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.
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they, first of all, strike down.
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…
We have a special program tonight featuring two incredibly active and powerful voices from guests who also happen to be New Abolitionists.
Muhiyyidin D’baha will be on shortly. He is a lead organizer in the Charleston, SC chapter of BLM, a social activists and an abolitionist. He’s on the ground and on location across America’s rebellion hot spots. He’ll be featured in an upcoming PBS documentary which tapes this weekend. Muhiyyidin and I have had some incredibly memorable experiences together over the past year and tonight he shares his insights with us and you.
Our second guest will be Christopher Irvin. Abolitionist, Social activist, human rights advocate, a lobbyist on behalf of post sentence prisoners’ rights and a City Council candidate in Baltimore. MD.
• We’ve also got a few big stories on our list and if time allows we’ll try and squeeze them in. Be sure to follow us in real time on our facebook page for links to the articles we’ll discuss.
• Here’s a few questions. What state did not even bother to ratify the flawed 13th amendment until 2013? What states longest running commissioner of prisons is in prison himself for using the entire states prison system as his own personal money maker? What state has had federal judges call their juvenile detention centers “Cesspools of unconstitutional violations?” The answer is Mississippi. Tonight we show that Mississippi is #Ferguson.
• This week’s Rider of the 21st Century Underground Railroad is 34-year-old Jarrett Adams who was incarcerated after a rape conviction in Wisconsin at 17. With help from the Wisconsin Innocence Project, Adams was exonerated after 10 years in prison.
• Our Abolitionist in profile is Anna Murray Douglass (1813-1882) who is best known as the first wife of black abolitionist Frederick Douglass.