Our Common Ground With Janice Graham

"Racial Coding and Profiling in American Politics" REBROADCAST of August 6, 2011 LIVE DISCUSSION with  Dr. Vincent Hutchings, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan Saturday, November 14, 2015 10 pm ET Rebroadcast We will be back LIVE and Call - In November 21, 2015.  ABOUT Dr. Hutchings Dr. Hutchings is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Hutchings teaches courses in African American politics, public opinion & voting behavior, and Congress. His research interests focus on the circumstances under which citizens are attentive to political matters and engage in issue voting.   BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Join us on FACEBOOK  BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground

"Trusting Black Women: Building Sustainable Respect" OUR GUEST:  Loretta J. Ross, Co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012. She has been Creating a Voice for Reproductive and Black WoMENT JUSTICE over 30 years "The concept of Reproductive Justice began to take shape when members of a women of color delegation returned from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt. Shortly after, a group of African American women caucused at the Illinois Pro-Choice Alliance Conference in Chicago. The group became known as Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice. They decided to devise a strategy to challenge the proposed healthcare reform campaign by the Clinton Administration that did not include guaranteeing access to abortion. Not wanting to use the language of 'choice' because they represented communities with few real choices, they integrated the concepts of reproductive rights, social justic

"Demanding Justice and Dignity for OUR Children" Our Guest: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar Executive Director, Co-Founder, Co-Chair Dignity in Schools Campaign Racial Justice NOW ! A South Carolina Black female student was brutally attacked, thrown from her seat and tossed across the room by a school police officer even though she had obeyed orders to put her cellphone away. Police intervention was employed when her teacher did not think that she put it away fast enough, Horrified students watched and video taped the incident. Where are Black children safe? How can this girl's humanity be so blantantly challenged?  Roxane Gay (NYT)  writes: "Far too little attention is being given to who the young girl is...When that officer saw her, sitting quietly, defiantly, she was not allowed to be human. She was not allowed to have a complex story. She was held to a standard of absolute obedience. She was not given the opportunity to explain the why of her defiance because she was a black body that needed to be disciplined

"Bearing Witness: Igniting OUR Power"  Resistance and Rebellion Series Part II Continuing the discussion beyond political empowerment.  with Dr. Ruby N. Sales Understanding the new slavery in the context of About Rebellion and Resistance. What history and  our ancestors can teach us. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode  OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters

In Conversation with Yvette Carnell POWER BLOGGER and THOUGHT-LEADER Blogging politics, social, and cultural issues  BreakingBrown.com Breakingbrown.me  Editor, YourBlackWorld  Included in our discussion are the many urgent issues covered by www.breaking brown.com within our community, we will review three major events.  The exoneration of officers report on the assasination of a 12 year old Tamir Rice. The status and impact of #BlackLivesMatter The Justice or Else Rally marking the 20th Anniversary of the MMM We invite you to join in the discussion with your responses, comments and questions. #BlackTalkMatter BROADCASTING  BOLD  BRAVE & BLACK OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters

"Black men, in particular, have been treated as being disposable, no longer necessary to the economy or to building the country. We label them and their communities as irredeemable and hopelessly violent, . . . it becomes clear that men of all races who are chronically unemployed are more likely to be violent."  Dr. Michele Alexander, "Black Lives Matter Report In Conversation with Dr. Tommy J. Curry LIVE “A Quiet Danger - Brothers Invisible: Classroom to Home” Dr. Curry is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is a Ray A. Rothrock Fellow 13'-16' in the Department of Philosophy.

OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT LISTEN LIVE and Join the OPEN Chat Call In - Listen Line: 347-838-9852 Where Friends come to meet with allies. Tonight on OUR COMMON GROUND we open up our lines to hear from you for the full 2 hours. Give us a call and let’s discuss what you believe is the most pressing issues facing our communities.  Each Saturday night, OUR COMMON GROUND is the spot to exchange ideas, analysis and information.  Our mission is to provide the most insightful information, establish opportunities for informed dialogue, in trust and in truth.  Feature Topics:  Black TV ; Black Family and Adult Estrangement; Justice or Else Million March, October 10 BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode   OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum:  http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters

“Global White Supremacy: Baltimore to Palestine” RESISTANCE and REBELLION Series Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Co-Moderating Tonight on OUR COMMON GROUND, we discuss white supremacy as a system of power which is a fundamental undergird and foundation of economic, political and cultural imperialism. Part of our discussion will focus on examining the parallels of the struggle to dismantle that system with the struggles of other victims of white supremacy across the globe. Joining us will be representatives of a visiting Palestinian activist group here in the US to make its case before the UN Commission on Human Rights. OUR GUEST Tonight: Sahar Vardi , a Jerusalem based activist. She publicly refused her military service and was imprisoned in 2008.  We are grateful to have Dr. Ruby Sales, a featured commentator on OCG to join us  Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode   OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum:  http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @Jani

OUR COMMON GROUND discusses the critical elements of how to move the slogan to the movement throughout the Black community. How and where we participate and input into the strategic plan and agenda. The Black Lives Matter movement was born out of the pain and injustice of Trayvon Martin's death in 2012 and gathered momentum in the wake of the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice and far too many others. The significance of this emergence was not so much the movement as it was the cry of our people declaring that “Black Lives Matter”. A cry for a need for a new liberation uprising for Black people in America. #BlackLivesMatter as a slogan met the need of Black people to declare its pain, loudly and precisely. Moving that slogan as the undergird of a movement is the hard part. Figuring how we ignite political and social transformation -- not just marches, Twitter feeds and shouting matches on- and offline is the real challenge.  Learn more and share our broadcast.    

"40 Years, $1 Trillion, 45 Million Arrests: The Truth About the War on Us" "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time" What began as a flourish of campaign rhetoric in 1968 has grown into a monster. And while nobody claims that the War on Drugs is a success, nobody suggests an alternative. Because to do so is political and profit suicide. As a community we need to understand how Drug War fever has been escalated; who has benefited along the way; and how the mounting price in dollars, lives, and liberties has been willfully ignored. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT DRUGS We will review and examine the truth about the policies and intent of the "War on Drugs". We need to talk about the money making behind the politics; how the drug war can be considered slow Nazi policy on the poor and the racial profiling used. We look at these destructive and failed policy and manipulation in its historical context and destructive outcomes.  Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode   OCG on the Web: http://ourco

BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time" Featuring Ruby N. Sales who joins us tonight as co-moderator. With you, we will discuss our community's response to a rising and troubling challenge to the agency of Black people as citizens in this country. As we come closer to the term end of the first African-American elected to the Presidency, violence and terrorism of all kinds have been unleashed upon us threatening to silence our mobilization and voice to protect ourselves, to resist and to rebel. A slogan alone will not be enough. How do we keep the flames of liberation burning to move forward in this continuing struggle ?  "Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves"  email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com LISTEN LIVE and Join the OPEN Chat: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/OCG racial Call In - Listen Line: 347-838-9852 Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters

OUR COMMONGROUND with Janice Graham In Conversation with Dr. Raymond Winbush  "Racism and Mental Health Therapies and  The Movie, “12 Years A Slave" Scholar Author Lecturer Practioner Dr. Raymond A. Winbush is the Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University in Baltimore Maryland.  ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN PROGRESSIVE independent talk radio examining global and community issues, events, thought, ideas and perspectives in and about the African-American community.  OUR COMMON GROUND features  guests who bring new ideas, creative and innovative solutions and opportunities to challenge the issues of the day.                                                                BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Facebook Community Forum Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters OCG Blog Pinterest Visit our Tumblr Page  email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Call In - Listen Line: 347-838-9852

Saluting Mama on OUR COMMON GROUND Mother's Day Special "Included in someone’s right to parent is the right “to parent a child without fear that he or she will be hurt or killed.” Black mothers have been stripped of this freedom because their motherhood is not fully recognized due to negative depictions that continue to linger." - Briana Perry, " For Harriet"  Special lines open for your memories and tribute. Bring your Mother to RADIO Night ( Really, the two of you are invited to call in and talk to each other)                                                                BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Facebook Community Forum Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters OCG Blog Pinterest Visit our Tumblr Page  email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Call In - Listen Line: 347-838-9852

"Uprising: Resistance and Rebellion" Guests: Ajamu Baraka and Efia Nwangaza Ajamu Baraka, Founder and fromer Executive Director , the US Human Rights Network and Contributor to Black Agenda Report Baraka is an internationally recognized leader of the emerging human rights movement in the U.S. and has been at the forefront of efforts to apply the international human rights framework to social justice advocacy in the U.S. for more than 25 years.  Efia Nwangaza, Human Rights Attorney and Liberation Broadcaster, WMXP Greenville South Carolina Sister  Nwangaza, current director of the Malcolm X Center for Self Determination, is a former Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer. The Malcolm X Center for Self Determination ( http://wmxp955.webs.com/aboutus.htm ),   is a volunteer grassroots, community based, volunteer staffed, owned and operated human rights action center, since 1991.   BROADCASTING    BOLD    BRAVE   &   BLACK OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham FACEBOOK Community Fo

In  Conversation  with  Barbara  R.  Arnwine President and Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law LIVE  ABOUT BARBARA R. ARNWINE Barbara Arnwine has served as the president and executive director of the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law since 1989. She is renowned for her instrumental contributions to passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991 and the 2006 re-authorization of provisions of the Voting Rights Act.  She is the Host of “Igniting Change with Barbara Arnwine” a weekly talk show which airs on WOL-AM in Washington, DC. BROADCASTING BOLD    BRAVE   &   BLACK OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham FACEBOOK Community Forum Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters OCG Blog Pinterest Visit our Tumblr Page "Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves" 

OPEN MIC Saturday Night Janice's Picks Black Boys and Mental Illness  The Aaron Hernandez Story ATL Cheating Scandal Hillary Clinton and the Democrats War on the Poor Your Picks  at 347-838-9852   and more from you. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE and BLACK Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters OCG Blog: http://www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO "Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves"  email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com

"The Urgency of Thinking Black" A Conversation with Dr. Tommy J. Curry “The Negro, in the universities and colleges of Europe and America, has to do his thinking and his reading in…the white man’s language…Our environment makes us think white, and some of us think white so persistently that we haven’t the time to think Black. I urge upon you…to help, with voice and pen, to hasten the coming of the morning when Negroes all over this broad land will wake up to the importance of thinking Black.  John Edward Bruce—“The Importance of Thinking Black”—1917 • WE SUFFER POLICE MURDER, POLITICAL STRANGULATION AND THE REIGN OF WHITE CONTROL • WE LIVE IN A POLICE STATE. • THE CONFEDERACY IS RISING ACROSS THE LAND. • THE WAR WAGING AGAINST POOR PEOPLE. OUR reconstruction and redemption as a people will only come when we start THINKING BLACK. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE and BLACK Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters OCG Blog: http://www.ourcommongroundt

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Tonight:           " The Matter of White ManNess: The Bad Apple Argument NOT"  police misconduct, college students singing songs of lynching Black people or elected officialswe are quick to defend the system as a whole and say that these are just examples of “a few bad apples”. We submit that such arguments are ‘bullshyt’. These problems are definitely systematic and "the bad apple arguments" do not pass the test of logic.  Does not a rotten apple pollute all the apples in the crate ? Or, is their bacteria in the crate which infects all the apples ? This racist behavior living in a “specialized white male culture’ living off of white privilege and supremacy is impossible. It pollutes and empowers whatever real or assumed power they are granted. Our children die and live by this system. Our tax dollars support it. "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time" Solutions, ideas and notions of the critical issues facing the Black community so that " . . . it may

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Tonight:           Remembering Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan                        In Conversation with Dr. Wilmer Leon of Sirius/XM radio, "Inside with the Issues" "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At A Time" Solutions, ideas and notions of the critical issues facing the Black community so that " . . . it may Achieve itself". We present  serious Black scholars, philosophers, thinkers, activists and grassroots leaders of our time. Informed and forward looking discourse in a safe sanctuary for "Black truth".                                                              BROADCASTING  BOLD  .   BRAVE  .  BLACK Follow Us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Subscribe to our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO OCG Blog: http://www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com/ email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com

Tonight:  In Conversation with Yvette Carnell POWER BLOGGER and THOUGHT-LEADER Editor, BreakingBrown.com and Your Black World Discussing her commentary about the Byron Allen suit, HBCUs, Rev. Al Sharpton and Ferguson and more.  "Transforming TRUTH to POWER, One Broadcast At A Time" BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE and BLACK 31 Years     Serving Black Truth, Empowerment and Ideas Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters OCG Blog: http://www.ourcommongroundtalk.wordpress.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO