Tag: slavery
Abolition Today: Taking Liberties S2-E6
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We’re 2 days away from the 2/9/21 Abolish Slavery National Network Quarterly Meeting and one month post confederate insurrection. It’s all interconnected like a time rhyme but in this moment, the Abolitionist are writing the script.
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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E21
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On this episode of Live From The Plantation, the prisoners have an update on Kinetic Justice the incarcerated abolitionist activist, victim of modern slavery and solitary confinement, a co-founder of the prisoner group Free Alabama Movement, a group that seeks to abolish slavery in the state of Alabama. Kinetic Justice was hospitalized after being attacked by staff of a Alabama state prison. The correction officers involved in the attack are currently on leave and prisoners say that an officer who carried out the vicious attack, Lt. Jenkins, has a long and sordid history of brutality and violence. Jenkins has been promoted several times during his tenure under Commissioner Dunn, showing a pattern of reward for brutality at Donaldson.
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Abolition Today: A Lawless Land and The Oath-breakers Who Create it S2-E5
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Is it a lawless land? Has the constitution been so systemically violated that it’s become the supreme joke of the land? Has our rights ever…
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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E19
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8 PM EST – “The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” – Chinua Achebe
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Abolition Today: The Abolitionist Witnesses S2-E3
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7:00 PM EST – Max and Yusuf have been providing educational radio podcast content for the abolitionist movement since 2010. On 1/17/2021 we are joined by our former co-host Yohanan Elijah. We’re also being syndicated on the Black Talk Radio Network courtesy of Scotty T Reid. In the midst of a national insurrection by white supremacists, these Veteran Abolitionist Witnesses come together for the first time in years to testify of what they have seen and discuss the bigger picture of then, now, and tomorrow.
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Abolition Today: I Know Why The Caged Bird Screams S2 E2
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Sunday, 7 PM EST US on Abolition Today We examine the deadly systemic conditions of the currently enslaved and the daily fight for survival they wage.
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Abolition Today: Badges & Incidents of Slavery S2 E1
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The knowledge and information. The Abolitionist Music/Poetry. The Voices of the ancestors reclaimed. The news, views, and special guests. The compelling narratives and powerful commentary. The 1st hand testimony from activists at the heart of the modern slavery abolitionist movement.
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BTR News: Does The Arc Of History Bend Toward Justice?
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Have the victims of raced based slavery and their descendants made any progress towards producing justice?
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BTR News: Colin Kaepernick On Qwest To Sell The Public On Police & Prison Abolition
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Before going into the issues concerning abolishing the police, abolishing prisons, and the incorrect conclusion that policing and prisons are rooted in White Supremacy, let’s give Colin Kaepernick his due and recognize his sacrifice to elevate a nation’s consciousness on matters of the intersection of race and the police state.
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Neo Slavery: Benjamin Crump Representing 8 yr Old Student Saved From Prison Pipeline
Crump said, “This is a heartbreaking example of how our educational and policing systems train children to be criminals by treating them like criminals,” Crump said in a statement. “If convicted, the child, in this case, would have been a convicted felon at eight years old. This little boy was failed by everyone who played a part in this horrific incident.”
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BTR News: Confederate Idols Falling Across The USA
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Confederate monuments are coming down and racists don’t like but we are not concerned with their feelings. Learn about Jury Nullification and set the protesters free.
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BTR News: Can Black People Please Stop Defending Confederate Monuments?
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In this episode of Black Talk Radio News, Scotty delves into the controversy surrounding the removal of tacky, trashy and terroristic confederate monuments being vandalized, pulled down, or removed. The controversy isn’t that racist suspects are defending these false idols but that some Black people are defending them even if they don’t think that is what they are doing. Its madness!
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BTR News: The Confederate Monument In Gaston County, NC Is An Act of Terrorism
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This is a message to the Gaston County Commissioners concerning the confederate monument sitting in front of the Gaston County Courthouse in North Carolina.
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Conversation Reparations: Business Mogul Robert L. Johnson Calls For 14 Trillion In Reparations
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In this episode of Conversation Reparations, host Jumoke Ifetayo speaks with entrepreneur Robert L. Johnson, the founder of BET, who recently proposed a 14 trillion dollar reparations package for African-Americans impacted by the legacy of slavery.
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