Hella Black Podcast
157 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 890 ratingsHella Black Podcast is brought to you by Delency Parham and Abbas Muntaqim. Over the next 12 weeks we are happy to bring ya'll a limited series called Tales of The Town, which is a podcast about nearly 100 years of Black Oakland history! You can follow us on Twitter and IG @HellaBlackPod and support us on https://www.patreon.com/HellaBlackPod. We hope you all enjoy the show!!
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Tales of The Town EP 12: Ohlone Land
December 06, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThe 12th and final episode of Tales of The Town takes a look at the people indigenous to the land known as Oakland, the Chochenyo Ohlone Tribe! We dive into their history of struggle against colonization, and their present day fight to regain control of their land– as well as the need for solidarity between the Black and Indigenous independence movements. Guests: Corrina Gould: Ohlone Native. Tribal spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan. Co-founder of the Sogorea Te Land Trus...
Tales of The Town EP 11: COVID-19 in Oakland
November 29, 2022 05:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBThe national response to COVID-19 was nothing short of negligent. As over 1 million people died preventable deaths, we were once again made clear how capitalism prioritizes profit over people. The City of Oakland’s government leaders were part of the problem. On episode 11 we take a look at the cruise ship that brought Oakland its first cases and how it was organizers, not local and state officials- who stepped up to provide resources and free testing to the community. Guests: Yemi Belache...
Tales of The Town EP 10: OUSD Police
November 22, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThe Oakland pig department has been a source of oppression and violence since its inception in 1853. Killings of unarmed civilians, terrorist style raids of homes, surveillance and criminalization of the youth- this is just the tip of the iceberg! The 10th episode of Tales Of The Town looks at some of the history surrounding OPD, and the communal fight to get them out of Oakland schools. Desiree McSwain-Mims (Des): Organizer and Activist, a part of campaign to get OUSD out of Oakland schools...
Tales of The Town EP 9: The Life & Killing of Oscar Grant
November 15, 2022 05:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBOn Episode 9 of Tales Of The Town we look at the life of Oscar Grant and how his death laid the foundation for the Black Lives Matter Movement that sparked years later. Uncle Bobby: Uncle of Oscar Grant. Organizer. Co-founder of Love Not Blood Campaign, which supports families who are victims of police violence Pendarvis Harshaw: journalist, author, educator. Oakland Native. Staff writer and Podcast host at KQED Dereca Blackmon: activist and organizer during the movement for Oscar Grant. E...
Tales of The Town EP 8: Town Bizzness Sports
November 08, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBOakland has been home to some of the greatest sports moments, teams, and athletes in world history. From building professional superstars like Bill Russell, Marshawn Lynch, Marcus Peters, Damian Lillard, and Jason Kidd- to housing legendary teams like the golden state warriors and the Athletics, We breed them different! Episode 8 of Tales Of The Town takes a look at Oakland’s impact on youth, high school, college, and professional sports. Guests: Jazmine Dailey: Halftime Sports Bar. Logan...
Tales of The Town EP 7: Gentrification in Oakland
November 01, 2022 04:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBGentrification in Oakland has been a focal point of local organizers, publications, and creatives for the last decade. As rising rent prices continues to displace families that for generations have called Oakland “home”, and forced others out onto the streets, Episode 7 of Tales Of The Town highlights oakland community members who are trying to find their way through a city that prioritizes profit over people Guests: Mistah Fab: rapper, producer, songwriter. Owner of Dope Era Clothing store...
Tales of The Town Ep 6: Houselessness in Oakland
October 25, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MBOver 500,000 people in the United States are documented as houseless. Episode 6 of the Tales Of The Town series takes a look at the systems and policies that have led to the houselessness crisis in the town. Guests: Brandi Summers: professor and author of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City. OG Paul: houseless person we have served through our organization People’s Programs
Tales of The Town Ep 5: A Brief History of Oakland Music Part 2
October 18, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBEpisode 5 of Tales of The Town is part 2 of the music episode. We highlight some of the biggest acts to come out of Oakland, and the impact they've had across the world. We also dive into the creative process behind Goapele’s “Closer” and Hieroglyphics “93 til infinity”. Guests: Tajai: Rapper/Producer, Record Label owner, part of Souls of Mischief, Hieroglyphics, and Rap Noir. Leon "DNas" Sykes: Educator, Community Leader, Radio host Tim House: all around bay area music guru.. Manager and t...
Tales of The Town E4: A Brief History of Oakland Music (Part 1)
October 11, 2022 04:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBEpisode 4 of Tales of The Town is part 1 of a 2 part music highlight. We take a look back at the historic 7th street strip, which featured blues and jazz clubs. Dive into the revolutionary music of The Black Panther Party's band, The lumpen, and show how all this history paved the way for Oakland artists in contemporary time. Guests: Ronnie Stewart: executive director of west coast blues society. Historian of 7th street in West Oakland Rickey Vincent: author and professor at UC Berkeley. ...
Tales of The Town Episode 3: Merritt College & Black Student Organizing
October 04, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBEpisode 3 of Tales Of The Town covers the student organizing history of the Black Panther Party’s co-founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, at Oakland City College in the early 1960’s. The Soul Students Advisory, the first iteration of a Black Student Union, paved the way for Black Student organizing across the world, and its impact is still felt today! This episode also looks at the Afrikan Black Coalitions fight to force the UC school system to divest from private prisons! Guests: Dar: ...
Tales of The Town E3: Merritt College & Black Student Organizing
October 04, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBEpisode 3 of Tales Of The Town covers the student organizing history of the Black Panther Party’s co-founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, at Oakland City College in the early 1960’s. The Soul Students Advisory, the first iteration of a Black Student Union, paved the way for Black Student organizing across the world, and its impact is still felt today! This episode also looks at the Afrikan Black Coalitions fight to force the UC school system to divest from private prisons! Guests: Dar: ...
Tales of The Town E2: The Black Panther Party & People’s Breakfast Oakland
September 27, 2022 04:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBOakland, an enclave for the Black radical tradition and the birthplace of the Black Panther Party. Over the years many have made the claims to follow in the tradition of the Panthers but few have been able to combine providing programs that meet the material needs of the people, with a concrete analysis of this racist capitalist country – People’s Programs has strived to do just that. Episode 2 of Tales Of The Town looks at the start of the Black Panther Party and the work of Oakland based or...
Tales of the Town E1: The Great Migrations
September 20, 2022 04:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThe first episode of the Tales Of The Town podcast examines the 1st and 2nd Great Migrations that brought Black Southerners in influx to the Bay Area - you get a look at the circumstances that made these people travel across the country in search of “freedom” and opportunities and the struggles they encountered upon arrival Guests: Auntie Anita: Abbas' great Aunt, she passed away last year. Migrated from Louisiana to Oakland. Community organizer and activist. Charlene Thomas: Delency gre...
Introducing Tales of the Town, a Podcast about Black Oakland
September 15, 2022 15:51 - 2 minutes - 2.52 MBIntroducing Tales of The Town, a new podcast and multimedia project about Black Oakland. This podcast is executive produced and hosted by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham, and the senior producer is our good friend Maya Cueva, who is an award winning documentarian and audio engineer. Over the next 12 weeks, we will bring to you a highly produced podcast that tells over 100 years of Oakland history. There’s over 30 interviews, from our elders, ancestors, and peers, that tell the tales of the...
EP 135: Jalil Muntaqim: Commemorating Our Martyrs and Becoming Our Own Liberators!
September 06, 2022 23:17 - 2 hours - 282 MBThis episode of Hella Black is an audio recording of Jalil Muntaqim's recent talk at People's Programs which commemorated Black August. Tap in expeditiously! Free the land!
EP 135: Jalil Muntaqim: Commemorating Our Martyrs and Becoming Our Own Liberators
September 06, 2022 23:17 - 2 hours - 282 MBThis episode of Hella Black is an audio recording of Jalil Muntaqim's recent talk at People's Programs which commemorated Black August. Tap in!!!
EP 134: Martial Arts for Revolution (feat RA Karma Young)
August 30, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBOn this episode we talk with RA about Muay Thai and why its important for Revolutionaries to train! S/o to our comrade Thai for guest hosting this episode!
EP 133: Is Imperialism in Decay or Decline?
August 25, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 99.7 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we look into the current state of u.s. imperialism. tap in! expeditiously!!
EP 132: Black August Reflections
August 18, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutes - 76.1 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk about our reflections on this Black August. Y'all tap in!
EP 131: Afrika Trip
August 11, 2022 14:34 - 42 minutes - 80.2 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk about our recent trip to Ghana, South Afrika, and Nigeria.. tap in!
EP 130: New Afrikan and Afrikan Unity(feat Sadiq)
July 29, 2022 22:21 - 53 minutes - 80.6 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk with Sadiq about his time building with us in Oakland and how we must build unity across the imperial core and Africa. Tap in!
EP 129: Mass shootings in amerikkka
July 07, 2022 18:23 - 38 minutes - 73.3 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk about mass shootings in amerikkka and how violence is at the foundation of this country.
EP 128: Revolutionary Organizing vs. Activism
June 09, 2022 15:51 - 34 minutes - 66.5 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk about the difference of organizing vs. activism.. tap in!
EP 128: Revolutionary Organizing vs Activism
June 09, 2022 15:51 - 34 minutes - 66.5 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk about the difference of organizing vs. activism.. tap in!
EP 127: It's Not On Us, It's In Us
June 02, 2022 02:27 - 1 hour - 120 MBEP 127: It's Not On Us, It's In Us by Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham
EP 126: Repression Raises Consciousness and Contradictions
May 26, 2022 04:00 - 32 minutes - 62.3 MBOn the latest episode of Hella Black we discuss how the neo-nazi white supremacist mass shooting serves as a reminder of the war waged against the Black colony aka the oppressed New Afrikan Nation, and our need for organizations that are working to free the land from euro-amerikkkan control.
EP 125: Free Palestine + FROLINAN FORWARD (feat Jalil Muntaqim)
May 17, 2022 06:30 - 59 minutes - 89.3 MBon this episode of Hella Black we talk with Jalil Muntaqim about the Palestinian cause and it's relation to New Afrikan Independence. We also talk about the third edition of we are our own liberators that's out now available to purchase! Tap in!
EP 124: Self Government for New Afrikan (National) Liberation
May 10, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 89.4 MBon this episode of hella black we talk about phase three of three phase theory that is articulated in Jalil's book, We Are Our Own Liberators.. Tap in!
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May 10, 2022 04:00 - 46 minutes - 89.4 MBon this episode of hella black we talk about phase three of three phase theory that is articulated in Jalil's book, We Are Our Own Liberators.. Tap in!
EP 123: What's in a name?
April 21, 2022 08:57 - 42 minutes - 82.4 MBOn this episode we discuss why NEW AFRIKAN is the proper identity for Black people living in amerikkkka.
EP 122: Ramadan Mubarak!
April 14, 2022 07:51 - 58 minutes - 113 MBOn this episode we talk about Abbas' experience this Ramadan. Tap in!
EP 121: Revolutionary Optimism as a Discipline
March 24, 2022 05:52 - 44 minutes - 84.4 MBOn this episode we talked about how revolutionary optimism is important and a requirement of any revolutionary! Tap in! And if you want 20 mins of exclusive content, head over to our Patreon and subscribe. Support the real!
EP 120: Are you a missionary or a revolutionary?
March 08, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBThis special episode of Hella Black is a panel discussion that Delency was on as well as Yemi who is our director of opps for peoples programs. We talk about the importance of decolonization programs and being apart of a revolutionary struggle. Tap in!
EP 119: University of Ottawa Talk
February 26, 2022 17:01 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis episode is the audio from our talk that we gave at the University of Ottawa in Canada. We talk decolonization, liberation in north america, how to build towards independence and more. Tap in!
EP 118: We Have the Right to Govern Ourselves!
February 22, 2022 05:01 - 34 minutes - 66 MBOn EP 118 of Hella Black we talk about the right we have as New Afrikans (Black people) to govern ourselves.
EP 117: Black Radical Month
February 04, 2022 17:58 - 23 minutes - 44.1 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk about why it's important to honor the Black Radical Tradition this month and every month. Tap in.
EP 116: OUSD School Closures + Expansion of Police State
February 02, 2022 20:28 - 41 minutes - 79.3 MBOn this episode we cover how OUSD is attempting to close schools, we also talk about how this is directly related to the police state.
EP 115: 2021 Year In Review
January 20, 2022 05:00 - 58 minutes - 84.7 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk about the accomplishments we made as an organization last year as well as podcast accomplishments. Tap in !
EP 114: Neo-Colonialism
December 21, 2021 17:57 - 16 minutes - 26.1 MBOn this episode we talk about what Neo-colonialism is and how it shoes up in amerikkka
EP 113: Folksgiving
December 07, 2021 05:00 - 23 minutes - 45.4 MBOn this episode we give a recap of the second annual folks giving in the dubbs in east Oakland. Tap in! Free the people, free the land!
EP 112: The Struggle Continues
November 18, 2021 05:46 - 41 minutes - 78.5 MBOn this episode we update people on some of our organizing accomplishments that we've had this past month. And also have a check in.. Tap in!
EP 111: Black Panther Party 55th Anniversary
October 20, 2021 02:07 - 44 minutes - 84 MBEP 111: Black Panther Party 55th Anniversary by Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham
EP 110: Class Struggle From a New Afrikan Perspective
September 30, 2021 04:01 - 1 hour - 114 MBOn this episode we talk about class struggle as it pertains to the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Tap in!!! There's a long extended episode exclusively for Patrons! So go to our Patreon, Patreon.com/HellaBlackPod and support THE REAL!
EP 109: ShooterGang Kony
September 14, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 105 MBEP 109: ShooterGang Kony by Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham
EP 108: Black August + International Tribunal + New Afrika (Feat Jalil Muntaqim)
August 26, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBOn Episode 108 of Hella Black we talk with Jalil Muntaqim on the roots and history of Black August, the international tribunal that is charing genocide on the usa to the United Nations, as well as the Front for the Liberation of the New Afrikan Nation. Tap in!
EP 107: Nation Building Requires Mentorship (feat Michala)
August 12, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 86 MBOn this episode we interview Michala who has interned with us this summer at People's Programs. She talks about the value of Delency's mentorship, her experience working with us at People's Programs, and how she's gonna take what she learned in the field with us and apply it to the work she does in the academy. Tap in! Support Michala: $kayy9980
EP 107: Nation Building Requires Mentorship
August 12, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 86 MBOn this episode we interview Michala who has interned with us this summer at People's Programs. She talks about the value of Delency's mentorship, her experience working with us at People's Programs, and how she's gonna take what she learned in the filed with us to the academy. Tap in!
EP 106: BLACK AUGUST
August 05, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 128 MBOn this episode we talk about George Jackson and his impact on our life and we also talk about some of the history for Black August and what it means to us. Tap in! Patreon.com/hellablackpod for an extended episode.
EP 105: Charity vs. Decolonization Programs
July 30, 2021 04:02 - 1 hour - 122 MBOn this episode we talk about the difference between charity and decolonization programs. We also talk about the city of Oakland increasing the police budget and break down the myths around it, as some folks were saying the city "defunded". We also answer a question a Patron asked! Tap in with our pattern for exclusive content and support Black radical media!
EP 104: Black Cinema (feat Q)
July 06, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBOn this episode of Hella Black we talk about Black representation in film with our boy Q. Tap in!