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the role of myth & the continuities in sacred + secret histories w/ Dr. Nubia Kia 1:51:30

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Image: John Biggers, Band of Angels: Weaving the Seventh Word, 1992-93 According to the Dogon, “in the beginning before anything existed there was the Supreme Being, Amma. Amma existed in the form of an egg divided into four parts by four bones [the clavicles], which were joined together. Apart from the egg, nothing existed, for Amma rested on noth…

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of spirit & Black liberation 1:25:30

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Amadou Hampâté Bâ, quoting his teacher Tierno Bokar, suggest that “writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photograph of knowledge but is not knowledge itself” [A. Hampâté Bâ, The Living Tradition, General History of Africa Vol. 1: 166]. According to Hampâté Bâ, “the world’s earliest archives or libraires were the brains of me…

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the role & continued struggle of the National Union of Eritrean Women 1:08:00

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The history of the geographical region now called, Eritrea is deep and rich. Eritrea has been occupied in turn by Ottoman Turks, Egyptians, Italians (from 1886 until 1941), the British until 1952 (who defeated Italy in Eritrea during the second world war) and the Ethiopians ever since [Pateman 1990:51]. In 1 952, the British and the United Nations …

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movement & memory reflections on labor and the genealogy of resistance w/ Saladin Muhammad Pt. II 1:07:31

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Saladin Muhammad argues in an article titled Black Workers for Justice, Twenty-year of Struggle, in Against the Current that: “The national oppression of African Americans in the U.S. South makes Black workers in the South the most exploited section of the U.S. industrial working class. Black Workers for Justice [BWFJ] thus bases its trade union an…

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movement & memory: reflections on labor and the genealogy of resistance w/ Saladin Muhammad Pt. I 59:49

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Abdul Alkalimat writes on a multimedia project that explores the work of Saladin Muhamad that “our movements for social transformation have often fallen victim to the tendency to oversimplify the struggle. Moreover, there is far too little self-criticism to learn from our “right” and “left” errors. This is particularly dangerous as we are at the be…

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Resistance & Memory: Dulcie September 1:00:00

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The way we remember; the forces and institutions that nurture or place barriers on the processes of remembering are not without great contradictions and opportunity. All of which are directly related to the interdependence of legitimacy and consent…the terrain upon which a contestation of power is played out on a daily basis. Understanding what is …

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meditations on - black labor & ‘the white architects of black education’ 2:05:18

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Labor has changed. Its production. Its definition. Its control. But one thing that has not changed are the parameters within which labor has been defined, value extracted and dehumanized – mechanized – automated – artificially intelligeized. What does "labor" mean in a settler imperial world fortified by racial capitalist sociopolitical structures …

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SNCC, Africa & Black Radical Imagination 1:22:51

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The range and scope of manifestations in the Black freedom struggle are varied yet connected by a common thread…it does not matter where you look, pick a point on the map of human geography, pick a geographical landmass or region -- the continent of Africa, the Caribbean or somewhere in Northern part of the Americas, you will find a common thread. …

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Africa, the environment & China in Africa 55:50

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[produced & aired, 2017] This past weekend over a 150, 000 people were in Washington, DC to protest and call attention to the ever-increasing violent reality of climate change. The devastating effects are already being felt across the planet and can no longer be denied, despite the best efforts of those who choose to ignore the facts. And the conti…

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Pt. 2: the role Of Black university in African/a resistance w/ Josh Myers 55:06

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[produced and aired, 2016...note...our production is getting better...: )] In a 1968 in the March edition of Negro Digest titled, the Nature and Needs of the Black University, Gerald McWorter [Abdul Alkalimat] writes…and I must quote in its entirety here: “Revolutionary change for the liberation of a people from oppressive social structures is not …

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Rhodes/Fees Must Fall Movement(s) & The Role And Responsibility of Diasporic Institutions 55:54

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We are living in a time of great challenge and opportunity. Across the African world people are challenging their historically rooted contemporary conditions. The practical work of the long tradition of African and Diasporic freedom fighters has provided the frame work for these various manifestations of Africana resistance to find a way forward---…

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Black University & Black Studies 1:00:24

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Originally produced and aired in 2016...: The great political theorist, cultural philosopher, revolutionary, C. L. R. James once said that he is black, number one, because he is against what they have done and are still doing to us; and number two, he has something to say about the new society to be built because he has a tremendous part in that wh…

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Press Conference w/ Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations 1:25:23

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Image: Female literacy volunteers return to Havana at the end of the literacy campaign in December 1961 On June 23, 2021, a total of 184 countries on voted in favor of a resolution to demand the end of the US economic blockade on Cuba, for the 29th year in a row, with the United States and Israel, being the only countries voting against resolution.…

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AfroColombia & movements 1:05:29

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The clear and intentionality in the processes of violence carried out upon African/a peoples as they are constituted around the world and its symmetry in form and function upon people who are categorized as native in the Americas is not without precedent. European modernity is responding to its disintegration and has been for over the past 500 year…

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uninterrupted conversations with our eégún: thinking about the Coltranes w/ Dr. Anyabwile Love 1:34:45

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According to 'Trane himself, as written in the liner notes to A Love Supreme, “The music herein is presented in four parts. The first is entitled "ACKNOWLEDGEMENT", the second, "RESOLUTION", the third, "PURSUANCE", and the fourth and last part is a musical narration of the theme, "A LOVE SUPREME" which is written in the context; it is entitled "PSA…

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El Hajj Malik El Shabazz: the continuity & legacy of a critical Africana HRs consciousness 1:31:15

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Image: Original artwork by @ultravivre There are many attempts to explore and examine who Malcolm X, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, was and is. there are books, documentaries [focused on his life and his assassination], movies, songs, poems, etc. They all explore and examine various aspects of El Shabazz, dissecting his very being. But no matter the com…

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Black & Palestine - histories challenges & opportunities 1:51:55

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Image: Malcolm X in 1964, w/ leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dr. Ahmad Shukeiri. What we are witnessing, in this global moment, is not unprecedented, it is European modernity coming apart at its seams. The loosely tied myths that has kept it together are unraveling, delinking…but it intends to not go easily. The reverberating effec…

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Ayiti & the peoples movement 1:00:10

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Ayiti, in the Black radical imagination, is more than an idea. It is the material representation of African/a freedom. It is the exemplar of the promises, failures & potentialities of African/a liberation. It is the colonial knot that the African/a world must untied. Just as Ayiti represented freedom in the past, it also represents the potentiality…

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Hakim Adi w/ Josh Myers on Pan Africanism: A History 59:00

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[originally produced & aired May 2018] What is meant by the term “Pan-Africanism?” What do we – can we - make of “pan Africanism”? There have been various attempts by scholars, activist, artist, musicians, to develop a clear definition of Pan Africanism. While a clear and solidified definition of Pan Africanism has been the preoccupation of these t…

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#NAFF - April 1 - 18 2021 1:19

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The 17th edition of the New African Film Festival takes place online April 1–18, 2021 presenting a lineup of outstanding contemporary African cinema for audiences in the Washington, DC, area and beyond. the festival is co-presented by Africa World Now Project, afrikafé and AFI. The New African Film Festival showcases the vibrancy of African filmmak…

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We Rise For Our Land & Kurt Otabenga Orderson 1:45:36

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The question of land as a fundamental aspect of African/a liberation movements is an often-neglected point of inquiry. Nevertheless, it is indeed, ever-present. Promisingly, there has been an uptick of more folk who are paying attention to the demands of Black radical thought and behavior that sought and seek to engage in understanding its role in …

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rhythms, vibrations & African/a cultural production w/ Oddisee 1:18:19

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I normally provide a textured, multi-leveled, quite frankly intentionally thick introduction to our programs. But today, we present a conversation I recently had with Amir Mohamed el Khalifa [aka Oddisee], as the conversation is textured, multi-leveled and thick itself… The son of Sudanese and African descendant American parents, Oddisee was born a…

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Danhomé & Vodun w/ filmmaker Onuora Anthony Abuah 1:00:00

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[Originally produced and aired in 2019] Vodun, Voodoo, racialization into Black Magic as currently understood is a distorted figment of a Western imagination. Voodoo is narrated as a sensationalized ‘pop-culture’ caricature of voudon, which is an Afro-Caribbean spiritual system that was brought with enslaved Africans forced onto the plantations in …

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embodied resistance the science & continuities of Africana fighting arts 1:25:40

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The notion, assumption, and/or idea that the various peoples who were enslaved during the periods and processes of the solidification of the racial global economy that claims our ancestors were deprived of culture, strips of all associations with historical and ancestral groundings is a product of centering European historicity as the dominant expr…

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Afrofuturism & the Freedom Principle 1:13:17

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Today, we will listen to a thinking session I had with students last year, where we engaged ideas around an argument I presented, that suggested Afrofuturism is an ancient idea that expresses itself as an African/a freedom principle. It is an articulation of a constellation of deep African/a ideas and practices of what I called Africa’s Ancient Fut…

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history as a tool for organizing w/ Obi Egbuna Jr 1:27:23

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Analyzing the conditions which dictate the systems and institutions which also perpetuate inequities require the ability to identify and map. It requires the science and art of identifying genealogy. It requires the necessity to map memory-to [re]member. But not simply for remembrance. African/a peoples oscillate between variations of a peculiar av…

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thinking about Black internationalism through Pauulu’s diaspora w/ Quito Swan 1:23:20

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Image: Pauulu Kamarakafego As we have explored in previous programs, in fact, as we have attempted to unpack in every program, Black internationalism is an intentional disruption; a radical intervention in the global terms of order [nod to Cedric Robinson]. In order to understand Black internationalism as a critical disruption, a radical interventi…

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vibrancy of social movements in Zimbabwe w/ Emily Williams 59:53

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Image: Jacob Lawrence Migration Series - Panel 4 Dominant discourses that explore and examine African/a phenomenon/a usually follow a trajectory set by colonialist, imperialist projects that seek to categorically define Africa through a racial capitalist epistemology. Rarely do these discourses allow African/a peoples to speak for themselves or int…

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a deep exploration of maroons w/ Dr. Nubia Kai 54:41

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[Program produced and aired 2016] Image: Frontispiece to Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble….1829 Maroon derives from Spanish cimarrón. Cimarrón originally referred to domestic cattle that had taken to the hills in Hispaniola. It was gradually expanded to be applied to enslaved Indigenous peoples who escaped from the Spania…

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Robert Sobukwe, Steve Biko & the Formation of the Black Consciousness Movement 58:40

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[Program produced & aired in 2017] While there have been many explorations of the histories and figures in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, little attention is paid to the role that Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe played as a leading thinker and activist in resisting its deeply entrenched racist structures. While Nelson Mandela is normally giv…

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power & empire: reflections on u.s. elections, 2020 58:36

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The current national political climate, as we have been highlighting, at least for the past 4 years, on AWNP is rooted in the cultural practices inherent in the global imposition of structures and systems born out of specific experiences and communities of peoples on the geographical land mass called Europe. These historical and contemporary experi…

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of elections & beyond: thinking through the crisis in western hegemony 1:33:52

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Image: Fannie Lou Hamer & Ella Baker, Aug. 6, 1964 [https://snccdigital.org/events/mfdp-holds-state-convention/] Knowledge is the intentional organization of information to meet an expressed objective and/or objectives. If this is, indeed, a viable conceptualization of knowledge, then the ability to correctly analysis the conditions within which a …

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Discourses & Explanations/What Is To Be Done? [Pt. 1 of elections and beyond, 2016] 56:34

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[Note: Produced and aired in 2016] Image: Wise Two https://www.wisetwo.org/ Over the past week and a half…unless one has been locked away in a cave…with absolutely no access to technology of any sort…the world has been attempting to understand and rationalize the US election of Donald Trump. To be more clear, Donald Trump—the person—and his electio…

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the Form And Function Of Islam & the Black Radical Tradition 1:51:52

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Religion or one’s spiritual practice are the center of one’s understanding of themselves in relation to the world within which they live. It is indeed the essence of who are. And for better or worse contextualizes and informs our identity. The development of practices and/or rituals that seek to help us understand the relationship between humanity,…

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Hip Hop as Critical (Pan African) Consciousness Pt. 2 56:44

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[Note: This program was produced and aired in 2016] Image: Acclaimed Kenyan street artist & muralist, Wise 2 [https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/wise-two-5599] Today, we will listen to Pt. 2 of a two-part series titled: Hip Hop as Critical (Pan African) Consciousness. In this series, we engage a range of artists, activist, & thinkers in deeply exp…

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Thinking w/ Ella Baker 1:18:42

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Image: Ella Baker at the November 1974 Puerto Rican Independence Solidarity Rally Attempts to distort, rewrite, dilute, misdirect, and misguide the impact of our radical scholars, radical thinkers, activist, artist, and advocates are carefully planned practices by those who hold perceived positions of authority. The exclusion of important Africana …

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The Sociopolitical Philosophy of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah w/ Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere 1:00:58

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Note: This program was produced and aired in 2017. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first prime minister and president after declaring their independence on March 6, 1957…founding member of the Organization of African Unity, wrote in the preface of the 1969 second edition of his work titled Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization that: “Sinc…

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Exploring the Sociopolitical Conditions in Somalia w/ Abukar Arman 1:06:12

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Image: Painting by Najma Ahmed, founder of Nujuum Arts. Based in Mogadishu and Hargaisa. Somalia/ somaliland. More information available here: https://web.marcelforart.com/nujuum_hashi/about The geopolitical conditions within which Somalia was born cannot be divorced from the conditions that institutionalized themselves in 1884/85 at what has come …

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Current Conditions in Ethiopia w/ Ayantu Ayana 1:02:29

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Photo: Col. John Charles Robinson of Chicago In Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Robin DG Kelley writes that “most black people believed there was an order higher than the Constitution. Throughout the Africana experience in the Americas, Psalm 68, verse 31 of the Bible promised redemption for the black world. It reads: “Princes shall …

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Wangũi wa Kamonji explores African indigenous knowledge for restoration & resilience 1:21:35

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Wangũi wa Kamonji in her article, Women in Kenya rebuild resilience amidst an eco-cultural crisis, published in February of this year, a few weeks before the current global pandemic takes its cripplingly hold, writes that: “in the global North, it has become more common to declare that indigenous peoples hold the solutions to the climate crisis. Su…

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Africans Rising in Solidarity w/ Black Lives Matter through a Pan African Lens 1:14:35

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[Image: Claudia Jones Paul Robeson Amy A Garvey with friends in London England, Source: Source Pan African News Wire] W.E.B. Du Bois (1933) in, Pan-Africa and new racial philosophy, presents his early articulations of Pan Africanism as “the industrial and spiritual emancipation of the Negro people” wherever they are in the world. George Padmore (19…

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Maroons w/ Haile Gerima & Akinyele Umjoa; the “Black church” w/ Torin Alexander 58:53

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[Note: Produced and aired in 2017] For more than four centuries, the communities formed by such escaped enslaved peoples dotted the fringes of plantations in the Americas, from Brazil to southeastern United States, from Peru to the American Southwest. Known variously as quilombos, mocambos, or mambeses, these new societies ranged from tiny bands th…

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Materializing Race w/ Dr. Charles W. Mills 58:14

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We are currently living in an age where poverty and disease are big business. In a world where race and class produce and reproduce ways of interacting. This process has found ways to attach itself to our very construction of individual and group realities, therefore entrenching conscious and unconscious acts of racism as being natural and/or unive…

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Language & Praxis of Decolonization through the Reclamation of Land & Dignity 1:02:32

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[Note: Produced and aired in 2017] In the Wretched of the Earth, Fanon writes: “Decolonization never goes unnoticed […] it infuses a new rhythm, specific to a new generation of men, with a new language and a new humanity...” (Fanon 1961:2) However, the process of decolonization has yet to reach full expression. The praxis of decolonization, the pro…

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Land as a Fundamental Component in Black Liberation Movements 1:01:06

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[Note: This program was produced and aired in 2017] The question of land as a fundamental aspect of Africana liberation movements is an often-neglected point of inquiry when exploring the long genealogy of Africana thought and behavior—radical or otherwise. Nevertheless, it is indeed, ever-present. A reading of the large cache of demands, treaties,…

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Postmodern Diversions Of Black Rebellion 1:16:53

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We are witnessing a period that is trending towards unprecedented, but it is not without genealogy or tradition. Those who seek to counter this rebellion promote narratives with increased use of violence that tries to narrow the righteous rage to suggest that folk are responding to one instance of violence. They think that folk are rebelling agains…

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Reflections on Africa’s Deep Impact on Diasporic Cultural Production w/ Bro Ah 1:10:45

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Note: This conversation with Brother Ah was the first program produced for AWNP Radio. It aired as the inaugural program in 2016. Brother has joined the ancestors today (May 31 2020). We will need to hear him speak with us on a higher frequency. He was, is and will continue to be. --------------------------------------------------------------------…

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The contradictory musings of a 'new' Black Studies 1:17:46

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Image: Monument to the Maroon, Alberto Lescay, in El Cobre, Santiago de Cuba, taken June 2019; https://albertolescay.com/ It must be said, we have entered the most aggressive phase of European modernity’s disintegration. One that has been built upon decades of exploitation—human and natural. This may seem to be a very strong statement. Some may eve…

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Relationship[s], Interaction[s] & the practice of Love for Black Family Stability 1:22:47

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Image: ODO NNYEW FIE KWAN, "Love never loses its way home" Kahlil Gibran, writing in the 1921, The Prophet presents us with a serious meditation on love: Gibran writes: “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love” (The Prophet, 1921). Our great ancest…

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Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the Freedom Struggle & Libya 1:01:25

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[Originally produced in 2017] William Patterson, a leader of the Communist Party USA, was an eminent civil rights attorney who spearheaded defense of the Scottsboro Nine, Black youth in Alabama framed on phony rape charges in 1932. Patterson was a radical visionary who understood that African world struggle for freedom has in essence a struggle for…

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