Our Common Ground With Janice Graham

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 Christofascism, heterosexism, classism, and sexism .” - Dr. Ruby N. Sales, Director, The Spirit House Project  Listen and Call-In 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: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny"  An 11-Week Series Discussion Forums into the looking glass of "The Handmaid's Tale"  Th

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 transformative potential makes it such a target for opponents of a democratic society that claims and respects Black people. 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: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny"  An 11-Week Discussion Series  The consequences in the story are

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: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 11-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider

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: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 11-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are lessons that we should all seriously consider

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 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: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The consequences in the story are

"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 mobilization needed to resist with effective push-back tools? How do you translate what you are being told by your state representatives as opposed to the reality of the legislative actions being taken? If you are not engaged in some activity of resisting these oppressive moves, now is the time. Now. Months from now will be too late. Call In ::: 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: OCGinfo@o

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 democracy which protects their agency as citizens. Join me in bringing in my 2022 launch around the sun once again. OCG Party !! Tune In LIVE : http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Call In ::: 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: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book an

"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 scholarship that tends to marginalize the power of his transformative power in our own communities. We read and quote his words outside the context and the import of the history he ignited. Tune In LIVE : http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Call In ::: 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: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails

"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 : http://bit.ly/OCGTruthTalk Call In ::: 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: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com Join us on TruthWorks Networks TWN Facebook     Twitter @TWNtalk "If America Fails?: The Coming Tyranny" 12-Week Discussion Series of the book and Hulu TV production, "The Handmaid's Tale" How a dystopian story reveals the terror and consequences of a failed state - the United States of America. The c

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 race in courage and with hope continues to be the mission. I salute and am grateful to the hundreds of OUR COMMON GROUNDVOICES who have met with us and offered their keen intelligence and body of knowledge to serve the Black nation. And, to our listeners, we are always appreciative of your support of our programming. Our final, and the 2022 and Season of OUR COMMON GROUND will premiere on January 8, 2022. We wish you a holiday season filled with the joy and magic of your faith and hope that you will be lifted by th

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 interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture. In this 2009 episode of OUR COMMON GROUND, we talked with her once again about her profound significant theoretical and analytic research and writings on global white supremacy and how it manifests in America. Dr. Welsing first joined us in 1987.  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 Communit

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 sharper eye focused on the condition of black politics. He is a frequent co-host and guest with Dave Marsh’s heard on Sirius radio each Sunday. Gray is Founder of the Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project and the former managing editor of Black News in Columbia. Neill Franklin, the National Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and a former law enforcement officer. We will talk with him about a growing hostility by police on marijuana reform and about the discrepancies and how far some law enforcem

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 "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

"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-thinkin

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  

"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

"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 COMMO

“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 Aboli

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

“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