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Tavis Smiley
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove joins Tavis Smiley

Tavis Smiley

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 17:38


California Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove joins Tavis in studio for a preview of the upcoming World Cup and Olympic Games in the heart of Black Los Angeles.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.

Studio Potter – The Podcast
Archival Audio - Stanley Wilson, LA County California.

Studio Potter – The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 35:13


As one of the five Black Los Angeles artists featured in Studio Potter (Vol. 9, No. 2, 1981), Stanley Wilson's insights and experiences continue to resonate, inspiring new generations of makers and scholars. His dedication to ceramics, mentorship, and advocacy has built a lasting legacy – one that bridges the past, present, and future.

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima
The State of Justice for Black LA w/DA George Gascon & Black Advisory Comm. Member Jasmyne Cannick

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 41:57


(Airdate 10/25/24) LA County District Attorney George Gascon joins us in the studio along with one of the more outspoken members of his Black Advisory Committee - Gen Z Journalist Jasmyne Cannick. On this podcast we look at the impact of the advisory committees on policies and practices within the DA's office and the impact on justice for Black Los Angeles. The community is invited to a convening of the DA's Black Advisory Committee at the WLCAC in Watts on Tuesday October 29, 2024 at 5:30PM. https://da.lacounty.gov/community/afr... https://www.dominiquediprima.com/ https://kbla1580.com/

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima
Wealth Building Wednesday Meet Chef Stuart Eubanks

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 11:19


(Airdate 8/7/24) Chef Stuart Eubanks is born and raised in Black Los Angeles and has risen to work at some of the region's most prestigious and exclusive kitchens. His Who's Hungry Catering is in the Wealth Building Wednesday spotlight. https://whoshungrycatering.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/whoshungryla/

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima
WTF is Up w/LA Juneteenth? What's Cancelled & What's Not w/Billion Godsun

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2024 38:35


Billion Godsun is the Founder of Africa Town Enterprise and Africa Town Coalition and Africa Town Enterprise. He is an Organizer, Protector and Provider on Black Los Angeles, based in Africa Town AKA Leimert Park. On this podcast we unpack the state of Juneteenth in the city of Los Angeles. IG: @AfricatownCoalition @BillionGodsun @diprimaradio

Did That Really Happen?
Devil in a Blue Dress

Did That Really Happen?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 48:03


This week we're going back to 1940s LA with Devil in a Blue Dress! Join us as we learn about Black homeownership in midcentury Los Angeles, Charlotta Bass and The Eagle, postwar jobs, and more! Sources: Kelly Simpson, "The Great Migration: Creating a New Black Identity in Los Angeles," PBS, available at https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/the-great-migration-creating-a-new-black-identity-in-los-angeles Marques Augusta Vestal, "Black Housing Politics in 1940s South Los Angeles," MA Thesis, 2014, UCLA. Available at https://escholarship.org/content/qt1ns4f6z6/qt1ns4f6z6_noSplash_4f334160f70a9138a0db208ee1b4aa2c.pdf?t=nlk3x9#:~:text=Nearly%2040%20percent%20of%20blacks,than%20ten%20percent%20in%20Chicago.&text=Angeles%20newspaper%20the%20Liberator%2C%20Jefferson,greatest%20state%22%20for%20African%20Americans. Ryan Reft, "Segregation in the City of Angels: A 1939 Map of Housing Inequality in LA," PBS, available at https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/segregation-in-the-city-of-angels-a-1939-map-of-housing-inequality-in-l-a Black Los Angeles: 1930-2020. ArcGIS StoryMap. Available at https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dfd7cd4341a6493fa6cf38633333cece Los Angeles Sentinel, ProQuest Historical newspapers  David L. Clark, "Los Angeles: Improbable Los Angeles," in Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth Since World War II, eds. Richard M. Bernard and Bradley R. Rice (University of Texas Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/775763.14 Arthur C. Verge, "The Impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles," Pacific Historical Review 63, no.3 (1994): 289-314. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3640968  Regina Freer, "L.A. Race Woman: Charlotta Bass and the Complexities of Black Political Development in Los Angeles," American Quarterly 56, no.3 (2004): 607-32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40068236  Rodger Streitmatter, "Charlotta A. Bass: Radical Precursor of the Black Power Movement," Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History (University Press of Kentucky, 1994). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130jn0r.12  Democracy Now! "Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass: Remembering First Black Woman to Run for VP in 1952," YouTube, https://youtu.be/Hlkw24ifqdk?si=0IlaNF9cVbKqEBEQ   Julian Kimble, "Devil in a Blue Dress: Crossing the Line," The Criterion Collection, July 20, 2022, https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7873-devil-in-a-blue-dress-crossing-the-line   Dan Kois, "The 1990s Denzel Mystery That Should've Launched a Franchise," Slate, https://slate.com/culture/2022/07/carl-franklin-interview-devil-in-a-blue-dress-and-denzel-washington.html  Will Fancher, "The Untold Truth of Devil In A Blue Dress," Looper, August 6, 2022, https://www.looper.com/955040/the-untold-truth-of-devil-in-a-blue-dress/  https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/devil-in-a-blue-dress-1995 

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
“A Formation of Psychological Warfare” - Damien Sojoyner's First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 133:39


In this episode Damien Sojoyner returns to the podcast to talk about his book First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles. This episode was recorded in November and unfortunately its release was delayed due to the circumstances of the world today, which have necessitated for us a lot of media work in solidarity with Palestinian resistance, and against the genocide being enacted on Palestinians most visibly and egregiously in Gaza.  I also had the chance to catch up with Damien Sojoyner at the Archives Unbound conference at UC Santa Barbara a few weeks ago, and you can find a brief interview I conducted with them here. This book First Strike (Currently 50% of with the code: MN91620 through June 30th) is one that I had been wanting to discuss with Damien since I learned of it, because it very much relates to various intersecting interests of mine, the Black Radical Tradition, abolition, the prison industrial complex, and public education. Disrupting common framing of a school-to-prison pipeline Sojoyner really examines how we might understand public schools, and different regimes of education as enclosures upon more radical possibilities. And we get into a discussion of the warehousing function of schools, the psychological warfare aspects and more. As there is a lot of connection between this discussion and the discussion we had with Damien last year on his book Against the Carceral Archive, we have linked that in the show notes as well. We will have more audio content coming for you later this week as well as more video content on our YouTube channel. We've created playlist from the Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson Archives Unbound conference. If you appreciate the work we do at Millennials Are Killing Capitalism the best way you can support our work is as always to become a patron of the show. We are still working to find better solutions to getting all of the audio content we have backlogged released to you as quickly as possible. This has meant paying for some additional help in many cases. All that is to say, we really appreciate all of you who have been contributing to our work some of you for many years now. If people are not patrons of the show yet and are able to give $1 a month or more that's deeply appreciated as well. You can become a patron at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism

iSee109
Black Los Angeles | Rudy Ray Moore | Dunbar Hotel

iSee109

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 17:17


In this episode, I talk about Central Avenue where the Dunbar Hotel is located as well as the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

MHD Off the Record
[Re-Air] Ep. 8 What is the Legacy of Black Los Angeles? feat. Larry Earl Jr.

MHD Off the Record

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 24:43


To kick off Black History Month, MHD and co-host Chavonne Taylor discuss the legacy and historical impact of Black Los Angeles with historian Larry Earl Jr. Larry Earl Jr. is a Leimert Park resident and owner of 1619 Exhibits, a dynamic boutique arts firm that specializes in designing distinctive exhibitions, providing expert archival solutions, producing engaging public programming, and activating public spaces with vibrant civic art and cultural projects. With well over two decades of experience in museums and the field of cultural arts, Larry has been associated with some of our nation's preeminent cultural institutions. Prior to founding 1619 Exhibits, Larry served as Executive Director of the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum located in Culver City, CA and was the Founding Executive Director of the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC).

In The Margins
EP118: Two College Presidents Share Stories from South LA

In The Margins

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2023 59:50


Don't miss this captivating discussion between two Black Los Angeles-area college presidents who shared their journey from South L.A. to the presidential suite in commemoration of Juneteenth.   Dr. Anthony Culpepper, president of Los Angeles Southwest College, joined Robert Brown, Esq., president of the University of West Los Angeles, for a special chat about their life paths and the impact education had on their success.   As two Black children who led parallel lives a generation apart, the presidents discussed pivotal moments in their young lives growing up in South Los Angeles that led to their decisions to seek more than what the streets offered.   They connect on their recognition of the fragility of life, their responsibilities as role models, and their humility through success. Their raw discussion acknowledges their paths are not special, and in fact, they are fortunate their decisions led them to success — decisions they hope to pass on to new generations.   QUOTABLES “The ghetto is not a territory, it's a mindset. Juneteenth for me is a day to reflect on overcoming the mindset of being imprisoned, oppressed and impoverished.” - Robert Brown, Esq. “I'm hoping that we get to the point where we're not dependent on a holiday to know that we're free. Freedom is a frame of mind and if I'm free in my mind, you can never cage me.” - Dr. Anthony Culpepper   OR FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: http://twitter.com/diverseissues Instagram: http://instagram.com/diverseissuesinhighereducation Facebook: http://facebook.com/DiverseIssuesInHigherEducation/ Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/company/diverse-issues-in-higher-education Transcription services are available upon request. Please drop us a line using the form found here.       In The Margins is produced by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and edited by Instapodcasts (visit at instapodcasts.com)

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
Black Resistance to Intentional Formations of Genocide - Damien Sojoyner Against the Carceral Archive

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023 97:06


In this episode we welcome Damien Sojoyner to the podcast.  Damien M. Sojoyner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Prison and Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles and Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums. For this episode we invite Dr. Sojoyner to the podcast to discuss his latest work Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice which offers a distillation of critical, theoretical, and Black organizing and activist work over the past three decades. Working from collections at the Southern California Library the book examines the study and practice of the LA chapter of the Black Panther Party,  the Coalition Against Police Abuse, Urban Policy Research Institute, Mothers Reclaiming Our Children, and the collection of geographer Clyde Woods.  We ask Sojoyner about how he thinks about carcerality and the archive in relation to domestic warfare, and discuss the collections and documents he examines in the book and what they reveal about the practices of organizations grounded in the struggle for Black Liberation in Los Angeles.  Against the Carceral Archive is a great text to come to grips with the level of rigorous study, analysis and dedication that are required for effective organizing agains  t the forces of racial capitalism and the imperialist state. Thank you to Dr. Sojoyner for this book and for joining us for this conversation. We'll include links to the Southern California Library which provided collections for Sojoyner's research here and continues to be an amazing resource for people in struggle in Los Angeles. And if you appreciate the work that we do, we strongly encourage you to become a patron of the show, you can so for as little as $1 a month and all of your support adds up to make this show - and our own study groups - possible on a weekly basis.  Links: Southern California Library Pick-up a copy of Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice  

New Books in African American Studies
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in African American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 78:42


This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums (University of California Press, 2022) is about a young man, Marley, and a particular place, the Southern California Library--an archive of radical and progressive movements and a community organization where the author meets Marley.  Taking music as its thematic undercurrent, the book is structured as a "record collection." Each of the five "albums" relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and then offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention facilities. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it must embrace social visions of radical freedom that allow the cultivation of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. In Joy and Pain, we see how Marley's experience intersects with history and the contemporary political moment--Black knowledge production, Black liberation movements, community-based organizing--to imagine expansive futures. Damien Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles.  Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

New Books Network
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 78:42


This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums (University of California Press, 2022) is about a young man, Marley, and a particular place, the Southern California Library--an archive of radical and progressive movements and a community organization where the author meets Marley.  Taking music as its thematic undercurrent, the book is structured as a "record collection." Each of the five "albums" relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and then offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention facilities. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it must embrace social visions of radical freedom that allow the cultivation of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. In Joy and Pain, we see how Marley's experience intersects with history and the contemporary political moment--Black knowledge production, Black liberation movements, community-based organizing--to imagine expansive futures. Damien Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles.  Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Critical Theory
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in Critical Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 78:42


This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums (University of California Press, 2022) is about a young man, Marley, and a particular place, the Southern California Library--an archive of radical and progressive movements and a community organization where the author meets Marley.  Taking music as its thematic undercurrent, the book is structured as a "record collection." Each of the five "albums" relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and then offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention facilities. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it must embrace social visions of radical freedom that allow the cultivation of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. In Joy and Pain, we see how Marley's experience intersects with history and the contemporary political moment--Black knowledge production, Black liberation movements, community-based organizing--to imagine expansive futures. Damien Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles.  Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

New Books in Anthropology
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 78:42


This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums (University of California Press, 2022) is about a young man, Marley, and a particular place, the Southern California Library--an archive of radical and progressive movements and a community organization where the author meets Marley.  Taking music as its thematic undercurrent, the book is structured as a "record collection." Each of the five "albums" relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and then offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention facilities. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it must embrace social visions of radical freedom that allow the cultivation of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. In Joy and Pain, we see how Marley's experience intersects with history and the contemporary political moment--Black knowledge production, Black liberation movements, community-based organizing--to imagine expansive futures. Damien Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles.  Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

New Books in Sociology
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in Sociology

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 78:42


This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums (University of California Press, 2022) is about a young man, Marley, and a particular place, the Southern California Library--an archive of radical and progressive movements and a community organization where the author meets Marley.  Taking music as its thematic undercurrent, the book is structured as a "record collection." Each of the five "albums" relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and then offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention facilities. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it must embrace social visions of radical freedom that allow the cultivation of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. In Joy and Pain, we see how Marley's experience intersects with history and the contemporary political moment--Black knowledge production, Black liberation movements, community-based organizing--to imagine expansive futures. Damien Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles.  Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

New Books in American Studies
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 78:42


This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums (University of California Press, 2022) is about a young man, Marley, and a particular place, the Southern California Library--an archive of radical and progressive movements and a community organization where the author meets Marley.  Taking music as its thematic undercurrent, the book is structured as a "record collection." Each of the five "albums" relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and then offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention facilities. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it must embrace social visions of radical freedom that allow the cultivation of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. In Joy and Pain, we see how Marley's experience intersects with history and the contemporary political moment--Black knowledge production, Black liberation movements, community-based organizing--to imagine expansive futures. Damien Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles.  Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

New Books in the American West
Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in the American West

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 78:42


This highly original story reflects on how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums (University of California Press, 2022) is about a young man, Marley, and a particular place, the Southern California Library--an archive of radical and progressive movements and a community organization where the author meets Marley.  Taking music as its thematic undercurrent, the book is structured as a "record collection." Each of the five "albums" relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and then offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention facilities. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it must embrace social visions of radical freedom that allow the cultivation of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. In Joy and Pain, we see how Marley's experience intersects with history and the contemporary political moment--Black knowledge production, Black liberation movements, community-based organizing--to imagine expansive futures. Damien Sojoyner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles.  Reighan Gillam is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-west

A More Perfect Union with Nii-Quartelai Quartey
Black Los Angeles Young Democrats Demands for Reform following L.A. City Council Scandal, Plus Importance of Telling the Truth About George Floyd on “A More Perfect Union" with Nii-Quartelai Quartey | @drniiquartelai @BlackLAYoungDems @USCRaceEquity

A More Perfect Union with Nii-Quartelai Quartey

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2022 46:26


“A More Perfect Union" Hour 2 with Nii-Quartelai Quartey | @drniiquartelai| Podcast Hosted by changemaker, journalist, educator, and KBLA Talk 1580 Chief National Political Analyst Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey, “A More Perfect Union” promises to deliver national news of consequence, informed opinion, and analysis beyond the headlines. This hour features a special conversation with Dr. Diandra Bremond and Shianne Smith, two dynamic leaders of Black Los Angeles Young Democrats Board of Directors. After a week that rocked the nation's second largest city with an Anti-Black racist scandal, listen as these grassroots leaders do a look back and a look forward. Plus, learn why USC Race and Equity Center Founding Executive Director says it's important to say George Floyd was murdered.

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima
Black Los Angeles Slams Racist Council Members on Progressive Talk Radio

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2022 38:27


(Airdate 10/11/22) The phone lines are hot and the people are angry, call it righteous rage. Black Angelenos weigh in the racist rhetoric spoken behind closed doors and the many impacts of anti-Blackness on our everyday lives.

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima
Africa Town vs. Leimert Park Activist Billion Godsun Takes a Stand for Black Folks During the City's Upheaval Over Racist City Councilmembers

First Things First With Dominique DiPrima

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2022 42:25


(Airdate 10/12/22) Billion Godsun Strives to be a liberator, organizer, protector & provider of Black Los Angeles. He is Co-founder of the Africa Town Coalition & Africa Town Enterprise as well as Executive Director of the People's Juneteenth 2022.

Urban Roots
Remembering Biddy Mason Part 1: Long Road to Freedom

Urban Roots

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2022 26:14


In the spring of 2013, Laura Voisin George was in the reading room at the Huntington library when she came across a historical detail that struck her as … unusual. At the time, Laura was a PhD candidate studying one of California's first surgeons. While perusing a series of articles, she discovered the existence of 10 massive murals — built into a lecture hall at U.C. San Francisco's medical school — that told the history of California medicine in a colorful, elaborate, and explicit social realism style. Laura scanned a photo of one of those murals, the one depicting the mid 1800s, and was surprised to see a Black nurse, a woman working side by side with one of the leading doctors of Los Angeles (and a former slave owner to boot). In the 1800s. Laura wanted to know more, so she started digging. Soon, she found this nurse's name: Biddy Mason. Then, she found so much more. This season, we are dedicating two full episodes to telling the remarkable story of Biddy Mason. In Part 1, we talk about Biddy's beginnings: how she went from an enslaved woman in Mississippi to one of the most renowned healers in Los Angeles. We also talk to a group of organizers and historians from the Biddy Mason Collaborative (or ‘the Biddy Mason Justice League' as we like to call them) who are collaborating and uncovering more about this woman than we ever knew before — and working hard to keep her memory alive. If you like this episode, make sure to stay tuned for Part 2, when we tell the second half of Biddy's life: her journey to becoming one the wealthiest women in the West — and a founder of Black Los Angeles. Guests This episode we speak with folks from the Biddy Mason Collaborative: project co-directors Sarah “Sally” Barringer Gordon, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Kevin Waite, an American history professor at Durham University (and author of West of Slavery); as well as Jackie Broxton, Executive Director of the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation and Laura Voisin George, an architectural historian (and PhD candidate at UCSB). About Us Urban Roots is a podcast that takes a deep dive into little known stories from urban history. It is an offshoot of Urbanist Media, a not-for-profit anti-racist community preservation collaborative. Credits Host and Executive Producer: Deqah Hussein-Wetzel. Host and Executive Producer: Vanessa Maria Quirk. Editor: Connor Lynch. Mix: Andrew Callaway. Music: Adaam James Levin-Areddy. Support us by Donating: Venmo | PayPal

Cal Ag Roots Podcast
Seeds Of Change Episode 1

Cal Ag Roots Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2022 34:02


SEEDS OF CHANGE EPISODE 1 "United We Stand: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Food Justice in Black Los Angeles's Victory Markets." In WWII era Los Angeles a young Black preacher, Rev. Clayton D. Russell, and Black businesswoman, Charlotta Bass, launched the Los Angeles Negro Victory Commitee. In doing so, they not only helped plant seeds of today's food justice movements. They also helped radically alter the political landscape of the city with implications that continue to this day. (Photo Credit: Charlotta Bass [third from right] and Rev. Clayton D. Russell [second from right] with other African American leaders in Los Angeles, 1949. Courtesy of the Southern California Library [Los Angeles, California]). Seeds of Change Episode 1 features interviews from Dr. Analena Hope Hassberg (Cal Poly Pomona) and Dr. Lorn Foster (Pomona College). It was written and produced by Dr. Caroline Collins (Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego and Cal Ag Roots Producer at the California Institute for Rural Studies) and edited by Li Schmidt (Associate Associate Storyteller and Researcher at the California Institute for Rural Studies). This project was made possible with support from the 11th Hour Project at the Schmidt Family Foundation. Archival Audio of Rev. Clayton D. Russell Courtesy of Cal State Long Beach Special Collections and oral historian Sherna Berger Gluck. Music Credits for Episode 1: "Strange Persons" by Kicksta; "Petit Gennevilliers (Celesta") by MagnusMoone; "Summer Breeze" and "Inward" by HansTroost, "Tiger Rag" by Friars Society Orchestra; "All American News 10" by William Alexander, E.M. Glucksman, and Claude Barnett; and "Symphony in black—a rhapsody of Negro life" by Duke Ellington. Tribe of Noise licensing information can be found here: prosearch.tribeofnoise.com/pages/terms. Pixabay terms terms of service can be found here: https://pixabay.com/service/terms/. Library of Congress disclaimers can be found here: https://www.loc.gov/legal/. #seedsofchange #blackhistory #california #calagroots #blacklivesmatter #rural #americanwest #blackculture #black #foodjustice #blackfood #blm #history #blackpeople #blackisbeautiful #blackpride #africanamerican

Take Notice: Amplifying Black Stories

March 22, 2022Take Notice: Amplifying Black StoriesMarie Lemelle - S2.E12A conversation with LA-based journalist, author, producer, and publicist Marie Y. Lemelle, in which we discuss the many hats she wears, her journey to her current career, and projects in the works! Marie Lemelle champions the philosophy of “Transform Your Goals into Greatness” through her transformational branding, marketing and public relations expertise as CEO and founder of Platinum Star Public Relations, Inc., a certified MWBE, SBE and DBE, and Platinum Star Media Group, Inc., an entertainment, and talent management company. Marie has spearheaded a progressive platform of empowerment for women and vulnerable underserved communities throughout her career as a journalist, author, publicist, and multi-facet entertainment professional. Lauded as an influencer, Marie, a native of Southern California, is listed in the first and second editions of the Who's Who in Black Los Angeles.Mentioned: Platinum Star Media GroupMarie Lemelle IG: @platinumstarpr'Flint Tale' Movie'Social Disturbance' Movie'Kwanzaa' 2021 PlayThe Wedding AngelsPatreon Website

Tony Diaz #NPRadio
NP Poetry Spotlight: Roberto Tejada & Rodrigo Toscano: Houston & New Orleans

Tony Diaz #NPRadio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 60:03


NP Poetry Spotlight: Roberto Tejada & Rodrigo Toscano: Houston & New Orleans This is a Nuestra Palabra Multi-Platform Broadcast across social media. You can hear us on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station. You can watch us at www.Fox26Houston.com Hosted by Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante Roberto Tejada is the author of poetry collections Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022), Todo en el ahora (2015), Full Foreground (2012), Exposition Park (2010), and Mirrors for Gold (2006), as well as Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019), a LatinX poetics on colonial settlement and cultural counter-conquest in art and literature of the Americas. His writings on art and media history include the books National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment (2009) and Celia Alvarez Muñoz (2009), as well as catalog essays in Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011) and Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon (The Menil Collection, 2021). Tejada's writing spans method, discipline, and form to address the political imagination and impurity of time in shared image environments; configurations of art, life, and language inclined to the future. He was awarded The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry (2021). Rodrigo Toscano is a poet and essayist based in New Orleans. He is the author of ten books of poetry. His most recent is The Charm & The Dread (Fence Books, 2022). His previous books include In Range, Explosion Rocks Springfield, Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, and The Disparities. His poetry has appeared in over twenty anthologies, including, Voices Without Borders, Diasporic Avant Gardes, Imagined Theatres, In the Criminal's Cabinet, Earth Bound, and Best American Poetry. Toscano has received a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. He won the Edwin Markham 2019 prize for poetry. His works have been translated into French, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese, Norwegian and Catalan. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers, the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, Communication Workers of America, National Day Laborers Organizing Network, and northwest tribes (Umatilla, Cayuse, Yakima, Nez Perce) working on educational training projects that involve environmental and labor justice, health & safety culture transformation. rodrigotoscano.com @Toscano200 Thanks to Roxana Guzman, Multiplatform Producer Rodrigo Bravo, Jr., Audio Producer Radame Ortiez, SEO Director Marc-Antony Piñón, Graphics Designer Leti Lopez, Music Director Bryan Parras, co-host and producer emeritus Liana Lopez, co-host and producer emeritus Lupe Mendez, Texas Poet Laureate, co-host, and producer emeritus Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, hosts Latino Politics and News and the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.1 FM, KPFT, Houston's Community Station. He is also a political analyst on “What's Your Point?” on Fox 26 Houston. He is the author of the forthcoming book: The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net

MHD Off the Record
Ep. 8 What is the Legacy of Black Los Angeles? feat. Larry Earl Jr.

MHD Off the Record

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2022 24:40


To kick off Black History Month, MHD and co-host Chavonne Taylor discuss the legacy and historical impact of Black Los Angeles with historian Larry Earl Jr. Larry Earl Jr. is a Leimert Park resident and owner of 1619 Exhibits, a dynamic boutique arts firm that specializes in designing distinctive exhibitions, providing expert archival solutions, producing engaging public programming, and activating public spaces with vibrant civic art and cultural projects. With well over two decades of experience in museums and the field of cultural arts, Larry has been associated with some of our nation's preeminent cultural institutions. Prior to founding 1619 Exhibits, Larry served as Executive Director of the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum located in Culver City, CA and was the Founding Executive Director of the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC).

CivitasLA
Ep #55: Chaos or Community? | A Conversation with Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson

CivitasLA

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2022 34:33


As CivitasLA honors the legacy of the late Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are reminded of words from his last book, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line and then it encounters obstacles and the path bends. It is like curving around a mountain when you are approaching a city. Often it feels as though you are moving backward, and you lose sight of your goal; but in fact you are moving ahead, and soon you will see the city again, closer by.” Join us for a conversation with Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, another distinguished alum of Morehouse College, who shares perspectives on this legacy and reflects on where Black Los Angeles is as a community, challenges and opportunities, and its impact on the culture. To learn more and get involved, please visit: www.mhdcd8.com and you can also hear the Councilmember on ‘MHD Off The Record' at www.open.spotify.com. For more information, please visit www.CivitasLA.com and we hope you'll rate and review our show; and connect with us on Facebook (@CivitasLA), Instagram (@Civitas_LA) and Twitter (@Civitas_LA).

J.T. The L.A. Storyteller
J.T. OBSERVES MLK JR. DAY

J.T. The L.A. Storyteller

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2022 1:37


Today regarded as an American icon, in his actual life, Martin Luther King Jr. was mostly villainized for his human rights efforts. On this MLK Jr.'s Day, yours truly reflects on the toll inflicted on Black Los Angeles over the last two years of the pandemic; Black people remain over-represented in L.A. County hospitalizations forContinue reading J.T. OBSERVES MLK JR. DAY →

J.T. The L.A. Storyteller
J.T. OBSERVES MLK JR. DAY

J.T. The L.A. Storyteller

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2022 1:37


Today regarded as an American icon, in his actual life, Martin Luther King Jr. was mostly villainized for his human rights efforts. On this MLK Jr.'s Day, yours truly reflects on the toll inflicted on Black Los Angeles over the last two years of the pandemic; Black people remain over-represented in L.A. County hospitalizations forContinue reading J.T. OBSERVES MLK JR. DAY →

The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
The life and legacy of Jacqueline Avant

The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 18:11


Jacqueline Avant was a force many times over in Black Los Angeles and beyond. She was a renowned philanthropist, a political king and queen maker, a patron of the arts. She was also a wife, mother, a friend to community activists and U.S. presidents alike. Last week, an intruder fatally shot her in her Beverly Hills home. Tributes from across the world have poured in to mark a life ended too soon. Today, we devote our episode to the life and legacy of Jacqueline Avant, who was 81 years old.More reading: The killing of Jacqueline Avant: What we know ‘Unfathomable' slaying of Jacqueline Avant stuns Hollywood and political world Philanthropist Jacqueline Avant helped unite the worlds of Black politics and entertainment

Riverwise Podcast
Harold Taylor of the Los Angeles Black Panther Party

Riverwise Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021 35:58


Episode Notes Harold Taylor is from Black Los Angeles. Taylor's swagger and vibe ooze the essence of the LA street smarts well aware of Black consciousness.  Taylor was a comrade and soldier in arms with the late LA Black Panther Party leader Bunchy Carter. Taylor's work organizing churches for the breakfast program and recruiting attendants for the political education classes placed him in high regard throughout Los Angeles. In this interview, Taylor opens up about Bunchy Carter, community organizing, and Black Los Angeles of the 1960s. Harold Taylor shares perspective and vision in this interview of what was, is, and can be with Detroit is Different. The Riverwise Podcast is bringing together Detroit citizens to consider new and forms of resistance to continuing economic and political marginalization in communities of color. For over three years now, the Riverwise collective has created media that depicts local activism and the profound new work being done in Detroit neighborhoods. Through the quarterly Riverwise magazine, Riverwise community conversations, and the Riverwise Writing Workshop, we're developing our collective voice.

SOUNDFOOD
THE GANGSTA GARDENER: Planting Seeds of Freedom with Ron Finley

SOUNDFOOD

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2021 87:45


“Imagine Yourself Free and Think How Dangerous that can Be”    Today we are honored to welcome the brilliant and brave Ron Finley aka “The Gangsta Gardener” to SOUNDFOOD. This is a powerful, liberating, playfully provocative episode rich in plant magic, energetic sovereignty and positive vibrations.    Ron Finley is celebrated  as “The Gangsta Gardener” as a result of his bold move to transform the barren parkway in front of his South Central LA home into an edible, urban oasis. Frustrated by his neigborhood's lack of access to fresh food, Finley planted his first tomato seeds in 2010; which initially earned him a police warning. However through his courage and diligence, these seeds eventually grew into a flourishing urban garden that has now blossomed into a larger movement for underserved communities worldwide.    Today, Ron serves as activist, artist, horticulturist, global motivational speaker, and a pioneer in the urban-agricultural community. Ron's initiative, The Ron Finley Project, teaches communities how to transform food deserts into food sanctuaries and how to regenerate their own land into thriving ecosystems. Ron has empowered and inspired many young and underprivileged  people to be the designers of their own lives. He continues to cultivate his own flourishing garden in inner city LA and inspires countless others to sow seeds where they are needed most. Ron is also on the curatorial team of the Destination Crenshaw Project; a 1.3 miles of art and culture celebrating Black Los Angeles. He is one of the national artists for the public art challenge Fertile Ground Project out of Jackson, Mississippi. He truly embodies interdisciplinary cretaivity and expression.   Ron and Nitsa share an open, joyous and transparent dialogue that reflects the multidimensional vibrancy of The Garden itself. Ron's words invoke a very grounded call to action: not only for food security but also to inspire others to truly LIVE.    This is a conversation not to be missed. Take it outside and listen as you soak up some sunlight and fresh oxygen if you can!   Mentioned In This Episode:    Where to find Ron Finley: RonFinley.com Ron Finley on Instagram Ron Finley's TED Talk Ron's Masterclass    SOUNDFOOD Episodes mentioned:  Aras Baskuskas and Christy Dawn  Sarah and Ryland Engelhart    Also Mentioned In This Episode MNDSGN's Grand Performance in Ron's Garden Reunity Resources  Noma Restaurant  Contramar Mexico City Deepak Chopra    Nourishing Partnerships!   LIVING TEA Use the code SOUNDFOOD until september 5, 2021 for 10% off your living tea order from livingtea.net Thank you Colin and family!   MIKUNA Use the code SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off first purchase and 30% off all subscriptions from mikunafoods.com   (chocho based superfood products) Thank you Ricky + Team!    CHRISTY DAWN  Use the code NITSAC15 from christydawn.com for 15% off their beautiful  regeneratively grown, farm to closet dresses!  Thank you Christy + Aras!  TUNE INTO SOUNDFOOD: WEBSITE  INSTAGRAM   TEXT US ON OUR TELEPORTAL   for high vibrational updates on all things SOUNDFOOD @ 1-805-398-6661    MERCURIAL MAIL  Subscribe to our bi-monthly / non-spammy newsletter HERE.   Connect with our Host: @nitsacitrine Lastly, we would be so grateful if you felt inspired to leave us a review on APPLE PODCAST!

NancyG and CorryG
'A Love Song For Latasha' - Interview with Director Sophia Nahli Allison

NancyG and CorryG

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2021 17:28


From Wikipedia: "A Love Song for Latasha is a 2019 American biographical documentary short film directed by Sophia Nahli Allison. The film reimagines the life of Latasha Harlins, a Black Los Angeles girl shot and killed by a convenience store owner in 1991, through intimate memories shared by her cousin Shinese Harlins and best friend Tybie O'Bard. This documentary focuses on how she experienced the society and what dreams and hopes she developed rather than focusing on her death. It is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 93rd Academy Awards. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nancygandcorryg/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nancygandcorryg/support

Everything Co-op with Vernon Oakes
Niki Okuk and Damien Goodmon, discuss plans to Reinvent Crenshaw Mall as an Urban Village

Everything Co-op with Vernon Oakes

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2021 51:28


Niki Okuk, Downtown Crenshaw Board Chair, and Damien Goodmon, Downtown Crenshaw Board Member, discuss plans for the acquisition and redevelopment Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. The historic Crenshaw Mall being acquired through Downtown Crenshaw Rising, a community nonprofit established to purchase and redevelop the mall. Downtown Crenshaw plans to reinvent the mall as an “urban village.” The 40-acre site will be used to create worker owned businesses, community space, cooperative housing and much more. Niki Okuk attended Audubon Middle school in South LA and went on to complete her degree in Economics at Columbia University, a Masters from the Nanyang University in Singapore, and a certificate in Sustainability at MIT Sloan School of Business before returning home to start a green-collar business in Compton. Rco Tires existed for nearly a decade as an example of black woman owned small business, employing dozens of formerly incarcerated community members, recycling millions of pounds of tire rubber into new products and creating decent, dignified, and democratic workplaces in South LA, which she talked about in her 2017 TED talk, "Fire the Boss". “Niki and her mom, Lis Ryder, are co-founders of LUCI (Los Angeles Union Cooperative Initiative). Lis, together with Mary Hoyer, is a co-founder of the Union-Coop Council, part of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Both the USFWC Union Coop Council and LUCI are closely aligned with the 1worker1vote movement.” Niki continues to work at the intersection of sustainability, industry and environmental justice and is currently serving on the leadership team for Downtown Crenshaw Rising, the ambitious community led effort to purchase and redevelop the historic Crenshaw Mall 40-acre site into a thriving urban village under collective and cooperative models which will house, employ, stabilize, and nurture the Crenshaw community for generations to come. Damien Goodmon, a 27-year Leimert Park resident, has been labeled a “visionary” by the LA Times, recognized as one of the L.A.’s “100 Most Influential African-Americans” by the LA Wave Newspapers, chosen beside former LA Mayor Richard Riordan and actress Drew Barrymore for the 2009 “LA People” issue of LA Weekly, and is a lead subject of the award-winning documentary “Beyond the Echo of the Drum,” which premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. As a nonprofit executive director he has led some of the Crenshaw and Black Los Angeles' most impactful community advocacy campaigns. As a political operative he has managed, led departments and advised electoral campaigns from the school board level up to the presidential. As an executive management consultant and systems thinker, he has built, reconstructed and managed multiple large companies and departments, including some with over 400 employees, and successfully guided complex projects and partnerships, featuring actors with divergent interests. A graduate of L.A. Loyola High School, he has studied at the University of Washington and Harvard University programs.

Opportunity Unknown
OU #39 - The Power of Journalism & Story Feat. Donovan X. Ramsey

Opportunity Unknown

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 55:56


Randa and Anika chat with Donovan Ramsey about his career as a journalist covering Black stories. Donovan is now covering Black Los Angeles for the LA Times.   To view the resources we talked about in this episode check out our website opportunityunknown.co   Produced by Casey Johnson

Slauson Girl Speaks
Slauson Girl Speaks With L.A City Council Candidate Grace Yoo

Slauson Girl Speaks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2020 56:48


On this episode Slauson Girl Speaks with Grace Yoo. Grace Yoo is running for Los Angeles City Council and is currently in a contentious run off against L.A career politician Mark Ridley-Thomas for the District 10 City Council seat. We discuss her life and journey as a student of LAUSD as well as her life as an immigrant in L.A. We talk about her plans for Black Los Angeles and why Black people in District 10 should look beyond someone who represents their identity and give someone like Grace Yoo a chance. She has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with important Black grassroots organizations in District 10. Election is Nov 3. Find More Information in Grace Yoo https://www.graceyoocd10.com

Slauson Girl Speaks
Slauson Girl Speaks With L.A City Council Candidate Grace Yoo

Slauson Girl Speaks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2020 28:24


On this episode Slauson Girl Speaks with Grace Yoo. Grace Yoo is running for Los Angeles City Council and is currently in a contentious run off against L.A career politician Mark Ridley-Thomas for the District 10 City Council seat. We discuss her life and journey as a student of LAUSD as well as her life as an immigrant in L.A. We talk about her plans for Black Los Angeles and why Black people in District 10 should look beyond someone who represents their identity and give someone like Grace Yoo a chance. She has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with important Black grassroots organizations in District 10. Election is Nov 3. Find More Information in Grace Yoo https://www.graceyoocd10.com

The Modern Art Notes Podcast
Virginia Jaramillo

The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2020 58:51


Episode No. 465 features artist Virginia Jaramillo. The Menil Collection is presenting "Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969-74" through July 3, 2021. It is the first solo museum exhibition of Jaramillo's sixty-year career. Curated by Michelle White, the show features a series of paintings that Jaramillo made featuring the joining of line to color against mostly monochromatic backgrounds. The exhibition is also a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of "The De Luxe Show," one of the first racially integrated exhibitions in the United States, which was presented in Houston in 1971. (Art historian Darby English's book 1971: A Year in the Life of Color examined the exhibition. English discussed the book on The MAN Podcast in 2017.) Jaramillo is a California-born painter whose abstractions have long explored space, line, geography and the physical remnants of civilizations. In the last decade alone, she has been included in major scholarly exhibitions such as curator and art historian Kellie Jones's "Now Dig This: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-80" and "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties," which Jones curated with A. Carbone, and Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley's "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power." Jaramillo's paintings are in the collections of museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Kemper in Kansas City, the Metropolitan in New York, the Norton Simon in Pasadena and the Virginia MFA in Richmond.

GeniusBrain
White Professor Pretends She's Black, Los Angeles is on Fire, and the problem with Gender Reveals

GeniusBrain

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2020 82:38


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Slauson Girl Speaks
Slauson Girl Speaks With Jewish Millennials in Los Angeles

Slauson Girl Speaks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2020 71:34


On this episode Slauson Girl Speaks with Jewish Millennial's in Los Angeles on what it means to be Jewish especially in America. We talk Nick Cannon, Ethnicity and Religion, Fleeing Countries To Avoid Persecution, Whiteness being centered in Jewish identity as well as how to bring up the conflict in Palestine without being labeled "anti." Our conversation also touched on the label of "anti-semitism" as well as what they feel when they hear the term "fake jews." Los Angeles based publication L.A Taco also was a topic of conversation. This faux, problematic, white-owned platform uses the work of POC's to write articles while the owners reap most of the membership profits. After reaching out to me for a collaboration to legitimize L.A Taco in the eyes of Black Los Angeles, L.A Taco chose to release a libelous statement after a smear campaign was launched against me by local, corporate journalists. L.A Taco refuses to acknowledge or retract their libelous and defaming statement after myself and my diverse supporters called them out about it. Divest from white-owned publications that use the labor, stories and culture of others to profit and enrich themselves.

Black is Not a Genre
Black is Not a Genre: Coming-of-Age Films

Black is Not a Genre

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2020 131:52


We’re kicking off August with the coming-of-age classic The Wood (1999). Directed by Rick Famuyiwa (Brown Sugar, Dope, The Mandalorian) and starring a who’s-who of young Black It girls and boys of the late ’90s and early aughts, The Wood was the seventh film produced by MTV Films and part of a barnstorming spate of four movies released by the newly formed studio that year alone. Black coming-of-age films, outside of the so-called “homeboy” canon, were sparse before this era and seem to have receded back into rarity since. Grossing over $25 million on $6 million budget, the film’s relative box office success eerily belies its lack of currency in mainstream culture. But, like a lot of films from the era, its cult status among Black millennials is unequivocal and a testament to Todd Boyd’s and Famuyiwa’s ability to write young Black best friends whose universal earnestness and love for each other transcend the white-perceived social barriers of their environment. The Wood’s version of 1980s Inglewood is less a counterpoint to the South Central L.A. of Boyz n the Hood and more a vibrant, necessary companion text, of which there should have been many more. From an industry standpoint, it’s a classic indie film from the height of the American indie wave that’s rarely mentioned in conversations around more widely adored coming-of-age films of the era like Dazed And Confused, Rushmore, or Slums of Beverly Hills. ⁣ ⁣ Watch along with us as Week 5 of Black Is Not A Genre explores the under-examined universality of the Black Bildungsroman, the invisibility of the Black middle class, and the magic of Black Los Angeles. And, stay tuned this Friday for Episode 5 of the BINAG podcast. Featured guests: Matthew S. Robinson is a Washington, D.C. native, writer, director, and playwright based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Pepperdine University in 2012 with a Bachelor’s in Media Production with an emphasis in Political Science. After making his feature directorial debut with, “My Friend Violet,” Robinson wrote and directed various short and feature-length plays. Robinson has won several awards while working with some of the most talented individuals in the LA community. His original plays, “Mary's Medicine" and "BlackBalled” won the Encore Producers award at the LA Fringe Festival in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Steven DeBose is a writer and podcaster from Austin, Texas. He has worked as a judge for the Austin Youth Film Festival, Conference Coordinator for the GTX Film Conference and most recently as director of script competitions at Austin Film Festival.

Slauson Girl Speaks
Slauson Girl Speaks #9 The Alex Alonso of Street Gang TV Episode

Slauson Girl Speaks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2019 86:32


Alex Alonso is a geographer, filmmaker,  lecturer and creator of the widely popular Youtube Channel and website, Street Gangs. Alex offers a wealth of knowledge in this episode of Slauson Girl Speaks, regarding the history of Black Los Angeles. We talk not only gangs in L.A, but important figures in Black L.A’s history; including the Los Angeles #BPP & #BunchyCarter. We touch on the role of the late journalist Gary Webb in understanding the history of Black L.A, as well as Alex’s journey through USC. We even talked about the push for South Central to be named SouthLA and how that change was initiated.

Tony Diaz #NPRadio
NP Radio Houston: Poetry by Roberto Tejada. Interviewed by Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante

Tony Diaz #NPRadio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 60:07


Potent poetry! Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante and the Nuestra Palabra Crew talk to poet Roberto Tejada, the first Latinx poet at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Tony Diaz shares the latest installment in his “Cultural Capital” series: Confidence-The Power of Writing, and the NP Crew talks social issues and art. Here is a link to the essay "Confidence-The Power of Writing": https://www.tonydiaz.net/blog/confidence-the-true-power-of-writing Click her to donate to Nuestra Palabra: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9CPLMM88TF5BS Roberto Tejada is the author of Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (Noemi, 2019), a cultural poetics of the Americas, as well as poetry collections that include Full Foreground (Arizona, 2012), Exposition Park (Wesleyan. 2010), Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006), and selected poems in Spanish translation Todo en el ahora (Magenta, 2015). He is the author also of National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (Minnesota, 2009) and a monograph on the Chicana conceptual artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz (A Ver: Celia Alvarez Muñoz, Minnesota, 2009). He has served as co-curator on Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Optical Parables at the J. Paul Getty Museum (2001), and Luis Gispert: Loud Image at the Hood Museum of Dartmouth College (2004); and his writings appear frequently in exhibition catalogs, among them Images of the Spirit: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide (Aperture, 1996) and Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 (UCLA Hammer Museum, 2011). NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6pm-7pm cst 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org. More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. Producers: Leti Lopez & Marlen Treviño. Board operator: Terrell Quillin. Inters: Maria Mendoza, Rachel Rojas. Co-hosts: Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, and Terrell Quillin. Tony Diaz Sundays, Mondays, & Tuesdays & The Other Side Sun 7am "What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston Mon Noon "The Cultural Accelerator" at www.TonyDiaz.net Tues 6pm NP Lit Radio 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston www.NuestraPalabra.org 24/7 The Other Side TV www.TheOtherSideTele.com

Kindaris Pictures Podcast
Hub of Black Los Angeles: The Dunbar Hotel

Kindaris Pictures Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2019 9:45


In the third episode of the Kindaris Pictures Podcast, Adrienne talks about The Dunbar Hotel - an business, political, and entertainment hub for Black Los Angeles. (Recorded July 3, 2019) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kindarispicturespodcast/support

Harp's House
Harp's House #5: Author and Educator Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner interview about his new book and the presidential election

Harp's House

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2017 26:29


Harp's House #5: Author and Educator Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner interview about his new book. The episode is an interview with author Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner with teaches at the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Sojoyner is the author of "First Strike: Educational Enclosures of Black Los Angeles." His book examines the relationship with the prison system in the state of California and the public school system in California.

New Books in Law
Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)

New Books in Law

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2016 30:46


Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, entitled First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Through both ethnographic and historical analyses, First Strike explores the tragic relationship between education and the prison system in California. For any questions, comments, or recommendations for the New Books in Education podcast, you can connect with the host, Ryan M. Allen, at @PoliticsAndEd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in African American Studies
Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)

New Books in African American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2016 30:21


Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, entitled First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Through both ethnographic and historical analyses, First Strike explores the tragic relationship between education and the prison system in California. For any questions, comments, or recommendations for the New Books in Education podcast, you can connect with the host, Ryan M. Allen, at @PoliticsAndEd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

New Books Network
Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2016 30:21


Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, entitled First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Through both ethnographic and historical analyses, First Strike explores the tragic relationship between education and the prison system in California. For any questions, comments, or recommendations for the New Books in Education podcast, you can connect with the host, Ryan M. Allen, at @PoliticsAndEd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Anthropology
Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)

New Books in Anthropology

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2016 30:21


Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, entitled First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Through both ethnographic and historical analyses, First Strike explores the tragic relationship between education and the prison system in California. For any questions, comments, or recommendations for the New Books in Education podcast, you can connect with the host, Ryan M. Allen, at @PoliticsAndEd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Education
Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)

New Books in Education

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2016 30:21


Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, entitled First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Through both ethnographic and historical analyses, First Strike explores the tragic relationship between education and the prison system in California. For any questions, comments, or recommendations for the New Books in Education podcast, you can connect with the host, Ryan M. Allen, at @PoliticsAndEd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Sociology
Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)

New Books in Sociology

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2016 30:21


Dr. Damien M. Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, entitled First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Through both ethnographic and historical analyses, First Strike explores the tragic relationship between education and the prison system in California. For any questions, comments, or recommendations for the New Books in Education podcast, you can connect with the host, Ryan M. Allen, at @PoliticsAndEd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices