Our Common Ground with Janice Graham
358 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
ALTERNATIVE ∞ ACTIVIST ∞ PROGRESSIVE ∞ EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO
“Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves”
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“Transforming Truth to POWER, ONE Broadcast At A Time”
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OUR COMMON GROUND explores and examines history and culture, the socio-economic and political issues and conditions of Black people in America. Discussion with our community, “speaking Black truths” toward the best of our collective interests. We present the best Black minds who work in our interests in the activist, non-profit, policy interest-research and the academy communities. Workers, thinkers and builders in in-depth discussions and on-going learning in the context of RACE, in HOPE and with COURAGE. A weekly symposium of ideas. A national weekly town hall. A Sanctuary.
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“Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves”
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OCG Witness On the Bridge ::: "In Conversation with Dr. Ruby N. Sales"
March 06, 2022 03:00 - 2 hours - 54.9 MBOUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "In Conversation with Dr. Ruby N. Sales" Founder, The Spirit House Project Listen & Call-In Line: (347) 838-9852 :: What Southern Past tells us about the rise of white Supremacy :: Weapons of Southern Resistance Living :: There is NO Black Generational Divide :: Black Denial, Apathy and Confusion “White supremacy is a deep socio-spiritual scab that reeks with the stench of antisemitism, oozes the pus of Islamophobia, and festers beneath the hard c...
OCG :: BHM 2022 Highlight :: “Racial History Erasure: Shorting Black Victories"
February 27, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 44 MBOUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Racial History Erasure: Shorting Black Victories” Listen ::: LEARN ::: LIBERATE Radio :: The Fear of Black History :: Weapons of Critical Race Theory :: Anti-Black Public Policy In this final episode of the OUR COMMON GROUND 2022 Black History Month celebration, we offer a conversation that charts the history, development, and continued salience of Black History education and Critical Race Theory, and why its...
Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Black Women Visioning Black Power"
February 20, 2022 03:00 - 2 hours - 55 MBOUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Black Women Visioning Black Power" We look at the precision and power of the leadership, guidance, counsel, and direction contributed by Black power giants: Fannie Lou Hamer ::: Ella Baker ::: Angela Davis ::: Michelle Alexander Listen ::: LEARN ::: LIBERATE Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 Visit us on the Web: www.ourcommonground.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO On Twitter: @JaniceO...
Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: "IN-FORMATION: Malcolm and Stokley"
February 13, 2022 03:00 - 2 hours - 54.7 MBOUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: "IN-FORMATION: Malcolm and Stokley" Tonight, we look at the early activist eras of Kwame Toure’ aka StokelyCarmichael and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X). We follow them as they begin to make Black history. Listen ::: LEARN ::: LIBERATE Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 Visit us on the Web: www.ourcommonground.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO On Twitter: @JaniceOCG Email: OCGinfo@o...
BMH 2022 Highlight :: The Fire of Freedom Fighter Bayard Rustin
February 06, 2022 03:00 - 2 hours - 54.8 MBOUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: The Fire of Freedom Fighter Bayard Rustin Most do not know or understand the powerful role that Bayard Rustin played in the ignition of the Civil Rights Era and his guidance in the movement with key political players. We acknowledge his love and dedication to Black people and the place he called his country tonight. Featuring his debate with Malcolm X, a discussion with James Baldwin, and his Firebomb speech. Li...
CIVICS 201 : Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement
January 30, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MB"CIVICS 201 : Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement" Saturday, January 29, 2022 ::: 10 pm ET Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 WE are facing a tidal wave of restrictive voting legislation across the country and the trend will continue into 2022. Tonight we present some of the information you need to translate and interpret these efforts in your state. How much do you really know about voter suppression and disenfranchisement happening in your state? Enough to organize and initiate the kind o...
“Shorting the Odds: States’ Race to Anoracy”
January 23, 2022 03:00 - 2 hours - 57.3 MBhis Week at OUR COMMON GROUND “Shorting the Odds: States’ Race to Anoracy” Call In ::: Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 ABOUT THIS EPISODE ANOCRACY A political system that is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability. In this episode of OUR COMMON GROUND, we discuss the rabid weaponization of states' rights in the effort to take control of power in government and thwart the rights of the people by disassembling the democratic process and d...
"King Day: To Forget Is to Forfeit"
January 16, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MB"King Day: To Forget Is to Forfeit" Since 1983, communities and organizations have celebrated King Day through various, creative and serious celebrations and forums. A national monument in Washington has been erected in Dr. King's honor. However, there seems to be a diffusion in what we teach, remember and understand about Dr. King's contribution to this country. The holiday seems to have become somewhat less deliberative in our celebrations. We now have generations of Black children, a ne...
"The Final Season: Black Aspiration in a Dying Democracy"
January 09, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MB"The Final Season: Black Aspiration in a Dying Democracy" We enter the last Season of OUR COMMON GROUND examining the dire and troubling nature of our country. Each time, we think it cannot get worse, it does. Indeed it does. The system of white supremacy has embedded itself, perhaps permanently, in our system of government and has been normalized in our politics. How must we respond and sustain the spirit that carried us across the unstable bridges of the past? Tune In LIVE : http://bit.ly...
OUR COMMON GROUND 2021 Season Review & Close
November 14, 2021 03:00 - 2 hours - 57.6 MBThis Week on OUR COMMON GROUND OUR COMMON GROUND 2021 Season Review & Close Looking back at the information, ideas, lessons, and insight during this 2021 Season. As we close, we celebrate our 35 years of broadcasting. Thirty-five years later, I can say that I'm still learning how to amplify Black voices. Still mastering the skill to raise this heavy struggle, manage so much rage and articulate the constant need for assessment of the narrative, but not the history from which it rises. Talkin...
OCG ReDo: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: The Origins of White Supremacy 2009
November 07, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 54.9 MBThis Week on OUR COMMON GROUND "In Discussion with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: The Origins of White Supremacy Culture" REBROADCAST OF May 29, 2009 Episode Streaming: Saturday, November 6, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET Tune In: http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 Dr. Frances Luella Welsing was an American psychiatrist and prominent race theorist. She was a proponent of Black supremacist melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her...
OCG Rebroadcast: In Discussion with Activists, Kevin Gray & Neil Franklin 2011
October 31, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.3 MBREBROADCAST OF January 22, 2011 OUR COMMON GROUND Featuring, ALFO, of The ALFO Show,Co-Hosting Saturday, January 22, 2011 Guest, Kevin Gray and Neill Franklin OUR COMMON GROUND once again welcomes . . . Kevin Gray is a CounterPunch.org political magazine contributor and civil rights organizer who resides in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a contributing editor to Black News, a former President of the SC ACLU, and was Jesse Jackson's SC campaign manager in 1988. There’s no keener mind, no...
OCG OPEN MIC NIGHT ::: "A Broken Democracy"
October 24, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBOPEN MIC NIGHT "A Broken Democracy" While the Republicans fight for a new Confederacy, just what price will Black Americans pay because the Democrats are not vested in Democracy? Will cars on the new roads built by the Biden Infrastructure Bill, pass by Black people still protesting voter suppression or another dead Black body at the hands of police? Who will challenge the severely partisan SCOTUS ? ::: 30 Years later, remembering Professor Anita Hill ::: Call-In & Listen Line: 347-838-...
OCG Witness from the Bridge Series ::: Dr. Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D. :::
October 17, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 54.9 MB"In Conversation with Dr. Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D." Director of the Institute for Urban Research Morgan State University MD Too many Black leaders (elected, appointed or anointed) have opted for access to power, rather than challenging or seeking to hold actual power. Too many have opted merely for a “piece of the pie” rather than building the institutional and community-based capacity to question the baker and determine how the pie will be sliced. So today most of the Black leadership pa...
"BURNING IT DOWN: BUILDING ANEW” Kim Brown, Host, Burning It Down
October 10, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 56.1 MBThis Week on OUR COMMON GROUND "BURNING IT DOWN: BUILDING ANEW” Guest: Kim Brown, Host, BURN IT DOWN LIVE NonBougie Black America "Burn it Down with Kim Brown" calls out systemic issues within our society and envisioning a new world. She talks about how to restructure and create systems that are inclusive of everyone. She keeps it real, and actively destroys myths that the media and politicians love that we believe, like American Exceptionalism. She makes microphones rumble. Burn It...
"Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting” :: OCG REDO
October 03, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MB"Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting” Guest: Dr. Terrie M. Williams, Ph.D. American entrepreneur, public relations expert, author, therapist, and philanthropist. CEO, The Terrie Williams Agency Author, “Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting” Rebroadcast of 3//19/09 Interview Black Pain identifies emotional pain—which uniquely and profoundly affects the black experience—as the root of lashing out through desperate acts of crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, ea...
"Compromise & Capitulation" with Dr. James L. Taylor
September 26, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 54.9 MB"Compromise & Capitulation: Starring Harry Potter and the StormTroopers" In Conversation with Dr. James Lance Taylor, Ph. D. Chair of Dept. of Political Science, University of San Franciso He is former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), The political fires are raging in the U.S. Through a robust campaign of GOP gaslighting in the face of Democrats clamoring for cooperation, and bi-partisanship, the American people who overwhelmingly voted for a Bi...
“The Attica Massacre 50 Years Later: America’s Human Rights Crisis Continues”
September 19, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.6 MB“The Attica Massacre 50 Years Later: America’s Human Rights Crisis Continues” Attica has never been over. Slavery has never been over. Is there anything more to learn about the Attica prison uprising? The truth is that it was a massacre of inmates protesting the lack of acknowledgment of their humanity. Demanding to be regarded as humans and the right to be treated as more than animals. Did we learn? We are just telling something of the truth about what happened there. Will that truth or...
“The Glitch in the Matrix” ::: OPEN MIC NIGHT at OCG
September 12, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.2 MBThis Week on OUR COMMON GROUND “The Glitch in the Matrix” OPEN MIC Saturday, September 11, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET Tune In: http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Call-In & Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 The Matrix represents a system of control that operates completely in the mind. As a complex, machine-driven program, it appropriates any personal, political, or ideological leanings and renders them wholly false. It allows illusions but no action. The problem with the matrix that most people of control and...
“As America Fails: Seeking Solidarity” ::: Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan
September 05, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.4 MB“As America Fails: Finding Solidarity” Guest: Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan When democracies fail, they fall with the great divide taking a prominent and urgent matter for every citizen. Defining friends and foes? Easy. Comrade, allies, and enemies? Not so. The trauma of Black in America will amplify that dilemma. " We welcome Dr. Djene Bajalan as our guest this week. Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. ...
"Election 2020: Playbook and the Price" ::: Dr. James L. Taylor :: Rebroadcast
August 29, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MB"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...
In Conversation with Cynthia McKinney :: OCG Rebroadcast
August 22, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MB::: REBROADCAST OF July 5, 2014 Episode ::: 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 ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN Progressive Talk Radio "...
"Demanding Justice and Dignity for OUR Children" with Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
August 15, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBREBROADCAST 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...
This Week in Black America ::: OPEN MIC :::
August 08, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.6 MBThis Week on OUR COMMON GROUND OPEN MIC ::: Who were the losers in OH-11? ::: Remembering Dr. Ronoko Rashidi ::: Who Controls the Black Agency? "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join our Exchange Community
A Tribute to Black Truth Warrior, Glen Ford ::: OCG Honors His Work
August 01, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55 MBA 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 ...
“Global White Supremacy: Baltimore to Palestine”, Rev. Dr. Ruby N. Sales
July 25, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 54.9 MB“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 pl...
"Rest for the Justice Seeking Soul" ::: Liberationist, Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith
July 18, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.8 MBRev. 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...
In Conversation w/ Pascal Robert, This Is Revolution Co-Host & OCG INTERLOCUTOR
July 11, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.1 MBIn 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...
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”:: Frederick Douglass 1852 ::
July 04, 2021 02:00 - 7 minutes - 5.85 MBWhat 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 gav...
Breaching the Centrality of American Whiteness :: OCG LISTEN :: LIBERATE POD
June 27, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MB::: 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. Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Br...
OCG History Matters Broadcast ::: " Juneteenth: Emancipation of the US Slaves"
June 20, 2021 02:00 - 26 minutes - 11.8 MB::: "Juneteenth: A Celebration of the Emancipation of the Slaves" ::: An OUR COMMON GROUND #HISTORYMATTERS SPECIAL We provide a history of the event and the celebration of Juneteenth as we celebrate its first year as a national holiday. Juneteenth is specifically a celebration of Black emancipation. Race-based chattel slavery intentionally ensnared people of African descent and labeled them as property. Juneteenth was made possible because of the courage and resilience of Black people who...
A Debt That Is Owed Episode #2: “Reparations: The Paradigm Shift”
June 13, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.7 MB::: “Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed” ::: An OUR COMMON GROUND Reparations Discussion Series Episode #2: “Reparations: The Paradigm Shift” Examining the demand for reparations through many eras of Black Struggle: Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, the Black Power eras and Black Lives Matters protests. Guest: Dr. Rutledge M. Dennis, Sociologist, Anthropologist: Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; expert scholar and author in the areas of urban politics, research meth...
The Debt That Is Owed: Reparations & the Descendants of US Chattel Slavery
June 06, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBReparations: The Debt That Is Owed ::: Reparations Series Episode #1: "The Debt That Is Owed": Reparations & the Descendants of US Chattel Slavery Guest: Dr. William "Sandy" Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen Co-Authors, "From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century", A. Kirsten Mullen is a lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history, and politics; Darity Jr. is an American economist and researcher. The wealth of the United States was fo...
"The Tulsa Massacre 100 Yrs Later: We Remember as to Never Forget"
May 30, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBThe Tulsa Massacre So that we never forget. Memorial Day marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence and domestic terrorism in U.S. history. When the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma — known as "Black Wall Street" — was burned and bombed to the ground by a white mob. An estimated 300 Black Americans, descendants of slavery were killed and over 1,000 injured. Whites in Tulsa actively supp...
"Black in America's "Weimar" Moment" ::: OUR COMMON GROUND
May 23, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 54.8 MB"Black in America's "Weimar" Moment" Pascal Robert ::: Co-Host, THIS IS REVOLUTION Podcast & OUR COMMON GROUND IN-TER-LOCU-TOR Seventy-five years ago, Hitler came to power, ending the Weimar Republic. Did Germany's experiment with democracy between 1919 and 1933 ever stand a real chance? Is America at that same juncture and will democracy have more of a chance? We'll analyze the similarities in our current political environment. "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" To s...
OCG ::: "When We Stand: The Intersection of Black Justice, Wealth and Health"
May 16, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.9 MB"When We Stand: The Intersection of Black Justice, Wealth and Health" Guest: Malik Ali, CEO/Founder, Justice, Wealth and Health, SC JWH's Mission is to save lives from Injustice, Poor Health, and Lack of Financial Wealth. Marching has stopped Protesting has stopped Making the Next Stand Listen & Call-In Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and...
"Black Hustlers: Tap Dancing and Soul Corrosion” - The Matter of Black Traitors
May 02, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 54.8 MB"Black Hustlers: Tap Dancing and Soul Corrosion” What Tim Scott did was not brave. It was not honest and it was not leadership. He lied to the American people on behalf of a Republican Party that neither values nor respects him. How does a Black man relieve himself of all dignity and his own history? What life experiences lend themselves to a man to renounce the truth about his Black experience and ally himself with racists who have no honor for his manhood? Listen & Call In Line: 347-838-9...
OUR COMMON GROUND :: "In Conversation with Efia Nwangaza"
April 25, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 54.7 MBIn Conversation with Efia Nwanganza Pioneer Human Rights Activist ::: Pioneer Black Talk Host ::: Civil Rights Attorney Exec. Dir., Malcolm X Center, Greenville, SC "Black Truth on Black Justice" ABOUT EFIA NWANGANZA Efia Nwangaza is a lifelong civil/human rights activist and freedom fighter who first worked for the liberation of African/Black people as a child in her Garveyite parents' apostolic faith church, in her birthplace of Norfolk, Virginia. "The Chauvin Trial: Black Truth o...
Seeking Mercy
April 18, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 109 MB“Seeking Mercy" Podcast Janice will return on April 24, 2021 ::: LIVE Tonight, we offer discussions on criminal justice and the history of lynching with Bryan Stevenson. He is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a law professor at New York University School of Law.He's the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excess...
OUR COMMON GROUND ::: “Evil Well Financed and Determined: Jim Crow Under Law"
March 28, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 54.8 MB“Evil Well Financed and Determined: Jim Crow Under Law" Disenfranchisement Laws aka "Jim Crow OCG Hosts, Janice Graham & Dr. James L. Taylor Jim Crow” was developed as a derisive slang term for a Black man. It came to mean any state law passed in the South that established different rules for blacks and whites. Jim Crow laws were based on the theory of white supremacy and were a reaction to Reconstruction. In the depression-racked 1890s, racism appealed to whites who feared losing their jo...
“Is There No Return to Sanity?” ::: OUR COMMON GROUND
March 21, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours - 55.4 MB“Is There No Return to Sanity?” "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" In the 2nd hour, OCG Political Contributor, Dr. James Taylor will join us to talk about the targeted killing of Asian-Americans and the relationship to racial hate of Black people in America. To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join our Exchange Community
OUR COMMON GROUND: “Under the New Confederacy: Can There Be Any Justice?”
March 14, 2021 03:00 - 2 hours - 110 MB“Under the New Confederacy: Can There Be Any Justice?” One year later, we remember Breonna Taylor. We ask, can there be any kind of Justice in Amerikka in the "new Confederacy"? The Chauvin trial is underway. What do we expect and how much will we tolerate further? "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join our Exchange Community
“Aligning Black Policy Priorities Into the Game of Electoral Politics”
March 07, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 109 MB“Aligning Black Policy Priorities Into the Game of Electoral Politics” Guest: Professor Willie Legette Political Systems Analyst and Organizer Professor Emeritus of Political Science, South Carolina State University; Lead Organizer, Medicare for All-South Carolina; Labor Party candidate for SC Senate; Common Dreams contributor We talk with Professor Willie Legette, political analyst, as to how we might resolve the conflicts and problems of voting for who we "like", votes that are often di...
"Black History: Always the Road to Black Power" :: Black History 365
February 28, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBOCG Black History Month 2021 "Black History: Always the Road to Black Power" OPEN MIC NIGHT Do we see Black history as a road leaving tools, vision, and truth all along the way? Every period of our history has taught America something about its own failings, and us about the righteousness of our struggle. Without Black struggle American would not be faced with ideals of democracy. To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join our Exchange...
"A History of Black Political Movements in America” :: Session lV ::
February 26, 2021 01:00 - 2 hours - 110 MB"A History of Black Political Movements in America” Session lV “Practical Strategies for the 21st Century Black and Peoples’ Movements” February 25, 2021 ::: 8pm ET Session IV: Black political diversities and ideologies. Examining class, economics, religion, spirituality, art, gender, sexuality, and how they have factored in Black movement history. Four-Week Lecture Series Dr. James L. Taylor, Ph.D. Each Session: Thursdays 8- 10 pm EST ::: February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021 All Black po...
"White Redemption: On the Faultline of Black Forgiveness" :: OPEN MIC
February 21, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBOCG Black History Month 2021 "White Redemption: On the Black Faultline" OPEN MIC NIGHT Focus . . . . Where should be, “You’re Not Off The Hook” because nothing has not happened to make it so. We should not be living on the Black Faultline not understanding that White live under a myth about ‘Black Forgiveness’. It seems America wants redemption without buying a ticket to the party. re·demp·tion /rəˈdem(p)SH(ə)n/ noun 1.1. the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evi...
"Supporting the Legacy of Jimmie "Doc" Horne : Black Tennis History"
February 20, 2021 00:30 - 2 hours - 110 MB"Supporting the Legacy of Jimmie "Doc" Horne : Black Tennis History" Tonight we honor, Jimmie "Doc" Horne Sr., by supporting the public tennis center which bears his name. He is a tennis standout once barred from white courts in an era of segregation, did not wait for somebody else to design a program to expose city kids in West Palm Beach to the sport. Nor did he wait to be paid. Retiring after 34 years as a teacher in area schools, he just showed up and did it. His generosity and commitme...
"A History of Black Political Movements" Session lll :: Dr. James L. Taylor
February 19, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 109 MB"A History of Black Political Movements" Session lll February 18, 2021 Session 3: Black political diversities and ideologies. Examining class, economics, religion, spirituality, art, gender, sexuality, and how they have factored in Black movement history. Four-Week Lecture Series Dr. James L. Taylor, Ph.D. Each Session: Thursdays 8- 10 pm EST ::: February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021 All Black political movements in America's history were hailed as significant struggles of Blacks to achieve ...
"Darkness in American Medicine: Surviving Medical Apartheid " #BHM
February 14, 2021 03:00 - 2 hours - 111 MB"Darkness in American Medicine: Surviving Medical Apartheid" #BHM OCG Black History Month 2021 Theme: What We Endured, Survived, Yet, Achieved" Page 1: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Page 2: The 2nd Impeachment Trial at the Senate To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join our Exchange Community
"A History of Black Political Movements in America" with Dr. James L. Taylor
February 12, 2021 01:00 - 2 hours - 110 MB"A History of Black Political Movements" Session ll Four-Week Lecture Series Dr. James L. Taylor, Ph.D. Each Session: Thursdays 8- 10 pm EST ::: February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2021 All Black political movements in America's history were hailed as significant struggles of Blacks to achieve full equality. Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Lives Matter movement were signs of progressively more effective strategies, complimented themselves in history. They were complex e...