8 PM EST - “The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” - Chinua Achebe
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7:00 PM EST - Max and Yusuf have been providing educational radio podcast content for the abolitionist movement since 2010. On 1/17/2021 we are joined by our former co-host Yohanan Elijah. We're also being syndicated on the Black Talk Radio Network courtesy of Scotty T Reid. In the midst of a national insurrection by white supremacists, these Veteran Abolitionist Witnesses come together for the first time in years to testify of what they have seen and discuss the bigger picture of then, now, and tomorrow.
Donald J. Trump has become the first POTUS to be impeached twice. While some pundits on both the left and right will claim that the first impeachment was a witch hunt, I disagree, Trump was absolutely guilty of the charges that a formal House inquiry found evidence that he had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony.
Donald Trump this morning is saying that he called off a strike against Iran because too many people would die. Yesterday Trump said that the shootdown of the US spy drone was possibly accidental.
It has finally happened! Cable news pundit and writer Charles Blow, in a debate with Republican Rick Santorum, introduced the 13th Amendment’s exception clause to his argument for reparations.
As the country continues to have conversations around reparations for African-Americans, some want to push back against the suggestion of any monetary payment but the fact is, reparations would act as stimulus packages and benefit the US economy. Let’s talk about these stories and more today on BTR News. Program notes.