BLACK STUDIES AND BLACK WRITERS "FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS W/ SHANI AKILAH - S2 EP9
Release Date: 08/23/2024
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,...
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"The Fight For Haiti" Film Interview w/Prod-Director Etant Dupain S2 EP20
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➡️WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_GTfGBU7Y0&t=3s After Haiti got pawned in the US election Kehinde Andrews interviews Haitian-American filmmaker, Etant Dupain, about his new doc (film) "The Fight For Haiti." It tells the truth about the historical and current story around the Venezuelan PetriCaribe Oil Alliance scandal in Haiti. PetriCaribe was set up by former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez. A program for LAC countries (Haiti joined in 2006) to buy oil through a repayment plan for preferential prices, resell to its oil suppliers at international...
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US 2024 Election Aftermath: Special Feature w/Co-host Busayo Twins S2 EP19
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After the US election this week, today's show host, Kehinde Andrews, links up with co-host Busayo Twins to weather this gloomy political climate and share some optimism for the future. 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 issues that matter and underlining their specific relevance to Black 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 channel or please email [email protected] and...
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2024 US Election Special W/Renee Johnston: The Fox (Copmala) Vs The Wolf (Trump)? S2 EP18
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➡️WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMyfw36nts Ahead of next week's US election, today's show is a deep dive into everything you need to know with views from our official guest, Renee Johnston. Renee is a registered member, and committee chairperson of the Green Party of NJ; and weekly co-host of "Saturdays with Renee" on Black Liberation Media (formerly Black Power Media). She actively volunteers with several mutual aid and political organizations that focus on organizing educational opportunities to engage with people regarding abolition and other...
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Kaba "The Negro" Vs Cop "The Good White Man" + LOATAD (BUF) S2 EP17
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➡️JOIN THE STRUGGLE + BECOME A MEMBER OF THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY (HOBU): In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde (@Kehinde_Andrews) discusses how we understand Monday's not-guilty verdict of Sgt. Martyn Blake's trial, a White MET police marksman who killed an unarmed Black man, Chris Kaba in 2022. Kehinde links this to other cases of Black men killed by the police, to-date UK stats on police killings of Black people; and the relevance of Malcolm's concept of "The Negro" that's still with us today. He makes plain that the racism of the police is the racism of the...
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Dr Shola on "Racial Gatekeeper" Kemi Badenoch + Black Employment Month Special S2 EP16
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In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde Andrews (@KehindeAndrews) debunks the psychosis of Whiteness in the spirit of Black Employment Month. The arguments and myths are based on Kehinde's book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Rule the World: including Arab slavery in Afrika, why Britain really abolished the Atlantic Slave Trade (nothing to do with morals), not everything that's anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist is Marxist + more. - In this week's Official Guest Interview, Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu joins Kehinde Andrews to chop it up on Gaza, racial gatekeepers,...
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Yomi Adegoke on "The List" + British Empire Legacy W/Chagos Islands "Return" - S2 EP15
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<p>Yomi Adegoke on "The List" + British Empire Legacy W/Chagos Islands "Return" - S2 EP15<p> In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde Andrews talks about the positives and negatives of UK foreign secretary David Lammy announcing that Britain will be "returning" sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to the Mauritian government. Highlighting that the larger issue is that Britain and Empire continue to take Black and Brown lives through their legacies and violent presence in the world. For example, a UK-US military base on Diego...
info_outlineToday’s episode opens with Kehinde making the realities of Black studies in the UK plain. Despite winning an award for critical pedagogy, the undergraduate Black Studies degree at BCU is being discontinued due to low recruitment and financial constraints.
We are also joined by Shani Akilah, a Black British Caribbean writer and screenwriter from South London. She is a book influencer, co-founded the Nyah Network, a book club for Black women, and Shani has a Masters degree in African Studies from Oxford University.
Kehinde and Shani, author of short story collection “For Such a Time as This," discuss the book, her journey into writing, her creative process and how having academic parents inspired her career.
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GUEST LINKS
Website https://shaniakilah.com/
Twitter : https://x.com/_shaniakilah
IG: https://www.instagram.com/_shaniakilah/?hl=en
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THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
(Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK)
https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome)
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 [email protected] to be listed.
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SOCIALS
Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews (X) @kehinde_andrews
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Blog) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT)
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