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Send us a textThis year marks the 15-year anniversary of the first publication of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. The text was praised as challenging the post-racial ethos that rose after the election of Obama by presenting a compelling analysis of mass incarceration driven by anti-black racism creating a permanent under caste in American, akin to the Jim Crow system of the South. While praised as a bible for liberal criminal justice reform advocates, many have questioned the book's limitations and the limited result of the criminal justice reform movement the text spawned. In the episode, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle director of public policy Dayvon Love and Director of Research Lawrence Grandpre reflect on the legacy of the New Jim Crow, arguing that despite the author intention, the text has been used to focus reform on non-violent drug offenders and cost savings because the Left's inability to directly address their own anxieties around working class Black communities. Despite the book's argument around negative perceptions of Black communities being at the heart of mass incarceration and Democratic Party acquiescence to these super predator stereotypes, the failure of the text to use the lessons of Black radical tradition and indict the left anxieties around the rational decision some Black folk make to carry guns and the reality of violence as part of the realty of white supremacy has led to movement to allow long sentence for minor violent crime counteract the limited progress of releasing folks convicted for drug possession. This has allowed largely symbolic reforms, technocratic, non-profit driven reform like communing sentences for cannabis possession to trade off with policies which would actually empower the communities most impacted by mass incarceration to actively get the resources they need to control the origins that produce public safety in community. Support the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Liberation Media (BLM)

The Director of Public Policy for the think tank Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Dayvon Love, talks about the newly formed Maryland State Reparations Commission and its plan to study appropriate benefits for those affected by historical inequality.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.

The 2025 Maryland General Assembly session ended on April 7. In this episode, Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy at LBS, recaps this year's legislative session and our efforts in Annapolis.We thank the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland for their continued support, while also calling out the Democratic Party establishment for once again failing our communities.Tune in for key takeaways and what's next in the work of upending white supremacy and protecting the humanity of people of African descent.UPDATE: A very watered down version of HB 1222 was the last bill to be passed right before midnight on April 7th. It includes language to help “sensitive locations” like churches and schools decide how to respond if immigration agents show up, but does not include language from the original house bill that would have ended 287(g) agreements in Maryland which deputizes local police to act as ICE agents.Support the show"From the Streets to the Statehouse" is a podcast owned, produced and sponsored by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) - a grassroots think tank in Baltimore, Maryland. LBS is a Black-owned, for-profit, independent organization that is not funded by any government agency, political party, political committee or political candidate for office.

Send us a textApril 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the #BaltimoreUprising, a series of protests sparked by Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore Police custody in 2015.Baltimore has long reflected America's racial and political anxieties, making the Uprising a frequent subject of academic analysis. In this episode, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle's Lawrence Grandpre and Dayvon Love critique two books: Beyond Black Lives Matter by Cedric Johnson and Invisible Weapons by Marcus Board Jr.While Johnson critiques BLM and Board affirms it, both argue that Baltimore's working-class grassroots were misled by neoliberalism, rendering their responses to Freddie Gray ineffective. This view overlooks successful grassroots political interventions by groups like LBS, which led protests during the Uprising and continues to advance community-driven agendas. By oversimplifying Black identity as manipulation by elites—whether through neoliberalism (Johnson) or patriarchy (Board)—both books fail to capture the political and ideological complexity of Baltimore's working-class Black communities. They also neglect to examine how academic detachment can distort analyses of Baltimore, Black life, and Black politics.Support the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Liberation Media (BLM)

We're almost through the legislative session. In this episode, Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy at LBS, shares updates on our Legislative Agenda and highlights other key issues we're monitoring. We will also have special guest, Cathryn Jackson, speaking to some of the legislation that she is working on with CASA.Support the show"From the Streets to the Statehouse" is a podcast owned, produced and sponsored by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) - a grassroots think tank in Baltimore, Maryland. LBS is a Black-owned, for-profit, independent organization that is not funded by any government agency, political party, political committee or political candidate for office.

Send us a textDespite media fearmongering about crime in cities, violent crimes like shootings and murders have declined nationwide in 2024. In Baltimore, murders have dropped even as police departments claim to be understaffed and demoralized, yet many still credit the police for the decline.Dayvon and Lawrence reveal that grassroots community organizations, not police or the nonprofit industrial complex, have driven this change. By reallocating funds from traditional nonprofit channels to grassroots efforts, these groups have addressed conflicts upstream. However, public health nonprofits and pro-police entities have tried to take credit for this work while perpetuating narratives that pathologize Black communities.They argue that framing Black-on-Black violence as a product of internalized self-hatred and anti-Blackness, combined with traditional public health and policing strategies, risks worsening the problem. Instead, culturally affirming programs that redirect anger into pro-community action are key to long-term violence prevention.Finally, they critique the Left's generic “defund the police, fund public health approaches” rhetoric, which undermines grassroots violence prevention efforts. They assert this reflects the Left's discomfort with engaging working-class Black communities and politics.Support the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Liberation Media (BLM)

We're halfway through the legislative session. In this episode, Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy at LBS, shares updates on our Legislative Agenda and highlights other key issues we're monitoring.Support the show"From the Streets to the Statehouse" is a podcast owned, produced and sponsored by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) - a grassroots think tank in Baltimore, Maryland. LBS is a Black-owned, for-profit, independent organization that is not funded by any government agency, political party, political committee or political candidate for office.

Send us a textIn his book The Squad, journalist Ryan Grim provides an account of the experiences of “The Squad,” a group of progressive legislators elected to the House of Representatives, as they attempted to govern. Their journey—from election victories to struggles with Republicans and Democratic leadership—is widely praised for its detailed investigation of the electoral and political “inside baseball” of the left. Grim's role as a critical figure in independent left media, through appearances on shows like Breaking Points and his publication Drop Site, further enhances the book's value as a vantage point for those interested in evaluating the rising establishment “Left” as a tool for advancing the interests of Black people and the Black community. It helps readers take stock of where the Left stands, where it might be going, and whether it can serve as a vehicle for achieving the Black community's goals.In conversation with Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle Director of Research Lawrence Grandpre, LBS Director of Public Policy Dayvon Love examines The Squad to uncover critical insights about both the Left and media analysis. Love highlights how the book reveals that, despite high-profile victories over Democratic Party establishment figures, the political Left suffers from a stunning lack of infrastructure. He links this to the Left's general failure to prioritize building political machinery and institutions. Grim's analysis of the Left's frustration with concepts like Tema Okun's “white supremacy culture” reflects the frustrations of grassroots advocates, who have seen anti-racism abstracts used by some to center conversations on personal feelings rather than delivering political outcomes for the communities they claim to serve.However, Love also critiques Grim's analysis, particularly his dismissal of cultural frameworks. In addressing Okun's “white supremacy culture,” Grim, like many on the Left, overcorrects by rejecting tools like African-centered analysis for political work. This is evident in his dismissal of Leonard Jeffries, the uncle of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, whom Grim labels an “antisemite.” This overlooks valid concerns Black community advocates have raised about white advocates monopolizing resources intended for the Black community under the guise of representing their interests. By dismissing such critiques as “antisemitism,” Grim ironically mirrors the tactics he criticizes liberals for using—employing blanket accusations to sideline political conversations that challenge entrenched interests.Support the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Liberation Media (BLM)

Send us a textOver the past decade, reparations have shifted from a fringe issue championed by Black nationalists to a mainstream topic in Democratic and nonprofit circles.In Baltimore, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) has advanced a reparations agenda rooted in Black community control, challenging assumptions of the broader movement. LBS Director of Research, Lawrence Grandpre, interviews Director of Public Policy, Dayvon Love, about his Nonprofit Quarterly article advocating for reparations centered on building Black institutional capacity and political power, inspired by John Henrik Clarke's concept of “nation management.”Dayvon connects this approach to LBS's work using cannabis tax revenue in Maryland to pursue reparations for the War on Drugs. They critique the national focus on cash payments and nonprofit-led efforts, arguing these reflect both racist fears of Black public money management and an internalized belief that Black advancement requires white validation. This stance, they assert, contradicts the Black nationalist reparations tradition aimed at transferring power to Black communities.Finally, they highlight political victories in Baltimore as evidence that Black communities can achieve meaningful reparations without sacrificing community control.Support the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Liberation Media (BLM)

Join the conversation with C4 & Bryan Nehman.  Robberies at local Royal Farms continue & one of the suspects is familiar to authorities.  A group of teens also rob a store in Montgomery County.  President Biden is set to visit the port of Baltimore today.  Dayvon Love of  Leaders Of A Beautiful Struggle joined the show discussing support of DJS policies.  David Bramble of MCB Real Estate joined the show discussing a re-imagined Harborplace.  Rod Woodson also joined the show recapping the loss against the Browns on Sunday & A preview of the next game against the Broncos.  Listen to C4 and Bryan Nehman live every weekday from 5:30-10:00 a.m. ET on WBAL News Radio 1090, FM101.5, and the WBAL Radio App!

Baltimore City's charter is a foundational document dictating how the city is run, similar to how the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution sets the responsibilities and limits of the federal government. And like the U.S. Constitution, the city charter is not easy to amend. Amendments need to be voted on and receive majority support at the polls to pass. This year, voters in Baltimore City are set to consider several charter amendments. Midday is taking a deep dive into these important ballot questions. Question H, if passed, would reduce the size of the City Council from 14 district seats to eight. Proponents say with Baltimore shrinking, the city council should shrink, too. Opponents of Question H, including Mayor Brandon Scott, argue a small city council would be more easily influenced by lobbyist and political action committees (PACs). We discuss the question at hand with Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy for Leaders of Beautiful Struggle, and Jovani Paterson, Chairman of The People for Elected Accountability and Civic Engagement (PEACE).Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

Coffee Party USA founder Annabel Park visits. Sen. Christopher Pearson discusses the National Popular Vote. David W. Campt & Karin Tamerius discuss talking to the other side. Dayvon Love discusses A Beautiful Struggle. Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://politicsdoneright.com/newsletter Purchase our Books: As I See It: https://amzn.to/3XpvW5o How To Make America Utopia: https://amzn.to/3VKVFnG It's Worth It: https://amzn.to/3VFByXP Lose Weight And Be Fit Now: https://amzn.to/3xiQK3K Tribulations of an Afro-Latino Caribbean man: https://amzn.to/4c09rbE

(Airdate 7/26/24) Dayvon Love is a Baltimore-based political organizer and the Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a grassroots think tank that advances the policy interests of Black people. On this podcast, part of our Freedmen Fridays series Dayvon Love talks about Baltimore's reparations initiative and the moves to create statewide reparations legislation. https://www.instagram.com/westbaltimorelove/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/kbla1580/?hl=en

Join Dayvon Love of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle as he discusses Pan-Africanism, criminal justice reform, and community sovereignty. Discover how grassroots activism drives real change in Baltimore and beyond. Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://politicsdoneright.com/newsletter Purchase our Books: As I See It: https://amzn.to/3XpvW5o How To Make America Utopia: https://amzn.to/3VKVFnG It's Worth It: https://amzn.to/3VFByXP Lose Weight And Be Fit Now: https://amzn.to/3xiQK3K Tribulations of an Afro-Latino Caribbean man: https://amzn.to/4c09rbE #NN24 #NetrootsNation

Join us on Wednesday morning for an inspiring and informative discussion led by a panel of progressive clergy leaders on voter participation and education. Before the panel, music historian Bill Carpenter will honor Black Music Month by delving into Baltimore's rich Black Music Heritage. Activist Dayvon Love will also provide a Reparations update and examine the juvenile justice system.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In May 2023, Baltimore's City Council unanimously voted to establish the Community Reinvestment and Reparations Commission to oversee the distribution of funds granted by the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund, making Baltimore City the first jurisdiction in Maryland to establish a commission like this. In this episode Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, will explain the importance of this commission and how vital reparations and reinvestment are in Baltimore. Support the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Power Media (BPM).

Episode TWO of The Black Mental Health Alliance's Real Talk: Black Minds Matter podcast is HERE! This episode titled, Blacktivist: Activism in the Black Community and How it Affects Our Mental Health includes Mr. Dayvon Love as our guest speaker alongside co-hosts Andrea Brown and Nia Jones and this discussion leaves minds BLOWN. This episode unpacks Black Liberation, politics, Black leadership and SO MUCH MORE! We are getting to the nitty-gritty of what really could be holding us back as a people and how we can move forward. You do not want to miss this one! BRING A PEN AND PAPER BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO NEED IT! Links/Information discussed in this episode:Massacre Monday: Reconstruction Era 1865-1876https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cwga-qsKEqz/?igshid=NzgyYTk0Y2YyNg==Michael Eric Dyson vs Eddie Glaude on Race, Hillary Clinton and the Legacy of Obama's Presidencyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oc0l69JRdNoWe Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movementhttps://www.amazon.com/Will-Shoot-Back-Resistance-Mississippi/dp/1479886033Be on the lookout for Dayvon's new upcoming project!!https://lbsbaltimore.com/about/leadership/dayvon-love/How can you get involved?Join the BMHA Social Media Community @BlackMindsMatter1 https://www.facebook.com/blackmindsmatter1 , subscribe on YouTube at Black Mental Health Alliance, and follow us on instagram at @bmhaofficial and @youngblkmindsmatterTune into our Community Conversations: Sawubona LIVE discussions every month! Our foundation for our Community Conversation series will be in discovering what it means to honor one's humanity: Sawubona. This year the conversations will be based around how we are not our trauma, addressing something regarding trauma each month. It is through the power of community connection and conversation that we counter the narrative, ignite healing and restoration around the many things that often cause Black folks to feel unseen as we navigate life. Check out the BMHA social media platforms for more information.Give to what matters #BlackMindsMatter We appreciate all donations and no amount is too small. Your contribution allows BMHA to change the conversation about mental health in the Black community, transform lives by connecting with culturally-affirming clinicians and leaders, and renew minds with insightful information from the village for the village.Love our podcast intro? We have you covered! Our podcast theme music is available for streaming on Spotify!  https://open.spotify.com/album/62hg1jmLRVv8dLvxxNltev?si=XpY2m6VAQ9G52kw2KGYBVw

In this interview, Dayvon Love sits down with Jamye Wooten, the founder and CEO of CLLCTIVLY, to explore the critical need for collective economic development and narrative change to challenge myths of Black pathology in our communities. Jamye shares insights into his work with CLLCTIVLY, an organization committed to supporting and amplifying Black-led social change initiatives. Through his experiences and expertise, Jamye emphasizes the importance of creating sustainable networks, building collective power, and promoting equity and justice in all areas of society.Support the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Power Media (BPM).

Dayvon Love sits down with Dorcas Gilmore to discuss the operational dynamics and politics of cooperative economics.Dorcas has spent the past 17 years as a racial and economic justice advocate, attorney, and consultant working with nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, and small businesses. Currently, she is a principal of Gilmore Khandhar, LLC, a solidarity economies law firm, and a teacher in the Small Business & Community Economic Development Clinic at The George Washington University Law School. Dorcas was an attorney with the national office of NAACP and Community Law Center in Baltimore and taught at American University Washington College of Law. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Black Worker Center Project, the Baltimore Algebra Project, and co-founder of the Baltimore Action Legal Team.Support the show

Few concepts have been more mischaracterized and caricatured than the academic theory of Afro-pessimism. Born of material struggle against Mandela aligned neoliberal wing of the ANC, the work of Frank Wilderson, Jared Sexton and other theorists has been framed in many way. Many have described it as fatalist, hetero-patriarchal, too Black nationalist, not Black nationalist enough, and now - with the publishing of a widely panned piece in the social magazine Jacobin - pro-zionist.Dayvon Love and Lawrence Grandpre from Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS), a grassroots think tank in Baltimore, are folks with years of experience reading, teaching, and applying lessons from Afro-pessimism to concrete political work. In this conversation, they explore the value of the theory from the perspective of grassroots activism. They correct mischaracterizations of Afro-pessimism as a prescriptive call for academic nihilism. They explain it as a political lens to understand how Blackness functionally historically as fuel for people's fears and fantasies, and how this knowledge has helped LBS navigate the political terrain and achieve on the ground victories.Support the show

Dayvon Love sits down with Dr. Brian Morrison for conversation about the history of Black education advocacy and practice in Baltimore and the lessons from that history that we can use for social movements today.Dr. Brian C. Morrison is the Founder and President of the William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute which focuses its work on improving educational outcomes for African American students. His dissertation, “African American Educational Efforts in Baltimore Maryland during the 19th Century”, examines how African American Baltimoreans used education as a source of cultural capital and pathway to freedom. Support the show

Next on Midday, we shift our focus from the international arena to state politics. Tom's guest is Dayvon Love, the director of public policy at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a social justice advocacy organization that works to improve the conditions of Black people in the Baltimore metropolitan area. With just over four weeks left in the 2022 Maryland General Assembly, Dayvon Love joins us on Zoom to discuss LBS' priorities for the balance of the legislative session. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're halfway through the 2022 MD General Assembly. Dayvon Love will be giving an update on cannabis legalization, the Civilian Review Board, juvenile justice and more.He'll be joined by Andy Ellis from the Baltimore City Green Party.Support the show (http://www.lbsbaltimore.com/sustain)

#JoeRogan #CampaignZero #JimiHendrixNEW DISCORD!https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5EzSHOW NOTES:(1:00) Intro(8:44) White Philanthropy and Black "Movement Capture" with Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle(1:10:30) Jimi Hendrix, Psychodynamics and Black Liberation with Dr. James Nadell(1:59:45) Joe Rogan, Peter Thiel, Palantir and The Dark Enlightenment with Barrett BrownLeaders Of A Beautiful Strugglehttps://www.lbsbaltimore.comMovement Capture or Movement Strategy? A Critical Race History Exchange on the Beginnings of Brown v. Boardhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3627774The Rise and Rupture of Campaign Zero How the founders of one of Black Lives Matter's most prominent organizations fell out.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/campaign-zero-rise-and-fall.html ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

On Today's Podcast: Violence in Baltimore City, We Have Found the Fair Share in Which We are Supposed to Pay. and Inflation vs Minimum Wage. Dayvon Love from The Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle joined the Podcast

Dayvon Love Director of Public Policydayvon@lbsbaltimore.comhttps://www.lbsbaltimore.com/about-us...The Politics of “Defund Police” Advocacy in Baltimorehttps://www.lbsbaltimore.com/the-poli...Jared A. Ball, Ph.D. is a Professor of Africana and Communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and is founder/curator of imixwhatilike.org a multimedia hub of emancipatory journalism and revolutionary beat reporting. Ball is also author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020). More from Dr. Ballhttps://imixwhatilike.org ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Joining Tom now are two African American activists and organizers who are part of the leadership team steering The Baltimore Children and Youth Fund. The Fund was created in 2017, after being approved overwhelmingly by voters in a referendum the year before. The Fund is virtually unprecedented in that its assets come from city property tax revenues, but the process for distribution of those assets resembles that of a private foundation. Dayvon Love is the Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. He was instrumental in getting the Fund established, and he is currently serving as the Fund’s Community Engagement Lead. John Morris is an attorney and a former dean at Sojourner Douglass College. He is a co-founder of Change4Real, a development initiative in Oldtown. He serves as treasurer on the BCYFund’s Board of Directors. Dayvon Love and John Morris join us Zoom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) — Homicides are on the rise as gun violence continues across Baltimore City. One of the recent shootings occurred at Carroll Park Sunday night. Four people were shot, one person was killed in what Mayor Brandon Scott calls a “mass shooting”. Councilwoman Phylicia Porter says, moments before the shooting “carloads of teenagers were still being dropped off, unknowingly headed into danger”. The mayor and Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison addressed the media on Monday saying they will continue to look for ways to suppress violence in the city. More than 100 people have died from gun violence in Baltimore City so far this year. In the second hour of the show, Dion Cartwright and Dayvon Love with the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund join Dr. Kaye for the discussion and to share what their organization is doing to improve the quality of life for young people in the city. Last night, a man was murdered in Carroll Park and at least three others suffered non

On April 20, 2021, the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial issued a guilty verdict on all three counts for the murder of George Floyd. However, one verdict is not justice – it’s simply accountability. Over 5,000 people were killed by police in the U.S. since 2015, including George Floyd and Anton Black, who were killed by police in eerily, terrifyingly similar ways. We talked to LaToya Holley, the sister of Anton Black, Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and Sonia Kumar, Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU of Maryland about the Derrick Chauvin verdict, the work being done to get justice for Anton Black and what we must do to reform policing the create a system that values and protects Black lives. Watch: Assessing the Claim or "Movement" to Defund the Police with Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle: https://youtu.be/BuG_yqnfQoU Read: Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle’s "When Baltimore Awakes" publication: https://bit.ly/3dMGDYk

We have a lot of ground to cover for this week's episode. Dayvon Love from LBS will giving updates on our work on police reform. He'll be joined by his co-host - Dr. Khalilah M. Harris, the Managing Director for K-12 Education Policy at American Progress and non-resident senior fellow with MD Center on Economic Policy. Guests will also be sharing their organizing work in Annapolis. They include: Nicole Hanson-Mundell - Out 4 Justice, Chris Dews - Job Opportunities Task Force and Michelle Hall from the Office of the Public Defender.Support the show (http://www.lbsbaltimore.com/sustain)

We're going to go in depth on policing in Maryland with a particular focus on our bill - SB 627 (Repeal of the Law Enforcement Bill of Rights).Dayvon Love, the Director of Public Policy at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle will be leading the conversation along with our Director of Research - Lawrence Grandpre.Support the show (http://www.lbsbaltimore.com/sustain)

The COVID-19 public health emergency derailed a lot of progressive policy advocacy efforts in the 2020 legislative session. The 2021 session has begun and there are a flurry of reforms being considered by legislators. We'll be discussing our legislative agenda and some of the challenges we expect in getting it executed.Dayvon Love, the Director of Public Policy at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle will be leading the conversation. He'll be joined by his co-host - Dr. Khalilah M. Harris, the Managing Director for K-12 Education Policy at American Progress and non-resident senior fellow with MD Center on Economic Policy. Harris brings a unique perspective from an extensive career of working to expand access to opportunity through an equity lens in community organizing, education, education policy, youth advocacy, and building an inclusive workforce.Support the show (http://www.lbsbaltimore.com/sustain)

With police spy planes, everywhere Baltimore goes, the government will always know. Spy planes carry sophisticated cameras developed for the military, mounted on airplanes, that can see the entire city, and that track the movement of every person or vehicle moving outside. Baltimore has a terrible history of racial bias and a lack of accountability for abuses by police. It should be the last place to use a program of mass surveillance. In this episode, we talk with Dayvon Love, the Public Policy Director for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a grassroots think tank that advances the public policy interests of Black people in Baltimore, and David Rocah, Senior Staff Attorney for the ACLU of Maryland, to talk about the spy planes program, the legal case, our privacy rights, government surveillance, and the impact the spy planes are having on residents of Baltimore, especially Black residents. Let’s stop the Baltimore Police spy plane program.

In this new episode of the Meeting You Where You Are podcast, host Jan Desper Peters and her guest Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle Co-Founder Dayvon Love discuss the protests and policy implications of two pandemics COVID-19 and racism.

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Black History month is often relegated to a time when significant Black figures are highlighted and that Black people’s struggle for equality in America is emphasized. This rendering of Black History Month contributes to the dehumanization of Black people and undermines meaningful approaches to authentic empowerment of Black people. This event will address the relationship between the limits of mainstream approaches to honoring Black history, the challenges regarding education, and violence in the Black community. Presented by Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle.Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) is a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people, in Baltimore, through: youth leadership development, political advocacy, and autonomous intellectual innovation.  Re-opening activities are made possible in part by a generous gift from Sandra R. Berman.

Black History month is often relegated to a time when significant Black figures are highlighted and that Black people’s struggle for equality in America is emphasized. This rendering of Black History Month contributes to the dehumanization of Black people and undermines meaningful approaches to authentic empowerment of Black people. This event will address the relationship between the limits of mainstream approaches to honoring Black history, the challenges regarding education, and violence in the Black community. Presented by Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle.Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) is a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people, in Baltimore, through: youth leadership development, political advocacy, and autonomous intellectual innovation.  Re-opening activities are made possible in part by a generous gift from Sandra R. Berman.Recorded On: Saturday, February 15, 2020

As the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries heat up, we look back at 2016. Should Black voters "Vote Blue No Matter Who" or be willing to withhold their vote to pressure the Democrats into concessions?This reading of a chapter from the "Worse than Trump: The America Plantation" by Dayvon Love argues that strategic voting is not a selfish act of "revolutionary purity", but a long term investment in improving the material conditions of Black people. Support the show (http://www.newtimbuktu.com)

H.A. Jabar continues the series on the big data era, predictive analytics, algorithms and Behavioral Threat Assements in public schools and in Maryland. He interviews CEO of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Dayvon Love.

Welcome to the first episode of "From The Streets to The Statehouse" - a new podcast aimed at giving you a community centered analysis on the Maryland General Assembly.Since session officially started on January 8th, there have been major shifts in the statewide and local political landscape.Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, will be talking about the changing leadership roles in both the Senate and House chambers and what that means for our communities. There will also be deeper analysis on our legislative agenda and other so-called "progressive" agenda items being proposed this year.Support the show (http://www.lbsbaltimore.com/sustain)

This program is in conjunction with Undesign the Redline, exhibited at Central Library November 1, 2019-January 31, 2020.Lawrence Lanahan is the author of The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide. In his deeply reported, revelatory story, Lanahan chronicles how the Baltimore region became so highly segregated and why its fault lines persist today. Writing from the Fair Housing Act to the death of Freddie Gray and beyond, Lanahan describes epic efforts to desegregate the Baltimore region and deconcentrate poverty in West Baltimore. As Baltimoreans “cross the lines” in the book, one theme emerges repeatedly: the struggle for self-determination. During the attempted revitalization of 1990s Sandtown, for example, and during the protests following Freddie Gray’s death, neighborhood leaders in West Baltimore worked the lines trying to ensure that their communities remained in control of their own destiny.Lawrence Lanahan will speak with three Baltimoreans whose lives and work have drawn them to this struggle. Sandtown resident Antoine Bennett is the founder of Men of Valuable Action, a leadership development program in West Baltimore. From 2007 to 2012, he was the co-director of New Song Urban Ministries, which worked closely with followers of the Christian Community Development movement who moved into West Baltimore to live in solidarity with the poor.Dayvon Love is the director of public policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, where he has worked for nearly a decade years to advance the public policy interests of Black people. As interest in West Baltimore intensified after the death of Freddie Gray, Love and other community leaders created Baltimore United for Change, a hub to connect people to grassroots activists with long histories in Baltimore communities. Love is the author of Worse Than Trump: The American Plantation and co-author with Lawrence Grandpre of The Black Book: Reflections from the Baltimore Grassroots.Audrey McFarlane is the Dean Julius Isaacson Professor of Law and associate dean of faculty research and development at the University of Baltimore School of Law. McFarlane studies the intersection of economic development with race, place, and class. Her latest article, “The Properties of Integration: Mixed Income Housing as Discrimination Management” (UCLA Law Review), looks at the impact of discriminatory preferences on the development of affordable housing. Re-opening activities are made possible in part by a generous gift from Sandra R. Berman.Recorded On: Wednesday, November 20, 2019

This program is in conjunction with Undesign the Redline, exhibited at Central Library November 1, 2019-January 31, 2020.Lawrence Lanahan is the author of The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide. In his deeply reported, revelatory story, Lanahan chronicles how the Baltimore region became so highly segregated and why its fault lines persist today. Writing from the Fair Housing Act to the death of Freddie Gray and beyond, Lanahan describes epic efforts to desegregate the Baltimore region and deconcentrate poverty in West Baltimore. As Baltimoreans “cross the lines” in the book, one theme emerges repeatedly: the struggle for self-determination. During the attempted revitalization of 1990s Sandtown, for example, and during the protests following Freddie Gray’s death, neighborhood leaders in West Baltimore worked the lines trying to ensure that their communities remained in control of their own destiny.Lawrence Lanahan will speak with three Baltimoreans whose lives and work have drawn them to this struggle. Sandtown resident Antoine Bennett is the founder of Men of Valuable Action, a leadership development program in West Baltimore. From 2007 to 2012, he was the co-director of New Song Urban Ministries, which worked closely with followers of the Christian Community Development movement who moved into West Baltimore to live in solidarity with the poor.Dayvon Love is the director of public policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, where he has worked for nearly a decade years to advance the public policy interests of Black people. As interest in West Baltimore intensified after the death of Freddie Gray, Love and other community leaders created Baltimore United for Change, a hub to connect people to grassroots activists with long histories in Baltimore communities. Love is the author of Worse Than Trump: The American Plantation and co-author with Lawrence Grandpre of The Black Book: Reflections from the Baltimore Grassroots.Audrey McFarlane is the Dean Julius Isaacson Professor of Law and associate dean of faculty research and development at the University of Baltimore School of Law. McFarlane studies the intersection of economic development with race, place, and class. Her latest article, “The Properties of Integration: Mixed Income Housing as Discrimination Management” (UCLA Law Review), looks at the impact of discriminatory preferences on the development of affordable housing. Re-opening activities are made possible in part by a generous gift from Sandra R. Berman.

In our final #HotMicSession for the Summer, Dayvon Love gives a talk on the psycho-social dynamics behind white folks doing work with Black kids. Combining personal experience with academic analysis, Dayvon breaks down the role whiteness plays in the social imaginary and, despite good intentions, how it manifests itself in everyday teacher/student engagements. Support the show (http://www.newtimbuktu.com)

Dayvon Love breaks down the history of independent black institutions in Baltimore, explaining the political advancements these institutions and the lessons we should learn for contemporary activism. Support the show (http://www.newtimbuktu.com)

We analyze 3 books all written by our collective - Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. We examine how the centrist politics of Democrats are a core impediment to Black progress with Dayvon Love, author of Worse Than Trump, the American Plantation. We then discuss Lady Brion's poetry in With My Head Unbowed and conclude with a discussion with host Lawrence Grandpre on "The Black Book: Reflections from the Baltimore Grassroots." Support the show (http://www.newtimbuktu.com)

Today’s episode features a conversation on social justice movement building between Tim and three of the nation’s most engaging thinkers and activists: Tia Oso, Dayvon Love and Chris Crass. The dialogue took place in front of a live audience at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE) in New Orleans on May 31. Among the topics discussed by the panel: What things get in the way of effective movement building? What are the lessons we can take away from past and present movements about how to push through those obstacles? Are there common mistakes we make in this work, and if so, how can we learn from them as we move forward? What is the role of white people in social justice work? How important is Black self-determination to the cause of liberation and how has it been often overlooked within both historical and contemporary accounts of movement organizing? We’ll discuss all this and more on today’s episode of Speak Out With Tim Wise.

On this edition of the Midday News Wrap: we speak with Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy at LBS, about the comprehensive crime bill which was recently passed the State Senate, in spite of strong opposition from Baltimore delegates. The bill would introduce higher mandatory minimums for gun crime and stringent sentencing for repeat offenders. Baltimore Sun Washington DC Bureau Chief, John Fritzi brings us an update on the race for Maryland's 6th congressional district where drug addition and the toll of the opioid crisis on families and loved ones looms over both constituents and candidates. And, Will Englund, Foreign Assignment Editor at the Washington Post briefs us on the Trump administration's sanctions on Russia.

This episode of Zack's Film Talks at SDSU is hosted by Libsyn. My guests are Nathan Mook and Gabe Dinsmoor, producers of the HBO documentary Baltimore Rising, directed by The Wire’s Sonja Sohn (Detective Kima Greggs). Sohn’s directorial debut, which has won high praise from the Baltimore Sun, Essence, Newsweek, Newsday, and WBAL, looks at Baltimore in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray. Mook and Dinsmoor talk about: following the documentary's nine principal characters, including community leader Genard "Shadow" Barr; youth organizer Makayla Gilliam-Price; activist Kwame Rose; Dayvon Love and Adam Jackson, who created the Baltimore think tank Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle; Melvin Russell, the Baltimore Police Dept.'s Community Partnership Division chief; and Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. dealing with the arrest of a cinematographer and cast members in the midst of shooting the documentary  editing 600 hours of footage down to 90 minutes how director Sonja Sohn "let circumstances speak for themselves" rather than going in with a fixed perspective  Listen to Sonja Sohn at Salon.com. Episode edited by Chris Burke.            

On the back of the United States one dollar bill is two seals.?One seal, an unfinished pyramid with the ?all seeing eye? at its summit, has been interpreted as a masonic symbol. Whether you believe in D?evils and the Illuminati wanting your mind soul and body, the pyramid is unfinished, because as a nation and...

In the first hour of today's show, C4 discussed Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake's recent interview on race and policing. During the second hour, Dayvon Love (from Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle) joined C4 in-studio to talk about how police and communities can affect change within themselves and each other. C4 was joined by Senator JB Jennings in the third hour; he spoke of the recent race meeting that he took part in, held by President Obama. In the last hour, Greg Kline of Red Maryland spoke to C4 about the upcoming presidential election and comparisons between Donald Trump and Larry Hogan.

Thursday on the C4 Show C4 spent teh first hour an a half talking about the shooting of a 13 year old carrying a replica gun by a Baltimore Police Officer. Baltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis joined C4 to start the show talk talk about the incident. In the Second Hour C4 also talked about how Ted Cruz has picked Carly Fiorina as his VP even though there is no chance of him winning the nomination outright, In the third hour of the show C4 talked about how Donald Trump flubbed some words after using a teleprompter during a speech. C4 also spoke to Leaders Of A Beautiful Struggle co-founder Dayvon Love about how Baltimore has changed 1 year after the riots. In the final hour of the show C4 had a chance to talk to comedian Larry the Cable Guy and then C4 talked about how John Boehner called Ted Cruz "Satan Incarnate"

Wednesday on the C4 Show we spent the first part of the show talking about how we might have ground troops fight ISIS in Iraq again. Steve Bucci from the Heritage Foundation joined C4 to talk about ISIS and Iraq. Then we talked about how Maryland did horrible on the recent PARCC testing. We then switched gears and talked about how Montgomery County Police dressed up as the homeless to find people who were texting while driving. Then Dayvon Love from Leaders Of A Beautiful Struggle joined C4 in studio to talk about Baltimore 6 months after the riots. And we ended the show talking about how a Police Department in CA is now using Nunchucks.

Thursday on the C4 Show two thirds of the show centered around the protests at Baltimore City Hall during a City Council meeting vote on Commissioner Kevin Davis. Dayvon Love of leaders of a beautiful struggle, WBAL's Scott Wykoff, protester Kwame Brown and Councilman Carl Stokes joined C4 to talk about the protests. Then we ended the show talking about President Obama announcing that he will be extending the time for troops in Afghanistan.

In the wake of Freddie Gray's murder by police, national attention has been focused on Baltimore. Police brutality and unjustified arrests have been problems in Baltimore for a long time stemming back to Mayor Martin O'Malley's program of mass arrests without probable cause. But the injustice in Baltimore runs deeper. Wealth inequality has been rising in Baltimore, MD so that some neighborhoods look like war zones with rows of abandoned houses and dilapidated structures while others are dotted with large mansions and their sophisticated gardens. Delegate Jill Carter, a practicing attorney in Baltimore, and Dayvon Love of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle speak about the history of police violence and poverty in Baltimore and what is being done to bring justice to the people. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.