If you are awarded a grammy, you are considered to be the best artist among your peers. The problem is, the Grammys is a white-dominated organization and while it has long "included" non-white people, specifically Black people in the music business, the industry continues to support, promote and reward music that is harmful to black people in general and black women and girls specifically.
Clippers star Paul George calls Thursday’s game vs. Wizards a ‘must-win’? Source says contract talks between Cowboys, Dak Prescott are ‘more productive than they have…
On this last day of Black History Month, our guest is Mark Hughes. The activist behind Vermont’s campaign to end constitutional slavery in their state.…
Join us for a conversation from behind the walls and bars of America’s prison slavery system as victims discuss the inhumane conditions affecting millions of…
Join BTR News in conversation about Black men's health and their high instances of developing prostate cancers. 1 out of 7 Black men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. What can we do to lessen our risks? Two African American doctors, Dr. Bullock and Dr. Hall will be part of this discussion.
Our guest today is the intelligent, free-spoken, and powerful Queen J going by the handle J_Elevates on Instagram and Telegram. Her social media feeds have…
On the 126th anniversary of his passing, Kenneth will join Max and Yusuf Sunday, February the 21st on Abolition Today for a discussion on the modern abolitionist movement. We'll also hear from Jamilia Land of California's ACA3 bill to abolish slavery and Spoken Word Icon Cola Rum.
This week for Black History Month, MPowered Studios Special Guest Host J-Bella, interviews Founder and CEO of the S.E.E.D. Initiative and of MPowered Productions LLC, Frank Moseley II. It’s the interview…
Louisiana sheriff deputy and 43 yr old US Veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Clyde Kerr III killed himself because he could no longer serve an evil system.
BTR News = Republicans in an attempt to derail US Congressional hearings on establishing an HR 40 commission to study the issue of the impacts of racially based slavery, human trafficking, and exclusionary public policies on Black Americans.
BTR News - Rush Limbaugh is dead after a long battle with cancer which is ironic considering he was a toxic cancerous news talk radio host spreading hate all across the radio airwaves in the United States. However, Limbaugh's brand of toxic racist radio programming motivated the founder of Black Talk Radio Network to get into digital radio broadcasting.
Tuesday, February 16th 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Kelly J Baker. An writer, researcher, mother and White Woman, Baker is editor…
BTR News - As people in the media sphere debate what role financial insecurity may have played on Jan 6, 2021 insurrection and the coup attempt by white Trump supporters, the pressures of financial insecurity is why some African-Americans, a very small minority, support the former POTUS.
We started this conversation about nothing but love but we let it roll into a conversation about our approach. How you approach a man or woman sets the tone for where the first meeting may lead.
On February 9th, 2021 over zoom, the Abolish Slavery National Network held its 1st Quarterly meeting of the year which was attended by dignitaries and representatives nationwide.
Special guest David Bey from Rise Up RVA joins the discussion as we discuss the roots and origin of race and how it has divided the culture and what we can do to get Back In the Black.
THANK THE YOU, THE INDIVIDUAL PRODUCING JUSTICE, GUARANTEEING THAT NO ONE IS MISTREATED, GUARANTEEING THAT WHO NEEDS HELP THE MOST RECEIVES THE MOST CONSTRUCTIVE HELP…
3 US Senators who are supposed to be impartial jurors during Trump’s impeachment trial, met with Trump’s defense team in secret. This highly inappropriate attempt…
• Keeping you up to date on a story we’ve been reporting. 6 Corrupt Philly cops who spent decades as narcotics agents, raiding the homes of non-violent offenders, assaulting them, kidnapping them, robbing them and in some cases even killing them, have not only have they been acquitted on all charges but they get to ride in Bentleys during a hero policeman’s parade through Philadelphia.
• During the recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) which takes place every four years to scrutinize the human and civil rights practices of each of the UN’s 193 member nations. Delegates from a majority 117 countries denounced and decried the US’ record of civil rights violations exacted by its brutal and racist police forces.
• With the recent video revelations regarding the police murder of Jamil Murray a news team has uncovered ‘Disturbing’ patterns and practices found in unprecedented look at 250 police-involved shootings. One of every four people shot at over the past 15 years was unarmed, for example. More than one-third were black. All of this prefaces a growing concern that Palm Beach County could be the next city to erupt and implode.
• After finding out that Georgia doesn’t require magistrates to have any kind of legal education in order to become judges I started digging deeper with a little help from my friends and what I found is a clear and present danger of national epidemic proportions. I’ll explain tonight.
• A pregnant woman abused and arrested. People being shot and killed while unarmed. There are dozens of stories like this rearing their ugliness every day in growing numbers. We’ll cover as many as we can.
• This week’s Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is Eddie James Lowery, who was convicted in a 1981 rape of a 74-year old woman, while he was a soldier at Fort Riley. Decades later, DNA evidence showed he did not commit the crime.
• Our Abolitionist in profile is José Antonio Aponte, died April 9, 1812. Abolitionist, military officer and carpenter of Yoruba origin who organized one of the largest slave conspiracies in his time, known as the Aponte Conspiracy of 1812.