Burning Spear Media hosts a weekly news podcast that sums up pressing issues and the day's top headlines using the theory of African Internationalism. Discussing a range of topics with dynamic guests, such as Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Deputy Chair Ona Zené Yeshitela and so many more. A podcast that's more than a listening experience, it's a mobilizing discussion and call-to-action.
Uhuru 3 Legal Wins, the People vs ICE and Epstein - One Africa Worldview Ep. 30
Hosts Dr. Mariah and Solyana Bekele of The One Africa Worldview podcast are back with season 4 – all new episodes, summing up the world situation through the African Internationalist perspective. Episode 30 provides updates on the case of the Uhuru 3, analysis on Minneapolis and the struggles with ICE, Epstein files and more with special guest, our leadership, Chairman Omali Yeshitela!
27 Feb 2025
While they say cut DEI, we say build Black Community Control of Education
In this episode of Black Power Talks, we explore “Black Education and the Struggle for Anti-Colonial Free Speech.”
Upon his return to office, United States President Donald J. Trump amplified the attacks against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. His administration has renamed institutions for confederate figures and overturned previous diversity initiatives inside government employment. President Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from educational institutions with DEI programming. This is the fourth and most intense wave of attacks against African-led education initiatives in recent years.
As DEI initiatives, Critical Race Theory and Black Studies come under attack, today’s guests agree the solution is to build power in the hands of the African community, to struggle for Black Community Control of Education. The speakers make the appeal for African students, intellectuals and culture workers to become African working class intellectuals; to actively use their knowledge and intellectual abilities to challenge colonial capitalism. The martyred Black Studies scholar Walter Rodney defined this as the process of being “grounded” and called such people “guerilla intellectuals.”
On this episode, we are joined by:
Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party
Betty Davis, Chair of the Black is Back Coalition Education Working Group. Sister Betty is a veteran of the Ocean Hill Brownsville struggle.
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University, author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
Dr. Robin Kelley, Professor of History at UCLA author of many books including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Race Rebels and Our History Has Always Been Contraband
Dr. Yusef Doucet, poet, english professor co-leader of the JOKO Collective
This episode is the outgrowth a June 2024 webinar that was co-sponsored by the Hands Off Uhuru Fightback Coalition and the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations and co-hosted by myself, Dr. Matsemela Odom and Mwezi Odom, Secretary General of the African People’s Socialist Party and Chair of the Hands Off Uhuru Fight Back Coalition.
The complete webinar can be found at The Burning Spear TV Youtube Page.
Black Power Talks is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida.
21 Feb 2024
February 21st is African Martyrs Day!
On this episode of Black Power Talks, we observe African Martyrs Day. At the first Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party in September 1981, APSP designated February 21 as “The Day of the African Martyr.” Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 by agents of United States repression and counterinsurgency.
Amidst the historical importance of the Hands Off Uhuru Hands Off Africa counteroffensive that we have waged, this year’s African Martyrs Day takes on an even deeper significance.
We hear excerpts from a webinar organized by the Hands Off Uhuru Hands Off Africa Defense Campaign, “Long Live Our Fallen Warriors - Day of the African Martyr”. In this episode we hear from:
Akile Anai, Director of Media and Communications for the African People’s Socialist Party
Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary General of the African Socialist International
Tafari Mugeri Director of Organization for the ASI Africa Region
Jalil Muntaqim, former political prisoner and veteran of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
And Chairman Omali Yeshitela, head of the Uhuru Movement
To view the entire webinar, visit The Burning Spear TV Youtube Page or the HandsOff Uhuru Facebook page.
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 Solyana Bekele, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.
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