Two former political prisoners speak about upcoming event to honor slain political prisoner Hugo Yogi’ Pinell.
Black Lives Matter
On the program today, we speak with organizer Cat Brooks about the defunding of Youth Programs in Oakland and Jay-Marie Hill talks about the new album The Revolution Has Come.
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about his latest book, Between the World and Me. Between the World and Me is Ta–Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son.
We speak with Oakland artists Refa-1 and Duane Deterville about their upcoming trip to Africa. We hear a speech from PL Lumumba.
The Fatal Shooting of Gongora and Jaramillo; Gun Buy Back
We speak with Frank Sosa from the Anti-Police Terror Project about the fatal shooting of Gongora and Jaramillo. And later we speak with Rudy Corpus of United Playaz about the Gun Buy Back program.
We speak with Minister Christopher Muhammad about SFPD aggression and the attempts to push Black and Brown people out of the Mission and Bayview areas of San Francisco.
We speak with activist Rahiel Tesfamariam of Urban Cusp about Movement and the importance of spirituality. Rahiel Tesfamariam is a social activist, public theologian, writer and international speaker. She is the founder and publisher of Urban Cusp, a cutting-edge online lifestyle magazine highlighting progressive urban culture, faith, social change and global awareness. She is also a former columnist … Continued
Dr. Joy DeGruy discusses her theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME As a result of twelve years of quantitative and qualitative research Dr. DeGruy has developed her theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, and published her findings in the book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and … Continued
Policing in the 21st Century; and Dhoruba Bin Wahad on the passing of Abdul Mijad of the Panther 21.
We speak with Rev Ben McBride of Pico Network about policing in the 21st century and how that impacts Oakland Police Later we speak with former political prisoner and Black Panther Dhoruba Bin Wahad about the passing of Abdul Mijad of the Panther 21.
On today’s program we speak with author Monique W. Morris, about her new book Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. An examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, resource officers and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with … Continued