Our Common Ground with Janice Graham
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
Episodes
March 6, 2022 • 120 mins
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
"In Conversation with Dr. Ruby N. Sales"
Founder, The Spirit House Project
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:: 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 a...
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February 27, 2022 • 97 mins
OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
Black History Month 2022 Highlight :: “Racial History Erasure: Shorting Black Victories”
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:: 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...
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February 20, 2022 • 121 mins
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
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February 13, 2022 • 120 mins
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.
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February 6, 2022 • 120 mins
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, ...
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January 30, 2022 • 113 mins
"CIVICS 201 : Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement"
Saturday, January 29, 2022 ::: 10 pm ET
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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 disenfranchiseme...
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January 23, 2022 • 126 mins
his Week at OUR COMMON GROUND
“Shorting the Odds: States’ Race to Anoracy”
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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 ...
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January 16, 2022 • 112 mins
"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 delib...
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January 9, 2022 • 119 mins
"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 ...
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November 14, 2021 • 126 mins
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 assess...
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November 7, 2021 • 120 mins
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
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Dr. Frances Luella Welsing was an American psychiatrist and prominent race theorist. She was a proponent of Black supremacist melanin theory. Her 1970 ...
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October 31, 2021 • 121 mins
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 Ja...
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October 24, 2021 • 119 mins
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,...
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October 17, 2021 • 120 mins
"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 determin...
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October 10, 2021 • 123 mins
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 beli...
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October 3, 2021 • 118 mins
"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 thr...
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September 26, 2021 • 120 mins
"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, ...
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September 19, 2021 • 122 mins
“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 someth...
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September 12, 2021 • 121 mins
This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND
“The Glitch in the Matrix”
OPEN MIC
Saturday, September 11, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET
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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 a...
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September 5, 2021 • 122 mins
“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.
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