Following the Kentucky grand jury failure to indict any police for the murder of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, we talk with: Jamahl Kersey, of the Kersey Law firm. For over 10 years, Kersey has defended working class people in a range of issues before the court – from criminal cases to the defense of […]
In the midst of a continuing pandemic, worldwide uprisings against police containment of the African community and a desperately contested U.S. presidential election, we turn to Chairman Omali Yeshitela for answers and a way forward. Chairman Omali is: Leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement over 5 decades, initiated campaigns to defend the democratic rights of […]
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 […]