Time For An Awakening

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 10/06/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests was Activist, Reparations Organizer, Director of Reparations United, Kamm Howard, and Chief of Staff of Afrodescendant Nation, Tamara (Achoti) Singleton. The National Reparations Strategy Call to Action Meeting on Oct 11, 2024, with over 30 organizations participating, also updated progress on the National Reparations Plebiscite, and other information dealing with repair was shared by our guests on the program, Tamara (Achoti) Singleton and Kamm Howard. As always, conversation on topics that affect Black people locally, nationally, and internationally

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 9/29/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) “OPEN FORUM SUNDAY EDITION” Black America, Reparations, Free Speech, and Project 2025, all came together as part of the discussion in open forum. Always topics that affect Black people locally, nationally, and internationally. Information, insights, and dialogue from a Black Perspective.

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro. Elliott & Bro.Richard , Sunday 09/15/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) our guest was Activist, Organizer, Vice President of the Los Angeles Reparations Advisory Commission, President and Co-Facilitator of the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants, Khansa Jones-Muhammad. Sister Jones-Muhammad shared information about the California Black Caucus blockage of key reparations bills and the community response to the failure of Black Leadership. Also conversation with our guest on the continued fight for Reparations and Repair, the challenges facing Black Californians, and some direct action strategies to move forward. https://youtu.be/ISKLKACletE?si=SZ78fnh0pUSL6hA4

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 9/1/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST)guest was Author, Historian, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the Univ. of Houston, Dr. Gerald Horne. The discussion centered around Dr. Horne's new book "Armed Struggle?", and how the struggle continues in the present day. Also, open forum discussion on topics that affect Black People locally, nationally, and internationally.

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro. Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 08/25/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) our guest was Activist, National Black Farmers Association Program Director, Mrs. Kara Boyd After decades of protests, numerous failed Congressional bills, and dozens of lawsuits, Black farmers will receive payment from the $2.2 Billion Discrimination Financial Assistance Program from the Biden Administration, Mrs. Kara Boyd gave us an update. Also conversation with our guest on the continued fight against racist policies in USDA, the challenges facing Black farmers, and some strategies to move forward. In the second half of the program, Open Forum conversation on topics that affect Black people locally, nationally, and internationally.

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 08/11/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Activist, Los Angeles Radio Talk show contributor on KBLA 1580, Award-winning Investigative Journalist for the LA Progressive, Mr. James Farr. We centered the discussion around politics, from a Black perspective, in a solution-focused conversation wrapped around social and restorative justice with "Conversation Live " host, James Farr.

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro. Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 07/28/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests was Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, Economics, and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, Dr. William A. (Sandy) Darity Jr., and Writer, Folklorist, founder/ director of the arts consulting practice Artefactual, A. Kirsten Mullen. The conversation centered around Reparations Movements going on all around the country, with the writers of a blueprint to achieve reparations for the enslavement of our ancestors and the existing damage to our people, " From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century" Vol 1&2, by Dr. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen. In part two of the program our guest was Activist, Organizer, Former New York City Assemblyman & Councilman representing 42nd district, and Co-Founder of Operation POWER, Charles Barron. Politics, and the upcoming election from a Black Radical perspective, was the hot topic with our guest Charles Barron. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671208/from-here-to-equality-second-edition/https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520409828/the-black-reparations-project

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 7/21/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Journalist, Author, and former Research Fellow and scholar in residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the NY Public Library, Dr. Arun Kundnami. The discussion centered around the upcoming book " I Rise In Fire", about the life and struggle of our Elder and incarcerated Political Prisoner, Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) written by our guest, Dr. Arun Kundnami.

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro. Richard, Sunday 7/14/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guests was Activist, Organizer, President, Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association-Memphis, Thomas Burrell. Mr. Burrell updated the listeners on the BFAA-organized gatherings and meetings of Black Farmers and Landowners, and the recent June 28th U. S. Supreme Court's ruling in the "Chevron Deference Doctrine," which could benefit Black Farmers in their discrimination lawsuit against the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Hear about this and other information from the President of BFAA-Memphis, Mr. Thomas Burrell.

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 7/08/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) “OPEN FORUM SUNDAY EDITION” Political Pandering to Black Voters by using Black Media, was part of the discussion in open forum. Always topics that effect Black people locally, nationally, internationally. Information, insights and dialogue from a Black Perspective.

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro. Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 6/30/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) “OPEN FORUM SUNDAY EDITION” . VP Kamala Harris comments at the 100 Black Men Conference 6-16-24, was part of the discussion in open forum. Always topics that effect Black people locally, nationally, internationally. Information, insights and dialogue from a Black Perspective.

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 6/23/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Activist, Organizer, Documentary Film Maker, Author, Chief Egunwale Amusan. Our guest and the author of the book "America's Black Wall Street The Untold Story of Broken Treaties, Black Resistance, Political Fear, and Sacred Ground" reflected on the blow delivered by the Oklahoma courts to our remaining surviving elders of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and also to Blacks in America. The discussion will centered around this, and how we should move forward with our guest, Chief Egunwale Amusan.

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Sunday 6/16/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Author, Professional Basketball Player, and President of both The National Reparations League & Florida Black Wall Street, Rashaad Singleton. Our guest shared with us his work as President of the National Reparations League with the sole purpose of uniting our people across the country to fight and demand reparations for the descendants of our enslaved ancestors. Also, his work in unified collaboration with the Afrodescendant Nation in this fight, and other topics will be part of our discussion with our guest, Rashaad Singelton.

“Time for an Awakening” with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard, Friday 06/14/2024 at 8:00 PM (EST) ”Freestyle Friday Edition”. The N.Y. City 16th District race and Jamaal Bowman was one of the subjects discussed, and joining us was N.Y. City activist Clifton Abrams. This was part of the open forum discussion. Also conversation the weeks topics that effect Black People locally, nationally and internationally. Information, insights and dialogue from a Black Perspective. https://blackwestchester.com/aipacs-controversial-funding-strategy-targets-first-black-congressman-in-cd-16

"Time for an Awakening" with Bro.Elliott & Bro.Richard for Sunday 6/09/2024 at 7:00 PM (EST) guest was Psychotherapist, Author, and retired Chief Psychologist for the Prisons in Philadelphia, PA., Dr. Carlton Payne. Can Negative Rap Music and Videos be harmful to the minds of Black Youth? This and other topics was part of the discussion with our guest, Dr. Carlton Payne. Always Information, insights, and dialogue from a Black Perspective.