Latest Black academia Podcast Episodes
Cooperative Economics and Social Movements
In Search of Black Power - July 06, 2022 16:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsDayvon Love sits down with Dorcas Gilmore to discuss the operational dynamics and politics of cooperative economics. Dorcas has spent the past 17 years as a racial and economic justice advocate, attorney, and consultant working with nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, and sm...
Afro-pessimism: A Grassroots View
In Search of Black Power - June 29, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFew concepts have been more mischaracterized and caricatured than the academic theory of Afro-pessimism. Born of material struggle against Mandela aligned neoliberal wing of the ANC, the work of Frank Wilderson, Jared Sexton and other theorists has been framed in many way. Many have described ...
Support or Co-Option? The Red, Black and Green New Deal and Foundation Driven Environmentalism
In Search of Black Power - June 22, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAs the summer heat turns on, conversation about global warming inevitably picks up as well. Black environmental advocates have seen the increased public conversation, and foundation spending, on environmental advocacy and are demanding their cut. Global warming is having a disproportionate impac...
Black Wealth Generation & Empowering Black Social Networks
In Search of Black Power - June 15, 2022 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsNneka Nnamdi is the founder of Fight Blight Baltimore - an economic, environmental, and social justice initiative led by the community and informed by data to address the issue of blight. In this conversation, we will discuss the politics of urban space, gentrification, and predatory wealth extr...
Beyond Liberal Co-Option: A radical defense of Critical Race Theory
In Search of Black Power - June 08, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAs Critical Race Theory has become a hot-button talking point, the true history and meaning behind the term are quickly being lost. Far from being merely a tool to politic victimhood and blame and shame, this episode argues Critical Race Theory is a critical heuristic and tool to analyze power a...
Black Education Advocacy & Black Social Movements
In Search of Black Power - June 01, 2022 16:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsDayvon Love sits down with Dr. Brian Morrison for conversation about the history of Black education advocacy and practice in Baltimore and the lessons from that history that we can use for social movements today. Dr. Brian C. Morrison is the Founder and President of the William J. Watkins, Sr. ...
White Lies & Statistics: How Bad Stats are a tool of White Power
In Search of Black Power - May 25, 2022 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThere is an old saying that there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. This statement is especially true when these statistics are applied to Black/African people. While claiming to be "objective", data and statistics are often used to obscure power relations and to refl...
Real Talk on Baltimore: Taking Back our Narrative
In Search of Black Power - May 18, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsDr. Tara Bynum a scholar of African American Literature and a Baltimore native. In this interview we discuss the narratives that are highly circulated in mainstream spaces about Baltimore and the politics of those narratives. Support the Show. In Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet...
Beyond "Buy the Block": Taxes, Gentrification, and the Limits of Black Home Ownership
In Search of Black Power - May 11, 2022 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsBlack folks are often told homeownership and real estate are the royal road to wealth creation and stability. Government policies like the mortgage interest tax deduction are held up a "hidden secret" white people use to game the systems. Some Black people hold homeownership as "beating 'them' a...
Beyond "Buy the Block": Taxes, Gentrification, and the Limits of Black Home Ownership
In Search of Black Power - May 11, 2022 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsBlack folks are often told homeownership and real estate are the royal road to wealth creation and stability. Government policies like the mortgage interest tax deduction are held up a "hidden secret" white people use to game the systems. Some Black people hold homeownership as "beating 'them' a...
Food Sovereignty & Black Liberation: An interview with Heber Brown
In Search of Black Power - May 04, 2022 16:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOn our show, we want to highlight to work and contributions of Black civic leaders and activists. So every other episode of “In Search of Black Power” - Dayvon Love will be sitting down for in depth interviews with some of the brightest advocates in our community. Heber Brown is the director o...
Can Cannabis legalization save the reparations movement?
In Search of Black Power - April 27, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsReparations for slavery have gone from a third rail issue to a mainstream Democratic Party talking point. While much of the conversation has focused on HR 40 and local/statewide task forces - has the reparations movement left a critical tool in the reparations battle of off the battlefield? La...
The Public Health Hustle (Part 2) - Violence Prevention and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
In Search of Black Power - June 15, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFor over 10 years, the academic and public health sectors have promoted "violence prevention" non-profits as the "evidence-based" alternative to mass incarceration and a solution to the shootings plaguing American cities. With the Biden administration set to invest 4 billion dollars in "violence...
The Public Health Hustle (Part 2) - Violence Prevention and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
In Search of Black Power - June 15, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsFor over 10 years, the academic and public health sectors have promoted "violence prevention" non-profits as the "evidence-based" alternative to mass incarceration and a solution to the shootings plaguing American cities. With the Biden administration set to invest 4 billion dollars in "violence...
Resisting the New "Woke Technocracy"
In Search of Black Power - April 02, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn a talk given to the Baltimore City Green Party, Lawrence Grandpre explains the technocratic tricks liberals use to deny community control over essential issues in the name of "efficiency". Also, after the events of January 6th, protecting minorities from "white backlash". He explains the dyn...
Building Movements for #DefundThePolice & Beyond
In Search of Black Power - January 12, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe call to #DefundThePolice has been presented by the Democratic party establishment as the main reason Democrats underperformed in the 2020 elections, with Obama calling it a "snappy slogan" which alienated key voters. Activists have countered claiming it drove people to the polls and focusin...
Election 2020: Settler Colonialism vs. NeoImperialism
In Search of Black Power - October 29, 2020 16:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWe're back with a wide-ranging interview on Black organizing and the 2020 Election. In a conversation with Matt Stannard of Wyoming's Solidarity Collective, Lawrence Grandpre discusses the recent protest movements, the limits of social justice strategies focused on the courts, and an explanation...
The Myth of Black Buying Power w/ Dr. Jared Ball
In Search of Black Power - June 08, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsBlack political figures from DuBois to Garvey have embraced the notion that Black America's combined "buying power", if harnessed correctly, would be a revolutionary force. But is this true? Morgan State University Professor Dr. Jared Ball joins us to discuss this issue from his new book "The My...
The Public Health Hustle (Part 1) - Africa, Bill Gates and the Politics of Expertise
In Search of Black Power - April 13, 2020 19:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe light of the COVID-19 epidemic, the public is relying on public health experts for guidance. But the moment raises several questions. What is the history of public health expertise? Who benefits from western nations controlling third world health infrastructure? In the first part of of thi...
Elections Special: Worse than Trump - White Supremacy and the Democratic Party
In Search of Black Power - February 14, 2020 18:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAs the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries heat up, we look back at 2016. Should Black voters "Vote Blue No Matter Who" or be willing to withhold their vote to pressure the Democrats into concessions? This reading of a chapter from the "Worse than Trump: The America Plantation" by Dayvon Lo...
The Miseducation of 'The Boys of Baraka'
In Search of Black Power - December 30, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn the mid-2000s, a documentary about "troubled youth" from Baltimore sent to Africa was critically acclaimed. it was more than another white savior story. It revealed the fundamental flaws in the logical liberal white racism. We use the documentary as a starting point for an analysis of the rac...
South Africa - Revolution vs. Mandela Mythology
In Search of Black Power - November 18, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWe think we know the story of South Africa: the people rise up, international sanctions are levied, Nelson Mandela is released and this leads to a peaceful transition to multi-racial democracy. But what if this is wrong? In this interview between Dr. Jared Ball (Morgan State University) & Frank ...
Us - A Spooky Social Justice Analysis - Part 2
In Search of Black Power - October 31, 2019 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsHappy Halloween! This is Part 2 of New Timbuktu's analysis of Jordan Peele's 2019 film - "Us". We go deeper into the story of Lupita Nyongo's character, Adelaide. We analyze the movie's surprise ending and explain some of the meaning of the use of "Hands Across America" as a symbol. Can a quote ...
Us - A Spooky Social Justice Analysis - Part 1
In Search of Black Power - October 28, 2019 04:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJordan Peele's movie "Us" left audiences dazzled, but also confused. How should we interpret this complex and layered social justice horror film? New Timbuktu Creative Director Lawrence Grandpre gives his take; linking to film to mass incarceration and the cost of black upward mobility through t...
Puerto Rico On The Map - An Interview With Rosa Clemente
In Search of Black Power - September 23, 2019 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsPuerto Rico is more than an island which got hit by a hurricane. It's home to people who are victims of man-made disasters of colonialism and police brutality. It's also the epicenter of powerful indigenous resistance to racialized neoliberal exploitation. Scholar & activist Rosa Clemente joins ...
The Assata Mixtape
In Search of Black Power - September 09, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAssata Shakur has become a revolutionary icon, for better or worse. Attempts to legitimate her resistance to police violence and venerate her escape from prison have had the side effects of obscuring the breadth of depth of her radical politics, anti-capitalism, and insightful analysis. This col...
#HotMicSession: White Savior Pedagogy. The Power Dynamics between White Teacher and Black Student
In Search of Black Power - August 26, 2019 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn our final #HotMicSession for the Summer, Dayvon Love gives a talk on the psycho-social dynamics behind white folks doing work with Black kids. Combining personal experience with academic analysis, Dayvon breaks down the role whiteness plays in the social imaginary and, despite good intentions...
#HotMicSession: Think-Tank + Work-Tank + Dream-Tank - Radical Change Through Policy Advocacy
In Search of Black Power - August 12, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWe take you with us into one of our fundraising dinners, where we discuss the history of the scholar activist network which brings you ISOBP - Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. We break down our methodology around policy advocacy and how we seek to innovate as a “Grassroots” think tank. Support...
#HotMicSession: A History of Black Institution Building in Baltimore
In Search of Black Power - July 29, 2019 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsDayvon Love breaks down the history of independent black institutions in Baltimore, explaining the political advancements these institutions and the lessons we should learn for contemporary activism. Support the Show. In Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This p...
#HotMicSession: Drug Policy as Social Policy
In Search of Black Power - July 15, 2019 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWe're on a Summer Break! We're bringing you our #HotMicSessions - talks recorded live and in the field. In this first session, our host, Lawrence Grandpre breaks down some history of the war on drugs and how we need more comprehensive solutions to address the issue of drug addiction. Support t...
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