On November 19, 2021, 18-year old Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges. Rittenhouse had been charged with two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, two counts of reckless endangerment, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, and one count of curfew violation following an incident August 25, 2020.
In a seeming contrast, the three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, an African jogger in Glynn County, Georgia were found guilty on November 24, 2021. On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, an avid jogger, was lynched by father and son George McMichael and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William Bryan.
We know that power in the hands of the African Working Class is the highest form of true justice and liberation, no colonial courts can give us this. In this episode, we will deepen the analysis of these differing judgements by hearing the words of various Uhuru Movement leaders Chairman Omali Yeshitela and President Kalambayi Andenet and speaking with Kobina Bantushango, the African People’s Socialist Party’s Southern Regional Representative. It is there that Kobina is organizing the Black People’s Court to take the African community from Protest to Power.
Black Power Talks is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Dexter Mlimwengu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.
The People’s War Radio Show, Episode #48: “Judas and the Black Messiah”, COINTELPRO and African martyrs, part2
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #47: "Judas and the Black Messiah", COINTELPRO and African martyrs, part 1
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #46: "How the streets were made", interview with Yelena Bailey
The People's War Radio show, Episode #45: African women organizing collective childcare and resisting the colonial state
The People's War radio show; Episode #44: African workers of the world unite and organize.
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #43: All eyes on Louisiana, Justice for Reverend Errol Victor
The People's War Radio Show, Episode#42: 60th anniversary of the assassination Congo's Patrice Lumumba
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #41: Celebrate Haitian Independence Day, Vive Ayiti!
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #40: 2020 year in review with Chairman Omali Yeshitela
The People's War radio show, Episode #39: Sinterklass & Zwarte Piet, Jim Crow minstrels, black face and falling statues
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #38: FBI war on today's black activists
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #37: 50 shots fired, 38 pierced the body of another black man killed by police in St. Petersburg, Florida
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #36: Give us the land! Hands off the Bethesda African Cemetery!
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #35: The "white people's State"- pilgrims, proud boys, police
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #34: Culture, the "war of ideas" and the Black Power movement
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #33: Philadelphia - democracy for who?
The People's War radio show, Episode #32: Land, water, police violence and Black Power in the French West Indies
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #31: #EndSARS: Necolonialism vs. a united socialist Africa
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #30: Video gaming, black representation and capitalist exploitation
The People's War Radio Show, Episode #29: Breonna Taylor, Mike Brown and the role of the grand jury in protecting the police
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