"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 passively acquiesces to the calculated marginalization of the Black electorate by the Democratic Party. We invite Dr. Ray Winbush to join us to talk about the issues on the landscape of Black life and community – the demand for chattel slavery reparations, voter suppression, police reform because it seems the Biden administration has big dreams but no heart to claim them. Dr. Winbush is a research professor and the Director of the Institute for Urban Research. 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.  Author, The Warrior Method :: Should America Pay? ::  Belinda's Petition :: This Week's "WORD UP" Segment  ::: Professor Dr. John Henrik Clarke Excerpt of discussion of great men of color from history. Call_In & Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter @JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

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OCG Witness from the Bridge Series ::: Dr. Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D. :::

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 with Kim Brown is the place where you can set oppression ablaze. Black woman-led independent media that DGAF about taking on the establishment. Subscribe today- and you'll see why Tucker Carlson hates us so much.   Call_In & Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community  

"BURNING IT DOWN: BUILDING ANEW” Kim Brown, Host, Burning It Down

"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 disorders, workaholism, and addiction to shopping, gambling, and sex. Few realize these destructive acts are symptoms of our inner sorrow. Saturday, October 2, 2021 ::: 10 pm ET Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting” :: OCG REDO

"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 Administration waits for many deliverables promised without hope. A pandemic continues to claim citizens; the VRA of 1963 has become a useless relic of days gone by failing to protect disenfranchised the vulnerable populations for whom it was designed. From the Infrastructure bill to the George Floyd Act and the glimmering of an increasingly politically biased Supreme Court the foundation of democracy rumbles,    Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"Compromise & Capitulation" with Dr. James L. Taylor

“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 false pronouncement of being a global leader of human rights make the American prison system saner, and humane? The prison system is one of the demonstrations that slavery bears harm in this nation. Let’s talk about abolition. Until the continuing existence of slavery in America is ended, the nation’s prison camps will be the largest plantations ever seen on the planet. Guests: Max Parthas and Yusuf Hassan Co-Hosts, Abolition Today  New Abolitionist Radio MAX PARTHAS is the Co-director of state operations at Abolish Slavery National Network. YUSUF HASSAN is an Abolitionist, legal analyst, prisoners' rights advocate, entrepreneur, tech expert, community developer, USMC vet, screenwriter. Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

“The Attica Massacre 50 Years Later: America’s Human Rights Crisis Continues”

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 power depend upon has a glitch. So many Americans are beginning to understand more and moving beyond the energy field of the matrix. The glitch in the matrix ?  Black people. We discuss it at OUR COMMON GROUND tonight. Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

“The Glitch in the Matrix” ::: OPEN MIC NIGHT at OCG

“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 us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

“As America Fails: Seeking Solidarity” ::: Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan

"Election 2020: Playbook and the Price" Guest: Dr. James Lance Taylor, Ph.D. May 2, 2020 - 10 pm EDT Original Broadcast Date:  May 2, 2020  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 Dr. James Taylor, a renowned political scientist, and professor about the urgency of the issues going toward a Joe Biden nomination and the Democrats historical failure to address them. OUR COMMON GROUND "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Subscribe: https:/ourcommonground.com Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUNDTalk Radio Twitter: @JaniceOCG

"Election 2020: Playbook and the Price" ::: Dr. James L. Taylor :: Rebroadcast

::: REBROADCAST OF July 5, 2014 Episode  ::: In Conversation with Cynthia McKinney "Confronting the New Amerikkan Empire" OUR COMMON GROUND OPENED  the 2ND Session of 2014 on July 5, 2014. We were honored to have as our guest, Cynthia McKinney former U. S. Congresswoman, international human rights activist, and former Presidential candidate, to discuss domestic and foreign policy in the new Amerikkan Empire ALTERNATIVE, ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO URBAN Progressive Talk Radio "Of the Race and For the Race" Twitter  @JaniceOCG  #TrustYourStruggle Facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO Twitter: @JaniceOCG About Us  www.ourcommonground.com OCG Community Forum   www.ourcommonground.ning.com Email:  OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com

In Conversation with Cynthia McKinney :: OCG Rebroadcast

REBROADCAST of LIVE Interview-October 25, 2015 "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 videotaped the incident. Where are Black children safe? How can this girl's humanity be so blatantly 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 by any means necessary."   BROADCASTING BOLD :::  BRAVE  ::: BLACK      Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More about this episode     OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/     Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/    Follow us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters

"Demanding Justice and Dignity for OUR Children" with Zakiya Sankara-Jabar

This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND OPEN MIC ::: Who were the losers in OH-11? ::: Remembering Dr. Ronoko Rashidi  ::: Who Controls the Black Agency? "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

This Week in Black America ::: OPEN MIC :::

A Tribute to Black Truth Warrior, Glen Ford  :::  OUR COMMON GROUND Remembers Remembering Glen Ford, CEO/Executive Editor, The Black Agenda Report This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND we remember Glen Ford. Glen made his transition on Thursday, July 28, 2021. Glen Ford was the Founder, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, an important publication, blog, and radio station. Ford co-founded Black Commentator  (BC) in 2002. The weekly journal quickly became the most influential Black political site on the Net. In October 2006, Ford and the entire writing team left BC to launch Black Agenda Report (BAR). We have lost a brilliant, insightful strong voice, his persistence, his sacrifice, his passion, and the spirit of an INFORMED, LIBERATED, and FREE Black nation. His service and work will resonate for many Black generations and years to come. Always a Truth Warrior, now a Beloved Ancestor. "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

A Tribute to Black Truth Warrior, Glen Ford ::: OCG Honors His Work

“Global White Supremacy: Baltimore to Palestine” Rev. Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Founder, Director, The Spirit House Faith Activist Liberationist, Journalist & Author From promulgating the racist birther conspiracy theory to exhorting vigilante Proud Boys to “stand by,” Donald Trump has amplified white nationalist ideas in the United States. But neither Trump’s emergence nor his impact can be understood fully by looking at the United States in isolation. Rather, Trump must be understood for his place in a long line of Anglophone leaders who claimed to speak for besieged whites, with precedents including Ian Smith, the leader of the white minoritarian regime of Rhodesia, and Enoch Powell, the British MP who infamously warned of “rivers of blood” if Britain did not halt non-white immigration. Moreover, white nationalism is global not only in its history but in its present manifestations: white nationalists worldwide have hailed Trump’s actions and would be emboldened by his reelection. Resistance and Rebellion Rebroadcast : 05-26-15 Episode Listen Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" Support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

“Global White Supremacy: Baltimore to Palestine”, Rev. Dr. Ruby N. Sales

Rev. Dr. Susan K. Williams Smith Faith Activist Liberationist "Rest for the Justice Seeking Soul" "The fight for justice and equality is an exhausting daily grind—and the work is never over. That’s why it is incumbent upon all who speak and advocate for the less fortunate to practice self-care. You can’t fight when your tank is empty. Her ideas and thinking about Black resistance and the history and foundation of faith as fundamentally part of Black culture are essential." - Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith  Author, "WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME - The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America “ and "The Book of Jeremiah: The Life and Ministry of Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.“ Listen & Call-In Line: 347-838-9852 "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community

"Rest for the Justice Seeking Soul" ::: Liberationist, Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith

In Conversation with Pascal Robert, The Thought Merchant Co-Host, THIS IS REVOLUTION Podcast &  OUR COMMON GROUND IN-TER-LOCU-TOR Pascal is an essayist and Political Commentator on Black Politics, US Economic and Financial politics and Haiti. He is a graduate of Hofstra University and Boston University Law School. Somehow 20 percent of African American males supporting someone who is a male like Donald Trump is not a quirk. Do we tend to have a false consensus about how Blacks tend to vote?  We talk with Pascal Robert tonight about how it happens, what it means, and whether it simply a message of some sort. Just what are they thinking? Pascal is a son of Haiti. Growing up in Miami, he was schooled by his father and, uncles in history, culture, and the stories of Haiti’s resistance to imperialism. We talk with him about that history and review how in that history Haiti became one of the poorest nations in the world. "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time" To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website.  Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCG Join  our Exchange Community  

In Conversation w/ Pascal Robert, This Is Revolution Co-Host & OCG INTERLOCUTOR

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Black PROGRESSIVE URBAN ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT Black Radio “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves” URBAN PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO ALTERNATIVE ACTIVIST EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO “Transforming Truth to POWER, ONE Broadcast At A Time” XX//^XXXX//^XX OUR COMMON GROUND is talk radio that examines our world and nation, the socio-economic condition of our community and collective interests in the context race in HOPE and with COURAGE. XX//^XXXX//^XX XX//^XXXX//^XX A symposium of ideas and national town hall meeting.XX//^XXXX//^XX I'll Be Listening for YOU ! email: ocginfo@ourcommonground.com

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