Black Power 96 Radio · Local Going Global is Back! It’s baaaaaaack! Local Going Global is back y’all! Local artists’ music will be heard and the weekly winners announced on Fridays at 5pm ET. It’s “The Top 5 at 5” on Smooth Grooves with your favorite, famous “Florida Blind Boy” DJ Eddie. So local artists […]
On September 12, 2020, a gunman opened fire on two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies at the Willowbrook Blue Line Transit Station in Compton California. The deputies were taken to the nearby St. Francis Medical Center in the neighboring city of Lynwood. Outside of the hospital, protestors gathered, not in support of the officers but in […]
As U.S. COVID-19 deaths exceed 200,000, we talk with two African professionals about: The state of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the African community along with the state of health and healthcare in general, for African people in the U.S. and around the world. What African people can do to guard against infection […]
Hip-Hop is a cultural movement that was formed following the defeat of the African Revolution of the 1960s. Its poetics, aesthetics and politics reflect African life under the U.S. counterinsurgency. The conditions that define the moment hip-hop arose were: increased privatization, mass unemployment and poverty, increased colonial violence and a decrease in mass mobilization. Hip-Hop […]
Hosts Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu talk with Diop Olugbala, chair of the “Black Community Control of Police” working group of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations about: Stop and Frisk racial profiling Special “anti-gang” laws targeting the black community The September 11-13, 2020 online Convention of the International […]
Last week, the National Basketball Association, the Women’s National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer and the National Hockey League were forced to cancel playoff and other games when athletes refused to play, in protest of the actions of the Kenosha, Wisconsin police, shooting an unarmed black man Jacob Blake, seven times in […]
“The African community in St. Louis has a very rich and vibrant history of culture, music, resistance and strong family. That’s still a fact in north St. Louis. We contrast that reality to the economic reality where 30% of the population is living on less than $5 a day. Until recently, there have been about […]
Black and Latino people make up nearly 80 percent of the people in prison. Black and Latino people earn, on average, 60 percent the median income earned by whites. The COVID-19 rates for Africans, Latinos and Indigenous people in the US are three to four times those of whites. Black and Brown people live together, work together, go […]
More than 1.5 million African people are locked up in prison or jail in the U.S., victims of a colonial system where they are the targets of profiling, discriminatory prosecutions and unfair sentencing. A number of them are political prisoners who have spent most of their adult lives behind bars after serving as heroes in […]
Dr. Matsemela Odom talks with Jalali, also known as Norman “Otis” Richmond about: COVID-19 and colonial violence against Africans in Canada History of the African liberation movement and the struggle for African unity in Canada Revolutionary international African culture Jalali was born in Louisiana and raised in Los Angeles, California. He moved to Canada in […]