“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 […]
Thank you, thank you, thank you! To all of Black Power 96 Radio’s listeners and supporters—thank you for helping us meet our goal of raising $6,000 in our July Supporting Member Fund Drive. Yes, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges to your community radio station. Some of our staff and volunteers were hit personally […]