OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT

"Transforming TRUTH to POWER, One Broadcast At A Time"

Featured Commentary: Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown; Pascal Robert, the Thought Merchant & Black Agenda Report will be us; Dr. Tommy J Curry, Texas A&M University 

 <> The Campaign and the Election <> Black Purging @MSNBC

   <> Janice's AGENDA <>

<>2016 Presidential Election 

<> The Candidates and the Campaigns

<>Supreme Court Nomination

<>Black Support Hilary v Bernie

<>Voter Registration and Suppression

<> MSNBC and the Whiteness of the News

What is your agenda ? See below for all topic references.

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Dr. Lester K. Spence, Author, "KNOCKING the HUSTLE:  Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics”

Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University

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Neoliberalism is the greatest political sleight of our time. Knocking the Hustle makes it plain. Drawing from political economy and personal crisis, Spence diagnoses the economic pains and existential threats neoliberalism poses for Black lives (and all others) in urban America. Why? To help us convert truth to power to knock neoliberalism off its pedestal. ~Michael Leo Owens, Emory University, author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America

In this provocative study, Lester Spence opens the conversation about how black politics and the black community have been affected by the market-driven logic of neoliberalism.

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"Scalia Found Dead" 

Reformat of tonight's broadcast . . .

In our 1st Page tonight, Pascal Robert, the “Thought Merchant” of BAR and Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown.org

Joins us to talk about whtat theis means for the Obama Administration and the Race for the White House.

"Bey and the Fishnet Revolution:  Giving the People What they Want"

" . . . because I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black opposition was in any way progressive. Instead what I saw was the cultural power of neoliberal capitalism to co-opt opposition, monetize it and provide some mindless entertainment all at the same time.  I didn’t see opposition; I saw the imagery and symbols of authentic black radicalism grotesquely transformed into a de-politicized spectacle by gyrating, light-skinned booty-short-clad sisters." 

 - Ajamu Baraka, an OUR COMMON GROUND Voice is a human rights activist, organizer and geo-political analyst.  Baraka is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. and editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. 

2nd Page we will get to Bey ! Don't get your fishnets in a knot !!

Janice LOL

The meaning and the backlash on this episode of OUR COMMON GROUND  LIVE!

"Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves" 

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"Fixing OUR Politics: Bakerizing"

Black elected officials are failing us. Federal, state and local public policy either eliminates us or suffocates us. We must fix our politics. Join us in exploring this crisis. Educate, agitate and organize.We must 'Bakerize'. Black citizens continue to suffer the absence of a strategic effective political infrastructure wherein education, organizing, caucus and activism can flourish to make a difference to eliminate a crushing disenfranchisement and political impotence. 

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"Flint: Crimes Against Citizens"

 LIVE and Call-In

The question of who knew what and when is rendered impotent. The Governor, Municipal Administrator, state health officials and the EPA. THEY ALL KNEW ONE YEAR AGO.

"Is it extreme to posit that local and state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency knowingly allowed the poisoning of tens of thousands of Flint residents? Perhaps. But it is irrefutable that they knew that residents – primarily African Americans and the working class – were drinking, bathing and cooking with poisonous water for six months before authorities warned them of risks. . . . EPA water expert, Miguel Del Toral, identified potential contamination problems with Flint’s drinking water last February " - OUR COMMON GROUND Voice, Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebeyo and Kevin Bender. The Guardian January 22, 2016 .

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"While We Slept: 1,126 Black Bodies in 2015"

Guest Co-Host, Dr. Ruby Sales, Founder and Director, The SpiritHouse Project

"All I wanted was someone to be held accountable,’ says Tamir Rice’s mother. ‘But this entire process was a charade."

Did you sit it out until the justice system announced that there was a reasonable explanation to the murder of 12-year old Tamir Rice? Yeah, well most Black people did and now they are outraged. Who is Accountable ? Did we sleep through 1,126 police killings before we decided that it was about us?  Then there is the court and juries ? Applying two standards which favor the police.  What are the answers and what are the solutions?

We pay tribute to Dr. Frances Cress Welsing who made her transition to become an honored Ancestor this morning as the sun rose. And remember, the legendary vocalist, Natalie Cole.

 

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30th ANNUAL OUR COMMON GROUND KWANZAA TEACH-IN

Come celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa with serious study of the N’Guzo Saba with us.

HABARI GANI?

As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. The symbolic nature of the holiday has a profound significance  for African Americans and indeed, the world African community. it is imperative that an authoritative source and site be made available to give an accurate and expansive account of its origins, concepts, values, symbols and practice.

Learn more about Kwanzaa and the N'Guzo Saba

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"Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves" 

Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast at a Time

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Debt and Credit Scores:  Personal Economic Depression

Can you imagine how your life would change if you had good credit? Or had a workable financial plan ?  Debt that overloads can cause financial distress and trauma. Life altering disaster which affects your children, partner or marriage.  Even your employment.

Budgeting       Debt reduction    Credit repair   Establishing business credit and financials    Financial literacy Group coaching

Learn those things you can do, without expensive professional assistance.

Our Guest: Harrine E. Freeman

Best-selling author of "How to Get out of Debt: Get An “A” Credit Rating for Free", a self-help book that provides consumers with a step by step plan on how to get out of debt, increase their credit rating, track their spending and plan for the future.

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"Terrorism and Revolt: Connecting the Dots"

A Conversation on Amerikka with Thought Merchant, Pascal Robert

OUR GUEST:  Pascal Robert, Journalist, Political, Global Affairs and Historical Commentator

Pascal Robert (pronounced Ro-Bear like Stephan Colbert) is:

A Blogger who loves all things politics. SHEER political independent; unafraid to slay the most sacred cows of ideological orthodoxy from the Left, or the Right and one who enjoys global affairs and aspects of pop culture. In all ways he is a child of the Haitian Revolution.

Pascal Robert has been known for years to the online world as THOUGHT MERCHANT. Since 2007 he has been recognized for his hard hitting, blunt unvarnished style of bringing attention to current events and global affairs, especially those affecting communities of color.

He is featured in the Huffington Post, The Black Agenda Report and the Black Commentator

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"Modern Day Enslavement: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE  TRAP"

A Talk with Black Liberation Expositor  Professor Emeritus Vernellia Randall

University of Dayton Law School, Dayton, OH

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