness, or trustworthiness of someone or something.
Tonight with the OCG Political Contributor, Dr. James L. Taylor, Chair of Political Studies, University of San Francisco, we will attempt to give language and narrative to the fragile nature of our country. It really is hard to see back and forward while walking through a firestorm. Most Americans are bewildered and feel that chaos is burning down the house. We hope to unravel and unbind the sense of helplessness and hopelessness and bring us back on course.
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"WHO YOU CALLING A COMMUNIST?: Blacks Resisting Fascism in America"
Guest: Carl Dix, Street Activist, Protest Organizer, and Initiator, Refuse Fascism, The Revolutionary Communist Party
First of our series examining Black liberation movement strategies now, and in our history.
Tonight we talk with Carl Dix of Refuse Fascism and The Revolutionary Communist Party. Examining how they operate and the history of Blacks in the Communist parties within the US.
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Premiere Episode
post hoc
OPEN MIC Wednesday Night
Our truth is formed through our experience as a people, mass incarceration of our Brother and Sisters; intentional miseducation of our children, state-sanctioned and legal murdering under law; medical, environmental and employment justice. The duality of our citizenship, agency requires specialized filters honed from living, studying and listening. We see Amerikka, and we have been its dilemma, savior and visionary. We call what we speak, "Black Truth".
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 ::: 10 pm EST ::: LIVE
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“ The Bill Is Now OverDue”
Saturday, November 14, 2020 ::: 10 pm EST ::: LIVE
Guest: Dr. Miriam F. "Duchess" Harris, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor, Author, Civic Activist ∞
Chair, American Studies, Macalester College MN
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2020 Election Review:On The BlackSide Part II
”BLACK POLITICAL Construction Ahead”
November 7, 2020 ::: 10 pm EST
We continue our discussion on the 2020 Election, the Black currency reflected in the returns, and discuss what must be ahead with our panel:
Dr. James L. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Politics, University of San Francisco, Pascal Robert of the Black Agenda Report, Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis ( Dr. Goddess) of #BlackPoliticsMatter and Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party & Refuse Facism.
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"2020 Election Review ::: On The BlackSide"
Reviewing the performance of Black political capital in the 2020 election with a panel of skilled political analysts, observers, and commentators: Dr. James L. Tayor, Chair of the Department of Politics, University of San Francisco, Pascal Robert of the Black Agenda Report, Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis (aka Dr. Goddess) of #BlackPoliticsMatter and Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party.
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Guest, Dr. James L. Taylor, Politics Chair, Univ. of San Francisco
In just three days when we end this scheduled broadcast, the casting of 2020 votes will end. Whatever political capital that has been earned and saved will be spent. The election gives us an opportunity, where we are able to push through the intimidation, suppression, and criminal corruption, work our political shopping list. Not for the first time, we will suffer anxiety about the delivery of what we have purchased.
Some folks have been out there borrowing your political capital.
University of San Francisco Director of Political Studies, Dr. James Taylor joins us.
What is the work that Black people must do on the other side of this election? Are we vigilantly watching the docket of a new and alt-right SCOTUS? How will the civil and legal protections at play before the Court damage a new and more bold Black agenda?
Police reform ::: Reparations::: Prison reform ::: Court Reform all the balls ready for juggling. How do we put Congress and the Executive Branch in check, AFTER an election?
Don’t forget to FALL BACK right after the end of the show.
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"V-Day" 3-Days to Election 2020 ::: Souls on Fire
In the final Presidential debate, aside from the COVID-19 pandemic numerous key and critical issues that challenge Black people in this country. 8 million more people fell into economic poverty since May. There have been huge slashes in the budget for new and rehabilitation of affordable housing. Disparities throughout the socio-economic spectrum: predatory lending, education, the impact of environmental injustice abound, yet, throughout the political season, they have been dismissed and marginalized.
What are we to expect? What is on the other side?
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" Homeland Mercenaries: STAND BACK, STAND-BY ?"
Open Mic Night
Many modern white supremacist groups eschew violent tactics in favor of using demonstrations and propaganda to sway public opinion and portray their ideologies as legitimate. However, their racial elitist ideologies have nonetheless spurred affiliated individuals to become involved in violent altercations. One such group just plotted to abduct a sitting state Governor.
We need to know more and create an awareness and safety net. We know that this is the war of their fantasies.
TalkthatMatters #TrustYourStruggle
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“It’s All About Sovereignty”
OPEN MIC
Live and Call-In
Sovereignty is the point, the whole game seen in our politics over the last 3 years. Sovereignty is an unlimited power that is not subject to any type of direction.
All citizens and institutions are superordinate to it and it is the origin of all powers free of any internal external powers or pressures. We are currently living through the establishment of such by the takeover of our government by our Presidents and his supporters, including the Senate, the judiciary, and government agencies. Time to get real about how far-reaching this campaign actually has spread. The quest for sovereignty has become ugly and elections have consequences.
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
"American Racial Infamy
Saturday, September 26, 2020 :: 10 pm EDT
Live and Call-In
Guest Commentators:
Dr. James L. Taylor and
Dr. Raymond Winbush
To deny and neglect the consequences of murder under the cover of law is an embedded American legal precept. Racial infamy. That we understand this reality is to begin to understand Black existence. We live in this Amerikka in fear. It has always been so.
"The lie is the mechanism that allows, and has always allowed, America to avoid facing the truth about its unjust treatment of black people and how it deforms the soul of the country."
- James Baldwin
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TONIGHT
“ BLACK POLITICAL CURRENCY: The Dilemma ”
:::: OPEN MIC ::::
Tonight we open the mic on discussions for moving forward beyond November 3rd. What are the political priorities?
Medicare :: Housing:: Climate Crisis :: Student/Medical Debt :: Judicial Malfunction :: Govt'mt Failure :: Police Overhaul :: Overturn Citizens United :: Reproductive/Environmental Justice :: Reparations
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We will take some time looking at the legacy of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her history of resisting from the bench.
"51 Days: In Conversation with Nina Turner"
Nina Turner, National Co-Chair Bernie Sanders for President 2016 & 2018
She is the "hell-raising humanitarian" for marginalized people and is one of Sanders's best-known surrogates. She's a former Ohio state senator who has made her name advocating for voting rights. Articulate, engaging, and perceptive, Nina Turner offers a prescient vision of the future and inspires us to advance our own humanity
For the marginalized — for those who believe in “the America” that was promised, Nina Turner is the speaker and activist that’ll motivate people to take action on the needs of the many and not the few.
We need to figure out what to do with them. What voter participation strategies are essential and how do we implement them in the time that we have?
What and how to meet the challenges of both options presented on Nov. 3rd. What of the Electoral College? What of the legal and corruption challenges before us?
“ TweedleDee-TweedleDum: Our Grave Choices ”
Guest: Dr. Wilmer Leon
Wilmer J. Leon III, Ph.D. is a political scientist whose primary areas of expertise are Black Politics American Government, and Public Policy.
Dr. Leon is a nationally syndicated columnist and the host of SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s, “Inside The Issues with Wilmer Leon.” He is also a regular contributor to national and international television news programs, newspapers, and websites.
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“Four More Years? : Black Poor People in the Wreckage”
What will be the consequences of another tRump term?
People and communities that depend on the meager benefits offered by their government? Social Security :: COVID supplement, WIC :: Affordable Housing
Employment Discrimination Protections ::: Health and Community Support Programs ::: Climate Crisis ::: Health Insurance Access/Coverage :: Police Reform
It will be a train wreck looking for a site.
Saturday, August 22, 2020 :::: 10 pm EDT
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Tonight:
🎙️DeJoy House Hearing on USPS
🎙️New Season of The ALFO Show on TruthWorks Network
🎙️2020 Election
Tonight is the last episode of OPEN MIC Wednesday Night. On August 26th ALFO will be broadcasting from TruthWorks Network for a new season of The ALFO Show.
Tonight we welcome him back.
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“ The Consequences of Black Political Misadventures: Who Pays ?”
"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"
Dr. James L. Taylor, Guest Host
Dr. James Taylor is the Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco and Faculty Coordinator of the African American Studies Program. He is a former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS).
Will we turn out to turn out Donald Trump and his transnational criminal regime in November? What are the impediments to ensuring that November 3rd will work for Black people?
Do we understand the import of 4 more years for Trump and his war on American democracy?
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Tonight:
🎙Trump's Re-Election Crimes
🎙Bill Barr
🎙Kamala Harris VP Nominee
🎙️Protecting the USPS
🎙️Care Package
🎙️Social Security and Medicare
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OUR COMMON GROUND, hosted by Janice Ground broadcasts on each Saturday night at 10 pm ET. Typically, the program includes an element of expert guest, live conversations between Janice Graham and the host, and listeners who "call-in" via telephone) to the broadcast. Listener contributions are important to the program and many times all callers are not able to get in during the two-hour broadcast. Janice believes that the listener's voice is essential to creating the best quality for the overall “talk experience”. Our guests are important, and we attempt to have in-depth discussions with them to maximize their extensive experience, wisdom and knowledge. We are unwilling to minimize the value and worth of their voices to inform and inspire. To respond to this challenge, OCG has created a broadcast specifically for callers to follow up on the OCG discussion of the previous Saturday night and new topics callers want to add to the discussion.
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“Southern Comfort: Claiming The Porch Power”
Guest, Ruby N. Sales, Spirit House Project
Ruby Sales is the founder and director of the Spirit House Project, a non-profit that works towards racial, economic, and social justice. .A social activist, scholar, public theologian, and educator, Sales has preached around the country on race, class, gender, and reconciliation.
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Tonight:
🎙Trump's Evil Empire
🎙Political Accountability
🎙Biden's VP Decision
Census Party 🥳☑️
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Tonight we start here, continuing our discussion with callers.
🎙Trump's Evil Empire 🎙Bill Barr Judiciary Comm. Hearing
🎙Re-Opening Schools: COVID-19 pandemic🎙 New Stimulus to America
🎙The Vote: Voting: SURVIVAL strategy, not a LIBERATION strategy 🎙 Freedom Symbols, what do they mean.
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Eyes on the Prize Episode 1 "Awakenings (1954–1956)"Chronicles the murder of Emmett Till
Eyes on the Prize is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The documentary originally aired on the PBS network and it also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2. Created and executive produced by Henry Hampton at the film production company Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond, the series uses archival footage, stills and interviews by participants and opponents of the movement. The title of the series is derived from the title of the folk song "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize," which is used as the opening theme music in each episode.
Our Common Ground presents ON-DEMAND selected episodes of this powerful teaching tool, "Eyes on the Prize". As we discuss continually historical context is necessary to build political, social and economic infrastructure.
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“Mental Wellness, Black Survival: The Junction of Multi-Generational Trauma”
Guest: Brandon Jones, MFT
The Jegna Institute
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July 25, 2020
Focus Tonight: How do we help our people to improve emotional self-care, begin and transverse a necessary healing journey, and become more aware of ancestral, inter-generational, and compounded emotional pain. We will examine the implication of Slave Descendant Trauma health issues as we experience police brutality, police killings, and the pandemic.
About Tonight's Guest:
Brandon Jones brings a down-to-earth and compassionate attitude to Mental Health. Brandon is a psychotherapist, professor, Behavioral Health Consultant. He specializations in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Historical and Intergenerational trauma, Social/Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Leadership, and Youth Justice.
mkutano OPEN MIC Wednesday Night at OUR COMMON GROUND
Tonight:
🎙Trump's Para-Military Secret Police
🎙Re-Opening Schools
🎙Protecting "the Agency"
🎙 Local strategies to support Black children learning
2nd Page: Listen and Learn Radio: "Eyes On the Prize" - The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
Many do not know the details of how the Civil Rights Movement happened.
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OUR COMMON GROUND, hosted by Janice Ground broadcasts on each Saturday night at 10 pm ET. Typically, the program includes an element of expert guest, live conversations between Janice Graham and the host, and listeners who "call-in" via telephone) to the broadcast. Listener contributions are important to the program and many times all callers are not able to get in during the two-hour broadcast. Janice believes that the listener's voice is essential to creating the best quality for the overall “talk experience”. Our guests are important, and we attempt to have in-depth discussions with them to maximize their extensive experience, wisdom and knowledge. We are unwilling to minimize the value and worth of their voices to inform and inspire. To respond to this challenge, OCG has created a broadcast specifically for callers to follow up on the OCG discussion of the previous Saturday night and new topics callers want to add to the discussion.
We are calling this special segment of OUR COMMON GROUND, mkutano Wednesday OPEN MIC.
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“The ‘PROFECTORS’ of the Democracy: WHEN GIANTS FALL”
OUR COMMON GROUND celebrates the lives and legacies of Civil Rights giants Rev. C.T. Vivian and U.S. Congressman John Robert Lewis
Listener Tributes and Commemoration are invited and welcomed.
Losing both "Rev. C.T." and John Lewis is tough. Their legacies in the struggle for civil rights and Black dignity will resonate in the Black liberation activities in the US for al history. They were the revolutionary voices of the Civil Rights Movement struggle. One strategic, one tactical. Both giants. tonight, we remember.
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“Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES”
OUR COMMON GROUND, hosted by Janice Ground broadcasts on each Saturday night at 10 pm ET. Typically, the program includes an element of expert guest, live conversations between Janice Graham and the host, and listeners who "call in" via telephone) to the show. Listener contributions are important to the program and many times all callers are not able to get in during the two-hour broadcast. Janice believes that the listener voice is essential to creating the best quality for the overall “talk experience”. Our guests are important, and we attempt to have in-depth discussions with them to maximize their extensive experience, wisdom and knowledge. We are unwilling to minimize the value and worth of their voices to inform and inspire. To respond to this challenge, OCG has created a broadcast specifically for callers to follow up on the OCG discussion of the previous Saturday night and new topics callers want to add to the discussion.
We are calling this special segment of OUR COMMON GROUND, mkutano Wednesday OPEN MIC.
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"Black America: Over Policed, Under Protected"
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We acknowledge that policing models across the country view Black neighborhoods and communities as crime-ridden and havens for criminal activity. Criminalizing these residential areas create a natural response of resentment, distrust and animosity. These communities experience an exceedingly higher level of policing, absent essential protection services and resources needed. How can we use the current wave of calls of police defunding and reform to change that landscape? How do we stop the killing of Black people in our streets? How do we get mental wellness resources on the street when there is a problem? Chronic homelessness? Truancy? Guns out of the hands of young people?
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“Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES”
OUR COMMON GROUND, hosted by Janice Ground broadcasts on each Saturday night at 10 pm ET. Typically, the program includes an element of expert guest, live conversations between Janice Graham and the host, and listeners who "call in" via telephone) to the show. Listener contributions are important to the program and many times all callers are not able to get in during the two-hour broadcast. Janice believes that the listener voice is essential to creating the best quality for the overall “talk experience”. Our guests are important, and we attempt to have in-depth discussions with them to maximize their extensive experience, wisdom and knowledge. We are unwilling to minimize the value and worth of their voices to inform and inspire. To respond to this challenge, OCG has created a broadcast specifically for callers to follow up on the OCG discussion of the previous Saturday night and new topics callers want to add to the discussion.
We are calling this special segment of OUR COMMON GROUND, mkutano Wednesday OPEN MIC.
Mkuntano is a Swahili term meaning assembly. So, we assemble to ensure that you voice is amplified.
mkutano OPEN MIC Wednesday Night at OUR COMMON GROUND
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“Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES”
OUR COMMON GROUND, hosted by Janice Ground broadcasts on each Saturday night at 10 pm ET. Typically, the program includes an element of expert guest, live conversations between Janice Graham and the host, and listeners who "call in" via telephone) to the show. Listener contributions are important to the program and many times all callers are not able to get in during the two-hour broadcast. Janice believes that the listener voice is essential to creating the best quality for the overall “talk experience”. Our guests are important, and we attempt to have in-depth discussions with them to maximize their extensive experience, wisdom and knowledge. We are unwilling to minimize the value and worth of their voices to inform and inspire. To respond to this challenge, OCG has created a broadcast specifically for callers to follow up on the OCG discussion of the previous Saturday night and new topics callers want to add to the discussion.
We are calling this special segment of OUR COMMON GROUND, mkutano Wednesday OPEN MIC.
Mkuntano is a Swahili term meaning assembly. So we assemble to ensure that you voice is amplified.
"The Black Firewall: Will It Hold?"
Guest: Dr. Ron Daniels
Veteran social and political activist Dr. Ron Daniels was an independent candidate for President of the United States in 1992. He served as Executive Director of the National Rainbow Coalition in 1987 and Southern Regional Coordinator and Deputy Campaign Manager for the Jesse Jackson for President Campaign in 1988.
Founder and President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), a progressive, African centered, action-oriented Resource Center dedicated to empowering people of African descent and marginalized communities. As the administrator for the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), NAARC supports HR-40, the Congressional Bill that would establish a National Commission to study reparations proposals for African Americans. Dr. Ron Daniels serves as the Convener of NAARC and is lead co-author of its 10 Point Reparations Program.
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Guest: Dr. Ron Daniels, OUR COMMON GROUND Voice since, 1985, veteran social and political activist Dr. Ron Daniels was an independent candidate for President of the United States in 1992. Dr. Daniels is Founder and President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), a progressiveBlack organization, empowering people of African descent and marginalized communities.He is the Administrator for the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC),
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“ZER0 Tolerance for POLICE IN SCHOOLS: Defending Our Children”
How can we acknowledge and protest the brutality and menance of police in our communities, yet, tolerate police in the schools where are children have any less options for dignity and safety ? There can be NO acceptable police reform without extracting police from school, whose very presence is about repression and unquestioned authority for teachers and students. #TrustYourStruggle
Guest: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
National Director of Activism at Brightbeam, a national network of education activists demanding
a better education and a brighter future for every child. She is the Co-Founder & Board Member, Racial Justice NOW and a Former National Field Organizer, Dignity in Schools Campaign
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“Rebellion, Murder and Elections: Qualified Immunity”
Guest: Dr. James L. Taylor James Taylor , Ph.D.
Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco
Our discussion with Dr. Taylor this week will be centered in strategic questions facing Black people struggling at this crucial historical juncture to see forward.
▪️Police Defunding and new public safety strategies
▪️Police Accountability and Reform - "Cold Cases"
▪️Demands and Challenges of the Black Vote
▪️ Black Trauma and Grief
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"8 Minutes 46 Seconds: The Collapse of American Delusions"
It was a hushed moment of terror that we witnessed. Where from here when the protests are done and the nation turns away, once more, from any notion of some “renewed scrutiny” of violence and killing of Black people under the cover of law?
"We don’t see any American dream,” Malcolm X said in 1964. “We’ve experienced only the American nightmare.”
You are them. They are you. You are all the same person—all the murdered, all the living, all the infected, all the resisting—because racist America treats the whole Black community and all of its anti-racist allies as dangerous. We held a dream like a King, when even his dream in 1967 “turned into a nightmare.”
OPEN MIC Saturday Night
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WE Can't Breathe: The Language of Rage"
"A riot is the language of the unheard" - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. VE OCG BROADCAST STUDIO
Guest: Dr. Raymond A. Winbush
Dr. Winbush is the Director of the Institute for Urban Research and a Research Professor at Morgan State University. As a scholar and activist, he is known for his systems-thinking approaches to understanding the impact of racism/white supremacy on the global African community. He is the author of The Warrior Method: A Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys; "Should America Pay? Slavery and The Raging Debate on Reparations" ; and, Belinda’s Petition: A Concise History of Reparations For The Transatlantic Slave TradeHis books provide an overview of how reparations for the TransAtlantic Slave Trade has been a consistent theme among African people for the past 500 years. Police Terrorism and MurderThe Utility and Outcomes of Riots The Prospects of the Nominee, Joe Biden and Beyond Election 2020The Status of Black Children Mental Health in Trump Era/PandemicBlack Economic and Socio-economic prospects in the COVII-19 corona virus PandemicThe profile of Reparations Demands OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
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"One Side Dark, Other Side Hard : Black America In the GAP ”
Guest: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Author, "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology"
Black people surviving the health disparities, medical negligence and indifference, stressful work demands, hard choices fears presented existing compounding work, home, children stresses during the pandemic. How do we place this COVID-19 plague in the context of past medical histories of our people? How do we comfort our selves, our children and elders? How do we find the assurances to get on the other side? We will be talking with her about Black America in the pandemic, historical underbelly of health history and its impact on us today. How we find comfort, how we face our fears and our deaths.
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“Black Economic Inequality: #RaceMatters"RACEMatters”
Guest: Dr. Toure F. Reed, Professor of History and Author of “Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism”
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Dr. Toure Reed is a fourth generation African American educator and third generation professor. Dr. Reed’s research interests center on race, class, and inequality. Professor Reed’s research focuses on the impact of race and class ideologies on African American civil rights politics and US public policy .
In his new book, he examines the fate of poor and working-class African Americans and contends that the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else is obstructed, in part, by a discourse that equates entrepreneurialism with freedom and independence.
OUR COMMON GROUND provides unique and critical informed observation provoking new ways of thinking; blazing paths rethink the foundation to EMPOWER Black self, others and communities.
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"Election 2020: Playbook and the Price"
Guest: Dr. James L. Taylor
May 2, 2020 - 10 pm EDT
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Guest: Dr. James Lance Taylor, PhD
Chair, Department of Politics,former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), an important organization of African American, African, and Afro Caribbean political scientists in the United States, 2009-2011.
On March 3, Joe Biden began putting together the coalition of minority and white-suburban supporters that made him the nominee via wins in ten of the 14 states holding contests that day. African-Americans were his base: According to exit polls he won 58 percent of black voters across this vast landscape. Will it hold. What plays will this base make and for what are Black people holding him accountable in return for our vote. Will the “Black agenda” survive going forward? Under what political infrastructure will “this base” hold the line? We will talk with Dr. James Taylor, a renowned political scientist and professor about the urgency of the issues going toward a Joe Biden nomination and the Democrats historical failure to address them.
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"One Nation Under Mob Madness"
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Guest: Rev. Dr. Ruby N. Sales
Dr. Sales is the Founder and Director of the Spirit House Project. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s as a teenager at Tuskegee University and went to work as a student freedom fighter in Lowndes County, Alabama. She is one of 50 African Americans to be spotlighted in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
She is a 1914 OUR COMMON GROUND Witness on the Bridge.
Ruby Salest is a contemporary philosopher, she is a deeply committed social activist, scholar, administrator, manager, public theologian and educator in the areas of civil, gender and other human rights. She is the publisher of the renowned, "From My Front Porch", web commentary.
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“BLACK SURVIVAL: Dual Crisis in the Pandemic”
Health Disparities in the Pandemic and Black Political Chaos
Guests:
Dr. Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, Ph.D
2019-20 Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; Assistant Professor ,Harvard School of Public Health (1994 to 2000); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2000 to 2014), Medical Officer and Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity. Work focused on race-associated differences in health outcomes.
Page One: In-depth discussion of Black health disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic with Dr. Camara P. Jones.
Dr. James Lance Taylor, Ph.D
Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco. Immediate Past President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS);
Author, “Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama”
Page Two: The mad President. How we cope and how we prepare and how to resist with Dr. James Taylor
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Politics Another Perspective with Dr. Wilmer Leon, Host, "Inside the Issues" UrbanView XM Radio
Politics Another Perspective: Analysis of Race, War, Ethics and the American Political Landscape in the Age of Obama is a collection of Op Ed's written by Wilmer J. Leon, III, Ph.D. As a collection, these writings provide cutting edge analysis of the various issues that influenced the American geopolitical landscape since 2006 and insight into the direction that the country is headed.
We will talk with Dr. Leon about his new book.
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"The American Great Political Debacle of 2017"
Guest: Chauncey Devega
Political essayist, Cultural critic, Educator, and host of the podcast known as "The Chauncey DeVega Show".
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"The Metrics of Black Wealth"
Guest: Dr. William A. (“Sandy”) Darity, Jr., Ph.D.
Dr. Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy,African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Duke Consortium on Social Equity at Duke University.
WE can't save, educate or job income ourselves out of the economic and financial history from which our poverty springs.
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'Imagining Ourselves as Agentic: The Great Fallacy"
Dr. Curry always brings opportunities FOR "transformative discourse". He will be joining us once again.
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A critical lens on the political landscape of America with Pascal Robert
Guest: Pascal Robert, Editor, The Thought Merchant and Contributor, The Black Agenda Report
This week we discuss the political future of Black Americans in the era of a imperialist Executive and Legislative government. The critical question is not how we react to the fascism that has embedded itself but how we plan to organize our resistance and survival.
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GUESTS: Yvette Carnell and Irami Osei-Frompong
Hosts, BreakingBrown.com Talk and Call-In Show
We talk to OCG InterLocutors, Irami Osei-Frimpong and Yvette Carnell about their new internet-based call-in talk show.
Dr. Irami Osei-Frimpong hails from Los Angeles, Calif., and studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Brandeis University and presents under the name of The Funky Academic. His focus is political philosophy and Philosophy of Education.
Yvette Carnell writes about politics, international and cultural issues for Your Black World and is the founder and Editor of BreakingBrown.com
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"In Coversation with Bruce A. Dixon"
Co- Founder and Managing Editor, The Black Agenda Report
Chair, GA Green Party
.Bruce Dixon is the GA State Chairman of the Green Party, a Co-Founder and Managing Editor of The Black Agenda Report.
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OUR COMMON GROUND returns LIVE tonight. Part II, Season 2016 on November 12, 2016.
Guest:
Dr. James L. Taylor
USF and UC Berkeley Black Studies Department Chair, Professor and Author, “Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama”
There is critical work before us, reconstitution and reformatting. We must unravel ourselves first from the chaos and damage of the 2016 Presidential campaign. Whoever wins the WH (we do not know presently) we must be organized, to demand, enforcea and monitor our rights as a people. Radio talk cannot do that but can assist in an appropriate synthesis of the issues, problems and strategies. That has been our job at OUR COMMON GROUND for 34 years.
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" A Police State: Changing the Body of Law"
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Indefinite military detentions of U.S. citizens
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Targeting U.S. citizens for killing
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Arresting witnesses for recording police actions
Policymakers are not discussing or debating these issues in Congress, the State House or City Council. The consequences for what it means to be a Black American is deadly.
How do we unravel the laws, and bring democracy to policing in this country to eliminate the killing of Black men and women in there homes and on our streets?
You know the names. #SaytheirNames
HOW DO WE BEGIN TO FIGHT THE POWER ?
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"A Promise to Pay: Political Debt"
OCG Unfiltered Interlocutor, Pascal Robert joins us.
The 2016 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia is over. It was the greatest parade of marketing propaganda we have seen in our lifetime. Hillary proclaimed, “Your cause is my cause,”. But dissatisfied delegates in the hall, the Bernie people saw her rhetoric for what it was: insincere and opportunistic. They have sacrificed nothing to make us stronger together.
It was a great party of political promises, filling the tab, of making debt. Will they pay?
They sold us on the idea that we must elect someone is sane and competent. How empty is that for our political future. There IS so much at stake, and once again the Democrats provide us no answer.
Tonight one of our Unfiltered Interlocutor, Pascal Robert, joins us to sort it out and talk about just where we are inside the theatre.
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It is clear that they will do whatever we allow. Justice is now whatever they can justify.
Topics on Tap for tonight:
<< Dallas police killing does not dissolve the Truth on #AltonSterling,#PhilandroCastile #Saytheirnames
<< The shooters, how they come to the act?
<< Donald Trump declares martial law strategy on protest and street activism.
<< North Miami poliice shooting. We now shoot autistic citizens because ?
<< What must we now require of Hillary Clinton?
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What is Freedom ?
We have been on the road, rampage and struggle for FREEDOM for over 40 years. We have rebelled, resisted, sung, marched and demanded. More Black people in prison; killed and brutalized by police; living under oppressive captialism and abandoned by corrupted politics.We watch Black men and women bodies fall in the street and in jails murdered under law. Most of us declare freedom, and some continue to fight for it. But what exactly is FREEDOM? A discussion with the Funky Academic about this convolution called FREEDOM.
Guest: Brother Dr. Irami Osei-Frimpong, Brandeis and UCal philospher, The Funky Academic
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OCG SPECIAL :: 40M Souls : Marganilized, Traumatized, Terrorized and Muderered
Joining us: Yvette Carnell of BreakingBrown.com, Dr. James L. Taylor, USF and UC Berkeley, Dr. Tommy J. Curry, Texas A&M University
We declare our collective wounds and injuries in the wake of the killing of more than 1, 000 American citizens by police. This week we witnessed once again the cold-bloodied execution of our Brother, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. WE ARE OUTRAGED. We are outraged that there is no accountablity, the government, government officials and elected officials show limited concern of accountability or justice. We are citizens and should no fear for the safety of our children and ourselves.
We don't believe that a peaceful protest about the value of our presence cannot be highjacked by one act of violence. We reject that the killing of police is a rationale response to the legitimate outrage of the killing of Black men and women under the cover of law and authority.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER: Talking to our Children and Ourselves
The Execution of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile
The Dallas Aftermath and Lingering Questions
How Much Death Do we have to endure ?
Guest: Professor Miriam "Dutchess" Harris ;; Professor and Chair of American Studies :: Co-Author, "Black Lives Matter"
Duchess Harris is an African American academic, author, and legal scholar at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The urgent need to transform policing in America, to call for justice, transparency and accountability.
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OPEN MIC Saturday Night with India DeClair
India DeClair, Host of TheIDeClair Show, Guest Hosting
India DeClair aka IDECLAIR
Writer, Blogger, Internet Talk Media Personality
REAL. RAW. RIGHT NOW... Talk Media!
IDECLAIR MEDIA, THE IDECLAIR SHOW... http://ideclairmedia.com/
Pascal Robert, The Black Agenda Review, reviews the SCOTUS decision on police searches.
<> No Accountability in Baltimore
<> SCOTUS Denies AA Challenge in Admissions
<> SCOTUS Legalizes Police Misconduct with Pascal Robert
<> House Democrats Erupt
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"Wilmington on Fire" with the Filmmaker, Christopher Everett
Tonight we talk again with Christopher Everett about his film as it tours the nation.
The Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Most folks are familiar with massacres that took place in Tulsa and Rosewood regarding US history but not Wilmington. This incident is barely mentioned and has been omitted from most history books. The film features interviews from historians, authors, activists and actual descendants of the victims of the Wilmington Massacre of 1898.
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"The unDoing: Gorillas. Rapists. Ali Trump. Clinton & Roots"
We talk with Dr. Dr. James L. Taylor, USF Professor and Author about the deaths of Prince and Muhammad Ali, the 2016 races, Obama exit and the racial bias in sentencing of rapists.
Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Co-Founder & Executive Director , Racial Justice NOW joins us to assist in deconstruction the racist protests around the killing of a gorilla to save a Black child's life.
Other items on the agenda, the release of Muhammad Ali's funeral, Davontae Sanford, Bernie Sanders and the Black political environment.
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" Political Madness: Where da' Revolution ?"
ALFO, of the ALFO Show, TrutWorks Network, Takes the Mic
ALFO ( Duane Alford) sits in for Janice and broadcasts LIVE from Chicago, IL. He is a student of commonsense. Retired and a news junkie. He started his broadcasting career at USTalk Network as one of four hosts of "The Front Page" . ALFO has been hosting "The ALFO Show" on TruthWorks Network radio for seven years.
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"A Deadly Silence: Black Men and Boys"
Guest Dr. Tommy J. Curry
Texas A&M University, Professor of Philosophy,
Black Studies and Critical Race Theory; author, “The Man Not”
Most Black men and boys have not been trained to talk about gender in ways that articulate men’s historical experiences with accuracy–outside of investments in traditional patriarchal tropes, and consequently they are often not able to participate in discussions on Black gender matters. But what of their population in prison, school failure and the unemployment stats? Are we leaving them behind and have we diminished or snuffed out the voice of Black men and boys? Who speaks for our Fathers, Sons, Brothers, Uncles and Nephews?
We are so pleased to have Dr. Curry join us again.
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Creating Sustainability and Self-Determining Communities
Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson.Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson.
CONFERENCE: "Black Power, Black Lives & Pan-Africanism Conference: Honoring the Legacy & Building for a Self-Determining Future" We welcome Brother Akuno back to discuss this most important conference and community building.
"Black Power, Black Lives & Pan-Africanism Conference: Honoring the Legacy & Building for a Self-Determining Future"
Organized by Cooperation Jackson, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
Thursday, June 16 – Sunday, June 19, 2016
Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Democracy and Development, Jackson, MS
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WORKING WHILE BLACK with Torin Ellis
Guest: Torin Ellis, CEO, TorinEllis Brand
Organizational Diversity and Inclusive Thought Leader<> RECRUITER and COACH
Brainsharing withTorin Ellis
human capital #entrepreneur - true #diversity & #recruiting guru
Success in the White Workplace for Black Americans is hard. We are required to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every black American evaluate his or her options—from getting hired to getting fired, from adjusting one's attitude to suing an employer. Getting the job, keeping the job and remainins sane and healthy.
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The Our Common Ground in·ter·loc·u·tors
Tonight: Yvette Carnell, Dr. Tommy Carnell, Pascal Robert and Irami Osei-Frimpong
Just what does it mean when a Presidential candidate whips out a bottle of hot sauce from her purse to prove her superpowers?We ask: What else is in that bag of trickery?
UNFiltered Political analysis of Amerikka's landscape.
"Hands Off Our Children: 300 Strong: Report from Field"
Dr. Ruby Sales ED of SpiritHouse Project
Dr. Sales returns to provide a report of this historice event discussed in early March.
On March 18, 2016 Washington D.C., SpiritHouse Project led the first national public hearing of the 1000 black victims of state-sanctioned murders. Delivering coffins representing murdered children to members of Congress, the 300 Strong heard testimony from victim families. Dr. Sales returns to discuss this historic event and its importance.
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"Truthtelling About the War on Drugs and Politics"
OUR GUEST: Matthew Fogg, Former Former Chief Deputy U. S. Marshall
and Special DEA Agent Whistleblower
He was told by the DEA that there should be no drug enforcement in rich White areas. And he told. After leaving the force, Fogg spent his retirement advocating for greater protections for officers who expose internal corruption within law enforcement agencies. He advocates for the civil rights of citizens who are in fear of police misconduct and brutality.
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Charter Schools: A Community Asset or Liability
< Time for a Third Party in our Politics
< Revisiting the Lessons of Ferguson, Baltimore
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"#FeelingtheBern"
Guest: Nina Turner, Former OH Senator, Bernie Sanders for President Spokesperson
She is a national spokesperson and surrogate in the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.
She is nationally known as a voice for voting rights, for workers' rights and for marginalized people. She welcom her us once again on OUR COMMON GROUND.
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"FlashBLACK: AmeriKKKa Making It Clear Again"
OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT
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FLASHBlack >>>In the midst of the most vitriolic political theater seen in our lifetime, we are looking up from the bottom of the well in a fog of schizophrenic confusion, one thing is clear - establishment politics is not an option.
FLASHBlack >>> Donald Trump is now being positioned as abnormal, not representative. How is his politics and behavior different from most of the sitting Congress?
FLASHBlack >>> Just what is radical left Black politics and where does it live? Can we reconcile the progressive Black political witht he radical Black left?
FLASHBlack >>> Black supporters of Hillary, are they just looking for love in all the wrong places or simply without facts?
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STOP THE WAR ON OUR CHILDREN™ • MARCH 18, 2016
Ruby N. Sales, Founder/Executive Director, The Spirit House Project
STOP THE WAR ON OUR CHILDREN™ • MARCH 18, 2016
Join a delegation of 300 black women standing in a day of action for black children! Via Ruby Sales
In schools and in the street, very powerful people profile, bully, criminalize, manhandle, and murder our children! We have been too silent for too long, and our children have had to face these assaults without the power of a community along with them. We demand that the country see our children as investments, not thugs.
See the Demands
This must stop! We say Stop The War On Our Children™!
? Who: A Delegation of 300 BLACK WOMEN
? What: A Day of Action for BLACK CHILDREN
? When: March 18, 2016
? Where: Washington, D.C.
? What You Can Do: Become an Organizer and a Participant! Bring a delegation of ten women to D.C. to stand with us!
? Contact: Ruby Sales, SpiritHouse Project, at 404-228-7794 or info@spirithouseproject.org to become an Organizer, Endorser and/or Delegate.
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"Transforming TRUTH to POWER, One Broadcast At A Time"
Featured Commentary: Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown; Pascal Robert, the Thought Merchant & Black Agenda Report will be us; Dr. Tommy J Curry, Texas A&M University
<> The Campaign and the Election <> Black Purging @MSNBC
<> Janice's AGENDA <>
<>2016 Presidential Election
<> The Candidates and the Campaigns
<>Supreme Court Nomination
<>Black Support Hilary v Bernie
<>Voter Registration and Suppression
<> MSNBC and the Whiteness of the News
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Dr. Lester K. Spence, Author, "KNOCKING the HUSTLE: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics”
Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University
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Neoliberalism is the greatest political sleight of our time. Knocking the Hustle makes it plain. Drawing from political economy and personal crisis, Spence diagnoses the economic pains and existential threats neoliberalism poses for Black lives (and all others) in urban America. Why? To help us convert truth to power to knock neoliberalism off its pedestal. ~Michael Leo Owens, Emory University, author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America
In this provocative study, Lester Spence opens the conversation about how black politics and the black community have been affected by the market-driven logic of neoliberalism.
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"Scalia Found Dead"
Reformat of tonight's broadcast . . .
In our 1st Page tonight, Pascal Robert, the “Thought Merchant” of BAR and Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown.org
Joins us to talk about whtat theis means for the Obama Administration and the Race for the White House.
"Bey and the Fishnet Revolution: Giving the People What they Want"
" . . . because I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black opposition was in any way progressive. Instead what I saw was the cultural power of neoliberal capitalism to co-opt opposition, monetize it and provide some mindless entertainment all at the same time. I didn’t see opposition; I saw the imagery and symbols of authentic black radicalism grotesquely transformed into a de-politicized spectacle by gyrating, light-skinned booty-short-clad sisters."
- Ajamu Baraka, an OUR COMMON GROUND Voice is a human rights activist, organizer and geo-political analyst. Baraka is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. and editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report.
2nd Page we will get to Bey ! Don't get your fishnets in a knot !!
Janice LOL
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"Fixing OUR Politics: Bakerizing"
Black elected officials are failing us. Federal, state and local public policy either eliminates us or suffocates us. We must fix our politics. Join us in exploring this crisis. Educate, agitate and organize.We must 'Bakerize'. Black citizens continue to suffer the absence of a strategic effective political infrastructure wherein education, organizing, caucus and activism can flourish to make a difference to eliminate a crushing disenfranchisement and political impotence.
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"Flint: Crimes Against Citizens"
LIVE and Call-In
The question of who knew what and when is rendered impotent. The Governor, Municipal Administrator, state health officials and the EPA. THEY ALL KNEW ONE YEAR AGO.
"Is it extreme to posit that local and state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency knowingly allowed the poisoning of tens of thousands of Flint residents? Perhaps. But it is irrefutable that they knew that residents – primarily African Americans and the working class – were drinking, bathing and cooking with poisonous water for six months before authorities warned them of risks. . . . EPA water expert, Miguel Del Toral, identified potential contamination problems with Flint’s drinking water last February " - OUR COMMON GROUND Voice, Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebeyo and Kevin Bender. The Guardian January 22, 2016 .
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"While We Slept: 1,126 Black Bodies in 2015"
Guest Co-Host, Dr. Ruby Sales, Founder and Director, The SpiritHouse Project
"All I wanted was someone to be held accountable,’ says Tamir Rice’s mother. ‘But this entire process was a charade."
Did you sit it out until the justice system announced that there was a reasonable explanation to the murder of 12-year old Tamir Rice? Yeah, well most Black people did and now they are outraged. Who is Accountable ? Did we sleep through 1,126 police killings before we decided that it was about us? Then there is the court and juries ? Applying two standards which favor the police. What are the answers and what are the solutions?
We pay tribute to Dr. Frances Cress Welsing who made her transition to become an honored Ancestor this morning as the sun rose. And remember, the legendary vocalist, Natalie Cole.
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30th ANNUAL OUR COMMON GROUND KWANZAA TEACH-IN
Come celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa with serious study of the N’Guzo Saba with us.
HABARI GANI?
As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. The symbolic nature of the holiday has a profound significance for African Americans and indeed, the world African community. it is imperative that an authoritative source and site be made available to give an accurate and expansive account of its origins, concepts, values, symbols and practice.
Learn more about Kwanzaa and the N'Guzo Saba
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Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast at a Time
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Debt and Credit Scores: Personal Economic Depression
Can you imagine how your life would change if you had good credit? Or had a workable financial plan ? Debt that overloads can cause financial distress and trauma. Life altering disaster which affects your children, partner or marriage. Even your employment.
Budgeting Debt reduction Credit repair Establishing business credit and financials Financial literacy Group coaching
Learn those things you can do, without expensive professional assistance.
Our Guest: Harrine E. Freeman
Best-selling author of "How to Get out of Debt: Get An “A” Credit Rating for Free", a self-help book that provides consumers with a step by step plan on how to get out of debt, increase their credit rating, track their spending and plan for the future.
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"Terrorism and Revolt: Connecting the Dots"
A Conversation on Amerikka with Thought Merchant, Pascal Robert
OUR GUEST: Pascal Robert, Journalist, Political, Global Affairs and Historical Commentator
Pascal Robert (pronounced Ro-Bear like Stephan Colbert) is:
A Blogger who loves all things politics. SHEER political independent; unafraid to slay the most sacred cows of ideological orthodoxy from the Left, or the Right and one who enjoys global affairs and aspects of pop culture. In all ways he is a child of the Haitian Revolution.
Pascal Robert has been known for years to the online world as THOUGHT MERCHANT. Since 2007 he has been recognized for his hard hitting, blunt unvarnished style of bringing attention to current events and global affairs, especially those affecting communities of color.
He is featured in the Huffington Post, The Black Agenda Report and the Black Commentator
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"Modern Day Enslavement: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE TRAP"
A Talk with Black Liberation Expositor Professor Emeritus Vernellia Randall
University of Dayton Law School, Dayton, OH
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"Racial Coding and Profiling in American Politics"
REBROADCAST of August 6, 2011 LIVE DISCUSSION with Dr. Vincent Hutchings, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan Saturday, November 14, 2015 10 pm ET Rebroadcast
We will be back LIVE and Call - In November 21, 2015.
ABOUT Dr. Hutchings
Dr. Hutchings is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Hutchings teaches courses in African American politics, public opinion & voting behavior, and Congress. His research interests focus on the circumstances under which citizens are attentive to political matters and engage in issue voting.
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"Trusting Black Women: Building Sustainable Respect"
OUR GUEST: Loretta J. Ross, Co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012.
She has been Creating a Voice for Reproductive and Black WoMENT JUSTICE over 30 years
"The concept of Reproductive Justice began to take shape when members of a women of color delegation returned from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt. Shortly after, a group of African American women caucused at the Illinois Pro-Choice Alliance Conference in Chicago. The group became known as Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice. They decided to devise a strategy to challenge the proposed healthcare reform campaign by the Clinton Administration that did not include guaranteeing access to abortion. Not wanting to use the language of 'choice' because they represented communities with few real choices, they integrated the concepts of reproductive rights, social justice and human rights to launch the term 'Reproductive Justice.'
BLACK WOMEN and Accessibility to Choose
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Reproductive Scheduling
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Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
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The Right to say YES and NO
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"Demanding Justice and Dignity for OUR Children"
Our Guest: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
Executive Director, Co-Founder, Co-Chair
Dignity in Schools Campaign
Racial Justice NOW !
A South Carolina Black female student was brutally attacked, thrown from her seat and tossed across the room by a school police officer even though she had obeyed orders to put her cellphone away. Police intervention was employed when her teacher did not think that she put it away fast enough, Horrified students watched and video taped the incident. Where are Black children safe? How can this girl's humanity be so blantantly challenged?
Roxane Gay (NYT) writes: "Far too little attention is being given to who the young girl is...When that officer saw her, sitting quietly, defiantly, she was not allowed to be human. She was not allowed to have a complex story. She was held to a standard of absolute obedience. She was not given the opportunity to explain the why of her defiance because she was a black body that needed to be disciplined by any means necessary."
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"Bearing Witness: Igniting OUR Power"
Resistance and Rebellion Series Part II
Continuing the discussion beyond political empowerment.
with Dr. Ruby N. Sales
Understanding the new slavery in the context of About Rebellion and Resistance. What history and our ancestors can teach us.
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In Conversation with Yvette Carnell
POWER BLOGGER and THOUGHT-LEADER
Blogging politics, social, and cultural issues BreakingBrown.com Breakingbrown.me
Editor, YourBlackWorld
Included in our discussion are the many urgent issues covered by www.breaking brown.com within our community, we will review three major events.
<> The exoneration of officers report on the assasination of a 12 year old Tamir Rice.
<> The status and impact of #BlackLivesMatter
<> The Justice or Else Rally marking the 20th Anniversary of the MMM
We invite you to join in the discussion with your responses, comments and questions. #BlackTalkMatter
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"Black men, in particular, have been treated as being disposable, no longer necessary to the economy or to building the country. We label them and their communities as irredeemable and hopelessly violent, . . . it becomes clear that men of all races who are chronically unemployed are more likely to be violent."
Dr. Michele Alexander, "Black Lives Matter Report
In Conversation with Dr. Tommy J. Curry LIVE
“A Quiet Danger - Brothers Invisible: Classroom to Home”
Dr. Curry is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is a Ray A. Rothrock Fellow 13'-16' in the Department of Philosophy.
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Feature Topics: Black TV ; Black Family and Adult Estrangement; Justice or Else Million March, October 10
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“Global White Supremacy: Baltimore to Palestine”
RESISTANCE and REBELLION Series
Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Co-Moderating
Tonight on OUR COMMON GROUND, we discuss white supremacy as a system of power which is a fundamental undergird and foundation of economic, political and cultural imperialism. Part of our discussion will focus on examining the parallels of the struggle to dismantle that system with the struggles of other victims of white supremacy across the globe. Joining us will be representatives of a visiting Palestinian activist group here in the US to make its case before the UN Commission on Human Rights.
OUR GUEST Tonight: Sahar Vardi , a Jerusalem based activist. She publicly refused her military service and was imprisoned in 2008.
We are grateful to have Dr. Ruby Sales, a featured commentator on OCG to join us
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OUR COMMON GROUND discusses the critical elements of how to move the slogan to the movement throughout the Black community. How and where we participate and input into the strategic plan and agenda.
The Black Lives Matter movement was born out of the pain and injustice of Trayvon Martin's death in 2012 and gathered momentum in the wake of the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice and far too many others. The significance of this emergence was not so much the movement as it was the cry of our people declaring that “Black Lives Matter”. A cry for a need for a new liberation uprising for Black people in America. #BlackLivesMatter as a slogan met the need of Black people to declare its pain, loudly and precisely. Moving that slogan as the undergird of a movement is the hard part. Figuring how we ignite political and social transformation -- not just marches, Twitter feeds and shouting matches on- and offline is the real challenge. Learn more and share our broadcast.
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"40 Years, $1 Trillion, 45 Million Arrests: The Truth About the War on Us"
"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time"
What began as a flourish of campaign rhetoric in 1968 has grown into a monster. And while nobody claims that the War on Drugs is a success, nobody suggests an alternative. Because to do so is political and profit suicide. As a community we need to understand how Drug War fever has been escalated; who has benefited along the way; and how the mounting price in dollars, lives, and liberties has been willfully ignored. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT DRUGS
We will review and examine the truth about the policies and intent of the "War on Drugs". We need to talk about the money making behind the politics; how the drug war can be considered slow Nazi policy on the poor and the racial profiling used. We look at these destructive and failed policy and manipulation in its historical context and destructive outcomes.
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"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time"
Featuring Ruby N. Sales who joins us tonight as co-moderator.
With you, we will discuss our community's response to a rising and troubling challenge to the agency of Black people as citizens in this country. As we come closer to the term end of the first African-American elected to the Presidency, violence and terrorism of all kinds have been unleashed upon us threatening to silence our mobilization and voice to protect ourselves, to resist and to rebel. A slogan alone will not be enough. How do we keep the flames of liberation burning to move forward in this continuing struggle ?
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In Conversation with Dr. Raymond Winbush
"Racism and Mental Health Therapies and
The Movie, “12 Years A Slave"
Scholar Author Lecturer Practioner
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Saluting Mama on OUR COMMON GROUND
Mother's Day Special
"Included in someone’s right to parent is the right “to parent a child without fear that he or she will be hurt or killed.” Black mothers have been stripped of this freedom because their motherhood is not fully recognized due to negative depictions that continue to linger." - Briana Perry, " For Harriet"
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Bring your Mother to RADIO Night
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"Uprising: Resistance and Rebellion"
Guests: Ajamu Baraka and Efia Nwangaza
Ajamu Baraka, Founder and fromer Executive Director , the US Human Rights Network and Contributor to Black Agenda Report
Baraka is an internationally recognized leader of the emerging human rights movement in the U.S. and has been at the forefront of efforts to apply the international human rights framework to social justice advocacy in the U.S. for more than 25 years.
Efia Nwangaza, Human Rights Attorney and Liberation Broadcaster, WMXP Greenville South Carolina
Sister Nwangaza, current director of the Malcolm X Center for Self Determination, is a former Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer. The Malcolm X Center for Self Determination ( http://wmxp955.webs.com/aboutus.htm ), is a volunteer grassroots, community based, volunteer staffed, owned and operated human rights action center, since 1991. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK
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In Conversation with Barbara R. Arnwine
President and Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law LIVE
ABOUT BARBARA R. ARNWINE
Barbara Arnwine has served as the president and executive director of the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law since 1989. She is renowned for her instrumental contributions to passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991 and the 2006 re-authorization of provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
She is the Host of “Igniting Change with Barbara Arnwine” a weekly talk show which airs on WOL-AM in Washington, DC.
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"The Urgency of Thinking Black"
A Conversation with Dr. Tommy J. Curry
“The Negro, in the universities and colleges of Europe and America, has to do his thinking and his reading in…the white man’s language…Our environment makes us think white, and some of us think white so persistently that we haven’t the time to think Black. I urge upon you…to help, with voice and pen, to hasten the coming of the morning when Negroes all over this broad land will wake up to the importance of thinking Black.
John Edward Bruce—“The Importance of Thinking Black”—1917
• WE SUFFER POLICE MURDER, POLITICAL STRANGULATION AND THE REIGN OF WHITE CONTROL
• WE LIVE IN A POLICE STATE.
• THE CONFEDERACY IS RISING ACROSS THE LAND.
• THE WAR WAGING AGAINST POOR PEOPLE.
OUR reconstruction and redemption as a people will only come when we start THINKING BLACK.
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Tonight: " The Matter of White ManNess: The Bad Apple Argument NOT"
police misconduct, college students singing songs of lynching Black people or elected officialswe are quick to defend the system as a whole and say that these are just examples of “a few bad apples”. We submit that such arguments are ‘bullshyt’. These problems are definitely systematic and "the bad apple arguments" do not pass the test of logic.
Does not a rotten apple pollute all the apples in the crate ? Or, is their bacteria in the crate which infects all the apples ? This racist behavior living in a “specialized white male culture’ living off of white privilege and supremacy is impossible. It pollutes and empowers whatever real or assumed power they are granted. Our children die and live by this system. Our tax dollars support it.
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Tonight: Remembering Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan
In Conversation with Dr. Wilmer Leon of Sirius/XM radio, "Inside with the Issues"
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Tonight: In Conversation with Yvette Carnell
POWER BLOGGER and THOUGHT-LEADER
Editor, BreakingBrown.com and Your Black World
Discussing her commentary about the Byron Allen suit, HBCUs, Rev. Al Sharpton and Ferguson and more.
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"The DOJ Report: Shallow Oversight, Vague Enforcement"
Does the report or the path established by the DOJ adequate to address the findings and the "new jim crow" era of police terrorism against Black people in America?
Guest, Dr. James Lance Taylor, Past President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists;
Author,“Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcom X to Barack Obama “
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Tonight: " The Fair Housing Act: Oyez, Oyez"
Rolling Housing DiscrimintationProtections Back Will the Supreme Court upend protections provided by victims of housing discrimination ?
Discussion with James Perry,National Fair and Affordable Housing National Leader and Advocate
In the Spirit of Sankofa
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2015 Broadcast Theme: "In the Spirit of Sankofa"
Tonight: UPENDING WHITE SUPREMACY in the Spirit of Sankofa. We open our 2015 Broadcast Season reviewing the notion of how we make real#BlackLivesMatters. Our Guest, Liberation Expositor and Leader Rev. Dr. Ruby N. Sales to discuss upending white supremacy as a movement.
“Sankofa” teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, we should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us, so that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward. Whatever we have lost, forgotten, forgone, or been stripped of can be reclaimed, revived, preserved, and perpetuated.
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"CLAIMING OUR HUMANITY"
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Guests, Ajamu Baraka, Founder and former Executive Director, US Human Rights Network Deonna Hooper, Founder and Editor-In- Chief www.socialworkerhelp.com "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time"
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WHITE AMERIKKA UNHINGED
Guest, Tim Wise, Anti-Racism Essayist, Educator and Author
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"The Souls of Black Folks: The Ashes of Justice"
Dr. Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Critical Race Theory and Africana Studies
Dr. James Lance Taylor, Department Chair and Professor, University of San Francisco; Past President of the National Conference
of Black Political Scientists; Author,“Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcom X to Barak Obama “
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Tonight: "The Soul of Black Folks: Rediscovering A Critical Truth" Guest: Dr. Tommy J. Curry
Professor of Philosophy, Critical Race Theories and Africana Studies
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"Empowering black America to Achieve Itself"
Tonight: "The Soul of Black Folks: Have We Lost It ?"
Guest: Chauncey DeVega
Social, Cultural and Political Critic and Journalist
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Tonight: : Ebola Fear and TraumaLooking back at the Weekend of ResistanceTV is a 'fishbowl of Black pain'. Iyanla Vanzant's "fixes" for Black men and women does it help?
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OWNING OUR CHILDREN'S PAIN
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"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time"
Black Male Feminism and Black Liberation
A dialogue between scholars, professors and authors Dr. David E. Ikard and Dr. Tommy J. Curry.
Issues, events and concerns of Black America. Our listeners, guests and callers propose and discuss solutions, ideas and notions of the critical issues facing our community so that " . . . it may Achieve itself". We present serious Black scholars, philosophers, thinkers, activists and grassroots leaders of our time. Informed and forward looking discourse in a safe sanctuary for "Black truth".
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Tonight: “ Slavery By Another Name”
Full Documentary Presentation
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Tonight: BLACK St. Louis: Then and Now" l A Native Son Reflects
Guests: Dr. Thabiti Lewis, Professor, Scholar and Author
MO State Senator Jamilah Nasheed and Director, A Better Life Community Center, James Clarke
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"Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves"
Eye-Witness Perspectives from Ferguson
"Ferguson Under Seige: Occupied Amerikka
Rev. Ruby N. Sales
Founder, SpiritHouse Project, social activist, scholar,public theologian, and educator.
Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
Author, documentary filmmaker, public intellectual, organizer, pastor and theologian.
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"Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves"
."Homeland Terrorism"
Saturday, August 16, 2014 LIVE
"We were prepared then, as we are now, to give our all in the interest of oppressed people." - BPP
Boots on the Ground Reports
SpiritHouse Project, Susan K. Smith and Osagyefo Sekou
The Smearing of Dead Black Boys
Mental Illness in Police Departments
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FERGUSON #THEFRONTLINE #FERGUSONREBELLION #Homelandterrorism
Four Unarmed Black Men Have Been Killed By Police in the Last Month, From New York City and LA to Ohio and Ferguson, MO, they all died under disputed circumstances.
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"Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves"
This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND "Amerikkan Law Enforcement: A Culture of White Violence and Privilege" The Renisha McBride Murder Trial
Before Eric Garner was killed by NYC police officers,his last words before the fatal chokehold were, "THIS STOPS NOW".
City and political leaders across the country have accepted one "police death" after another. Some of them many Black people supported enthusiastically. How do we hold them accountable and when for the culture of violence under which law enforcement operates? When do WE draw the line in the sand?
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"Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves"
TONIGHT:
"Behind the Poor Door: Housing Stop & Frisk in NYC"
2nd Hour
The New James Brown Biopic
Genocide with your name on it.
Eric Garner Death Ruled a Homicide
James Baldwin 90th Birthday
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"Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves"
"Dispatch from Amerikka:
War, Murder, Genocide: The Global Chokehold"
Detroit , the Border and the Gaza, Refugee Children, Eric Garner, the Poor Door
Guest, Dr. Tommy J. Curry , Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University
Tommy J. Curry’s work spans across the various fields of philosophy, jurisprudence, Africana Studies, and Gender Studies. Though trained in American and Continental philosophical traditions, Curry’s primary research interests are in Critical Race Theory and Africana Philosophy. In Critical Race Theory, Currently his research focuses on the linking the conceptualization of ethics found in the Belmont Report to Civil Rights and social justice paradigms.
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2014 Session Two
"Confronting the New Amerikkan Empire"
In Conversation with Cynthia McKinney
OUR COMMON GROUND OPENS THE 2ND Session of 2014 on July 5, 2014. We are honored to have as our guest, Cynthia McKinney former U. S. Congresswoman, international human rights activist and former Presidential candidate, to discuss domestic and foreign policy in the new Amerikkan Empire
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This Week OUR COMMON GROUND
OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT
Nigeria in Crisis
The Road to Obama's Impeachment
White Privilege in the Work Place
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2014 Season
"BLACK AMERICA: A STATE OF EMERGENCY"
Guest Co-Host: Dr. Byron E. Price
A leading scholar in the field of prison privatization, he is the author of the book, Merchandizing Prisoners: Who Really Pays for Prison Privatization published by Praeger Publishers in March 2006 and the coedited 3-volume set entitled “Prison Privatization: A Controversial Industry” by Praeger Publishers, September 2012.
THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE
Tonight: YOUR LOCAL EFFORTS
PLANNING AND PROTEST
STOP TALK and START ACTING
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How you can begin to challenge the damaging policies and programs which feed into the school to prison pipeline for children in your community.
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2014 Season
"BLACK AMERICA: A STATE OF EMERGENCY"
Our Guest: Author, Activist Educator
Agyei Tyehimba, "Truth for Our Youth: A Self-Empowerment Book for Teens"
Agyei Tyehimba was born and raised in the famed 'Sugar Hill' section of Harlem. His parents - George and Adrienne Stith - gave him the best of both worlds. His mother emphasized the importance of character development, education and charity, while his father developed street sense and a love for Black history and culture.In addition to teaching, Mr. Tyehimba has provided numerous workshops to help parents understand and exercise their rights and to advocate for their children's academic success. Agyei currently coordinates Boys To Men, a group providing mentorship and life management skills to middle school boys between the ages of 10 and 13.
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2014 Season
"BLACK AMERICA: A STATE OF EMERGENCY"
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Call In - Listen Line: 347-838-9852 The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights ActAttorney General Eric Holder and President Obama on Civil RightsRev. Al Sharpton and the FBIThe Evolving New Black LeadershipGlen Ford, Editor of The Black Agenda Report-Racism in Media URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio
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2014 Season
"BLACK AMERICA: A STATE OF EMERGENCY"
"WITNESS FROM THE BRIDGE"
Dr. Joyce A. Ladner
Civil Rights Pioneer and Activist .- Sociologist - Academic Leader
Public Policy Thought Leader
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Challenging Violence in Africa Guest: Anti-Violence Activist, Carmen del Rosario Founder, Roots of Transformation
Carmen del Rosario and her organiation, Roots of Transformation is committed to creating safer communities for women and girls by working with men and boys in regions of Africa.
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"Seeing Color: Colorism and the Black Community"
“If you’re black, stay back;if you’re brown, stick around;
if you’re yellow, you’re mellow;if you’re white, you’re all right.”
Colorism disadvantages dark-skinned people, while privileging those with lighter skin. Research has linked colorism to smaller incomes, lower marriage rates, longer prison terms and fewer job prospects for darker-skinned people.
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"Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America"
There is a racist beat is in the music of sports. In challenging this traditional portrayal, scholars often characterize sport as a "microcosm of society." As such, sport has revealed the dominant attitudes and practices regarding race relations in the United States throughout the country's history.
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“The Death of American Radio: Opportunity for Progressive Empowerment”
Guest: Norman Goldman
American attorney and talk radio host.
Host, The NorMAN GoldMAN Show
"Where Justice is Served . . ."
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OUR COMMON GROUND BLACK HISTORY GAMES
20 Questions - 10 Points Each Call In to pick up Bonus Questions Call In WITH a BONUS QUESTION
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2014 Season
"BLACK AMERICA: A STATE OF EMERGENCY"
Dr. La Francis Rodgers-Rose, Ph.D. Founder & CEO International Black Women's Congress
Building bridges uniting women of African descent. The growing poverty and negative stereotypes of Black women in the 21st century.
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THE JORDAN DAVIS MURDER VERDICT
When White Men are Forgiven by a Jury
Verdicts in counts 2,3,4 and 5. No markings on Count 1. Count 1 is "mistried." Count 2: Guilty, second degree murder. Count 3: Guilty of second degree murder. Count 4: Guilty of attempted second degree murder... Count 5 : Guilty of shooting bullets or deadly missiles...
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2014 Season
"BLACK AMERICA: A STATE OF EMERGENCY"
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH WRIGHT: THE LIFE AND MINISTRY OF JEREMIAH A. WRIGHT
Author, Rev. Dr Susan Smith
A groundbreaking book on the prophetic ministry of Jeremiah Wright in a technological age where the Empire and its allies imagine and present Black people as human waste rather than heirs of God's creation.
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Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, Chief/Head of State Gullah/Geechee Nation
She iwas the first Gullah/Geechee person to speak on behalf of her people before the United Nations in Genevé, Switzerland. The Gullah/Geechee people have been considered “a nation within a nation” from the time of chattel enslavement in the United States until they officially became an internationally recognized nation on July 2, 2000. They elected Queen Quet, Chieftess and Head-of-State for the Gullah/Geechee Nation.
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The Case of the IRP6
The IRP6 case concerns an African-American company (IRP Solutions Corporation) in Colorado that developed criminal investigations software for federal, state and local law enforcement. These six owners who were convicted in 2011 for mail fraud while doing business witht he US government is a story about how prosecutorial tunnel vision created a tragic communication failure. ?The criminal justice system exists to give everyone a chance to tell their story. ?Juries decide who brings the best story to the table. ?Bad things happen when the system amplifies one story while silencing the other.
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"Wilmington On Fire" A Documentary Film
OUR GUESTS: Filmmaker, Christopher Everett Author, Larry Reni Thomas and Dr. William 'Sandy' Darity
Unveiling the Secret of A White Supremacy Terrorist attack Against A Black Township In North Carolina.
This event was the spring board for the white supremacy movement and Jim Crow (segregation) throughout the state of North Carolina, and the American South.
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"THE ECONOMICS OF PRIVATIZATION OF AMERICA'S PRISON SYSTEM"
We begin the 2014 Season, "BLACK AMERICA: A STATE OF EMERGENCY" by examining t the implications of the merchandising of prisoners, school to prison pipeline and the economics of the privatization of America's prisons.
Dr. Price is the co-editor of "Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry" and author of "Merchandising Prisoners: Who Really Pays for Prison Privatization?"
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HERI KWANZAA ( HAPPY KWANZAA)
Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense.
Tonight, we explore the Seven Priniciples and their richness in our living.
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IN CONVERSATION with Efia Nwangaza
Human Rights
Community Development
Media
Activist and Leader
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"Spear of the Nation
Nelson Mandela: The Authentic Era of South African Revolution"
Guest: Dr. Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Philosophy and Black Studies
Texas A&M University
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Guest, Antoinette Harrell
Host, Nurturing Our Roots Television
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In Conversation with Dr. Raymond Winbush
"Racism and Mental Health Therapies and The Movie, “12 Years A Slave"
Scholar Author Lecturer Practioner
Dr. Raymond A. Winbush is the Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University in Baltimore Maryland.
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OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham "Disconnected From Our History: The Residual of MisEducation, Media and Denial" ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day. "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO About Us www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com Program Information and Profiles www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO Guest, Dr. David H. Ikard FSU Professor of AF-AM Lit. and Author "Blinded By the Whites: Why Race Still Matters In 21st Century America" and "Nation of Cowards URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day. "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO About Us www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com Program Information and Profiles www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham Our Guest, George E. Curry. Editor, National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service. Editor, The Curry Report. The former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, Curry writes a weekly syndicated column for NNPA, a federation of more than 200 African American newspapers. ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day. "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO About Us www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com Program Information and Profiles www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham "A Proper Reaction to Racism ?" Guest: Yvette Carnell, Editor, BreakingBrown.com and Your Black World ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day. "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO About Us www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com Program Information and Profiles www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham Our Guest: Author, Researcher, Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry Co-Author: "The Radicalization of Ray Richardson: Suspicion Still Surrounds Death of Black Activist TV Producer ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day. "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO About Us www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com Program Information and Profiles www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham Tonight: October Open Mic Night Federal Government SeizureDomestic Violence and Black OppressionPolice MurderThis thing called Road Rage ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day. "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO About Us www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com Program Information and Profiles www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham “Sexual Assault and Mental Health in the Military : Black Veteran Pain Invisible" Dr. Cathy Santos ,Chairwoman, Pennsylvania Department of Disabled American Veterans; Founder, National Alliance of Women Veterans, Philadelphia, PA ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day. "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO About Us www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com Program Information and Profiles www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham Guest, Dr. Tommy J. Curry Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University "Black Liberation, Civil Rights and Social Justice" ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND features guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day. "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO About Us www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com Program Information and Profiles www.ourcommonground.ning.com
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Special Edition The George Zimmerman Trial Week 1 "The Quality of Justice for Trayvon Martin"
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham ASSATA TEACH-IN On May 2, 2013, the FBI added Assata to its 10 most wanted terrorists list and increased its bounty for assistance in her capture to $2 million. "For centuries, nothing has so stirred up American fury like the escape of a slave. That ain’t just distant history. For daring to slip her bonds and escape from brutal and unjust bondage, the Empire now labels her a terrorist. That’s because to them, nothing is more terrifying than resistance to their imperial will. As for terrorists, if they really wanna find some, it shouldn’t be too hard to find them. Just check the White House." - Mumia Abu Jamal June 8, 2013 10pm ET "Speaking Truth to Power AND Ourselves' Contact: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "AN EVENING WITH Dr. Runoko Rashidi: His Life and Work"
Dr. Runoko Rashidi is a extraordinarily gifted historian, research specialist, writer, world traveler, and public lecturer focusing on the African presence globally and the African foundations of world civilizations. "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Guest, James H. Perry National Housing Expert; Director, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Center "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham “The State of Black America: A Tale of Two Countries” Tonight’s Guest: Dr. Wilmer J. Leon "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Witnesses From the Bridge" Award-winning Filmmaker, Nicholle La Vann "Living Legendz" “Living Legendz” is documentary that highlights the lives of Abiodun Oyewole, Dr. Leonard Jeffries and Jamal Joseph and their contributions to their community and culture.
“Living Legendz” The documentary series explores the lives of African and Latino American icons. So much of Black and Latino history has been lost or not documented leaving others to tell our stories. "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Witnesses From the Bridge" They came to Change a Nation and Lift UP a People. Women who carry the Struggle on their backs. LIVE Coversation with Ruby Sales, SNCC Field Activist and Executive Director/Founder, The Spirit House Project "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Witnesses From the Bridge" They came to Change a Nation and Lift UP a People. Women who carry the Struggle on their backs. Rebroadcast Coversation with Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Witnesses From the Bridge" They came to Change a Nation and Lift UP a People. Women who carry the Struggle on their backs. Rebroadcast Coversation with OH Senator, Nina Turner 2nd Hour - Honoring our Sisters "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
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"Witnesses On the Bridge" Florence L. Florence Tate The FBI Most Wanted Secretary Civil Rights Activist, Journalist, and Press Secretary "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Tonight: “Restorative Justice, Slavery, and the American Soul . . . The Question of Reparations " Michael Blevins, Author Professor Change and Justice Leader/Activist Founding Executive Director, NE Iowa Peace & Justice Center Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham“The Ashes of A Manifesto: The LAPD and the Deaths of Christopher Dorner and His Victims” OPEN MIC "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Open Mic Tonight Donner, USPS and Chicago "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham 2013 Season Opening Witnessing the Motion of History Our Guest: Playthell Benjamin Political, Cultural and Social Critic and Commentator "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMattersl Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Blogsite
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham OUR COMMON GROUND 21st ANNUAL KWANZAA Teach-IN HABARI GANI ? Kwanzaa is a 7 day festival celebrating the African American people, their culture and their history. It is a time of celebration, community gathering, and reflection. A time of endings and beginnings. Kwanzaa begins on December 26th and continues until New Years Day, January 1st. Learn about the Holiday with discussion of its relevancy throughout the year for enlightened community development and Black nation building. How do we strengthen our love for each other, in our families and in our community ? Commit to our well-being and to our future as a people on this planet? How do we lend the celebration and the principles of Kwanzaa into our live all year long? "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website: www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham This Week "Building and Sustaining Healthy and Strong Communities and Effective Engagement"
Makani Themba, Executive Director of the The Praxis Project, Washington, DC "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Black America Slipping into Darkness ?: Black Mental Health and Black Madness" Guest: Dr. PATRICIA A. NEWTON, M.D., MPH, M.A. President, Black Psychiatrist Association Nana Dr. Akousa Akyaa "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Black America Over the Cliff:Hunger, Mental Illness and Homelessness on America’s Political Agenda" "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM ON THE WEB
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "The Privilege of Numbers: LATINO RECOUNT" "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
"Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" BROADCASTING BRAVE BOLD BLACK Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ On the Web: http://www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com OUR COMMON GROUND http://www.ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham A Sometimes, RESPECTABLE NEGRO Chauncey DeVega Returns to OCG on November 10, 2012 Editor and Founder of the blog We Are Respectable Negroes He has been a guest on the BBC, Ring of Fire Radio, Ed Schultz, Joshua Holland's Alternet Radio Hour, the Burt Cohen show, and Our Common Ground. His essays have been featured by Salon, Alternet, the New York Daily News, and the Daily Kos. The NY Times, the Daily Beast, the Utne Reader, Washington Monthly, Slate, and the Week (among others) have featured his expert commentary and analysis on race, politics, and popular culture. "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Election Analysis and Review JOIN OUR CHAT ROOM 11 pm ET OUR Panel ALFO, Host, The ALFO Show, TruthWorks NetworkIndia DeClair, The IDeClair Show VariousExpert Political Commentary Contributors Visit US OUR COMMON GROUND on Facebook facebook.com/OCGTalkRadio Community Exchange: www.ourcommonground-talk,ning.com On the Web: www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Political Campaigns and Election Analysis and Review JOIN OUR CHAT ROOM 10 pm ET OUR Panel Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, Host, Soul AFIREALFO, Host, The ALFO Show TruthWorks Network India DeClair, The IDeClair ShowLia Gaines, FL Activist and President, WPB NAACP VariousExpert Political Commentary Contributors Join us on November 6th, for Election Review 11 pm ET Visit US OUR COMMON GROUND on Facebook facebook.com/OCGTalkRadio Community Exchange: www.ourcommonground-talk,ning.com On the Web: www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham “Seeking Secrets of Consciousness " A Conference sponsored by the Royal Circle Foundation, examining the mental health and consciousness issues important to African Americans. Discussing the pertinent issues and the conference. OUR GUESTS: Professor Hunter Adams, a pioneering neuro-scientist, researcher, lecturer and author Dr. Richard King, a psychiatrist, author, lecturer pioneer in the matter of Black consciousness, "the Black dot" and melanin. "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "The Political Landscape of Black Florida" OUR GUEST: LIA T. GAINES
Executive Director, The Center for Enterprise Opportunity (CEO) a private, non-profit corporation which whose chartered purpose and mission is to improve the economies in distressed communities by lending to small businesses and sponsors of community development initiatives; President, West Palm Beach Branch NAACP "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "THE MATTER OF REPARATIONS AND RECOGNITION" "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" eMail Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY Dick Gregory Stop & Frisk: What are We Thinking ? Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham ALFO, of The ALFO Show joins me tonight to talk: Presidential Debate: Backward & ForwardSCOTUS hears Affirmative Action "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT 2ND Page: "WOC: In the Invisible", host Suzanne Brooks "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Our Guest: OH Senator, Minority Whip Nina Turner State Senator Nina Turner represents Cleveland and the 25th Senate District and serves as the Minority Whip of the OH Senate. She has led the fight to resist State efforts to intrude the rights of labor, women and voters in the State of OH and has been a national voice of advocacy and strategic planning for citizens to transpose the OH GOP agenda of minimizing citizens rights in these areas. She is known as a courageous advocate for the poor, working class and minorities in her State. "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Tonight: Our Children's Educational Imperative "Educating our Children; Culturally Appropriate Classrooms" OUR GUEST: Dr. Christopher Emdin Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also serves as Director of Secondary School Initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center. He is author of the book, Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation, and also a columnist for the Huffington Post
His research focuses on issues of race, class, and diversity in urban science classrooms, the use of new theoretical frameworks to transform education, and urban school reform. "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham OCG Open Mic Saturday Night "Facing OUR Options" "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
The DNC Nominates President Barack Obama for a Second Term: He will Accept"
Co-Hosting wiith Janice ALFO , Host, “The ALFO Show” Wilmer Leon, Host, “ Inside the Issues” XM Radio Call-In Commentary from other political activists LIVE and CALL- IN http://www.blogtalkradio.com/OCG Call In: 347-838-9852 Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters
SOUL AFIRE with Dr. Matthew V. Johnson " The Democratic National Convention: Faking the Funk or Bringing the Noise? (Dark Whispers in the Rumor Mill)" SOUL AFIRE with Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, September 5, 2012 was moved this site for tonight, in the last 45 minutes due to technical difficulties. We have edited both parts for your listening pleasure. Enjoy SOUL AFIRE with Dr. Matthew Johnson each Wednesday 10 pm ET TruthWorks Network Radio
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham RACE, HIGHER EDUCATION AND HBCU Guest Dr. Jahi Issa
Dr. Jahi Issa, until March 2012, worked as an Assistant Professor of History & Africana Studies at Delaware State University (DSU) in Dover. When a group of students assembled in protest of DSU President Dr. Harry Williams arrested him for inciting a riot and then fired him. "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham ALFO of The ALFO SHOW Hosting for Janice Tonight Guaranteed to be offering a BOWL of WTF !!! "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Activist Scholar Dr. Raymond A. Winbush Director, Institute of Urban Research, Morgan State University Dr. Raymond Winbush discusses his recent visit with Mumia Abu-Jamal at his PA prison. We will also discuss with him the continuing terrorism against our people in the media, the schools and on the street. "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND "State Terrorism Against the People and OUR CHILDREN"
Activist Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and a Co-author, of the MXGRM Report, "Every 36 Hours: Report on The Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Black People " Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "State Terrorism Against the People and OUR CHILDREN This is the second hour of the scheduled program. BTR technical problems precluded the LIVE broadcast of the program in the 1st hour. We will present this program on August 11, 2012 at 10 pm ET. Thank you for your patience. Next Week on OUR COMMON GROUND "State Terrorism Against the People and OUR CHILDREN" Activist Kali Akuno, A Co-author, "Every 36 Hours: Report on The Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Black People " We hope that you will join us on August 11, 20012. https://www.facebook.com/pages/OUR-COMMON-GROUND-with-Janice-Graham/95053031652Check our FB Page and LIKE US
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" The EEOC - Is it Protecting YOUR Rights Guest: Ricardo Jones, EEOC Whistleblower EEOC Under Fire Black Protection Under Law in the Trash ? Ricardo Jones charges that this organization has failed its mission miserably when it involves cases affecting African Americans. Jones is a veteran and the former Senior Federal Investigator for the New York District of the EEOC from 2001 to 2010. He charges that the EEOC is a cesspool of corruption and racism. He says, “Blacks working in the United States have no protection from racial discrimination, because the EEOC unfairly rejects almost 97% of all cases filed by Blacks.” Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" OPEN MIC Saturday Night Theatre # 6 : Aurora CO Justice for Trayvon: The New Zimmerman Show Post Racial ? : Compared to What ? Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Exploring the theologically poisonous tentacles which have found their way into many Black churches and is now a major force in the black expression of Christianity in America. How can we restore church leadership and engagement in the civic, political, social service our communities once again? The Black Church On Fire A Continuation of our June 23, 2012 Discussion Guest: Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. AUTHOR PASTOR SCHOLAR Dr. Johnson joins us on OUR COMMON GROUND once again to discuss the decline of Black church engagement in the matters of Black community socio-economic, cultural and governmental affairs and the surging popularity of the Black prosperity gospel movement. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Chicago. He is the Pastor of Church of the Good Shepherd-Baptist and served as the National Executive Director of Every Church A Peace Church. Learn more about this episode Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Tonight: Black Media: Preserving Black Independent Voices Our Guest: Atty. Efia Nwanganza An established activist and lawyer who launched (June ’07) the low power community radio station. WMXP (95.5 fm) in Greenville, SC, The station serves as the Voice of the People, and is Greenville's only non- commercial, community owned, It is operated and funded as a project sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The station gives a voice to the voiceless and a home to knowledge, community enrichment and social justice advocacy. The lack of funding threatens to close it. What happens when communities and activists have no media outlet to organize and inform?. Read More about this Broadcast Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice GrahamTonight : OPEN MIC SATURDAY Breaching the topic of Anosognosia . A condition in which a person who suffers disabilty to brain injury where persons seem unaware of or denies the existence of their handicap. Anosognosia, meaning "unawareness of illness" "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Exploring the theologically poisonous tentacles which have found their way into many Black churches and is now a major force in the black expression of Christianity in America. How can we restore church leadership and engagement in the civic, political, social service our communities once again? The Black Church On Fire Guest: Dr. Matthew V. Johnson, Sr. AUTHOR PASTOR SCHOLAR Dr. Johnson joins us on OUR COMMON GROUND to discuss the decline of Black church engagement in the matters of Black community socio-economic, cultural and governmental affairs and the surging popularity of the Black prosperity gospel movement. A graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Chicago. He is the Pastor of Church of the Good Shepherd-Baptist and served as the National Executive Director of Every Church A Peace Church. Learn More about this episode Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Tonight: Suzanne Brooks, Author, Activist discuses her new book, "The Constrctive Extermination of Women of Color; Consequences of Perpetual Socio- Economic Marginalization" Suzanne Brooks, is an author, activist and musician. The book, "The Constructive Extermination of Women of Color : Consequences of Perpetual Socio-Economic Marginalization" examines the unique experience of women of color under both racism and sexism and focuses on strategies which can help change the systems of our society which oppresses them. Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice GrahamCheck Engine Light ON "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves Activist Profile: Darcy Delaproser, UK OPEN MIC NIGHT § The Romney Factor§ The Kill List§ Poverty§ Voter Suppression§ Military Police State§ Citizen’s United Creflo Dollar and Erykah Badu Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham President of The Public Banking Institute and author, "Web of Debt" Ellen H. Brown Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Monetary reform—the contention that governments, not banks, should create and lend a nation’s money—has rarely even made the news, so this is a first. Either the times they are a-changin’, or Victoria managed to frame the message in a way that was so simple and clear that even a child could understand it. ?Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves ? Learn More Follow US on Twitter: JaniceOCG OCG on Facebook
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Discussion of America's Economic and Banking Failures Your Money is Under Seize and what you can do about. Program Note Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Modern Day Enslavement: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE TRAP" A Talk with Black Liberation Expositor Law Professor Vernellia RandallUniversity of Dayton Law School, Dayton, OH Learn more about this Broadcast and Professor Randall BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE BLACK "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham OCG Special with LIVE interviw with Marissa Alexanderfrom the Duval County Jail 2 pm ET Friday, May 11, 2012 Marissa Alexander faces 20 years in prison for Standing Her Ground. Her husband beat her many times and while and in defending herself from one more beating, Alexander fired a warning shot into the ceiling. That shot saved her life. However when she was accused of assault, the court did not grant her protection under the FL Stand Your Ground defense. Today in a sentencing hearing she faces going to prison for 20 years. We will hear from Marissa as she tells her story. Learn more.
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Modern Day Enslavement: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE TRAP"A Talk with Black Liberation Expositor Law Professor Vernellia RandallUniversity of Dayton Law School, Dayton, OH Learn more about this Broadcast and Professor Randall BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE BLACK "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" The Case of Marissa Alexander Marissa Alexander was in the fight of her life against an abusive husband who, according to her, had every intention of killing her. After 18 months in jail, she awaits trail on three counts of of aggravated assault with no intent to harm, and faces a minimum 20 years in prison. George Zimmerman, meantime, leaves jail. The judge in the case dismissed Alexander’s motion to receive immunity under the “Stand Your Ground”. NO ONE KILLED; NO ONE HURT Do Black people have a right to STAND THEIR GROUND ? Our Guest: Lincoln Alexander, Ex-Husband Advocate and Helena Jenkins,Marissa's Sister Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" "Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America Guest: Joanne Griffith Author/Broadcast Journalist BBC, NPR, Pacifica Radio The Redefining Black Power Project Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Fear Mongering to Win The rich on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line have long exploited racism to keep themselves rich and divide the poor, the higher percentage of blacks in the south has always meant that "keeping them in their place" works better at driving white people's fear. Since the Repubs don't have anything to offer the poor-- indeed, they're more of a target than a constituency-- fear mongering is ...an irresistible means of winning an election. Newt Gingrich, meet Ross Barnett. OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE BLACK "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Tonight's GUESTS: Edward Wyckoff Williams Columnist, political economic analyst; MSNBC Political Analyst; Contributor The Root and WashPost, theGrio.com A’Lelia Bundles Author, Journalist and Chair and President of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the National Archives Author, “On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker”, her biography of her famous great grandmother. Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l OCG Website
OCG Annual Kwannza TEACH- IN 2011 The annual remembrance and celebration honoring universal Black culture, history, observed from December 26 to January 1 each year. The celebration raises and reinforces the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or N'guzo Saba and the responsibility to community and family building and empowerment. What is it ? How it is celebrated and why. Black Nativity National Center of Afro-American Artist production of Black Nativity It is the joyous account of an historic event that occurred 2,000 years ago. It’s a celebration that tells the original story of the Nativity in scripture, verse, music and dance. Based on the Gospel of St. Luke, combined with the poetry of Langston Hughes. A gift to the Boston community for 41 seasons. LEARN MORE
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham SPECIAL Friday December 16, 2011 10 pm EST In Conversation with Ginger White The American media has now moved on. Ginger White appeared in full support of the other women whose lives had been so mutated by Cain’s desperation. It is said that she was identified by a friend who knew of the affair. Was this friend also a friend of the Koch Brothers, Carl Rove and other GOP operatives ? So what really is the story behind Ginger White’s truth ? How does it inform our understanding about allegiances? When do we and will we have a Sister’s back? We will be in the Sister Circle with Ginger White. Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham COMMUNITY FORUM: www.ourcommonground-talk-ning.com Website: www.ourcommonground.com
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" OUR Guest: Isaiah Washington Actor, Author, Activist Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves OUR Guest: Dr. William "Sandy" Darity He is a Professor of Economoics at Duke University, Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves Author, Journalist Amy Alexander returns to discuss her new book " UNCOVERING RACE: A BLACK JOURNALIST'S STORY OF REPORTING AND REINVENTION" Program NOTES Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com l Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves Frank Schaeffer, Author, "Crazy for God" returns to OCG to discuss his newest book, " Sex, Moms and God . . ." Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham > COMMUNITY FORUM Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves OUR Guest: Dr. Tamelyn Tucker Worgs Author: " The Black Mega Church: Theology, Gender, and the Politics of Public Engagement" How are these church communities engaging the public sphere? And, why are their approaches so varied?
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More than a dozen states have passed new laws designed to impede voters at every step of the electoral process through nefarious voter registration requirements. If these laws stand, it is estimated that more than 25% of the Black people who voted for Barack Obama will be ineligible or restricted from voting in 2012. Many of these laws are in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1985. Of all of these barriers, the most pervasive threat to voting rights are new identification restrictions, which have so far passed in five states. "Voter Suppression: The New Poll Tax" Our Guest: Judith Browne Dianis Co-Director, Advancement Project We will be taking your calls and responding to your chatroom discussion. Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves OUR Guest: Neill Franklin and Jim Geirach Exec. Director and Director L.E.A.P. FIXING THE WAR on Drugs: The Question of Prohibition Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com ?Twitter: @JaniceOCG ?Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham ?COMMUNITY FORUM?Website
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves OUR Guest: Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo She blew the whistle on race discrimination and corruption in the EPA, winning the largest settlement ever by any federal government employee. We discuss her ordeal and victories and her new book,No Fear: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM?Website
Author, Jeff Sharlet, “Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between” He is the author of "The Family" James Gierach, L.E.A.P. on PBS Premiere of Ken Burn's “Prohibition" Join us on Facebook In our off-air discussion forum We are the Black university “on the air”.
The Troy Davis Murder We are all diminished by the barbaric practice of capital punishment, and distressed that it is carried out in our name. Like so many others, we feel traumatized, betrayed, and violated by a government that is entrusted to protect us and keep us safe. Wednesday’s actions by the state force us to return to one of the fundamental questions that we ask at OUR COMMON GROUND: What kind of society are we that expends such massive resources – financial, psychological and, dare we suggest spiritual – on the execution of a single person to avenge the needs of a family or group, while ignoring the basic needs of entire communities? In the face of so much doubt, the absence of guilt . . . it was not an execution, IT WAS MURDER. Returning to OUR COMMON GROUND once again to inform, guide and to examine the event, our grief and our response. Scholar/Activist Dr. Raymnd Winbush Poli-Cultural Writer & Activist, Organizer Kevin Gray “Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES” Web Facebook
OUR COMMON GROUND Today, the GA Pardons Board denied clemency in the case of Troy Davis. He is scheduled for EXECUTION on September 21, 2011 at 7:00 pm ET. Tonight we STAND and WATCH with his family. OUR COMMON GROUND Troy Davis Vigil will broadcast each evening until September 22, 2011. It is indeed, Winter in America
OUR COMMON GROUND Today, the GA Pardons Board denied clemency in the case of Troy Davis. He is scheduled for EXECUTION on September 21, 2011 at 7:00 pm ET. Tonight we STAND and WATCH with his family. OUR COMMON GROUND Troy Davis Vigil will broadcast each evening until September 22, 2011. It is indeed, Winter in America
OUR COMMON GROUND Today, the GA Pardons Board held the clemency hearing on the case of Troy Davis. He has been scheduled for EXECUTION on September 21, 2011 at 7:00 pm ET despite the unraveling of the evidence and testimony used to find him guility. An innocent man being put to death. What did you do to stop this injustice. Learn more about this case and why the Board should STOP THIS EXECUTION of a man where there is TOO MUCH DOBUT ! If this Board does not grant Mr. Davis clemency and stay this execution, OUR COMMON GROUND will broadcast each evening until September 22, 2011. YOUR THOUGHTS AND REPORTS. OPEN MIC
Troy Davis and the Death Penalty The order was signed on Sept. 6, at 3:53 p.m. “Within a time period commencing at noon on the 21st day of September … Troy Anthony Davis shall be executed by the Department of Corrections.” Troy Anthony Davis was convicted and sentenced to death in 1991 . . . the case against him has completely fallen apart Did we wait too long to mobilize on the issue of the death penalty? Read more Framing and informing the political, social and cultural issues critical to the African-American community. OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
This Week . . . Chauncey DeVega
He is a resplendent purveyor of negro wisdom, collector of Black wit and brilliant serious race analyst. “Speaking TRUTH to POWER and OURSELVES” Framing and informing the political, social and cultural issues critical to the African-American community. Facebook In our off-air discussion forum Broadcasting Black and Bold for 20 Years
"The Black Eye in the Storm" The King Memorial: Civil Rights on the Mall Affirmative Action in the Era of Obama
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Civil Rights: Are We Losing The Gains of the 1960s ? Voter Rights - Employment- Lending OUR GUEST: Barbara Arnwine, National Director The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
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Compromise or Concessions at What Price ? OUR COMMON GROUND SPECIAL Hosted by Janice Graham and Dr. Wilmer Leon 10 pm ET "Compromise or Concessions at Whatt Price? " is a commentary published by by Dr. Wilmer Leon, host "Inside the Issues with Wilmer Leon", XM/Sirius Radio. Tonight, in this Special Broadcast, we discuss these implications with you. Dr. Leon and Janice will host a discussion of the commentary, taking your calls and analysis of the impact of the deficit ceiling deal made by the President. Live and Call-In 10pm ET Read the full commentary here.
Racial Coding and Priming in American Politics
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Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Rese arch Professor at the Institute for Social Research. He is currently the University of Michigan Principal Investigator for the American National Election Study for the 2012 election cycle. URBAN PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO
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OUR COMMON GROUND SPECIAL July 18, 2011 10 pm ET She was a "poster child for INJUSTICE in America Our Special Guest: Kemba Smith, author, "Poster Child: The Kemba Smith Story" Learn more about her story
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Our Guest: Dr. Jared Ball, Professor of Commnication Studies, Morgan State University Radio Host and Producer; Columnist, "Black Agenda Report "; Author Framing and informing the political, social and cultural issues critical to the African-American community. On the Web Facebook Off-Air-Community
OUR COMMON GROUND Our Guest: Dr. Jared Ball, Professor of Commnication Studies, Morgan State University Radio Host and Producer; Columnist, "The Black Agenda Report "; and author
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham" Black Women's Blueprint: The Policing of Girls" OUR GUEST: Farah Tanis, Founder It's time to stop sexual assault by the police and demand police accountability! The recent conclusion of criminal proceedings against former NYPD officers Kenneth Mata and Franklin Moreno on charges of raping a woman they were called to assist serves as an important wake-up call. Black Women’s Blueprintis is a civil and human rights organization working to develop a culture where women of African descent are fully empowered and where gender, race and other disparities are erased. For more information or to get involved email: blueprintny@gmail.com Join us OCG onFaceBook Web: www. ourcommonground.com Community Center: www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Tonight: "The Politics of Debt and Credit: The Profits of Your Score" Our Guest: Rodney Anderson, author, “Credit 911: Secrets and Strategies for Saving Your Financial Life” “Speaking TRUTH to POWER and OURSELVES” Framing and informing the political, social and cultural issues critical to the African-American community. Join us on Facebook ?• OCG off-air discussion forum We are the Black university “on the air”
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“Speaking TRUTH to POWER and OURSELVES” Rhone Fraser, author, playwright Lauren Burke, writer, publisher, Crew of 42 Framing and informing the political, social and cultural issues critical to the African-American community. Featuring guests, topics and information that define solutions, invoking the best thought, ideas and purpose to build a stronger voice in the our communities. We are the Black university “on the air”.
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Our Guest: Dr. Wilmer Leon Political Analyst and Talk Host XM Radio, The Power Janice and Wilmer will mix it up on the Obama Administration, the prison, war and educational crisis, the economy and music. They will share their notes on Black media and talk radio. Both lovers of jazz music, they will also share their picks for Black History Month. Janice and Dr. Leon will be listening for you. • Repulicrats. TeaBiggots and other Desperadoes • Our President as Political Butler in Chief • Voter Suppression . . . the return of the Poll TAX • The new Black media and much, much more . . .
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OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham"The Color of the Economy: Economic Inequalities" Guest: Dr. Darrick Hamilton, Department of Economics, New School of Management and Urban Policy The causes, consequences and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in economic and health outcomes, which includes an examination of the intersection of identity, racism, colorism, and socioeconomic outcomes. June 11, 2011 10 pm ET "Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES" Talk that Matters Contact us: ocgInfo@ourcommonground.com
Friday Night Special US Boycotts World Conference on Racism The US will not attend the World Conference Against Racism hosted by the UN at its New York headquarters because the Durban process has "included ugly displays of intolerance and anti-Semitism,"Joseph E. Macmanus, acting US assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, wrote in a letter sent to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and other members of congress. The US did not attend the conference in 2009. Why and what to do about it. Live and Call In