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 […]