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BTR News: “American History Is Black History” Stop Erasing Black People
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Malcolm X’s Daughter Wants Schools to Teach That “American History Is Also Black History”! The daughter of the slain human rights activist Malcolm X, Ilyasah…
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Abolition Today: Taking Liberties S2-E6
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We’re 2 days away from the 2/9/21 Abolish Slavery National Network Quarterly Meeting and one month post confederate insurrection. It’s all interconnected like a time rhyme but in this moment, the Abolitionist are writing the script.
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V2V: Using Street CRED To Cure Violence In Chicago
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Victims 2 Victorious or V2V is a weekly podcast that raises awareness about the public health issue of community gun violence. The host and special…
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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E21
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On this episode of Live From The Plantation, the prisoners have an update on Kinetic Justice the incarcerated abolitionist activist, victim of modern slavery and solitary confinement, a co-founder of the prisoner group Free Alabama Movement, a group that seeks to abolish slavery in the state of Alabama. Kinetic Justice was hospitalized after being attacked by staff of a Alabama state prison. The correction officers involved in the attack are currently on leave and prisoners say that an officer who carried out the vicious attack, Lt. Jenkins, has a long and sordid history of brutality and violence. Jenkins has been promoted several times during his tenure under Commissioner Dunn, showing a pattern of reward for brutality at Donaldson.
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BTR News: Is Hip Hop A Soul Destroying Weapon Against The Masses? w/ Author Bernard Creamer Jr.
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BTR News welcomes author and activist Bernard Creamer Jr. to the show to discuss his book “WHO STOLE THE SOUL? THE WEAPONIZATION OF HIP HOP A Historical & Sociological Perspective”.
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BTR News: Virginia Settles Two Solitary Confinement Lawsuits But Admit No Wrongdoing
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Solitary confinement has for a while now, deemed an inhumane practice by the medical community that recognizes that it inflicts psychological damage on a human being that can lead to irreversible mental trauma.
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BTR News: The Devil You Know & Black Power w/ Author & Columnist Charles Blow
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BTR News hosted by Scotty T. Reid will continue to examine the fallout from the insurrectionist white power grab by Donald Trump and his supporters…
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Abolition Today: A Lawless Land and The Oath-breakers Who Create it S2-E5
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Is it a lawless land? Has the constitution been so systemically violated that it’s become the supreme joke of the land? Has our rights ever…
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Police Brutality Film Maker Brutalized By Police Obtains Cam Video Months After Requests
Jacksonville, FL — Brittany Chrishawn (Williams), the award-winning police brutality filmmaker who was brutalized by police and left with broken teeth and permanent nerve damage,…
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BTR News: More Gaston County Residents Speak Out Against Pay To Protest Ordinance
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Gastonia, NC – It seems that a small rural county in North Carolina is gaining opposition to a proposed ordinance to require hundreds of dollars and fees and the personal information of any organizer in the county that calls for a protest. Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger worked with the Gaston County attorney Jonathan Sink to draft the ordinance and slip it in minutes before a scheduled county commissioner’s meeting. Protest were called at the last minute by the founder of the Gaston County Freedom Fighters to assemble at the courthouse to oppose the proposed “Pay To Protest” ordinance.
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LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E20
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When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our ‘colorblind’ society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure – the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.- Michelle Alexander
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Abolition Today: Historians Against Slavery S2-E4
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Our guest will be Professor Robert Chase. author of “We Are Not Slaves’ State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America”.
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BTR News: Gaston County North Carolina Commissioner Whitewashes Treason & Insurrection
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Gaston Commissioner Chad Brown recently did a live FB video which has been deleted but in which he was whitewashing Trump’s liability for the DC…
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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E19
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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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