Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid

The 13th Amendment of the US Consitution legalized slavery and involuntary servitudes as punishment for crime for those “duly” convicted of crimes. However, the 15th Amendment says that the federal Continue Reading →

The FCC on Thursday, as expected, rolled by the Internet traffick protections known as Net Neutrality. Do you know what that means and what it could mean for independent media Continue Reading →

Doug Jones’s victory over Roy Moore in Alabama's special election to fill the unexpired term of former Senator Jeff Sessions was predicted by human rights activist Malcolm X in his famous speech the Ballot or the Bullet. Malcolm said that when whites are evenly divided about a candidate, black voters if they vote as a bloc, are the ones who decide which candidate goes to the doghouse and which one goes to the White House.

Despite ongoing efforts in Alabama and other northern and southern states to suppress the black vote, a practice that has been going on since the Reconstruction Era, Alabama’s black voters turned out in higher than expected numbers for the special election. Some reports put black voter turnout as high as 30 plus percent while conservative estimates put the number lower at 28 percent. Alabama is one of those states that enacted voter id laws and still disenfranchises those slapped with the felony slave status that disproportionately affects Black men.

A white woman writing for the Independent wrote an op-ed piece seeking to credit black women alone for Roy Moore’s defeat. Perhaps too thirsty for recognition, the hashtag #Blackwomen started trending on Twitter as a response to the article. However, this is the problem with identity politics that seek to separate black women from black men. The truth is that without the support of black women (97 percent) and black men (92 percent) casting their ballots for Doug Jones in such high numbers Roy Moore would probably have won the election.

Black voters must continue to stick together and vote according to what is in our best interests as Malcolm wisely told us in the 1960s. We must also reject those narratives that seek to divide us from one another based on gender.

Doug Jones’s victory over Roy Moore in Alabama’s special election to fill the unexpired term of former Senator Jeff Sessions was predicted by human rights activist Malcolm X in his famous Continue Reading →

Roland Martin's program was canceled because Black people did not think this show was important enough to tune in thus causing him to lose in the rating war with the other corporate network morning news shows who they are in competition with for corporate ad dollars.

Regardless of what you think about Martin as an individual or his politics, it boils down to the target demographic (Black people) not supporting news/political programming. I am sure some are looking to blame non-Black people for the canceling of his program on a "black-owned" network but those people are always looking to blame "white supremacy" and not into a self-examination and reflection or look at any other data.

Now when it comes to sports, reality shows, drama, and comedy programming, you will find a pretty decent audience in the Black community, when it comes to political news programming, the results speak for themselves.

Tune in for two hours of social/political news, commentary, and music. BTR News is hosted by Black Talk Media Project founder Scotty Reid who has been hosting and producing news talk radio since 2007 and has interviewed hundreds of guests on various topics. He discusses the issues in a way that your mainstream black radio hosts would never dare and the corporate media would never allow.

Roland Martin’s program was canceled because Black people did not think this show was important enough to tune in thus causing him to lose in the rating war with the Continue Reading →

An Indiana police captain working for the Plainfield Police Department was placed on administrative leave after giving a trainee an emotionally and politically charged response to a question about the origin of statistics that reportedly indicate that transgender people are 3.32 times more likely to experience police violence than other groups. The interaction between the officer and Capt. Carri Weber occurred during a training session last month instructing police on how to interact with transgender people in the community.

“Most of the people that I know have never been — [never] accused the police of violence. So I guess I don’t get where that statistic comes from,” the officer said.

Instead of giving the officer the source of the statistics and informing him that his personal connections to other officers aren't a good barometer for judging whether or not a problem exists, Capt. Weber gave a buzzword as a response to his question and said, "because [of] your white male privilege, so you wouldn’t know.

Capt. Weber could have given an example by saying she personally doesn't know any neo-nazis or klan members but that doesn't mean they don't exist and are not engaged in acts of violence against non-white people.

Weber is being held up as a hero in the Black press for telling white cops they are ignorant because of their white male privilege when the non-answer was very unprofessional and a missed opportunity to properly "train" a cop on the issue of police violence.

Let's not pretend that this white female police Captain doesn't enjoy "white privilege" and in that situation, held the power over the lesser ranking officers in her training class. By giving a politically charged non-answer to a legitimate question about the source of the cited statistics, the Captain was emotional, displayed poor judgment and failed to provide true leadership in her profession and brought about a situation where white males get to play the victim of racism and misogyny.

On tonight's broadcast, we will be joined by Sophia of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home in NYC and Dr. Tommy J Curry to discuss the flip side of the sexual harassment conversation.

There are two events happening this week in connection with political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, a Black Panther victim of COINTELPRO and other abuses of the state. Sophia of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home in NYC will share information about the event "Teach-In for Mumia: Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?" which is going down on Dec 8, 2017, at Church of the Advocate, 1801 W Diamond St, Philadelphia. The second event will be also in Philly on Dec 9, 2017, and will be a march and rally in support of Mumia Abu Jamal. There will also be a forum on "mass incarceration".

As the nation continues to focus on the workplace sexual harassment of mostly privileged white women by the sexual misdeeds and criminality of the most powerful white men, no one seems to want to discuss the sexual misdeeds against men and particularly Black men in the workplace and in the schools. Some people believe that you men cannot be raped, sexually harassed or molested by women but the facts say otherwise. Is the conversation on sexual assault addressing all sexual assault or is it a political movement only interested in targeting "patriarchy"? Dr. Tommy J Curry, author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood, will help us make sense of this.

Join us for this conversation and some of the news of the day!

On tonight’s broadcast, we will be joined by Sophia of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home in NYC and Dr. Tommy J Curry to discuss the flip side of the Continue Reading →

An Indiana police captain working for the Plainfield Police Department was placed on administrative leave after giving a trainee an emotionally and politically charged response to a question about the Continue Reading →