Podcast appearances and mentions of Ricky L Jones

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 12/22/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Journalist, Educator,  Professor and Past Chair, Department of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville, Dr. Ricky L. Jones. Dr. Jones discussed the ongoing campaign to ban Black History, and what is going on with Black student enrollment and Black studies on predominately white university Campuses since the Supreme Court Affirmative Action decision in June of 2023, and other legislation's banning CRT around the country.

Dr. Ricky L. Jones, our "think tank friend," returned to the studio to discuss U of L's "facade" of the Office of Institutional Equity, UK closing their Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and his Wordle battles with Mary George Meiners...

Dr. Ricky L. Jones said he would lie through his teeth to get on the Trump jury. He also gave his thoughts on Caitlin "The White Shadow" Clark's shoe deal...

On this week's program, we bring you a vital community conversation about the suppression of black history in America. On Tuesday evening, March 5, 2024, the Filson Historical Society hosted a panel discussion entitled "Carter G. Woodson and the Killing of Black History." Tune in as three accomplished Black men discuss Black History and contemporary racial struggle. They intentionally do so after Black History Month. Their conversation moves from the impetus of “Miseducation of the Negro” author Carter G. Woodson founding Negro History Week in 1926 to current political, educational, and political attacks on “diversity,” which they see as the latest iteration of “American anti-Blackness.” The panel begins with Ricky L. Jones, Ph.D., Baldwin-King Scholar in Residence, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute & Professor of Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville. Jones is the past chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies, opinion columnist for the Courier Journal/USA Today Network, and organizer of the Envirome Institute's “Baldwin-King Project.” He is author of Black Haze and What's Wrong with Obamamania? Also on the panel are: Mawuli Mel Davis, J.D., Founding partner of the Davis Bozeman Johnson Law Firm. Davis is a former Naval officer who is now a civil rights attorney, human rights organizer, and author based in Atlanta, Georgia. Davis Bozeman Johnson Law, one of Georgia's largest African American-owned law firms has three offices in Savannah, Statesboro, and Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of We Need You: Encouraging My Son's Generation for Black Liberation. Derrick White, Ph.D., Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies, University of Kentucky and author of Blood, Sweat, and Tears. This event was brought to you by the University of Louisville's Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute's Baldwin-King Project in partnership with the Filson Historical Society. Learn more at http://filsonhistorical.org Truth to Power brings you conversations you won't hear anywhere else on the airwaves. The program airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

Dr. Ricky L. Jones talks about his new gig at the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute and why he is happier now. He also discussed UK President Eli Capiluto making a statement on DEI legislation, the misguided path the University of Louisville is going down, being a ghoul, and KY rep Jennifer Decker saying her father was a slave...

Dr. Ricky L. Jones throws jokes at Nikki Haley and says the presidential nominees are set. He also discusses the rise of hate crimes in the country against black people, the future of the city of Louisville, and the upcoming Super Bowl...

Dr. Ricky L. Jones discusses his beliefs that Black History Month is an anachronism and that Kentucky and other states of its ilk should cancel their Presidential primaries...

Dr. Ricky L. Jones discusses his new column on the passing of J. Michael Brown, Ben Richmond, and other community leaders and the "window of change" closing for Louisville. He also talked about Senator Tim Scoot's love for Donald Trump...

Dr. Ricky L. Jones calls dibs on Mary George Meiners in addition to discussing the passing of J. Michael Brown, Bill Belichick being over the hill, American having never been a racist country, and the reason he hates Taylor Swift...

Dr. Ricky L. Jones has returned! He discusses where he has been over the last year, his new life, and black people leaving Kentucky...

McConnell Center welcomes Dr. Ricky L. Jones to discuss The Criminalization of Black History. Raised by his grandmother in Atlanta's Carver Homes housing project, Ricky L. Jones not only became the first member of his immediate family to graduate high school, but by age 28 he also earned a Ph.D. Currently, he is Professor and Chair of the University of Louisville's Department of Pan-African Studies. Jones was educated as an undergraduate at the United States Naval Academy and Morehouse College. He was only the second African American to receive a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky where he specialized in Political Philosophy and Comparative Politics. Important Links More about Dr Jones Stay Connected Visit us at McConnellcenter.org Subscribe to our newsletter  Facebook: @mcconnellcenter Instagram: @ulmcenter  Twitter: @ULmCenter This podcast is a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville. Views expressed in this show are those of the participants and not necessarily those of the McConnell Center.  

Protests erupted in the U.S. after the release of video showing Memphis police beating Tyre Nichols, who died three days later. Matt Galloway talks to vice-chair of the Memphis City Council JB Smiley Jr.; and Ricky L. Jones, a professor and chair of the University of Louisville's Department of Pan-African Studies.

Ten people were killed in a mass shooting in a predominantly Black neighbourhood in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, in what authorities described as a "racially motivated” attack. Matt Galloway talks to local organizer Tyrell Ford about how his community is remembering the dead; and asks Ricky L. Jones, a Pan-African studies professor, what the violence says about racism in the U.S.

I can't wait for you to meet Dr. Ricky L. Jones, chair of the Pan African Studies department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky - one of the oldest in the country, nearing fifty years in existence. In a time where anything related to Black history is being attacked as CRT, you gotta know this is an especially tough time for him and his department. Like my discussion with Elizabeth Leiba, our conversation took twists and turns as we discussed everything from why his current state of Kentucky is DNV (as in do not visit), the obstacles he faces trying to keep Black faces and Black voices at the university, why he believes all Black folks should go to college, and his theory that white people are Black people's children. We had a great time, and even had a WHOLE other discussion as we tried to wrap up with his definitions of Blackness and his Black heroes. He delivers the toughest ideas with a little bit of bless your heart, and y'all know what that phrase means. I hope you learn, challenge yourself, and grow listening to his VERY interesting thoughts and views. Let's go!

Dr. Ricky L. Jones discusses the possible return of Tom Jurich to the University of Louisville, loyalty, and the importance of fathers...

Dr. Ricky L. Jones discussed his relationship with both Quintez Brown and Craig Greenberg, the guilt he carries for not maintaining contact with Brown after his disappearance, being an "activist", and what should happen to/with Brown now...

The Apex Intellectual Dr. Ricky L. Jones has returned to the show to discuss Critical Race Theory (CRT) in education and the hysteria that surrounds it and Attica Scott running against John Yarmuth for Congress...

The Apex Intellectual Dr. Ricky L. Jones has returned to the show to discuss Critical Race Theory (CRT) in education and the hysteria that surrounds it and Attica Scott running against John Yarmuth for Congress...

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of 2nd-degree unintentional murder, 3rd-degree murder, and 2nd degree manslaughter on Tuesday, in the killing of George Floyd. We discuss the significance of the conviction, and the wider problems of police brutality and structural racism, with journalist Georgia Fort, and Ricky L. Jones, professor and chair of pan-African studies at the University of Louisville.

Opinion: Black people didn't trust Kamala Harris, and they were wise not to | Ricky L. Jones | Courier Journal What happened to Kamala Harris? The once-celebrated presidential candidate recently called it quits, and mainstream pundits struggled to explain why. Some argued Harris never articulated a clear and consistent message distinguishing her from competitors. Others believed she irreparably damaged herself by supporting “Medicare for All” (albeit offering several confusing iterations), which many see as a political non-starter. Some said Harris’ campaign was simply poorly run. Others opined she was the victim of a racially stacked primary deck. Even though Barack Obama surprisingly won Iowa in 2008, Harris struggled to gain support in the small, mostly white state whose African American population is a whopping 3.8%. All that may be true, but it misses the most important part of the story. It was one thing for Harris to receive little to no support from whites in Iowa, but how could the fact that blacks in South Carolina (and beyond) weren’t excited about her either be explained? Indeed, Harris was quick to showcase her racial bona fides early in her candidacy. She is a graduate of Howard University, a legendary historically black school that has yielded American icons from Thurgood Marshall to Toni Morrison to Chadwick Bozeman. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a blue blood black sorority with a socio-political network supposedly so extensive that CNN’s Maeve Reston called it Harris’ “secret weapon.” Harris even announced her candidacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2019. That and her blindside of Joe Biden on his busing record made it clear she was attempting to lure African American votes by wrapping herself in the cloak of black struggle. It didn’t sell. While some members of the self-involved black bourgeoisie nauseatingly praised her, younger blacks and black progressives were taking deeper, dispassionate dives into Harris’ real-world record. They didn’t like what they found. To the chagrin of her supporters, close examinations of the woman who took pride in the title of California’s “top cop” by writers like Lara Bazelon, C.J. Ciaramella, Sarah Lustbader, Vaidya Gullapalli, Joe Garafoli and others revealed that Harris had been nothing close to the civil rights warrior she claimed to be. In actuality, she had spent much of her professional life prosecuting and persecuting poor people and minorities. Bazelon wrote that Harris “opposed or stayed silent” on multiple aspects of criminal justice reform. She “laughed” when a reporter asked her about decriminalizing marijuana before reversing course years later as public opinion changed. She opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate police shootings. She also opposed statewide police officer body-camera regulations. Her record on police reform was so troubling for many that Garafoli cited former Harris supporter and California activist Phelicia Jones lamenting, “How many more people need to die before she steps in?” Harris didn’t stop there. She even fought for a law that would prosecute parents of “habitually truant” elementary schoolers, “despite concerns that it would disproportionately affect low-income people of color.” When Harris released her memoir, “The Truths We Hold,” Ciaramella reviewed it and wrote, “Kamala Harris’ new book tries to massage her record as a prosecutor, but the facts aren’t pretty.” In the book, Harris claims, “America has a deep and dark history of people using the power of the prosecutor as an instrument of injustice.” She goes on, “I know this history well — of innocent men framed, of charges brought against people without sufficient evidence, of prosecutors hiding information that would exonerate defendants, of the disproportionate application of the law.”

Dr. Ricky L. Jones has returned! We talked about his new column about Governor Bae-shear and his stable political leadership, what universities will look like after COVID-19, his newest book, and the future of brick-and-mortar capitalism…

Dr. Ricky L. Jones has returned! We talked about his new column about Governor Bae-shear and his stable political leadership, what universities will look like after COVID-19, his newest book, and the future of brick-and-mortar capitalism…

Live from the The Sports Club and Social with guest Karl Schmitt, Kelsey Petrino Scott, and Dr. Ricky L. Jones

Dr. Ricky L. Jones has returned to the studio! He conversed on the FBI/college basketball investigation and the NCAA, his quest to be the President at the University of Louisville, and more.

Dr. Ricky L. Jones discusses his “lack of respect” for the authority of the current leadership of the University of Louisville and why he feels this way, including the way the Board of Trustees was appointment and the closed search for a permanent president. He also talked about the University’s change in opinion where Tom Jurich is concerned, “draining the swamp,” and the sponsorship of the Kentucky Derby.