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Welcome to 1919 Radio! On today’s episode, we discuss the 2021 documentary film, “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” a film screened at the 1919 Calgary office earlier this year. Introducing a couple new voices to the fold (Deng, Nate, and Ty), our main discussion asks the question, “how art affects political consciousness,” and how that informs the role of Black artists in our past, present, and future.

Later, Nate puts us on to Larry June, a Bay-area rapper with a health-conscious kick. Labelled a “lifestyle rapper,” we explore what this subgenre of hip-hop means to him, allowing us to further examine the a Black artist’s role and their actionable efforts. Lastly, Ty and Deng talk about their thoughts on the discussion, their introductions to 1919, and reflect on how their worldviews have been impacted through these cultural works.

Title sequence credits:

Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organization and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'

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Welcome to the first 1919Radio episode of 2025!

While we have been busy this year strengthening our regular offerings of community and youth programs, we also have been quietly rebuilding our radio team in preparation for this return. While you may recognize todays host, stay tuned to our future episodes to hear from all the new members of 1919’s Radio team!

Today, our guest host Caleb is joined by Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. First published in 2017, this book stands as a seminal text on the struggle for Black life in Canada. We'll be discussing the revised and expanded edition, due out in October 2025 in context with the political and social regressions and evolutions we have witnessed in the 8 years since the books original release.

The revised and expanded text builds on the legacy of this work by carefully documenting the widely misunderstood history of police reform in Canada, illustrating how half a century of police reforms have served to undermine Black freedom struggles while expanding the scope and scale of policing in Canadian society. Additionally, Maynard uses the newly added writing to posit a vision for change that could successfully challenge the unrelenting status quo of institutional harm and imperial blundering that is impacting communities not just in Canada but across the globe today.

Title sequence credits:

Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organization and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'

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Toivo Asheeke is a scholar-activist and author of “Arming Black Consciousness: the Azanian Black nationalist tradition and South Africa’s Armed Struggle.” In this episode, we discuss the armed liberation movements in Southern Africa, diving into Azanian Black nationalism, the black consciousness movement, and how they contributed to the liberation of southern African countries from Portuguese colonialism and white settler rule. A full transcript is available for all of our episodes on the 1919Radio webpage.

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Welcome to the first episode of our Pan-Africanism series, our guest today is Dr. Layla Brown who is a Pan-Africanist and organizer with the All Africans People's Revolutionary Party GC, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology and Africana studies at Northeastern University in the United States and co-host of the Life Study Revolution YouTube show. We have some more interviews and events on Pan-Africanism planned over the next couple of months so please tune in for more if you're interested, or reach out to find out how to get involved with our organization.

A full transcript is available for all of our episodes on the 1919Radio webpage.

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Welcome to a special episode of 1919Radio. In this episode two of our organizers, Caleb and Shenhat, join our program to reintroduce the political foundation of 1919 and how and why we got started. This conversation details the different projects and programs we have worked on, how to get involved with 1919, and why we are motivated to continue pursuing long term revolutionary action alongside our community.

A full transcript is available for all of our episodes on the 1919Radio webpage.

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Welcome to another episode of 1919Radio. To commemorate Prisoner Justice Day, we are hosting Matthew Campbell-Williams and Fiona Bailey to have a wide ranging conversation on the realities of incarceration in Canada. Matthew is a criminal defence/prison law student and organizer with the Toronto Prisoner Rights Project, and Fiona Bailey is a cook, entrepreneur, and formerly incarcerated mother.

Prison Justice Day started on August 10, 1976, to remember two prisoners who died while locked up in solitary confinement in a Canadian Maximum Security Institution. PJD has become an international day to recognize all those who have died unnatural deaths while in prison. Every August 10, prisoners hold a one-day work stoppage and hunger strike, while supporters on the outside hold community events to educate the public to the conditions of Canadian prisons.

Title sequence credits:

Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organizaiton and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'

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Welcome to 1919Radio’s Black Geographies podcast series! This 4-part Black Geographies podcast series brings together four authors in the emerging field of Black geographies to explore the conditions of Blackness across multiple spatial dimensions. The goal of this series is to bring radical ideas of race, space, and the politics of place out of academia and into our community and streets through an engaging and open access medium.

In the fourth and final episode of our Black Geographies Podcast Series, our host Mohamed Nuur sits down with Dr. Brian Jefferson, an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and author of Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age. The conversation starts off with Dr. Jefferson walking us through the main arguments of his book and moves into a more wide-ranged discussion on racial capitalism, the relationship between computing technology & mass incarceration, surveillance & biometrics, Foucaultian biopolitics, and the meaning of necropolitics. The conversation ends off with a discussion surrounding abolition as the only solution to digitized criminalization.

Title sequence credits:

Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organizaiton and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'

A full transcript is available for all of our episodes on the 1919Radio webpage.

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Welcome to 1919Radio’s Black Geographies podcast series! This 4-part Black Geographies podcast series brings together four authors in the emerging field of Black geographies to explore the conditions of Blackness across multiple spatial dimensions. The goal of this series is to bring radical ideas of race, space, and the politics of place out of academia and into our community and streets through an engaging and open access medium.

In the third episode of the Black Geographies podcast series, Mohamed sits with scholar, researcher, and author Dr. Simone Brown. Dr. Brown is the Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Research Director of critical surveillance inquiry with Good Systems, a research collaborative at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the author of the 2015 book ‘Dark Matters. Listen as these two discuss life under surveillance, black ways of knowing and surviving, and the governable worlds we live in. Dr. Brown invites us to think about how biometric technologies, regimes of surveillance, illegibility, and the politics of recognition shape and govern black life in a post 911 era. Toward the end of the episode, Dr. Brown gestures to the work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba & grassroots organizers on how to live and dream abolition as practices of liberation.

Title sequence credits:

Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organizaiton and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'

A full transcript is available for all of our episodes on the 1919Radio webpage.

Contact and follow us to learn more about our work and how to get involved!

www.1919mag.com (instagram + twitter) Contact: [email protected] Submissions and pitches: [email protected]

Welcome to 1919Radio’s Black Geographies podcast series! This 4-part Black Geographies podcast series brings together four authors in the emerging field of Black geographies to explore the conditions of Blackness across multiple spatial dimensions. The goal of this series is to bring radical ideas of race, space, and the politics of place out of academia and into our community and streets through an engaging and open access medium.

In the second episode of our Black Geographies podcast series, Mohamed Nuur sits down with guest Dr. Brandi Summers to discuss her 2019 book Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post Chocolate City. In this wide-ranging conversation she defines concepts such as gentrification and neoliberalism and analyzes how they relate to Blackness and Black people living across urban contexts from Washington DC to Toronto and beyond. We begin by exploring the history of the H-Street corridor in the post-civil rights era and the resulting impacts of gentrification. Near the end of the episode Dr. Summers discusses diversity and multiculturalism as tools used for the commodification and erasure of Blackness.

Title sequence credits:

Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organizaiton and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'

A full transcript is available for all of our episodes on the 1919Radio webpage.

Contact and follow us to learn more about our work and how to get involved!

www.1919mag.com (instagram + twitter) Contact: [email protected] Submissions and pitches: [email protected]

Welcome to 1919Radio’s Black Geographies podcast series! This 4-part Black Geographies podcast series brings together four authors in the emerging field of Black geographies to explore the conditions of Blackness across multiple spatial dimensions. The goal of this series is to bring radical ideas of race, space, and the politics of place out of academia and into our community and streets through an engaging and open access medium.

In the first episode of our Black Geographies podcast series, Mohamed Nuur sits down with guest Dr Rashad Shabazz to discuss his 2015 book “Spatializing Blackness'' and the technologies of violence that continue to carefully contain, isolate, and restrict the free movement of Black people everywhere. They discuss urban geographies and public infrastructure as an extension of carceral power, the histories of anti-Black space-making from slavery to mass incarceration, the hyper surveillance of racialized cities, and the need to reimagine and recreate public spaces to reflect the basic needs of Black communities

Title sequence credits:

Introduction clip: Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Second clip: Sister Souljah response to Bill Clinton
Third clip: Kwame Ture on Organizaiton and mobilization Song: The Pharcyde - Runnin'

A full transcript is available for all of our episodes on the 1919Radio webpage.

Contact and follow us to learn more about our work and how to get involved!

www.1919mag.com (instagram + twitter) Contact: [email protected] Submissions and pitches: [email protected]