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
Release Date: 07/05/2024
What Would Malcolm Say About...Electoral Politics? + Full Interview Dr Jared A. Bal
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Final episode in a special series of the Make it Plain podcast, ‘What Would Malcolm Say?’ where Kehinde Andrews explains what Malcolm’s body of work tells us about what is going on in the present. Each episode will also feature a full interview with someone featured in the documentary 'Nobody Can Give You Freedom', which was independently made by Make it Plain. You can watch the entire documentary for free at Film was made by @MichaelEllisFilms To close out the mini-series Kehinde reflects on his experience at the asks, ‘What Would Malcolm Say About… Electoral Politics’. With...
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What Would Malcolm Say About...Reparations? Plus full interview with Dr Olivia Rutazibwa
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Fifth episode in a special series of the Make it Plain podcast, ‘What Would Malcolm Say?’ where Kehinde Andrews explains what Malcolm’s body of work tells us about what is going on in the present. Each episode will also feature a full interview with someone featured in the documentary 'Nobody Can Give You Freedom', which was independently made by Make it Plain. You can watch the entire documentary for free at Film was made by @MichaelEllisFilms With Jamaica calling on King Charles to support reparations, Kehinde explains what Malcolm would say about the reparatory justice movement...
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What Would Malcolm Say...about Diddy? Plus full interview with Sayce Holmes-Lewis from Mentivity
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Fourth episode in a special series of the Make it Plain podcast, ‘What Would Malcolm Say?’ where Kehinde Andrews explains what Malcolm’s body of work tells us about what is going on in the present. Each episode will also feature a full interview with someone featured in the documentary 'Nobody Can Give You Freedom', which was independently made by Make it Plain. You can watch the entire documentary for free at Film was made by Michael Ellis Films This week Kehinde breaks down what Malcolm would say about Diddy, Tyler Perry, R-Kelley, Cosby and all the other accusations of sexual abuse...
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What Would Malcolm Say...about Palestine? Plus Kehinde's parents on British Black Power
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Third episode in a special series of the Make it Plain podcast, ‘What Would Malcolm Say?’ where Kehinde Andrews explains what Malcolm’s body of work tells us about what is going on in the present. Each episode will also feature a full interview with someone featured in the documentary 'Nobody Can Give You Freedom', which was independently made by Make it Plain. You can watch the entire documentary for free at Film was made by Michael Ellis Films This week Kehinde introduces the episode wishing all the Black fathers out there a Happy Fathers day. Despite the stereotypes research shows we...
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What Would Malcolm Say? ep.2: George the Poet + Ibrahim Traore is the anti-Mandela
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Second episode in a special series of the Make it Plain podcast, ‘What Would Malcolm Say?’ where Kehinde Andrews explains what Malcolm’s body of work tells us about what is going on in the present. Each episode will also feature a full interview with someone featured in the documentary 'Nobody Can Give You Freedom', which was independently made by Make it Plain. You can watch the entire documentary for free at Film was made by Michael Ellis Films This week Kehinde introduces the episode talking about Ibrahim Traore and the importance of building a Black united front to support radical...
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Ep.1 What Would Malcolm Say? With Dr Ilyasah Shabazz
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First episode in a special series of the Make it Plain podcast, ‘What Would Malcolm Say?’ where Kehinde Andrews explains what Malcolm’s body of work tells us about what is going on in the present. Each episode will also feature a full interview with some featured in the documentary Nobody Can Give You Freedom, which was independently made by Make it Plain. You can watch the entire documentary for free at Film was made by Michael Ellis Films This week Kehinde introduces the series and starts off getting a few things off his chest since it has been a while since he did...
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S2 Ep.24: Mailbag W/Kehinde Andrews: Jay-Z, Marcus Fakana and the role the Black academic EP24
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👉🏿 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO OF THE EPISODE: 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. JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS...
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End of year review w/Co-host Busayo Twins S2 EP23
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👉🏿 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...
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The Black Curriculum's Lavinya Stennett + RIP English Civil Rights Legend Paul Stephenson S2 EP22
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👉🏿 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...
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"NO SUCH THING AS A RACIST" Political Education W/Kehinde Andrews S2 EP21
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👉🏿 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,...
info_outlineIn 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).
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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.
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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).
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BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
"All eyes on Kongo" image
https://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2024-05/31/thumb/featurecrop/600X300/1717159665-9211.jpg
"All eyes on Rafah" image tweet
https://x.com/Shayan86/status/1795789706501787707
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GUEST LINKS
Dr. CBS
https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/
Dr. CBS
Five Walter Rodney Quotes I Love
https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/blog/8-five-walter-rodney-quotes-i-love
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
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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.
From the growling wolf to the smiling fox
"Malcolm already warned us of the dangers of running from the clutches of the wolf into the arms of the smiling fox."
https://make-it-plain.org/2020/11/07/from-the-growling-wolf-to-the-smiling-fox/
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