Our Common Ground With Janice Graham

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mkutano Wednesday Night OPEN MIC LIVE & CALL-IN Listen & Call Line: (347) 838-9852 Tonight we start here, continuing our discussion with callers.

Eyes on the Prize  Episode 1  "Awakenings (1954–1956)"Chronicles the murder of Emmett Till Eyes on the Prize is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The documentary originally aired on the PBS network and it also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2. Created and executive produced by Henry Hampton at the film production company Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond, the series uses archival footage, stills and interviews by participants and opponents of the movement. The title of the series is derived from the title of the folk song "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize," which is used as the opening theme music in each episode. Our Common Ground presents ON-DEMAND selected episodes of  this powerful teaching tool, "Eyes on the Prize". As we discuss continually historical context is necessary to build political, social and economic infrastructure.  LISTEN ::: LEARN ::: LIBERATE  "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"

“Mental Wellness, Black Survival: The Junction of Multi-Generational Trauma”  Guest: Brandon Jones, MFT The Jegna Institute LIVE & Call-In July 25, 2020 Focus Tonight: How do we help our people to improve emotional self-care, begin and transverse a necessary healing journey, and become more aware of ancestral, inter-generational, and compounded emotional pain. We will examine the implication of Slave Descendant Trauma health issues as we experience police brutality, police killings, and the pandemic. About Tonight's Guest: Brandon Jones brings a down-to-earth and compassionate attitude to Mental Health. Brandon is a psychotherapist, professor, Behavioral Health Consultant. He specializations in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Historical and Intergenerational trauma, Social/Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Leadership, and Youth Justice.

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“The ‘PROFECTORS’ of the Democracy: WHEN GIANTS FALL” OUR COMMON GROUND celebrates the lives and legacies of Civil Rights giants Rev. C.T. Vivian and U.S. Congressman John Robert Lewis Listener Tributes and Commemoration are invited and welcomed.  Losing both "Rev. C.T." and John Lewis is tough. Their legacies in the struggle for civil rights and Black dignity will resonate in the Black liberation activities in the US for al history. They were the revolutionary voices of the Civil Rights Movement struggle. One strategic, one tactical. Both giants.  tonight, we remember.  Listen or Call – In Line: (347) 838-9852

mkutano OPEN MIC Wednesday Night at OUR COMMON GROUND (kinda' like, "Let me call you back". OCG hosted, Caller driven. “Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES” OUR COMMON GROUND, hosted by Janice Ground broadcasts on each Saturday night at 10 pm ET. Typically, the program includes an element of expert guest, live conversations between Janice Graham and the host, and listeners who "call in" via telephone) to the show. Listener contributions are important to the program and many times all callers are not able to get in during the two-hour broadcast. Janice believes that the listener voice is essential to creating the best quality for the overall “talk experience”. Our guests are important, and we attempt to have in-depth discussions with them to maximize their extensive experience, wisdom and knowledge. We are unwilling to minimize the value and worth of their voices to inform and inspire. To respond to this challenge, OCG has created a broadcast specifically for callers to follow up on the OCG discussion

"Black America: Over Policed, Under Protected" LIVE & Call-In We acknowledge that policing models across the country view Black neighborhoods and communities as crime-ridden and havens for criminal activity. Criminalizing these residential areas create a natural response of resentment, distrust and animosity. These communities experience an exceedingly higher level of policing, absent essential protection services and resources needed. How can we use the current wave of calls of police defunding and reform to change that landscape? How do we stop the killing of Black people in our streets? How do we get mental wellness resources on the street when there is a problem? Chronic homelessness? Truancy? Guns out of the hands of young people? Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram "Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES"

mkutano OPEN MIC Wednesday Night at OUR COMMON GROUND (kinda' like, "Let me call you back". OCG hosted, Caller driven. “Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES” OUR COMMON GROUND, hosted by Janice Ground broadcasts on each Saturday night at 10 pm ET. Typically, the program includes an element of expert guest, live conversations between Janice Graham and the host, and listeners who "call in" via telephone) to the show. Listener contributions are important to the program and many times all callers are not able to get in during the two-hour broadcast. Janice believes that the listener voice is essential to creating the best quality for the overall “talk experience”. Our guests are important, and we attempt to have in-depth discussions with them to maximize their extensive experience, wisdom and knowledge. We are unwilling to minimize the value and worth of their voices to inform and inspire. To respond to this challenge, OCG has created a broadcast specifically for callers to follow up on the OCG discussion

mkutano OPEN MIC Wednesday Night at OUR COMMON GROUND (kinda' like, "Let me call you back". OCG hosted, Caller driven. “Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES” OUR COMMON GROUND, hosted by Janice Ground broadcasts on each Saturday night at 10 pm ET. Typically, the program includes an element of expert guest, live conversations between Janice Graham and the host, and listeners who "call in" via telephone) to the show. Listener contributions are important to the program and many times all callers are not able to get in during the two-hour broadcast. Janice believes that the listener voice is essential to creating the best quality for the overall “talk experience”. Our guests are important, and we attempt to have in-depth discussions with them to maximize their extensive experience, wisdom and knowledge. We are unwilling to minimize the value and worth of their voices to inform and inspire. To respond to this challenge, OCG has created a broadcast specifically for callers to follow up on the OCG discussion

"The Black Firewall: Will It Hold?" Guest: Dr. Ron Daniels  Veteran social and political activist Dr. Ron Daniels was an independent candidate for President of the United States in 1992. He served as Executive Director of the National Rainbow Coalition in 1987 and Southern Regional Coordinator and Deputy Campaign Manager for the Jesse Jackson for President Campaign in 1988.   Founder and President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), a progressive, African centered, action-oriented Resource Center dedicated to empowering people of African descent and marginalized communities. As the administrator for the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC),  NAARC supports HR-40, the Congressional Bill that would establish a National Commission to study reparations proposals for African Americans. Dr. Ron Daniels serves as the Convener of NAARC and is lead co-author of its  10 Point Reparations Program. Stay Connected with OCG Join us LIVE from the OCG Studio each Wednesday night

mkutano Wednesday OPEN MIC Wednesday Night (mkutano means "assembly") SisStar Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Brightbeam; Racial Justice Now ! will be with us to take your calls. Continuing lighting the fiyah of Truth from last Saturday night Wednesday night at OCG is kinda' like, "Let me call you back". OCG hosted, Caller driven. “Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES” Join us this Saturday night for OUR COMMON GROUND Guest: Dr. Ron Daniels, OUR COMMON GROUND Voice since, 1985, veteran social and political activist Dr. Ron Daniels was an independent candidate for President of the United States in 1992. Dr. Daniels is Founder and President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), a progressiveBlack organization, empowering people of African descent and marginalized communities.He is the Administrator for the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), Follow us on Twitter   ON FacebookStay connected on the Web

“ZER0 Tolerance for  POLICE IN SCHOOLS: Defending Our Children” How can we acknowledge and protest the brutality and menance of police in our communities, yet, tolerate police in the schools where are children have any less options for dignity and safety ? There can be NO acceptable police reform without extracting police from school, whose very presence is about repression and unquestioned authority for teachers and students. #TrustYourStruggle Guest: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar National Director of Activism at Brightbeam, a national network of education activists demanding a better education and a brighter future for every child. She is the Co-Founder & Board Member, Racial Justice NOW and a Former National Field Organizer, Dignity in Schools Campaign   Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram "Speaking Truth to Power and OURSELVES"

“Rebellion, Murder and Elections: Qualified Immunity” Guest: Dr. James L. Taylor James Taylor , Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco Our discussion with Dr. Taylor this week will be centered in strategic questions facing Black people struggling at this crucial historical juncture to see forward. ▪️Police Defunding and new public safety strategies ▪️Police Accountability and Reform - "Cold Cases" ▪️Demands and Challenges of the Black Vote ▪️ Black Trauma and Grief Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram OUR COMMON GROUND On the Web  

"8 Minutes 46 Seconds: The Collapse of American Delusions" It was a hushed moment of terror that we witnessed. Where from here when the protests are done and the nation turns away, once more, from any notion of some “renewed scrutiny” of violence and killing of Black people under the cover of law?  "We don’t see any American dream,” Malcolm X said in 1964. “We’ve experienced only the American nightmare.” You are them. They are you. You are all the same person—all the murdered, all the living, all the infected, all the resisting—because racist America treats the whole Black community and all of its anti-racist allies as dangerous. We held a dream like a King, when even his dream in 1967 “turned into a nightmare.” OPEN MIC Saturday Night Live and Call-In 10 pm EDT Join Us and Tune in here: Tune In Here: http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Listen or Call – In (347) 838-9852

#WE Can't Breathe: The Language of Rage" "A riot is the language of the unheard" - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. VE OCG BROADCAST STUDIO Guest: Dr. Raymond A. Winbush Dr. Winbush is the Director of the Institute for Urban Research and a Research Professor at Morgan State University. As a scholar and activist, he is known for his systems-thinking approaches to understanding the impact of racism/white supremacy on the global African community. He is the author of The Warrior Method: A Program for Rearing Healthy Black Boys;  "Should America Pay? Slavery and The Raging Debate on Reparations" ; and, Belinda’s Petition: A Concise History of Reparations For The Transatlantic Slave TradeHis books provide an overview of how reparations for the TransAtlantic Slave Trade has been a consistent theme among African people for the past 500 years. Police Terrorism and MurderThe Utility and Outcomes of Riots The Prospects of the Nominee, Joe Biden and Beyond Election 2020The Status of Black Children Mental Health  in T

"One Side Dark, Other Side Hard : Black America In the GAP ” Guest:  Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Ph.D. Professor and Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Author, "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology" Black people surviving the health disparities, medical negligence and indifference, stressful work demands, hard choices fears presented existing compounding work, home, children stresses during the pandemic. How do we place this COVID-19 plague in the context of past medical histories of our people? How do we comfort our selves, our children and elders? How do we find the assurances to get on the other side? We will be talking with her about Black America in the pandemic, historical underbelly of health history and its impact on us today. How we find comfort, how we face our fears and our deaths.   Join us in the world of Social Media.  Get important updates and breaking relevant news, news analysis: Subscribe FaceBook  Twi

“Black Economic Inequality: #RaceMatters"RACEMatters” Guest: Dr. Toure F. Reed, Professor of History and Author of “Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism”  Live & Call-In  Listen or Call – In (347) 838-9852 Dr. Toure Reed is a fourth generation African American educator and third generation professor. Dr. Reed’s research interests center on race, class, and inequality. Professor Reed’s research focuses on the impact of race and class ideologies on African American civil rights politics and US public policy . In his new book, he examines the fate of poor and working-class African Americans and contends that the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else is obstructed, in part, by a discourse that equates entrepreneurialism with freedom and independence. OUR COMMON GROUND provides unique and critical informed observation provoking new ways of thinking; blazing paths rethink the foundation to EMPOWER Black self, others and communities.    

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "Election 2020: Playbook and the Price" Guest: Dr. James L. Taylor May 2, 2020 - 10 pm EDT LISTEN LIVE & CALL-IN - (347) 838-9852   Guest: Dr. James Lance Taylor, PhD Chair, Department of Politics,former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), an important organization of African American, African, and Afro Caribbean political scientists in the United States, 2009-2011.  On March 3, Joe Biden began putting together the coalition of minority and white-suburban supporters that made him the nominee via wins in ten of the 14 states holding contests that day. African-Americans were his base: According to exit polls he won 58 percent of black voters across this vast landscape. Will it hold. What plays will this base make and for what are Black people holding him accountable in return for our vote. Will the “Black agenda” survive going forward? Under what political infrastructure will “this base” hold the line?  We will talk with D

"One Nation Under Mob Madness" LIVE  lll    April 25, 2020  lll   10 pm EDT Live & Call In   Here:  http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Listen or Call – In (347) 838-9852 Guest: Rev. Dr. Ruby N. Sales Dr. Sales is the Founder and Director of the Spirit House Project. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s as a teenager at Tuskegee University and went to work as a student freedom fighter in Lowndes County, Alabama. She is one of 50 African Americans to be spotlighted in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. She is a 1914 OUR COMMON GROUND Witness on the Bridge.  Ruby Salest is a contemporary philosopher, she is a deeply committed social activist, scholar, administrator, manager, public theologian and educator in the areas of civil, gender and other human rights. She is the publisher of the renowned, "From My Front Porch", web commentary.