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.…

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,…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States abruptly closed in March. Some school districts implemented distance learning plans, and others did not. African children without regular access…