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BROKE-ISH X MIP MASHUP: KEHINDE'S POLICE INTERVIEW, "COCONUT TRIAL," GOING BACK TO BLACK, BLACK RADICAL TRADITION, PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS W/ERIKA BROWN - S2 EP10
06 Sep 2024
01:33:25
In this week's Black World News,Kehinde nearly got arrested. The police, a Black police officer (at that) politely invited Kehinde for a voluntary interview at the police station about a video he put online. The video was posted on YouTube two months ago called It's not a Crime to Call a "Coconut" a "Coconut." Posted in response to Marieha Hussain's arrest for carrying a placard during a pro-Palestine demonstration, depicting the faces of former Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, alongside coconuts under a tree on a beach. Since then she lost her job and was charged with a racially aggravated public order offense.
Marieha's trial is next week: September 12, 2024, at 10 am, at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, and the rally will be around 9 am. Kehinde plans to be there. - In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde is joined by Erika Brown, co-host of the Broke-ish podcast, for a mashup between Make it Plain and Broke-ish podcasts (the recording will be available on Broke-ish at a later date).
They explore with respectful dialogue and disagreement: how to embody the values of the Black radical tradition in their work and podcasting and consider what public sociology and public scholarship are, and how they fit in as Black radical public intellectuals. They talk about the good, the bad, and the in-between.
This podcast conversation has been partly funded by a grant Erika received from the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership at Texas University. - Erika Brown started working in corporate America when she was 20 and built a career of almost 25 years in Marketing and Product Management. From the time she was a child, she vowed that no one would know more about her money than her. Erika lives with her husband and two daughters in suburban Dallas, TX where she enjoys chicken on the bone as much as possible. Erika is a PhD student in sociology at the Texas Women's University.
Broke-ish is about being broke—broke and Black in America. About all the unbelievable *ish that America has done to Black people to keep us in this broke-ish state. How we've been in ways that personal finance tips and traditional financial literacy can’t fix. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS
BLACK STUDIES DEGREE SHUT DOWN, INTERVIEW WITH BLACK STUDIES DEGREE STUDENTS - S1 FINALE EP14 RERUN
30 Aug 2024
00:45:11
This week we're rerunning the final episode from S1 of the MIP podcast with a (first on the pod) cameo appearance from executive producer Weyland McKenzie-Witter explaining the rerun. In short, it's due to the award-winning undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Arts) in Black Studies (which Kehinde co-created) being shut down by Birmingham City Uni (BCU). A life-changing and grounding break course. This is an institutionally racist move that continues the attack on Black thought in higher education. FYI: BCU is still running the Master of Arts in Black Studies degree program for Sept 2025/26 entry.
In the interview from 2023, Kehinde Andrews asks a mixture of Black Studies undergraduates and MA students; hearing testimonies from Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte, from all three Black Studies degree courses at Birmingham City Uni about their experiences on the courses. The students featured are Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS Kehinde speaks on the BCU's undegrad Black Studies course cancellation https://x.com/kehinde_andrews/status/1827358975085453638 - GUEST LINKS
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS Guests: Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte Host BCU Email: Kehinde.andrews@bcu.ac.uk Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews (X) @kehinde_andrews Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Blog) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT) - For any help with your audio visit:https://weylandmck.com/ - Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
S2 EP1 - GEORGE THE POET: "Coconuts," the Black Vote, "Track Record," Hip Hopaganda, Rejecting MBEs + More
28 Jun 2024
01:11:51
WELCOME BACK TO THE MAKE IT PLAIN PODCAST - Thanks for coming back! If you slept on S1 you can return to our earlier episodes (S1 was funded by the Evens Foundation in Europe, themed on Black Studies, featuring Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberlee Crenshaw, David Harewood + more).
This is S2, and we're taking a slightly different tact than S1. We'll still be interviewing official guests in academia, politics, and elsewhere. What's new is that we'll also be talking to interesting people on the ground from organizations on the Black United Front (BUF, a directory of Black orgs across the globe that Make it Plain has begun developing). - In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain the House Negro nonsense of the coconut trial of Mariah Hassan, a person who was charged with carrying a placard that pictured Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts. This isn't up for debate, this is not a criminal offense it's a defense of the Black radical intellectual tradition.
Kehinde also makes plain the general election, the ways you can and can't represent as a Black MP, and the myth and propaganda of the Black Vote. Not discounting our influence in marginal seats, the myth of the Black vote is a really bad way of understanding Black political power. Kehinde makes plain a better (local, national, and global) way of understanding politics through a Black mass membership international organization. - In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with George the Poet (featuring his son in the background hehe) about his new book Track Record. George shares a section of the book that never made it to his book, "The Anti-Afrikan." They also discuss, turning down an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) honor, despite it "opening doors" and networking opportunities (but the question is, "which doors?" and"whose doors?"). - George the Poet AKA George Mpanga is a multi-dimensional man with lived experience and a London-born spoken word performer of Ugandan heritage. His innovative brand of musical poetry has won him critical acclaim both as a recording artist and a social commentator. George is also a husband, father, and Cambridge graduate. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS It’s not a crime to call a "Coconut" a "Coconut." Professor Kehinde Andrews explains why the terms Coconut, House Negro, Coon, and Uncle Tom are vital expressions of Black political thought that should be celebrated and not policed. Drawing on work in his book 'The Psychosis of Whiteness' this is a handy guide through the use of the words complete with many examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZkD-e-b6Iw - GUEST LINKS George the Poet https://www.georgethepoet.com/
Have You Heard George's Podcast? The award-winning and critically acclaimed podcast from George the Poet delivers a fresh take on inner-city life through a mix of storytelling, music, and fiction. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07915kd
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
S1 FINALE EP14 - BLACK STUDIES W/BLACK STUDIES DEGREE STUDENTS: "Ethnic Cleansing" in the Carrribean, Privy "Colonial" Council, David "No Reparations" Cameron, Being a BCU Black Studies Student + more
24 Nov 2023
01:02:35
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses a current case in Barbuda being fought about the construction of a new private airport and beach developments by largely US, UK, and Chinese foreigners. It's a fight by local "land defenders" against foreign multinationals carving up the island for tourism, "freedom," and tax reduction purposes. Developers are destroying the island's resources, including food security, culture, and livelihoods This case is part of a larger problem with the Carribean's legacy as slave colonies. - Check out the MIP YouTube Channel - This is going to be the final episode of Season 1of MIP's Black Studies Podcast Series, we hope you've enjoyed it! To wrap it up, this week Kehinde Andrews asks a mixture of Black Studies undergraduates and MA students from all three Black Studies degree courses at Birmingham City Uni (@MYBCU) about their POVs of the course. The students featured are Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte. The courses are pretty much all female students currently. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
BLACK STUDIES - MA https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-ma-2024-25 - Guest: Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte (Black Studies Students) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT) - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World By Kehinde Andrews
S1 EP13 - BLACK STUDIES W/DR. KADIAN POW: "COCONUTS & COONS", KADIAN'S NEW BOOK ON BLACK FEMALE IDENTITY, TEACHING BLACK STUDIES, BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES, BLACK WOMEN & SEXUAL SHAME + more
17 Nov 2023
01:13:14
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the MET police's nonsense claim that the use of the political term "coconut" is a hate crime following a MET tweet (since removed) in the form of a protest poster of Rishi "Rish" Sunak and Cruella Vader-man. He argues that terms of political critique like "coconut" and "coon," which point out agents of White Supremacy especially if they are Black and Brown aren't racist terms and slurs. We must continue to defend our history, language, political critique, and ultimately our Black political thought. - Check out the MIP YouTube Channel - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Dr Kadian Pow about her part-autobiographical book "Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness." It looks at how different aspects of love have shaped Kadian's Black feminine identity, from family lessons to romantic love to love of Blackness and community. Using anecdata from early life to her 30s, tracing themes of feminism. They also discuss her teaching Black Studies, her Black-owned business, respectability politics, and her transition from being a former born-again Christian.
Her new book also part-inspired a mini summit event next Saturday, November 25th at Birmingham City University (BCU Curzon Building, B4 7BD) called "Black Women & Undoing Sexual Shame" (18+), organized by Black Ballad, event tickets are available here (For support: if you're a BCU student email Kadian.Pow@bcu.ac.uk and if you need help email support@blackballad.co.uk). - Kadian is currently a lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies at Birmingham City University (BCU), where she teaches courses in both Sociology and Black Studies with Kehinde Andrews (and his former PhD student). Her interest includes Black feminism, intersectionality, TV and social media, the sociology of Black natural hair, sexuality, and queer studies. She's also the creator of Bourn Beautiful Naturals (BB Naturals), a Black-owned solution-based skincare company. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
S1 EP12 - BLACK STUDIES W/DAWN BUTLER MP: Criminalizing Dissent, Reparations Washing, Dawn's Book on Purpose, Labour's Racism, Surviving Cancer, Policing, Kemi Badenoch + more
10 Nov 2023
01:12:39
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews rants about reparations washing, and the recent case in point of Lloyd's of London's "slavery" report; why he'd need to report himself under the new UK gov plans to criminalize dissent that also directly focuses on Muslims, which essentially conflates extremism with radicalism, and more on Israel-Palestine. - Check out the MIP YouTube Channel - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Dawn Butler Labour Member of Parliament (MP) about how she navigates work as a Black female MP. Since day she has managed to represent, talk the truth, and most importantly stayed Black while doing her job in parliament—one of the Whitest places—despite the advice when she first came into parliament of "not to be too Black."
She's therefore an amazing example of what we need to see more of from politicians in electoral politics. In this interview, she offers examples, like THE coup ran against her when she ran for deputy speaker, of how she manages and balances the impact of engaging with the constant gendered and racial reminders that arise for a Black Woman in one of the UK's Whitest and highest-profile workplaces. - Dawn Butler a Labour Member of Parliament for Brent Central, London, the third Black woman to be elected an MP, the first ever to speak at the dispatch box and the first Black female chair of the women’s Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP). She's the author of "A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change" (2023). She was named the "most promising feminist under 35" by New Statesman magazine, honored as MP of the year at the 2009 Women in Public Life Awards, and was named one of the 25 most influential women in the UK by Vogue in 2020. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Teachers presenting White privilege as fact are breaking the law, warns minister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIa4bvXjDhA - Guest: @dawnbutlerbrent (IG + T) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT) - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World By Kehinde Andrews
S1 EP11 - BLACK STUDIES W/NELS ABBEY: King Charles, Reparations, Working Independently, Hip Hop MBA, Uppity, Dominique Samuels + more
03 Nov 2023
01:01:29
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the "end" of Black Employment Month aka Black History Month, King Charles' unapologetically White speech during a recent state visit to Kenya, what is and isn't authentic reparatory justice, and the ongoing White psychosis of the British royal family. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Nels Abbey. They discuss amongst many tings, his formative years in foster care and boarding school and his working years from asset banker to media exec. They also discuss, topical news including the current UK's most diverse yet most far-right government in history, Nel's new book out next year The Hip Hop MBA uses hip hop as a model for how we think about economics. his new event Uppity a monthly forum for discussing Black issues in Black communities with the first event The Trial of Dominique Samuels happening earlier this week at The Africa Centre. - Nels Abbey is a former asset management banker turned public intellectual, medical executive, broadcaster, satirist, author of "Think Like A White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black" (2019) and The Hip Hop MBA: Lessons in Cut-Throat Capitalism from Rap’s Moguls (out spring 2024) and most recently founder of "Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujee." - Guest: @nelsabbey (IG + T) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - King Charles stops short of apology for ‘abhorrent’ colonial violence in Kenya https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/king-charles-stops-short-of-apology-for-british-colonial-violence-kenya
S1 EP10 - BLACK STUDIES W/PATRICIA HILL COLLINS: Saluting Our Sisters, Intersectionality, Black Feminism, Afrofuturism + more
27 Oct 2023
01:16:22
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the theme of Black Employment Month AKA Black History Month "Saluting Our Sisters," the past and present overlooking of Black Women, and the importance of the Black feminist standpoint in understanding the world better. For example, why we mobilize more around the public spectacle of anti-Black violence against predominantly Black men that leads to liberal reforms and why we need to also look at the private violence that predominantly affects Black women, such as deaths in childbirth. Focussing on both will lead to more radical solutions. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Patricia Hill Collins about her new book “Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence,” the appropriation of intersectionality and what it is and isn’t, navigating her career in academia, the “public intellectual” and what it will take for Black people to be free.
Patricia Hill Collins is a distinguished US professor emerita of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of numerous award-winning books including her best-known and fundamental title "Black Feminist Thought" (originally published in 1990) and more (see below). She was the first ever elected Black female to be president of the American Sociological Association (ASA). This week Patricia was the winner of the very prestigious Berggruen Philosophy Prize, the first Black person to win this prize. - Black women four times more likely to die in childbirth https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59248345
S1 EP9 - BLACK STUDIES W/ABDUL ALKALIMAT: Black Studies Past, Present and Future, Origins of the Movement, Activism, Scholarship + more
20 Oct 2023
01:10:55
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the 14-year-old Black male being held in a headlock and tasered to the ground by a UK police officer and the problem with Black Employment Month aka Black History Month. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Abdul Alkalimat, Black Studies OG and professor emeritus of African American Studies about what is Black studies, his books “The History of Black Studies” (2021) and “The Future of Black Studies” (2022) the battle for Black Studies in the US and the UK, and Black students today and our future.
Abdul Alkalimat (PhD University of Chicago) is one of the founders of the Black Studies movement, involved in the Black Radical Congress and Institute for the Black World, and a professor emeritus (retired) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He was one of three founders of the Organisation of Black American Culture (OBAC) and served as its first chairperson. - Outcry as shocking footage shows police tasering 14-year-old boy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-taser-black-teenager-birmingham-b2431070.html
The Death of White Sociology by Joyce Ladner - Guest: Abdul Alkalimat Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS
S1 EP8 - BLACK STUDIES W/BEVERLEY BRYAN: Black Women in History, Israel-Palestine Conflict, Black Power, Black Education, Heart of the Race + more
13 Oct 2023
01:17:00
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses how we can understand the Israel-Palestine conflict through the prism of Black radicalism—understanding the universal of the world through the particular of Blackness—to see the world differently. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Beverely Bryan about Black women in the movement and in Britain, teaching and Black Studies in the Carribean, US, and the UK, Black women organizing, and the future of Black community education on the ground.
Beverley Bryan is a retired professor of language education at the University of the West Indies for over 20 years, heavily involved in the Black Power movements and Black orgs in Britain (Black Panthers, early Black British Feminism, founding member of Brixton’s Black Women’s Group (BWG), Black Arts Workshop and Black Supplementary Schools), and co-author of recently republished Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain.
S1 EP7 - BLACK STUDIES W/CECIL GUTZMORE: Black History (Employment) Month, Pan-Afrikanism, activism, organising + more
06 Oct 2023
01:13:46
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch's "Best Place to be Black” speech, and the mainstream popularity of today's Black and Brown politicians in the UK/US. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde talks with Pan-Afrikan OG Cecil Gutzmore about Pan-Afrikanism past and present in the UK, the race & class debate, Black success in White academia, young people, and revolutionary change.
Cecil Gutzmore is a veteran community activist, intellectual, historian, and educator, a former factory worker, community worker, and university academic lecturer in London and the West Indies, whose work within community activism stretches back to the late 1960s. - "Britain’s the best place to be Black, says Kemi Badenoch. But ask yourself: is it as good as being white?" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/03/britains-best-place-to-be-black-kemi-badenoch-tory
S1 EP6 - BLACK STUDIES W/LEILA HASSAN HOWE: life in Zanzibar, 60s Britain, IRR, New Cross, Black People's Day of Action + more
29 Sep 2023
01:04:29
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses a big survey (with "over 10,000 voices") out this week on the "Black British" experiences by the Black British Voices Project. - In this week's guestinterview, Kehinde talks with Leila Hassan Howe about her life in Zanzibar and coming back to Britain in the 60s, working for the Institute of Race Relations (IRR, directed by A. Sivanandan) and the journal Race Today Collective (edited by Darcus Howe), building independent Black institutions and alternatives to the British education system, New Cross Fire (1981) and the National Black People’s Day of Action (1981).
Leila Hassan Howe is a veteran activist and organizer. In 1981 through the New Cross Massacre Action Committee she co-organized the famous Black People’s Day of Action march that followed the New Cross Fire. She was an active member of the Race Today Collective, edited its journal, joined the Black Unity and Freedom Party (BUFP), and was involved in all of its key struggles. - BLACK DIMENSIONS READING LIST
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation Book by Charles V. Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael
Soul on Ice Book by Eldridge Cleave
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks Book by Frantz Fanon
The Souls of Black Folk Book by W. E. B. Du Bois
Message to the Blackman in America Book by Elijah Muhammad
Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism Book by Kwame Nkrumah
BLACK STUDIES AND BLACK WRITERS "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS W/ SHANI AKILAH - S2 EP9
23 Aug 2024
01:07:39
Today’s episode opens with Kehinde making the realities of Black studies in the UK plain. Despite winning an award for critical pedagogy, the undergraduate Black Studies degree at BCU is being discontinued due to low recruitment and financial constraints.
We are also joined byShani Akilah, a Black British Caribbean writer and screenwriter from South London. She is a book influencer, co-founded the Nyah Network, a book club for Black women, and Shani has a Masters degree in African Studies from Oxford University.
Kehinde and Shani, author of short story collection “For Such a Time as This," discuss the book, her journey into writing, her creative process and how having academic parents inspired her career. - GUEST LINKS Website https://shaniakilah.com/ Twitter : https://x.com/_shaniakilah IG: https://www.instagram.com/_shaniakilah/?hl=en - THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS
S1 EP5 - BLACK STUDIES W/PROFESSOR NICOLA ROLLOCK: Her book "The Racial Code," Black women in higher education, White antiracist allyship + more
22 Sep 2023
01:01:30
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses the murder charge of the police officer who killed Chris Kaba. - In this week's interview, Kehinde talks with Professor Nicola Rollock about the under-representation of Black women at the post-graduate and professorial level, why they’re not optimistic about change in their field, the question of White antiracist allyship, her new book The Racial Code, and Nicola’s top three things to address racial issues.
Professor Nicola Rollock is a Professor of Social Policy & Race at King’s College London, a Distinguished Fellow at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, and also runs her own consultancy business. She helps people think critically about how they understand racial justice and, as a result, implement better strategies for change. She is also the author of “The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival” (2022), released in paperback form this week, where she makes a case for everyday and more subtle forms of racism. - Chris Kaba: Police officer who shot dead unarmed Black man charged with murder https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/chris-kaba-shooting-murder-police-b2414890.html
S1 EP4 - BLACK STUDIES W/DAVID HAREWOOD: Black in Britain, psychosis of Whiteness, mental health + more
17 Sep 2023
01:03:23
Kehinde Andrews talks with David Harewood live from a book launch event of Kehinde’s book “The Psychosis of Whiteness” (OUT NOW). They talk about David’s experience of psychosis, acting while Black, growing up in Whitenss, Black mental health & therapy, the psychosis of Whiteness, and more.
David Harewood is a top actor, director, and author of "Maybe I Don't Belong Here" his first book. - David Harewood: Psychosis and Me https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00052mn
Maybe I Don't Belong Here https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/david-harewood/maybe-i-dont-belong-here/9781529064131
Kehinde Andrews Author of The New Age of Empire (Allen Lane) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/05/the-best-books-of-2021-chosen-by-our-guest-authors#:~:text=an%20unremembered%20life.-,Kehinde%20Andrews,Author%20of%20The%20New%20Age%20of%20Empire%20(Allen%20Lane),-Kehinde%20Composite%3A%20Guardian
HARAMBEE ORGANISATIONOF BLACK UNITY https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ - Guest: @davidharewood Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) / @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast: @makeitplainorg - Psychosis of Whiteness Book Tour Dates 17 (Sun) with @bbbookfestival @Manchester City Library
S1 EP3 - BLACK STUDIES W/WESLEY LOWERY: Whitelash, reporting protests, getting arrested, Trump, Obama and justice
08 Sep 2023
01:04:16
Kehinde Andrews talks with Wesley Lowrey at a live event earlier this year about his arrest while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and about his new book American Whitelash. A book about the rise in racial violence in the decade following the election of the US' first Black president.
Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, reporter, editor, and best-selling author known for his written audio, and on-camera work. He has served as a national correspondent for the Washington Post and an on-air correspondent for CBS News and 60 Minutes. His first book “They Can’t Kill Us All” published right after Trump’s election, chronicles his experience covering the protest movement that emerged following the death of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown. - American Whitelash The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443220/american-whitelash-by-lowery-wesley/9780241517123 Wesley Lowery's Arrest: https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/wesley-lowerys-arrest
We Are Black and British https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014t9r - Guest: @wesleylowery Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) / @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast: @makeitplainorg - Psychosis of Whiteness Book Tour Dates 7 (Thurs) with @nelsabbey in London 11 (Mon) @toppingsbath 12 (Tues) online @guardianlive 13 (Wed) with @afuahirsch@lrbbookshop 17 (Sun) with @bbbookfestival @Manchester City Library
S1 EP2 - BLACK STUDIES W/KELECHI OKAFOR: Black women, education (and schooling), working in media, White supremacy + more
01 Sep 2023
01:09:23
Kehinde Andrews talks with Kelechi Okafor about the responsibility of having a media platform, education (not schooling), erasure and silencing of private violence against Black women, mashing up White supremacy and the more we need to do.
Kelechi Okafor is a Black-British writer, actor, and host of Say Your Mind podcast, born in Nigeria and raised in London. - Kelechnekoff’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Kelechnekoff
Say Your Mind Podcast https://www.kelechiokafor.com/say-your-mind-podcast
S1 EP1 - BLACK STUDIES W/KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW: CRT, intersectionality, #SayHerName and the attack on antiracism
25 Aug 2023
01:12:36
For Make it Plain's (MIP) first-ever podcast episode Kehinde Andrews talks with Kimberlé Crenshaw about CRT, intersectionality, #SayHerName, and the attack on antiracism.
Kimberlé Crenshaw is an American Civil Rights Advocate, the co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and the founder and executive director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School. She is the Promise Institute Professor at UCLA Law School and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor at Columbia Law School.
She is popularly known for her development of “intersectionality,” “Critical Race Theory,” and the #SayHerName Campaign, and is the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters! - Broke-Ish https://brokeish.com/podcast
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM (Kim's org): https://www.aapf.org/ - Guest: @kimberlecrenshaw Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) / @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast: @makeitplainorg
BIRMINGHAM SOCIAL HOUSING, BLACK ACADEMICS, SPIRITUALITY, TEACHING FILM STUDIES IN PRISON, RACE RELIGION AND MEDIA REPRESENTATION, REPARATIONS W/ROBERT BECKFORD - S2 EP8
16 Aug 2024
01:23:54
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain the irony of Birmingham being a majority-minority city with a social housing crisis that hosted the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
This week’s interview is with Robert Beckford a scholar-activist researching the intersections of faith and racial justice in and through diverse media texts. He has written multiple books and man made numerous documentaries. The conversation is centered around the challenges faced by Black scholars, the power of media in driving change, and the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and addressing social justice issues. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews (X) @kehinde_andrews Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Blog) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT) - For any help with your audio visit:https://weylandmck.com/ - Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
UK WHITE RACE RIOTS, MUTUAL AID, DOULAS DECOLONISING CREATING INCLUSIVE SPACES FOR MARGINALISED IDENTITIES IN BLACK MOVEMENTS W/ESHE KIAME ZURI - S2 EP7
09 Aug 2024
01:07:45
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain the UK’s week of White Race Riots highlighting the role of White rage in fuelling these incidents. He also delves into the complexities of immigration, tracing the roots of the current crisis to the British Empire's history of colonization and exploitation.
This Week’s guest is Nottingham-based Doula, Chef, and Activist Eshe Kiama Zuri. Eshe has Co-founded organizations like Vegans of Colour UK, Notts Activist Wellness, and UK Mutual Aid. They are also part of the steering committee for the Convention of African People (CAP) 2025 event, where they represent the marginalized identities group.
The conversation covers; Eshe’s background in Community-based mutual aid, food security, and gardening projects, The importance of creating space for marginalized identities in Black organizing spaces, The challenges of organizing inclusive spaces, especially for events like the Convention of African People, The role of doulas in supporting marginalized communities, particularly around pregnancy and childbirth. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS
S2 EP6 · BLACK WORLD NEWS: Paris '24 Olympics, Displaced Patriotism, Diaspora Wars, Myth of Athletic Superiority · DR ROBYN C. SPENCER-ANTOINE: Women in the Black Panther Party, History, Gender and Power, Patricia M Robinson, Palestine + More
02 Aug 2024
01:12:41
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain the mirage of the Paris '24 Olympics (26 July 2024 – 11 August 2024) following his family road trip to Lille in France to watch live the (Black) Women of Team USA dominate the Japanese in basketball. He makes plain the assimilationist policy and color-blind approach of France to race; he debunks the myth of "Black" and "White" "genetic superiority" to explain their respective dominance in certain sporting and athletic activities eg Black people in track and White people in swimming. Finally, he makes plain the insidious nature of the patriotism and Diaspora wars in international sporting competitions. - In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with DrRobyn C. Spencer-Antoine about her book The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland and the history of women (who made up over 50% of the party), gender, and power in the party. They also discuss her second book project, To Build the World Anew: Black Liberation Politics and the Movement Against the Vietnam War in the context of Palestine, settler colonialism, and the ongoing investment and buy-in of these land grab and dispossession projects. Finally, they touch on Patricia Murphey Robinson, a Black organizer, and psychotherapist who worked with people in many movements, and Dr. Robyn's work curating the @PATarchives on Instagram to spotlight how Patricia Murphy Robinson’s unprocessed home archives reframe the Black radical tradition. - Dr Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine is a History and African American Studies professor at Wayne State University (WSU), Detroit, Michigan, where they're developing the Detroit Center for Black Studies. She's a historian of the Black freedom movements, an activist, a Black feminist, a daughter of the Diaspora, and a mother.
She is co-founder of the Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project and has written widely on gender and Black power. Her writings have appeared in the Journal of Women’s History and Souls as well as The Washington Post, Vibe Magazine, Colorlines, and Truthout.She has received awards for her work from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Association of Black Women Historians. She is completing her second book, Vietnam Blues, on the intersections between the movement for Black liberation and the movement against the US war in Vietnam as a fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (CWC) in 2023-2024.
In addition, she is working on two biographies: Left Traces: Patricia Robinson and the Archive of Black Women’s Radicalism and Angela Davis: Radical Icon. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project Our commitment to the recovery and restoration of the Black Panther Party’s (BPP) history and women's critical roles in the organization led us to create this project as a means of #changingthenarrative. https://iphistoryproject.org/
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS
S2 EP5 · BLACK WORLD NEWS: Sonya Massey (#SayHerName), Jamaica's a Prison Colony, Kamala Harris Nomination · DOMINIQUE WALKER (BUF): Ex Police Officer, Abolishing the Police, Anthony Walker Foundation, Goddess Project + More
26 Jul 2024
01:08:21
CONTENT WARNING: Recent Sonya Lynaye Wilburn-Massey Police Murder + Racially Motivated Murder of Anthony Walker. - In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain three news items. Firstly the recent unlawful murder of Sonya Massey by the police for no reason; and the need to center Black women killed by the police too (#SAYHERNAME). Secondly, he makes plain that Jamaica (and the Caribbean) is a prison colony. Third, he makes plain that probable presidential nominee Kamala Harris is not the solution to our problems; she's a Black face in a high place (#WhiteHouseNegro). She has no program, no solution, and will not do anything for Black people because the US president by design can't do anything for Black people. - In this week's Black United Front interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Dominque Walker, an ex-police officer, about Dominque's far-reaching abolitionist and antiracist work, particularly with the antiracist charity Anthony Walker Foundation. Her work in academic spaces as a lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and with The Goddess Project, a Black women's group. They talk about Dominque's experiences of racism and sense of safety living and growing up in Liverpool in White-majority and Black & Brown-majority areas.
In 2005, when Dominque was 19, her brother Anthony Walker, 18, from Huyton, Liverpool, was brutally murdered by two White males Paul Taylor and Michael Barton on July 30, 2005. It was a racially motivated axe attack as Anthony walked with his cousin and his White girlfriend across McGoldrick Park in Huyton (a predominantly White area), Liverpool. In response, they, including her mum, Dr Gee Walker, founded the Anthony Walker Foundation to tackle racism, hate crime, and discrimination by providing educational opportunities, providing victim support services, and promoting equity and inclusion for all. They discuss the aftermath and the journey toward justice, which ultimately goes on until the offenders die and the trauma. - Dominique Walker is a mum from Liverpool born and raised; chair of the antiracist charity Anthony Walker Foundation (20 years in inception); co-founder of the Goddess Project a project that celebrates and centers Black women in Liverpool (with about 100 women involved); lecturer in Criminology and Policing Studies at the School of Justice at Liverpool John Moores University; and a PhD student (dissertation: Abolish Hate Crime Policing). For 11 years she was a hate crime and domestic violence detective with the Merseyside Police Protecting Vulnerable People Sigma Hate Crime Investigations unit. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
S2 EP4 · BLACK WORLD NEWS: Attempted Trump Assassination, US Violence · GUILAINE KINOUANI (Trigger Warning: Racialised Trauma): Working as a Black Female Clinician, Afrikan Griots, "Living While Black," White Minds," Fanon, Race Trauma Certificate + Mor
22 Jul 2024
01:17:58
CONTENT WARNING: Racialised Trauma - In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain Trump's so-called assassination attempt (leaving one person dead and two wounded) and as Malcolm said of Kennedy's assassination, "it's chickens coming home to roost." However, it's not surprising as America is founded and sustained on political violence: the first violence of the genocide of native people, the second violence of enslaving us, and the third violence of kicking the British out with the American Revolutionary War. Much of the violence of the world today can be traced back to the US and Western imperialism. This is America, this is the West. This. Is. What. The System. Is. - In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Guilaine Kinouani a leading voice in Black psychiatry, psychology, and psychosocial studies in the UK. They talk about her work as a clinician, re-traumatizing mental health systems, being dissuaded from working as a clinician as well as dealing with her own trauma as a clinician with over 15 years of research and study including her books Living While Black and White Minds. They talk about the origin story of Race Reflections which started as a blog (now a social enterprise) about not being silenced, and how it developed. They highlight the Certificate in Working with Racial Trauma training. - Guilaine Kinouani is a UK-based Paris-born woman of Afrikan (Congolese) descent; an award-winning critical and radical psychologist and group analyst, scholar, activist, and "[she] likes to think…a bit of a fashion connoisseur." Guilaine is also a current PhD (her second doctorate!) researcher, in psychosocial studies, and founder of the social enterprise, Race Reflections.
She's written three books: Living While Black: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma (2021 + Guardian Book of the Year), White Minds Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance (2023), and a third book Creative Disruption: Psychosocial Scholarship as Praxis is expected in November 2024. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
S2 EP3 · BLACK WORLD NEWS: Continental Europe Racism, General Election, CAP25 · MITCHELL ESAJAS (BUF: The Black Archives): Black Dutch Experience, Black Pete + More
17 Jul 2024
00:59:25
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain the racism in continental Europe and how it hits differently to the UK; how Jamaica and other Black Caribbean islands (like Haiti) are not our home, they're prison colonies, and the solution: a global Black nation. - In this week's Black United Front interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Mitchell Esajas "A Voice of Black Holland," from The Black Archives in Amsterdam. They talk about the great work the archive is doing to put the Black Dutch experience on the map. As well as the situation in Amsterdam, the far right rise, the Dutch king, prime minister, and the mayor of Amsterdam's apologies for enslavement. Not to mention the most popular Dutch tradition, Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) the years of resistance against the racist tradition, and the recent political development. - Mitchell Esajas is co-founder and managing director of The New Urban Collective (NUC), a social enterprise and network for Black and POC, that manages The Black Archives (where Mitchell co-leads day-to-day activities). The Black Archives is an archive with more than 10,000 books and documents, exhibition space, and a cultural center. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
The Black Archives Website The Black Archives consists of unique book collections, archives and artifacts that are the legacy of Black Dutch writers and scientists. https://www.theblackarchives.nl/home.html
Broke-ish (Erika Brown + Amber Sims) In the Broke-ish space, we talk about being broke—broke and Black in America. We talk about all the unbelievable *ish that America has done to Black people to keep us in this broke-ish state. https://brokeish.com/a
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
S2 EP2 · BLACK WORLD NEWS: UK&US General Election + "All Eyes On Kongo" and House Negro Complicity · DR CBS: Black Scare/Red Scare + Black Intellectuals + Pro-Palestine Encampments + More
05 Jul 2024
01:12:28
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain the "All eyes on Congo" image trending recently after the "All eyes on Rafa [a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip]" AI-generated image went viral. Kehinde says we need to have eyes on Congo due to the conflict, and child labor exploitation for corporate resources. But, the reality is that the resources being mined at poverty wages are predominately minerals used for batteries in smartphones and laptops that we use in the West. This is the paradox we're tangled in of living in the West.
Kehinde says that the first step is acknowledging our complicity, but we can't just sit back and tweet about Congo + Neo-colonialism, that's not enough. That's the house negro mentality. We need a field negro mentality. We need to build alternatives that can sustain us, and we are trying. We're building the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity for Malcolm's 100th birthday and we're having a convention on the continent in Gambia, the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP -May 17-19, 2025). - In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Charisse Burden-Stelly aka Dr. CBS about criminalizing pro-Palestine encampments and uprisings, particularly Black students and activists; squaring the circle of working in university as a Black radical intellectual; her new book Black Scare/Red Scare that lifts the ways marxism isn't just White people shit; and on being a Rodneyist. - Dr. CBS is an associate professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University, a critical Black Studies scholar, book author, co-editor, and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and Community Movement Builders (CMB). - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Dr. CBS' New Book Black Scare / Red Scare Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo207945104.html - MIP LINKS CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
New Feature: Making Politics Plain W/Busayo Twins + No Further Action W/"House Negro" Case - S2 EP13
27 Sep 2024
01:22:37
New Feature: Making Politics Plain W/Busayo Twins + No Further Action W/House Negro Case - S2 EP13
In this week's Black World News, the UK police have said there will be "No Further Action" in Kehinde Andrew's "house negro" non-case made by Calvin Harris in response to Kehinde's "It's not a crime to call a Coconut a Coconut" video calling out Calvin's "house negro" nonsense video on YouTube. Today is also Kehinde's late wife, Dr Nicole Andrew's birthday. Nicole passed away from triple negative breast cancer two years ago, a cancer that disproportionately kills Black women (three times more likely). Nicole's PhD (with no corrections!) was looking at how to make public health images of overweight and obesity with Black women, working with the Birmingham City Council and Lewisham. In honor of her birthday, on the Make it Plain YouTube channel we're resharing some content of Nicole, including a talk "Sistas in the Struggle: The Radical Feminism of the Black Panther Party" recorded during an International Women's Day. - This week, Kehinde Andrews is joined by official guestBusayo Twins for a new and potentially regular feature where they discuss Black issues of the day.
This week they chop it up about the interesting intersections of gender (social activism as more of a Black woman's than Black man's duty), diaspora nationalism (being Black and identification with UK/US eg Black British and ADOS + FBA), the younger generation (their political engagement), "Black mixed race" identity (being the Black Mixed face of liberation campaigns), religion (Christianity and Israel-Palestine), class (uncoupling ourselves from capitalism), the need for community education today (an online resource bank) and of course Blackness (#BlacknessIsTheIntersection).
They may make this a regular feature so follow + subscribe to stay locked in for future episodes. - Busayo Twins is a thought leader doing political content online, including her show "Everything is Political" (get us all to realize that there is politics in most things we talk about or engage in) and Political Intrusive Thoughts. Busyao has been involved in the London School of Economics (LSE) Students' Union as both president and general secretary (social mobility and outreach stuff), president of the African and Caribbean society at LSE, a strategic policy advisor at the Office for Students (working on closing attainment gaps), and community policy and strategy (at Black Curriculum), and most recently as strategic business development manager at ClearView Research (creating inclusive research). - Black World News Links
Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS
In this week's Black World News Kehinde Andrew has been looking at secondary schools for his son, Kadiri, which reminded him of how the schools are just prisons. He explains why some not all inner city secondary schools, with mostly Black and Brown kids, are just prisons designed to police mostly Black and Brown children. But the problem is the schools, not the kids because these schools are not a welcoming environment, the schools are not resolving things effectively and the schools not building relationships between children. Schools are historically designed like prisons and are designed by designers of prisons. To support this, Kehinde brings in and breaks down the concept of Total Institution popularised by White man sociologist, Erving Goffman.
It's important to overstand that schooling is not education, we can't rely on the schools to provide the education that Black children need. We also need community education so we are going to create a resource bank to offer an alternative curriculum for Saturday School and Black Education, please send in your resource links to mip@blackunity.org.uk and we'll create a Black education resource bank. Kehinde will talk more about schooling stuff in next week's podcast episode when he chops it up with Busayo Twins ("sharer of intrusive political thoughts"). - In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde and Nels Abbey (his second appearance on the pod) share their immediate reactions to Marieha Hussein's "Coconut Trial" verdict and circus (recorded during an IG live straight after the trial). We've also got Kehinde's audio from his speech at the protest during the two-day trial. - Nels Abbey is a British-Nigerian writer, media executive, and satirist. Before this, he worked as a banker. His debut book, “Think Like a White Man” was published in 2019. It contains satire of modern racial discourse and politics in the corporate world. It lays bare the rules by which mediocre White men get ahead. Nel's writings can be found in several major newspapers and magazines. His latest book, “Hip Hop MBA: what the Empires, moguls and Business of rap can teach the World” is out now. Nels is one of the co-founders of @blackwritersguild and a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. In addition to all of the above, @nelsabbey is a social and political commentator and can be seen contributing to debates on several major TV channels. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS
POLITICAL EDUCATION: ASSAULT ON BLACK THOUGHT + OUR DEFENSE, MARIEHA HUSSAIN'S "COCONUT TRIAL," KEHINDE'S POLICE PROBE - S2 EP11
13 Sep 2024
00:41:42
No official guests this week, instead Kehinde Andrews drops some POLITICAL EDUCATION and cracks these coconuts for us, keeping us sane in a racist world. He highlights two recent, related, and ongoing events: he's facing a "house negro" police probe and Marieha Hussain's current "coconut trial" (taking place at Westminister Magistrates Court yesterday and today).
Kehinde is facing a criminal investigation after the police came knocking on his door thanks to a complaint made by Black conservative commentator Calvin Robinson about a video posted earlier this year in which Kehinde called Calvin a "house negro." Marieha is a Brown woman charged with a hate crime over a satirical and political placard depicting former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and former home secretary Suela Braverman as coconuts during a pro-Palestinian rally last year.
Kehinde explains why we shouldn't be surprised at these charges, as there is precedent. He breaks down how the Race Relations Act came into law in England and Wales in 1965, and how 5 of the first 6 prosecutions in 1967, for racism under this legislation were against Black and Brown people. He underlines how from the very beginning, the British state was criminalizing us, by conflating prejudice with racism the law attacks prejudice. He concludes that the whole legal framework is the problem, quoting attorney and a co-founder of critical race theory (CRT), Derrick Bell "What we designate as “racial progress” is not a solution to that problem. It is a regeneration of the problem in a particularly perverse form." - POLITICAL EDUCATION LINKS
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS
No Country Has The Right To Exist: Israel-Palestine + A Black European Experience W/Helio (@JupiterBaal) - S2 EP14
04 Oct 2024
01:18:48
Nation States Don't Have Rights: Israel-Palestine + A Black European Experience W/Helio (@JupiterBaal) - S2 EP14
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In this week's Black Rant, @KehindeAndrews highlights how Whiteness is going to kill us all if Israel-Palestine takes us to the brink of World War 3, some mentions (links below) include Ta Nehisi Coates’s recent CBS interview about his new book 'The Message' + Kemi Badenoch’s "not all cultures are equal" comment.
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This week, Kehinde Andrews is joined by official guest Helio Figueiredo, aka @JupiterBaal. They chop it up about Israel-Palestine, White-washed Portuguese Black history, being a recovering "exceptional" negro, and more.
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Helio Figueiredo (@jupiterbaal) was born and raised in Portugal, he studied archaeology at the University of Coimbra. Following graduation, Helio left Portugal for London where Helio worked in finance (in due diligence, compliance, political exposure) for ten years in the City. In 2018 Helio left finance to work full time as an artist. Post George Flloyd (2020) Helio started talking on social media about policy, history, the queer experience and so much more.
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Listen Wherever You Get Podcasts
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HELIO'S FIGUEIREDO'S SOCIALS
(IG) @JupiterBall (TikTok) @JupiterBall
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OFFICIAL GUEST LINKS
Helio's Link Tree:
https://linktr.ee/Jupiterbaal
APOLODORUS, London founded by Helio + his partner:
https://apolodorus.com/pages/our-story
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THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
(Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK)
Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank
We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.
mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*)
On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone.
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included.
Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/
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Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
Dr Shola on "Racial Gatekeeper" Kemi Badenoch + Black Employment Month Special S2 EP16
18 Oct 2024
01:29:51
In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde Andrews (@KehindeAndrews) debunks the psychosis of Whiteness in the spirit of Black Employment Month. The arguments and myths are based on Kehinde's book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Rule the World: including Arab slavery in Afrika, why Britain really abolished the Atlantic Slave Trade (nothing to do with morals), not everything that's anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist is Marxist + more. - In this week's Official Guest Interview, Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu joins Kehinde Andrews to chop it up on Gaza, racial gatekeepers, Kemi "not bad enough" Badeoch and Kamala Harris potentially becoming the two first Black female heads of government supporting genocide + more.
DR. SHOLA’S MOS-SHOGBAMIMU SOCIALS LINKS
(IG) sholamos1 (X) SholaMos1 (TikTok) @sholamos1
BLACK POLITICAL RANT LINKS
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316672/the-new-age-of-empire-by-andrews-kehinde/9780141992365
Black activist threatened with ‘execution’ by British ‘Neo Nazi group’ in chilling letter https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/shola-mos-shogbamimu-death-threat-b2286089.html
Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone.
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
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Yomi Adegoke on "The List" + British Empire Legacy W/Chagos Islands "Return" - S2 EP15
11 Oct 2024
01:24:42
Yomi Adegoke on "The List" + British Empire Legacy W/Chagos Islands "Return" - S2 EP15
In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde Andrews talks about the positives and negatives of UK foreign secretary David Lammy announcing that Britain will be "returning" sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to the Mauritian government. Highlighting that the larger issue is that Britain and Empire continue to take Black and Brown lives through their legacies and violent presence in the world. For example, a UK-US military base on Diego Garcia (the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago) will remain under UK-US control. He also rants about Kemi Badenoch potentially becoming Britain's first Black Prime Minister after recently reaching the top 2 for the Tory leadership race.
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This week, official guest Yomi Adegoje joins Kehinde Andrews, they talk about her award-winning debut book The List. A novel about secret lives and lives online, including social media, relationships, sexual harassment in the media + more. Yomi shares the process of writing the book, pitching it to agents + more.
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Yomi Adegoke is a multi-award-winning author, broadcaster, and journalist who has a monthly column at The Guardian and is a contributing editor at Elle. In 2018 she co-authored the bestselling book Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible and was named one of the most influential people in London by the Evening Standard. In 2023, her instant Sunday Times bestselling debut novel The List was released and nominated for two British Book Awards.
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YOMI ADEGOKE SOCIALS
(IG) @yomi.adegoke (X) @yomiadegoke
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BLACK POLITICAL RANK LINKS
UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o
Foreign Secretary's statement on the Chagos Islands, 7 October 202:
Foreign Secretary's statement on the Chagos Islands, 7 October 2024 Foreign Secretary David Lammy gave a statement on the conclusion of negotiations on the exercise of sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory:
Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone.
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS
Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews (X) @kehinde_andrews Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk - For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ - Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
Kaba "The Negro" Vs Cop "The Good White Man" + LOATAD (BUF) S2 EP17
In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde (@Kehinde_Andrews) discusses how we understand Monday's not-guilty verdict of Sgt. Martyn Blake's trial, a White MET police marksman who killed an unarmed Black man, Chris Kaba in 2022. Kehinde links this to other cases of Black men killed by the police, to-date UK stats on police killings of Black people; and the relevance of Malcolm's concept of "The Negro" that's still with us today.
He makes plain that the racism of the police is the racism of the society. The police are as racist as the society allows them to be. We have the police force that society wants. The police, police with the consent of the racist society. The fears, prejudices, negative criminal stereotypical assessments, hallucinations, and "perceptual distortions" of the police are all features of the psychosis of Whiteness, a global phenomenon, that leads to our deaths.
In this week's Interview Kehinde talks with award-winning Sylvia Arthur (LOATAD founder) and Seth Avusuglo (LOATAD manager) from the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora Archive. They discuss the origin, mission, and development of LOATAD, the difficulty of getting Black books on the continent, the writing residencies + more.
The Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) is a decolonizing private library, archive, writing residency, research institute, and museum dedicated to the work of Afrikan and Diaspora writers from the late 19th century to the present day. Based in Accra, Ghana, it was founded by Sylvia Arthur in 2017 using 1300 of her own books. LOATAD’s current collection contains around 4000 books by writers from 41 of Africa’s 54 countries and Black authors from the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, and around the world. LOATAD's mission: to celebrate and champion Africa’s rarely acknowledged contribution to the global literary canon.
Schomburg Center to Display Never-Before-Seen ‘Lost’ Chapter of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Manuscript and Notes https://www.nypl.org/press/schomburg-center-display-never-seen-lost-chapter-autobiography-malcolm-x-manuscript-and-notes
"During the trial, the jury heard how [Martyn] Blake was from a middle-class background, a voracious reader who first worked in finance before joining the Met to escape a desk job." https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/21/what-we-now-know-about-the-13-seconds-before-chris-kaba-was-shot
Police footage shows moment Chris Kaba was shot by officer now acquitted of murder – video: https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2024/oct/21/police-footage-shows-moment-chris-kaba-was-shot-by-officer-now-acquitted-of-video
Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
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2024 US Election Special W/Renee Johnston: The Fox (Copmala) Vs The Wolf (Trump)? S2 EP18
31 Oct 2024
01:18:46
➡️WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMyfw36nts
Ahead of next week's US election, today's show is a deep dive into everything you need to know with views from our official guest, Renee Johnston.
Renee is a registered member, and committee chairperson of the Green Party of NJ; and weekly co-host of "Saturdays with Renee" on Black Liberation Media (formerly Black Power Media). She actively volunteers with several mutual aid and political organizations that focus on organizing educational opportunities to engage with people regarding abolition and other issues most impacting the material conditions of communities. Johnston is a former educator and union member for 20 years.
RENEE SOCIALS LINKS
(IG) @isyourlifebetter (X) @isyourlifebett1
RENEE GUEST LINKS
Is Your Life Better? (Renee on Substack) https://reneecj.substack.com/
Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/
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S2 Ep.24: Mailbag W/Kehinde Andrews: Jay-Z, Marcus Fakana and the role the Black academic EP24
14 Dec 2024
01:16:36
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This week Kehinde answers some mailbag questions from our listeners. Topics included the Jay-Z news, Lammy's response to the arrest of Marcus Fakana in Dubai, the role of Black academics and how we build Black solidarity. We also pay tribute to Nikki Giovanni
This is our final episode for 2024 and also the last episode in season 2 (S2) of the Make It Plain Podcast. Season 3 (S3) will be back next year. We are super grateful for your support, and we'll see you in 2025.
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CAP25/26 (Virtual/In-Person) - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - April 2026 (Everyone's Welcome*) The event was originally booked for May 2025 and has been postponed to April 2026 but will still occur in the Gambia. CAP25 will ideally take place as a virtual convention in preparation for CAP26.
On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
BUF - Black United Front This is a global directory of Black organizations. It will be hosted completely free of charge, so if you run a Black organization, please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
KEHINDE ANDREWS
Malcolm X Documentary Kehinde will film in New York on February 19, 20, and 21, 2025, around the 60th anniversary of Malcolm's assassination. The documentary will be about Malcolm's life and what Malcolm would say if he were here with us today. If you know any organizations or people Kehinde can talk to in New York for the documentary, please email mip@blackunity.org.uk. Thank you.
New Book Coming Out (01/05/2025): Nobody Can Give You Freedom The Real Mission of Malcolm X https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460078/nobody-can-give-you-freedom-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241681176
MIP SOCIALS LINK
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End of year review w/Co-host Busayo Twins S2 EP23
05 Dec 2024
01:13:13
👉🏿 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/bdhvMOBaq6c?si=t3iBJjVuo6fUaO7q
As we wrap up 2024, Kehinde Andrews links up with co-host Busayo Twins to share their views of this year's headline events and stories as they relate to us.
For this special feature, Busayo will be a regular cohost with Kehinde, where they chop it up about the politics of the day, highlighting the news of the day and underlining their relevance to our communities. We need a name for this special feature so please send in your ideas and any questions for our hosts' next show through our socials channel or please email mip@blackunity.org.uk and we'll consider them.
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Busayo Twins is a thought leader doing political content online, including her show "Everything is Political" (get us all to realize that there is politics in most things we talk about or engage in) and Political Intrusive Thoughts. Busyao has been involved in the London School of Economics (LSE) Students' Union as both president and general secretary (social mobility and outreach stuff), president of the African and Caribbean Society at LSE, a strategic policy advisor at the Office for Students (working on closing attainment gaps), and community policy and strategy (at Black Curriculum), and most recently as strategic business development manager at ClearView Research (creating inclusive research).
BUSAYO SOCIALS LINKS
(IG) @busayotwins (TikTok) @busayotwins
SHOW LINKS
Katt Williams on Diddy, Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly And Michael Jackson | CLUB SHAY SHAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFNUPFRW_o
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31071.Martin_and_Malcolm_and_America
Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
MIP SOCIALS LINK
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The Black Curriculum's Lavinya Stennett + RIP English Civil Rights Legend Paul Stephenson S2 EP22
29 Nov 2024
01:05:20
👉🏿 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC8g-wk0RIg&t=1s
In this week's Black World News Kai discusses the news of Paul Stephenson's passing earlier this month. Paul was a civil rights legend in the UK and a great example of a Black historical figure who should to be on the curriculum. Talking of the curriculum, this week's official guest interview is with Lavinya Stennett, founder and CEO of The Black Curriculum (aka TBC). They discuss her important work and her important new book ‘Omitted‘ (OUT NEXT YEAR: Feb 13, 2025), which dives into popular misconceptions about Black history, and asks why education still hasn’t changed, even in schools now. Lavinya makes plain some of TBC's challenges when working with institutions and sponsors, the impact of TBC, and whether the curriculum will ever change.
Lavinya is a writer, author, founder & director of TBC. Having graduated with a BA in African Studies and Development from SOAS University, London in 2019, Lavinya was inspired by her learning and experience in New Zealand to set up TBC in 2019 aged 22. During university, she was engaged in student activism as the "Working Class Student Officer" and co-founded a society called Art and the African Mind, which aimed to promote and provide African-centred art and information as well as support for students. Continuing to engage in her love of writing, Lavinya published her dissertation which won the inaugural Walter Rodney Prize, and has written on social and cultural themes throughout the African diaspora for outlets including the Guardian, Black Ballad, and Quartz Africa.
TBC was co-founded in 2019 by Lavinya (CEO), Bethany Thompson, and Lisa Kennedy. TBC is a national movement and social enterprise that seeks to change the way Black history is engaged with by everyone. It works to ensure histories of Black people in Britain are integrated into schools and educational facilities. It was supported by Virgil Abloh who was a patron and continues to be supported by Edward Enninfull, David Olusoga, and Jade Bentil. Their work has made real-life differences including learning resources, introducing an accredited Black British history course and Lavinya continues to speak about it worldwide. For her efforts, she’s been awarded the Freedom to the City in London and MIPAD (Most Influential People of African Descent) in New York.
LAVINYA STENNETT + THE BLACK CURRICULUM SOCIALS LINKS
Paul Stephenson obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/22/paul-stephenson-obituary
Black Lives: Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/06/roy-hackett-the-civil-rights-hero-who-stood-in-front-of-a-bus-and-changed-britain-for-ever
Interview: Guy Reid-Bailey: the man who sparked the Bristol bus boycott and then fought to desegregate housing https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/guy-reid-bailey-the-man-who-sparked-the-bristol-bus-boycott-and-then-fought-to-desegregate-housing
Black Lives: Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/01/paul-stephenson-the-hero-who-refused-to-leave-a-pub-and-helped-desegregate-britain
'War is madness': Steve McQueen and Saoirse Ronan on Britishness, trauma and new drama Blitz https://www.bigissue.com/culture/film/blitz-steve-mcqueen-saoirse-ronan-interview-war-britain/
LIMITED EDITION HARDBACK Memoirs Of A Black Englishman https://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/shop/pre-order-memoirs-of-a-black-englishman-limited-edition-hardback
OFFICIAL GUEST LINKS
The Black Curriculum https://theblackcurriculum.com/
27 by Lavinya Stennett 27 a poetry collection about cultural rebirths, the cycles of life and a new future https://www.lavinyastennett.co.uk/p27/p/ryua6j4gsjfzev4xot3za0u7a6v1i5
Fourth Estate lands Stennett's debut book on Black history https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/4th-estate-lands-stennetts-debut-book-black-history-1266800
Lavinya's Most Influential People of African Descent Award https://blog.mipad.org/lavinya-stennett/
Lavinya awarded the Freedom of the City https://www.instagram.com/gottabelavin_ya/p/DBtX13jIC5e/?img_index=1
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Make It Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make It Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
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"NO SUCH THING AS A RACIST" Political Education W/Kehinde Andrews S2 EP21
22 Nov 2024
00:50:43
👉🏿 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y34bkZeNBQg
"There's No Such Thing as a Racist, There is Racism" - Kehinde Andrews
No guest this week, instead listen in for a Political Education feature from Kehinde Andrews (@Kehinde_Andrews). He highlights the difference between racially prejudiced people and racism, between individual racists and structural racism. "Racism is always systemic," says Kehinde, and if we don't get this we then misdiagnose the problem and come up with the wrong solutions like representation and DEI eg tackling racism in UK club football, and the achievement gap in UK and US higher education. It gets us nowhere.
With money from the book Kehinde's also filming in New York on February 19, 20, and 21, around the 60th anniversary of Malcolm's assassination. The doc-film is about Malcolm's life and what he would say if he were here with us today. He's filming for the doc in New York. If you know any organization or people Kehinde can talk to, for the documentary, please email mip@blackunity.org.uk. Thank you.
POLITICAL EDUCATION LINKS
Malcolm X's family sues NYPD, FBI, and CIA over assassination in $100 million lawsuit https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/malcolm-x-family-lawsuit-nypd-fbi-cia/
It’s coming home? Racism is home https://make-it-plain.org/2021/07/12/its-coming-home-racism-is-home/
JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
Make It Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make It Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
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"The Fight For Haiti" Film Interview w/Prod-Director Etant Dupain S2 EP20
14 Nov 2024
01:08:03
➡️WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_GTfGBU7Y0&t=3s
After Haiti got pawned in the US election Kehinde Andrews interviews Haitian-American filmmaker, Etant Dupain, about his new doc (film) "The Fight For Haiti." It tells the truth about the historical and current story around the Venezuelan PetriCaribe Oil Alliance scandal in Haiti. PetriCaribe was set up by former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez. A program for LAC countries (Haiti joined in 2006) to buy oil through a repayment plan for preferential prices, resell to its oil suppliers at international prices, and use the savings for development projects such as infrastructure, health care, and education. This was a chance for Haiti to invest in itself. However, billions of dollars from the fund were wasted, embezzled, and stolen by those entrusted with it, taking it from those who needed it most. The film amplifies the self-determined grassroots struggle of Haitian activists aka Petrochallengers, who put everything on the line to lead the fight against government corruption, impunity, and state-sanctioned violence. It also follows how politicians and oligarchs have attempted to use gangs to destroy the popular movement.
Etant Dupain is a journalist and filmmaker. Etant founded an alternative media project in Haiti to enable citizen journalists to provide access to information in Haitian Creole for and about internally displaced people, aid accountability, and politics.
A FREE SCREENING of "The Fight For Haiti" will run next week (Nov 19) at the BLOC Cinema at Queen Mary's School of Law. Tickets are available on Eventbrite (link below) Etant will be there, go say hello.
Official Site + Trailers https://thefightforhaiti.com/
Free Screening of ‘The Fight for Haiti' & Live Q&A With Etant Dupain (When: Tuesday, 19 November at 6pm-8pm | Where: BLOC Cinema, Arts One Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-screening-of-the-fight-for-haiti-live-qa-with-etant-dupain-tickets-1037802504227
The Fight For Haiti Review: "Opinion: Hate against Haitian immigrants ignores how US politics pushed them here" https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/10/02/trump-vance-lie-haitian-immigrants-fight-for-haiti/75408449007/
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Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain. mip@blackunity.org.uk
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
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US 2024 Election Aftermath: Special Feature w/Co-host Busayo Twins S2 EP19
07 Nov 2024
01:11:06
After the US election this week, today's show host, Kehinde Andrews, links up with co-host Busayo Twins to weather this gloomy political climate and share some optimism for the future.
For this special feature, Busayo will be a regular cohost with Kehinde, where they chop it up about the politics of the day, highlighting the issues that matter and underlining their specific relevance to Black communities.
We need a name for this special feature so please send in your ideas and any questions for our hosts' next show through our socials channel or please email mip@blackunity.org.uk and we'll consider them. Thank YOU.
Busayo Twins is a thought leader doing political content online, including her show "Everything is Political" (get us all to realize that there is politics in most things we talk about or engage in) and Political Intrusive Thoughts. Busyao has been involved in the London School of Economics (LSE) Students' Union as both president and general secretary (social mobility and outreach stuff), president of the African and Caribbean Society at LSE, a strategic policy advisor at the Office for Students (working on closing attainment gaps), and community policy and strategy (at Black Curriculum), and most recently as strategic business development manager at ClearView Research (creating inclusive research).
Operation Black Vote: Statement On Election of Kemi Badenoch to Leader of the Opposition https://www.obv.org.uk/blog-post/statement-on-election-of-kemi-badenoch-to-leader-of-the-opposition
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CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
*On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"
BUF - Black United Front Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
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