Our Common Ground with Janice Graham

OUR 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 crust of Christofascism, heterosexism, classism, and sexism .” - Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Director, The Spirit House Project  Listen and Call-In 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@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny"  An 11-Week Series Discussion Forums into the looking glass of "The Handmaid's Tale"  The consequences in the story are lessons that we must all seriously consider. Episode 8: “American Democracy Under Siege: The Players and the Game”  :: March 10th :: 8 pm ET LIVE Guest: Dr. Cynthia Ann Baron, Co-Chair, Caucus on Class, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

OUR 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 transformative potential makes it such a target for opponents of a democratic society that claims and respects Black people. 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@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny"  An 11-Week Discussion Series  The consequences in the story are lessons that we must all seriously consider. Episode 7: “American Democracy Under Siege: White Supremacy” Guest: Dr. Raymond A. Winbush,Director, National Urban Research Institute, Morgan State University  

OUR 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: @JaniceOCG Email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 11-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider

OUR 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@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 11-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider

OUR 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.  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@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider

"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 of mobilization needed to resist with effective push-back tools? How do you translate what you are being told by your state representatives as opposed to the reality of the legislative actions being taken? If you are not engaged in some activity of resisting these oppressive moves, now is the time. Now. Months from now will be too late. Call In ::: 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@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider

his 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 democracy which protects their agency as citizens. Join me in bringing in my 2022 launch around the sun once again. OCG Party !! Tune In LIVE : http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Call In ::: 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@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider

"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 new scholarship that tends to marginalize the power of his transformative power in our own communities. We read and quote his words outside the context and the import of the history he ignited. Tune In LIVE : http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Call In ::: 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@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider. 

"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/OCGTruthTalk Call In ::: 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@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider.  

This 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. Talking race in courage and with hope continues to be the mission. I salute and am grateful to the hundreds of OUR COMMON GROUNDVOICES who have met with us and offered their keen intelligence and body of knowledge to serve the Black nation. And, to our listeners, we are always appreciative of your support of our programming. Our final, and the 2022 and Season of OUR COMMON GROUND will premiere on January 8, 2022. We wish you a holiday season filled with the joy and magic of your faith and hope that you will be lifted by the spirit and richness of Kwanzaa. As always,  I'll Be Listening for You BOLD :::: BRAVE :::: BLACK "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"  Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter @JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

This 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 interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture. In this 2009 episode of OUR COMMON GROUND, we talked with her once again about her profound significant theoretical and analytic research and writings on global white supremacy and how it manifests in America. Dr. Welsing first joined us in 1987.  Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter @JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

REBROADCAST 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 sharper eye focused on the condition of black politics. He is a frequent co-host and guest with Dave Marsh's heard on Sirius radio each Sunday. Gray is Founder of the Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project and the former managing editor of Black News in Columbia. Neill Franklin, the National Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and a former law enforcement officer. We will talk with him about a growing hostility by police on marijuana reform and about the discrepancies and how far some law enforcement with lie to argue them. Janice will return LIVE on January 6, 2021  Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter @JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

OPEN 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: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter @JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"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 passively acquiesces to the calculated marginalization of the Black electorate by the Democratic Party. We invite Dr. Ray Winbush to join us to talk about the issues on the landscape of Black life and community – the demand for chattel slavery reparations, voter suppression, police reform because it seems the Biden administration has big dreams but no heart to claim them. Dr. Winbush is a research professor and the Director of the Institute for Urban Research. As a scholar and activist, he is known for his systems-thinking approaches to understanding the impact of racism/white supremacy on the global African community.  Author, The Warrior Method :: Should America Pay? ::  Belinda's Petition :: This Week's "WORD UP" Segment  ::: Professor Dr. John Henrik Clarke Excerpt of discussion of great men of color from history. Call_In & Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter @JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

This 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 Down with Kim Brown is the place where you can set oppression ablaze. Black woman-led independent media that DGAF about taking on the establishment. Subscribe today- and you'll see why Tucker Carlson hates us so much.   Call_In & Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community  

"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, eating disorders, workaholism, and addiction to shopping, gambling, and sex. Few realize these destructive acts are symptoms of our inner sorrow. Saturday, October 2, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"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 Biden Administration waits for many deliverables promised without hope. A pandemic continues to claim citizens; the VRA of 1963 has become a useless relic of days gone by failing to protect disenfranchised the vulnerable populations for whom it was designed. From the Infrastructure bill to the George Floyd Act and the glimmering of an increasingly politically biased Supreme Court the foundation of democracy rumbles,    Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

“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 a false pronouncement of being a global leader of human rights make the American prison system saner, and humane? The prison system is one of the demonstrations that slavery bears harm in this nation. Let's talk about abolition. Until the continuing existence of slavery in America is ended, the nation's prison camps will be the largest plantations ever seen on the planet. Guests: Max Parthas and Yusuf Hassan Co-Hosts, Abolition Today  New Abolitionist Radio MAX PARTHAS is the Co-director of state operations at Abolish Slavery National Network. YUSUF HASSAN is an Abolitionist, legal analyst, prisoners' rights advocate, entrepreneur, tech expert, community developer, USMC vet, screenwriter. Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

This 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 power depend upon has a glitch. So many Americans are beginning to understand more and moving beyond the energy field of the matrix. The glitch in the matrix ?  Black people. We discuss it at OUR COMMON GROUND tonight. Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

“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.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"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 made him the nominee via wins in ten of the 14 states holding contests that day. African-Americans were his base: According to exit polls, he won 58 percent of black voters across this vast landscape. Will it hold. What plays will this base make and for what are Black people holding him accountable in return for our vote? Will the “Black agenda” survive going forward? Under what political infrastructure will “this base” hold the line?  We will talk with Dr. James Taylor, a renowned political scientist, and professor about the urgency of the issues going toward a Joe Biden nomination and the Democrats historical failure to address them. OUR COMMON GROUND "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Subscribe: https:/ourcommonground.com Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUNDTalk Radio Twitter: @JaniceOCG

::: 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 "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter  @JaniceOCG  #TrustYourStruggle Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO Twitter: @JaniceOCG About Us  www.ourcommonground.com OCG Community Forum   www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email:  OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com

REBROADCAST 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 put it away fast enough, Horrified students watched and videotaped the incident. Where are Black children safe? How can this girl's humanity be so blatantly challenged?   Roxane Gay (NYT)  writes: "Far too little attention is being given to who the young girl is...When that officer saw her, sitting quietly, defiantly, she was not allowed to be human. She was not allowed to have a complex story. She was held to a standard of absolute obedience. She was not given the opportunity to explain the why of her defiance because she was a black body that needed to be disciplined by any means necessary."   BROADCASTING BOLD :::  BRAVE  ::: BLACK      Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More about this episode     OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/     Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/    Follow us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters

This 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  :::  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 site on the Net. In October 2006, Ford and the entire writing team left BC to launch Black Agenda Report (BAR). We have lost a brilliant, insightful strong voice, his persistence, his sacrifice, his passion, and the spirit of an INFORMED, LIBERATED, and FREE Black nation. His service and work will resonate for many Black generations and years to come. Always a Truth Warrior, now a Beloved Ancestor. "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

“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 place in a long line of Anglophone leaders who claimed to speak for besieged whites, with precedents including Ian Smith, the leader of the white minoritarian regime of Rhodesia, and Enoch Powell, the British MP who infamously warned of “rivers of blood” if Britain did not halt non-white immigration. Moreover, white nationalism is global not only in its history but in its present manifestations: white nationalists worldwide have hailed Trump's actions and would be emboldened by his reelection. Resistance and Rebellion Rebroadcast : 05-26-15 Episode Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

Rev. 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 K. Smith  Author, "WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME - The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America “ and "The Book of Jeremiah: The Life and Ministry of Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.“ 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 Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

In 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?  We talk with Pascal Robert tonight about how it happens, what it means, and whether it simply a message of some sort. Just what are they thinking? Pascal is a son of Haiti. Growing up in Miami, he was schooled by his father and, uncles in history, culture, and the stories of Haiti's resistance to imperialism. We talk with him about that history and review how in that history Haiti became one of the poorest nations in the world. "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  

What 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 gave about 70 lectures during a tour that covered four to five thousand miles. And his speaking engagements did not halt at the end of a tour. From his home in Rochester, New York, he took part in local abolition-related events. On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told his audience, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

::: 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 Broadcast At a Time" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

::: "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 persistently fought for their liberation.  American Black freedom struggle is the central place in Juneteenth celebrations. Returning LIVE 6/26/21  "REPARATIONS: The Debt That Is Owed"  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 Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

::: “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 methods in race and ethnicity, Black Intellectuals, W.E.B.Du Bois, the Black Middle Class, race and ethnic politics, comparative and theoretical approaches to race and ethnicity. What is the debt that is owed ? 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 Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

Reparations: 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 for the most part greatly enhanced by the exploitation of African American slave labor: some argue it is the bedrock for the U.S. economy and capitalism. However, former slaves and their descendants are among the poorest demographic in America. Accordingly, reparations would be valuable primarily as a way of correcting modern economic imbalances. The call for reparations has intensified in 2020. More injustices and discrimination have continued since slavery was outlawed in the US. Black communities and civil rights organizations have called for reparations for those injustices as well as for reparations directly related to the US chattel slavery system. What is the debt owed ? 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 Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

The 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 suppressed the truth, and Blacks were intimidated by more violence into silence. But efforts to restore the horrific event to its rightful place in U.S. history are beginning this 100 years later. Black children of my generation were taught to know and never forget. Tulsa was not the only sight of violent pogroms attacking Blacks in that era.  Tonight, we teach the story of Tulsa. June 5, 2021, we begin our series "Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed" with guest, Dr. William J. "Sandy" Darity.

"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 support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"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 Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"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: 347-838-9852 "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

In 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 on Black Justice" It was a defense based on that Black people deserve to be murdered. The path that is drenched by the grief and tears of a people in their witness to this, not just injustice, but America's brand of Black justice. "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

“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 excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. He is the author of, "Just Mercy"  More  "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

“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 jobs to Blacks. Politicians abused Blacks to win the votes of poor white “crackers.” Newspapers fed the bias of white readers by playing up (sometimes even making up) Black crimes and reporting based on Black stereotypes. "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

“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

“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” 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 divorced from policies that address our political, economic, and community needs. Are we voting electoral race politics and needing class-basis policies? Just how does the "Black vote" calculate? A whole new way of thinking is required. That and a "resistance campaign" against voter suppression. Every period of our history has taught America something about its own failings, and us about the righteousness of our struggle. Without Black struggle Americans would not be faced with ideals of democracy.  "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

OCG 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 Community

"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 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 events that took place in times transforming society and culture throughout the United States, Their resonance and legacy reflect that complexity. We live today in the legacy of political movements that occurred right after the Emancipation of slavery and before the turn of the century.  We need to know and understand the networks that compose the many Black struggles that created movements that brought us to our current political struggles. An OUR COMMON GROUND BHM Special

OCG 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 evil Accountability before forgiveness is not a novel idea. But America believes it only for itself. To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"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 commitment helped make him a community legend, say those who gathered to remember him.  There are few in the WPB Black community who played tennis who didn't learn it or at least, in part from “Doc” Horne. In 1990, the city of West Palm Beach proclaimed March 17 as Jimmie "Doc" Horne Appreciation Day. The tennis facilities at Gaines Park are named for him. Mr. Horne passed on December 2, 2008, at age 88.

"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 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 events that took place in times transforming society and culture throughout the United States, Their resonance and legacy reflect that complexity. We live today in the legacy of political movements that occurred right after the Emancipation of slavery and before the turn of the century.  We need to know and understand the networks that compose the many Black struggles that created movements that brought us to our current political struggles. An OUR COMMON GROUND BHM Special

"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"  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 events that took place in times transforming society and culture throughout the United States, Their resonance and legacy reflect that complexity. We live today in the legacy of political movements that occurred right after the Emancipation of slavery and before the turn of the century.  We need to know and understand the networks that compose the many Black struggles that created movements that brought us to our current political struggles. An OUR COMMON GROUND BHM Special

“Ashes to Ashes: Addressing Racial Injustice in America - The Reckoning" Guest:  Dr. Shirley J. Whitaker, MD, Author, Filmographer, Activist "Ashes to Ashes" are the final words in typical African American funeral services. FROM 1882-1968, 4,743 LYNCHINGS OCCURRED IN THE UNITED STATES. OF THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE LYNCHED 3,446 WERE BLACK (72%). THE MAJORITY OCCURING IN THE SOUTH (79%). This too is Black History. Many of those who were murdered by the Klan to maintain the reign of white supremacy never received their  “Ashes to Ashes”. Ashes to Ashes, the film and project memorialize the more than 4,000 African Americans who were lynched during the Jim Crow era.  Tonight we talk with her about reaching back and understanding that these dead, the method by which they died is Black History too. To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community