Our Common Ground with Janice Graham
Interviews
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham ALTERNATIVE ∞ ACTIVIST ∞ PROGRESSIVE ∞ EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX “Transforming Truth to POWER, ONE Broadcast At A Time” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX OUR COMMON GROUND explores and examines history and culture, the socio-economic and political issues and conditions of Black people in America. Discussion with our community, “speaking Black truths” toward the best of our collective interests. We present the best Black minds who work in our interests in the activist, non-profit, policy interest-research and the academy communities. Workers, thinkers and builders in in-depth discussions and on-going learning in the context of RACE, in HOPE and with COURAGE. A weekly symposium of ideas. A national weekly town hall. A Sanctuary. XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX Broadcasting since 1985 XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX Follow us on Twitter: @Janice OCG ∞ IG: https://www.instagram.com/sankofaocg/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO I’m Janice Graham and I'll Be Listening for YOU ! email: ocginfo@ourcommonground.com
Location:
United States
Description:
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham ALTERNATIVE ∞ ACTIVIST ∞ PROGRESSIVE ∞ EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX “Transforming Truth to POWER, ONE Broadcast At A Time” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX OUR COMMON GROUND explores and examines history and culture, the socio-economic and political issues and conditions of Black people in America. Discussion with our community, “speaking Black truths” toward the best of our collective interests. We present the best Black minds who work in our interests in the activist, non-profit, policy interest-research and the academy communities. Workers, thinkers and builders in in-depth discussions and on-going learning in the context of RACE, in HOPE and with COURAGE. A weekly symposium of ideas. A national weekly town hall. A Sanctuary. XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves” XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX Broadcasting since 1985 XX//^\\XXXX//^\\XX Follow us on Twitter: @Janice OCG ∞ IG: https://www.instagram.com/sankofaocg/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO I’m Janice Graham and I'll Be Listening for YOU ! email: ocginfo@ourcommonground.com
Language:
English
Episodes
OCG Witness On the Bridge ::: "In Conversation with Dr. Ruby N. Sales"
3/6/2022
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham "In Conversation with Dr. Ruby N. Sales" Founder, The Spirit House Project Listen & Call-In Line: (347) 838-9852 :: What Southern Past tells us about the rise of white Supremacy :: Weapons of Southern Resistance Living :: There is NO Black Generational Divide :: Black Denial, Apathy and Confusion “White supremacy is a deep socio-spiritual scab that reeks with the stench of antisemitism, oozes the pus of Islamophobia, and festers beneath the hard crust of...
Duration:01:59:43
OCG :: BHM 2022 Highlight :: “Racial History Erasure: Shorting Black Victories"
2/27/2022
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Racial History Erasure: Shorting Black Victories” Listen ::: LEARN ::: LIBERATE Radio :: The Fear of Black History :: Weapons of Critical Race Theory :: Anti-Black Public Policy In this final episode of the OUR COMMON GROUND 2022 Black History Month celebration, we offer a conversation that charts the history, development, and continued salience of Black History education and Critical Race Theory, and why its...
Duration:00:46:01
Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Black Women Visioning Black Power"
2/20/2022
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Black Women Visioning Black Power" We look at the precision and power of the leadership, guidance, counsel, and direction contributed by Black power giants: Fannie Lou Hamer ::: Ella Baker ::: Angela Davis ::: Michelle Alexander Listen ::: LEARN ::: LIBERATE Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 Visit us on the Web: www.ourcommonground.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO On Twitter: @JaniceOCG Email:...
Duration:01:59:54
Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: "IN-FORMATION: Malcolm and Stokley"
2/13/2022
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: "IN-FORMATION: Malcolm and Stokley" Tonight, we look at the early activist eras of Kwame Toure’ aka StokelyCarmichael and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X). We follow them as they begin to make Black history. Listen ::: LEARN ::: LIBERATE Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 Visit us on the Web: www.ourcommonground.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO On Twitter: @JaniceOCG Email:...
Duration:00:46:42
BMH 2022 Highlight :: The Fire of Freedom Fighter Bayard Rustin
2/6/2022
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: The Fire of Freedom Fighter Bayard Rustin Most do not know or understand the powerful role that Bayard Rustin played in the ignition of the Civil Rights Era and his guidance in the movement with key political players. We acknowledge his love and dedication to Black people and the place he called his country tonight. Featuring his debate with Malcolm X, a discussion with James Baldwin, and his Firebomb speech. Listen...
Duration:01:59:41
CIVICS 201 : Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement
1/30/2022
"CIVICS 201 : Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement" Saturday, January 29, 2022 ::: 10 pm ET Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 WE are facing a tidal wave of restrictive voting legislation across the country and the trend will continue into 2022. Tonight we present some of the information you need to translate and interpret these efforts in your state. How much do you really know about voter suppression and disenfranchisement happening in your state? Enough to organize and initiate the kind of...
Duration:01:30:33
“Shorting the Odds: States’ Race to Anoracy”
1/23/2022
his Week at OUR COMMON GROUND “Shorting the Odds: States’ Race to Anoracy” Call In ::: Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 ABOUT THIS EPISODE ANOCRACY A political system that is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability. In this episode of OUR COMMON GROUND, we discuss the rabid weaponization of states' rights in the effort to take control of power in government and thwart the rights of the people by disassembling the democratic process and...
Duration:01:04:31
"King Day: To Forget Is to Forfeit"
1/16/2022
"King Day: To Forget Is to Forfeit" Since 1983, communities and organizations have celebrated King Day through various, creative and serious celebrations and forums. A national monument in Washington has been erected in Dr. King's honor. However, there seems to be a diffusion in what we teach, remember and understand about Dr. King's contribution to this country. The holiday seems to have become somewhat less deliberative in our celebrations. We now have generations of Black children, a new...
Duration:01:48:44
"The Final Season: Black Aspiration in a Dying Democracy"
1/9/2022
"The Final Season: Black Aspiration in a Dying Democracy" We enter the last Season of OUR COMMON GROUND examining the dire and troubling nature of our country. Each time, we think it cannot get worse, it does. Indeed it does. The system of white supremacy has embedded itself, perhaps permanently, in our system of government and has been normalized in our politics. How must we respond and sustain the spirit that carried us across the unstable bridges of the past? Tune In LIVE :...
Duration:01:07:23
OUR COMMON GROUND 2021 Season Review & Close
11/14/2021
This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND OUR COMMON GROUND 2021 Season Review & Close Looking back at the information, ideas, lessons, and insight during this 2021 Season. As we close, we celebrate our 35 years of broadcasting. Thirty-five years later, I can say that I'm still learning how to amplify Black voices. Still mastering the skill to raise this heavy struggle, manage so much rage and articulate the constant need for assessment of the narrative, but not the history from which it rises. Talking...
Duration:00:50:22
OCG ReDo: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: The Origins of White Supremacy 2009
11/7/2021
This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND "In Discussion with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: The Origins of White Supremacy Culture" REBROADCAST OF May 29, 2009 Episode Streaming: Saturday, November 6, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET Tune In: http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 Dr. Frances Luella Welsing was an American psychiatrist and prominent race theorist. She was a proponent of Black supremacist melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her...
Duration:00:51:06
OCG Rebroadcast: In Discussion with Activists, Kevin Gray & Neil Franklin 2011
10/31/2021
REBROADCAST OF January 22, 2011 OUR COMMON GROUND Featuring, ALFO, of The ALFO Show,Co-Hosting Saturday, January 22, 2011 Guest, Kevin Gray and Neill Franklin OUR COMMON GROUND once again welcomes . . . Kevin Gray is a CounterPunch.org political magazine contributor and civil rights organizer who resides in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a contributing editor to Black News, a former President of the SC ACLU, and was Jesse Jackson's SC campaign manager in 1988. There’s no keener mind, no...
Duration:02:00:42
OCG OPEN MIC NIGHT ::: "A Broken Democracy"
10/24/2021
OPEN MIC NIGHT "A Broken Democracy" While the Republicans fight for a new Confederacy, just what price will Black Americans pay because the Democrats are not vested in Democracy? Will cars on the new roads built by the Biden Infrastructure Bill, pass by Black people still protesting voter suppression or another dead Black body at the hands of police? Who will challenge the severely partisan SCOTUS ? ::: 30 Years later, remembering Professor Anita Hill ::: Call-In & Listen Line: 347-838-9852...
Duration:01:58:03
OCG Witness from the Bridge Series ::: Dr. Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D. :::
10/17/2021
"In Conversation with Dr. Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D." Director of the Institute for Urban Research Morgan State University MD Too many Black leaders (elected, appointed or anointed) have opted for access to power, rather than challenging or seeking to hold actual power. Too many have opted merely for a “piece of the pie” rather than building the institutional and community-based capacity to question the baker and determine how the pie will be sliced. So today most of the Black leadership...
Duration:01:59:58
"BURNING IT DOWN: BUILDING ANEW” Kim Brown, Host, Burning It Down
10/10/2021
This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND "BURNING IT DOWN: BUILDING ANEW” Guest: Kim Brown, Host, BURN IT DOWN LIVE NonBougie Black America "Burn it Down with Kim Brown" calls out systemic issues within our society and envisioning a new world. She talks about how to restructure and create systems that are inclusive of everyone. She keeps it real, and actively destroys myths that the media and politicians love that we believe, like American Exceptionalism. She makes microphones rumble. Burn It Down...
Duration:02:02:35
"Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting” :: OCG REDO
10/3/2021
"Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting” Guest: Dr. Terrie M. Williams, Ph.D. American entrepreneur, public relations expert, author, therapist, and philanthropist. CEO, The Terrie Williams Agency Author, “Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting” Rebroadcast of 3//19/09 Interview Black Pain identifies emotional pain—which uniquely and profoundly affects the black experience—as the root of lashing out through desperate acts of crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, eating...
Duration:01:57:33
"Compromise & Capitulation" with Dr. James L. Taylor
9/26/2021
"Compromise & Capitulation: Starring Harry Potter and the StormTroopers" In Conversation with Dr. James Lance Taylor, Ph. D. Chair of Dept. of Political Science, University of San Franciso He is former President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), The political fires are raging in the U.S. Through a robust campaign of GOP gaslighting in the face of Democrats clamoring for cooperation, and bi-partisanship, the American people who overwhelmingly voted for a Biden...
Duration:01:59:53
“The Attica Massacre 50 Years Later: America’s Human Rights Crisis Continues”
9/19/2021
“The Attica Massacre 50 Years Later: America’s Human Rights Crisis Continues” Attica has never been over. Slavery has never been over. Is there anything more to learn about the Attica prison uprising? The truth is that it was a massacre of inmates protesting the lack of acknowledgment of their humanity. Demanding to be regarded as humans and the right to be treated as more than animals. Did we learn? We are just telling something of the truth about what happened there. Will that truth or a...
Duration:02:01:24
“The Glitch in the Matrix” ::: OPEN MIC NIGHT at OCG
9/12/2021
This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND “The Glitch in the Matrix” OPEN MIC Saturday, September 11, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET Tune In: http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Call-In & Listen Line: (347) 838-9852 The Matrix represents a system of control that operates completely in the mind. As a complex, machine-driven program, it appropriates any personal, political, or ideological leanings and renders them wholly false. It allows illusions but no action. The problem with the matrix that most people of control and...
Duration:02:00:38
“As America Fails: Seeking Solidarity” ::: Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan
9/5/2021
“As America Fails: Finding Solidarity” Guest: Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan When democracies fail, they fall with the great divide taking a prominent and urgent matter for every citizen. Defining friends and foes? Easy. Comrade, allies, and enemies? Not so. The trauma of Black in America will amplify that dilemma. " We welcome Dr. Djene Bajalan as our guest this week. Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow...
Duration:02:01:05