(Airdate 2/21/25) After betraying Black Californians by blocking key reparations legislation in 2024, the California Legislative Black Caucus is back with a fresh stack of proposed laws including the resurrection of a reparations bureau. Coalition for a Just and Equitable California's Chris Lodgson helps us understand and analyze these new bills and think about what's next.

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(Airdate 2/21/25) Ed Sanders is a KBLA contributor and the President of ES Advisors. On this podcast we celebrate Malcom X, speak on respectability politics in Black History Month, unpack the school cell phone ban, analyze attacks on LA Mayor Karen Bass and look at Trump's executive order to dismantle police reform.

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(Airdate 2/20/25) Brittany Friedman is an award-winning sociologist and expert on politics, cover-ups, and the dark side of institutions. She holds an appointment with the American Bar Foundation as an Affiliated Scholar and previously as an Access to Justice Scholar. Her first book is Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons.

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(Airdate 2/20/25) Ashra and Merira Kwesi are lecturers on African history, civilization, religion, and culture. They present lively and dynamic multimedia productions and videos and conduct African-centered tours to Egypt. Based on their study and travel they reveal startling and profound information on the African origin of many of the concepts and symbols now utilized by the western world. On this podcast Merira breaks down the The Cultural Destruction of African Fashion and Ashra speaks on Reclaiming Our Black Genius from the Books in Stone.

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(Airdate 2/20/25)Yes CHAD BIANCO is an OATH KEEPER and WHITE SUPREMACIST

(Airdate 2/20/25) On this podcast Dominique delves into Left Coast issues: the Republican gubernatorial candidate that belonged to a white supremacist organization, the judge who shot his wife, the punter who challenged the MAGA city council, a big day for reparations and more. All of the conversation calls for us to stop preemptively surrendering to the Trump agenda. 

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(2/19/25) Miles Low, Dominique DiPrima and the delegation on the phones opine to understand the reactions and details of the A$AP Rocky verdict, the role of Rihanna and the implications of and reasons for the outcome.

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(Airdate 2/19/25) This Senegalese Angeleno who rose to fame on the Venice boardwalk is in our Wealth Building Wednesday spotlight. Marianne, the Body Butter Lady makes vegan, organic beauty products so pure you can eat them. In the second half of the hour Dominique goes in on Trump's latest executive order granting himself control over independent government agencies and breaks down why it amounts to the completion of a coup on paper.


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(Airdate 2/19/25) Rev. Edward” Eddie” Anderson is a passionate civil rights activist and ordained minister with degrees from Morehouse College and Claremont School of Theology. He is a third generation Pastor who serves the historic McCarty Memorial Christian Church. On this podcast Pastor Anderson helps us wrestle with big questions and theological crisis brought on by the American national climate. Is it a sin to pray for someone's demise? Did Trump sign on with Satan? Why do evildoers thrive?

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(Airdate 2/18/25) Prosecutors claim the shooting of 16 year-old Ralph Yarl was not racially motivated. Republicans say Black Studies is DEI. Trumps MAGA followers insist the President does not have to obey the judges. On this podcast the phone lines are open as we obliterate the talking points and tall tales that are driving the conservative agenda.

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