Our Common Ground with Janice Graham

"Election 2020: Playbook and the Price"

Guest: Dr. James Lance Taylor, Ph.D.

May 2, 2020 - 10 pm EDT

Original Broadcast Date:  May 2, 2020 

Chair, Department of Politics, former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), an important organization of African American, African, and Afro Caribbean political scientists in the United States, 2009-2011.

 

On March 3, Joe Biden began putting together the coalition of minority and white-suburban supporters that made him the nominee via wins in ten of the 14 states holding contests that day. African-Americans were his base: According to exit polls, he won 58 percent of black voters across this vast landscape. Will it hold. What plays will this base make and for what are Black people holding him accountable in return for our vote? Will the “Black agenda” survive going forward? Under what political infrastructure will “this base” hold the line?  We will talk with Dr. James Taylor, a renowned political scientist, and professor about the urgency of the issues going toward a Joe Biden nomination and the Democrats historical failure to address them.

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In Conversation with Cynthia McKinney

"Confronting the New Amerikkan Empire"

OUR COMMON GROUND OPENED  the 2ND Session of 2014 on July 5, 2014. We were honored to have as our guest, Cynthia McKinney former U. S. Congresswoman, international human rights activist, and former Presidential candidate, to discuss domestic and foreign policy in the new Amerikkan Empire

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REBROADCAST of LIVE Interview-October 25, 2015

"Demanding Justice and Dignity for OUR Children"

Our Guest: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar

Executive Director, Co-Founder, Co-Chair

Dignity in Schools Campaign

Racial Justice NOW !

 

A South Carolina Black female student was brutally attacked, thrown from her seat, and tossed across the room by a school police officer even though she had obeyed orders to put her cellphone away. Police intervention was employed when her teacher did not think that she put it away fast enough, Horrified students watched and videotaped the incident. Where are Black children safe? How can this girl's humanity be so blatantly challenged?

 

Roxane Gay (NYT)  writes: "Far too little attention is being given to who the young girl is...When that officer saw her, sitting quietly, defiantly, she was not allowed to be human. She was not allowed to have a complex story. She was held to a standard of absolute obedience. She was not given the opportunity to explain the why of her defiance because she was a black body that needed to be disciplined by any means necessary."

 

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OPEN MIC

::: Who were the losers in OH-11?

::: Remembering Dr. Ronoko Rashidi 

::: Who Controls the Black Agency?

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A Tribute to Black Truth Warrior, Glen Ford  :::  OUR COMMON GROUND Remembers

Remembering Glen Ford, CEO/Executive Editor, The Black Agenda Report

This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND we remember Glen Ford. Glen made his transition on Thursday, July 28, 2021.

Glen Ford was the Founder, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, an important publication, blog, and radio station.

Ford co-founded Black Commentator  (BC) in 2002. The weekly journal quickly became the most influential Black political site on the Net. In October 2006, Ford and the entire writing team left BC to launch Black Agenda Report (BAR).

We have lost a brilliant, insightful strong voice, his persistence, his sacrifice, his passion, and the spirit of an INFORMED, LIBERATED, and FREE Black nation. His service and work will resonate for many Black generations and years to come.

Always a Truth Warrior, now a Beloved Ancestor.

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“Global White Supremacy: Baltimore to Palestine”

Rev. Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Founder, Director, The Spirit House

Faith Activist Liberationist, Journalist & Author

From promulgating the racist birther conspiracy theory to exhorting vigilante Proud Boys to “stand by,” Donald Trump has amplified white nationalist ideas in the United States. But neither Trump’s emergence nor his impact can be understood fully by looking at the United States in isolation. Rather, Trump must be understood for his place in a long line of Anglophone leaders who claimed to speak for besieged whites, with precedents including Ian Smith, the leader of the white minoritarian regime of Rhodesia, and Enoch Powell, the British MP who infamously warned of “rivers of blood” if Britain did not halt non-white immigration. Moreover, white nationalism is global not only in its history but in its present manifestations: white nationalists worldwide have hailed Trump’s actions and would be emboldened by his reelection.

Resistance and Rebellion Rebroadcast : 05-26-15 Episode

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Rev. Dr. Susan K. Williams Smith

Faith Activist Liberationist

"Rest for the Justice Seeking Soul"

"The fight for justice and equality is an exhausting daily grind—and the work is never over. That’s why it is incumbent upon all who speak and advocate for the less fortunate to practice self-care. You can’t fight when your tank is empty. Her ideas and thinking about Black resistance and the history and foundation of faith as fundamentally part of Black culture are essential." - Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith

 Author, "WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME - The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America “ and "The Book of Jeremiah: The Life and Ministry of Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.“

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In Conversation with Pascal Robert, The Thought Merchant

Co-Host, THIS IS REVOLUTION Podcast &  OUR COMMON GROUND IN-TER-LOCU-TOR

Pascal is an essayist and Political Commentator on Black Politics, US Economic and Financial politics and Haiti. He is a graduate of Hofstra University and Boston University Law School.

Somehow 20 percent of African American males supporting someone who is a male like Donald Trump is not a quirk. Do we tend to have a false consensus about how Blacks tend to vote?  We talk with Pascal Robert tonight about how it happens, what it means, and whether it simply a message of some sort. Just what are they thinking?

Pascal is a son of Haiti. Growing up in Miami, he was schooled by his father and, uncles in history, culture, and the stories of Haiti’s resistance to imperialism. We talk with him about that history and review how in that history Haiti became one of the poorest nations in the world.

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

(Performed by Actor, James Earl Jones)

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is a speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Douglass, who himself escaped enslavement years before, gave the speech on July 5, 1852 at an Independence Day celebration in Rochester, New York.

During the 1850s, Frederick Douglass typically spent about six months of the year traveling extensively, giving lectures. During one winter -- the winter of 1855-1856 -- he gave about 70 lectures during a tour that covered four to five thousand miles. And his speaking engagements did not halt at the end of a tour. From his home in Rochester, New York, he took part in local abolition-related events.

On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"

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::: Breaching the Centrality of American Whiteness :::

An OUR COMMON GROUND LISTEN :: LEARN :: LIBERATE BROADCAST

We take a look at a variety of observations addressing the issue of Black freedom struggle, whiteness, voter suppression, and Black resistance in an era of new attacks on Black freedom and agency. Features include Rev. William Barber, 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kwame Toure', Bob Hebert, and Carol Anderson.

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