Our Common Ground With Janice Graham

Creating Sustainability and Self-Determining Communities Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson.Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson. CONFERENCE: "Black Power, Black Lives & Pan-Africanism Conference: Honoring the Legacy & Building for a Self-Determining Future" We welcome Brother Akuno back to discuss this most important conference and community building. "Black Power, Black Lives & Pan-Africanism Conference: Honoring the Legacy & Building for a Self-Determining Future" Organized by Cooperation Jackson, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) Thursday, June 16 – Sunday, June 19, 2016 Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Democracy and Development, Jackson, MS BROACASTING BOLD BRAVE BLACK email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com OCG Facebook: facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO/

WORKING WHILE BLACK with Torin Ellis Guest: Torin Ellis, CEO, TorinEllis Brand Organizational Diversity and Inclusive Thought Leader RECRUITER and COACH Brainsharing withTorin Ellis     human capital #entrepreneur - true #diversity & #recruiting guru Success in the White Workplace  for Black Americans is hard. We are required to develop mental awareness, a psychological game plan, and an increased level of business savvy in order to negotiate the minefield of the white work world. Included are commonsense scenarios and real-life solutions that will help every black American evaluate his or her options—from getting hired to getting fired, from adjusting one's attitude to suing an employer. Getting the job, keeping the job and remainins sane and healthy. BROACASTING BOLD BRAVE   BLACK email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com OCG Facebook: facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO/ OUR COMMON GROUND Web: http://www.ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum  http://www.ourcommongroundtalk.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatM

April ReWind OPEN MIC #TalkthatMatters BROADCASTING  BRAVE   BOLD  & BLACK This month we covered a lot of important issues, including the death of  Check out the topic/issues we will have up, the ones we covered  and add those you want included below in the form below or via a link. HERE Listen & Call In Line: 347-838-9852  email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com OCG Facebook: facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO/ OUR COMMON GROUND Web: http://www.ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum  http://www.ourcommongroundtalk.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters  Visit OCG  Pinterest&Tumblr Pages  OCG YouTube Channel :  Subscribe to: "Scribbling Race on Common Ground" OCG Weekly News Summary: https://paper.li/JaniceOCG/

The Our Common Ground in·ter·loc·u·tors Tonight: Yvette Carnell, Dr. Tommy Carnell, Pascal Robert and Irami Osei-Frimpong   Just what does it mean when a Presidential candidate whips out a bottle of hot sauce from her purse to prove her superpowers?We ask:  What else is in that bag of trickery? UNFiltered Political analysis of Amerikka's landscape.  

"Hands Off Our Children: 300 Strong: Report from Field" Dr. Ruby Sales ED of SpiritHouse Project Dr. Sales returns to provide a report of this historice event discussed in early March. On March 18, 2016 Washington D.C., SpiritHouse Project led the first national public hearing of the 1000 black victims of state-sanctioned murders. Delivering coffins representing murdered children to members of Congress, the 300 Strong heard testimony from victim families. Dr. Sales returns to discuss this historic event and its importance. BROADCASTING BRAVE BOLDBLACK Listen & Call In Line: 347-838-9852  Saturday,April 16, 2016 10 pm ET LISTEN LIVE: BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Pinterest : http://www.pinterest.com/ocgmedia/boards/  Visit our Tumblr Page: http://ourcommonground.tumblr.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO "Speaking Truth to Power and OUR

"Truthtelling About the War on Drugs and Politics" OUR GUEST: Matthew Fogg, Former Former Chief Deputy U. S. Marshall and Special DEA Agent Whistleblower He was told by the DEA that there should be no drug enforcement in rich White areas. And he told. After leaving the force, Fogg spent his retirement advocating for greater protections for officers who expose internal corruption within law enforcement agencies. He advocates for the civil rights of citizens who are in fear of police misconduct and brutality. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Pinterest : http://www.pinterest.com/ocgmedia/boards/  Visit our Tumblr Page: http://ourcommonground.tumblr.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO "Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves"  email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com

OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT > Charter Schools: A Community Asset or Liability < Time for a Third Party in our Politics < Revisiting the Lessons of Ferguson, Baltimore   BROADCASTING BRAVE XXX BOLD XXX BLACK Listen & Call In Line: 347-838-9852  Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters Pinterest : http://www.pinterest.com/ocgmedia/boards/  Visit our Tumblr Page: http://ourcommonground.tumblr.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO "Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves"  email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com

"#FeelingtheBern"  Guest: Nina Turner, Former OH Senator, Bernie Sanders for President Spokesperson  She is a national spokesperson and surrogate in the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.  She is nationally known as a voice for voting rights, for workers' rights and for marginalized people.  She welcom her us once again on OUR COMMON GROUND. For More Information about this Episode BROADCASTING BRAVE XXX BOLD XXX BLACK  "Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves"  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO      Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters   email: OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com

"FlashBLACK: AmeriKKKa Making It Clear Again" OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT Co-Hosting, The Thought Merchant, Pascal Robert of Black Agenda Report BROADCASTING BOLD   BRAVE & BLACK FLASHBlack >>>In the midst of the most vitriolic political theater seen in our lifetime, we are looking up from the bottom of the well in a fog of schizophrenic confusion, one thing is clear - establishment politics is not an option.  FLASHBlack >>> Donald Trump is now being positioned as abnormal, not representative. How is his politics and behavior different from most of the sitting Congress? FLASHBlack >>> Just what is radical left Black politics and where does it live? Can we reconcile the progressive Black political witht he radical Black left? FLASHBlack >>> Black supporters of Hillary, are they just looking for love in all the wrong places or simply without facts? Web: http://ourcommonground.com/     Community Forum:  http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO "Spea

STOP THE WAR ON OUR CHILDREN™ • MARCH 18, 2016 Ruby N. Sales, Founder/Executive Director, The Spirit House Project STOP THE WAR ON OUR CHILDREN™ • MARCH 18, 2016 Join a delegation of 300 black women standing in a day of action for black children! Via Ruby Sales In schools and in the street, very powerful people profile, bully, criminalize, manhandle, and murder our children! We have been too silent for too long, and our children have had to face these assaults without the power of a community along with them. We demand that the country see our children as investments, not thugs. See the Demands This must stop! We say Stop The War On Our Children™!  ? Who: A Delegation of 300 BLACK WOMEN  ? What: A Day of Action for BLACK CHILDREN ? When: March 18, 2016  ? Where: Washington, D.C. ? What You Can Do: Become an Organizer and a Participant! Bring a delegation of ten women to D.C. to stand with us! ? Contact: Ruby Sales, SpiritHouse Project, at 404-228-7794 or info@spirithouseproject.org to become an

OPEN MIC SATURDAY NIGHT "Transforming TRUTH to POWER, One Broadcast At A Time" Featured Commentary: Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown; Pascal Robert, the Thought Merchant & Black Agenda Report will be us; Dr. Tommy J Curry, Texas A&M University    The Campaign and the Election Black Purging @MSNBC     Janice's AGENDA 2016 Presidential Election  The Candidates and the Campaigns Supreme Court Nomination Black Support Hilary v Bernie Voter Registration and Suppression MSNBC and the Whiteness of the News What is your agenda ? See below for all topic references. BROADCASTING BRAVE XXX BOLD XXX BLACK Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum:  http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters     Email:  OCGinfo@ourcommonground.com

Dr. Lester K. Spence, Author, "KNOCKING the HUSTLE:  Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics” Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University Listen & Call In Line: 347-838-9852  Neoliberalism is the greatest political sleight of our time. Knocking the Hustle makes it plain. Drawing from political economy and personal crisis, Spence diagnoses the economic pains and existential threats neoliberalism poses for Black lives (and all others) in urban America. Why? To help us convert truth to power to knock neoliberalism off its pedestal. ~Michael Leo Owens, Emory University, author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America In this provocative study, Lester Spence opens the conversation about how black politics and the black community have been affected by the market-driven logic of neoliberalism. BROADCASTING BOLD BRAVE & BLACK Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Join us on Facebook:  https://www.fa

"Scalia Found Dead"  Reformat of tonight's broadcast . . . In our 1st Page tonight, Pascal Robert, the “Thought Merchant” of BAR and Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown.org Joins us to talk about whtat theis means for the Obama Administration and the Race for the White House. "Bey and the Fishnet Revolution:  Giving the People What they Want" " . . . because I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black opposition was in any way progressive. Instead what I saw was the cultural power of neoliberal capitalism to co-opt opposition, monetize it and provide some mindless entertainment all at the same time.  I didn’t see opposition; I saw the imagery and symbols of authentic black radicalism grotesquely transformed into a de-politicized spectacle by gyrating, light-skinned booty-short-clad sisters."   - Ajamu Baraka, an OUR COMMON GROUND Voice is a human rights activist, organizer and geo-political analyst.  Baraka is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies

"Fixing OUR Politics: Bakerizing" Black elected officials are failing us. Federal, state and local public policy either eliminates us or suffocates us. We must fix our politics. Join us in exploring this crisis. Educate, agitate and organize.We must 'Bakerize'. Black citizens continue to suffer the absence of a strategic effective political infrastructure wherein education, organizing, caucus and activism can flourish to make a difference to eliminate a crushing disenfranchisement and political impotence.                                       OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham                                             Broadcasting BOLD BRAVE & BLACK OCG on the Web Community Forum Follow us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters

"Flint: Crimes Against Citizens"  LIVE and Call-In The question of who knew what and when is rendered impotent. The Governor, Municipal Administrator, state health officials and the EPA. THEY ALL KNEW ONE YEAR AGO. "Is it extreme to posit that local and state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency knowingly allowed the poisoning of tens of thousands of Flint residents? Perhaps. But it is irrefutable that they knew that residents – primarily African Americans and the working class – were drinking, bathing and cooking with poisonous water for six months before authorities warned them of risks. . . . EPA water expert, Miguel Del Toral, identified potential contamination problems with Flint’s drinking water last February " - OUR COMMON GROUND Voice, Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebeyo and Kevin Bender. The Guardian January 22, 2016 . OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham Broadcasting BOLD BRAVE & BLACK OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum: http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.co

"While We Slept: 1,126 Black Bodies in 2015" Guest Co-Host, Dr. Ruby Sales, Founder and Director, The SpiritHouse Project "All I wanted was someone to be held accountable,’ says Tamir Rice’s mother. ‘But this entire process was a charade." Did you sit it out until the justice system announced that there was a reasonable explanation to the murder of 12-year old Tamir Rice? Yeah, well most Black people did and now they are outraged. Who is Accountable ? Did we sleep through 1,126 police killings before we decided that it was about us?  Then there is the court and juries ? Applying two standards which favor the police.  What are the answers and what are the solutions? We pay tribute to Dr. Frances Cress Welsing who made her transition to become an honored Ancestor this morning as the sun rose. And remember, the legendary vocalist, Natalie Cole.   BROADCASTING  BOLD   BRAVE & BLACK Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIO  Web: http://ourcommonground.com/  Community Forum: http://www.ourcommo

30th ANNUAL OUR COMMON GROUND KWANZAA TEACH-IN Come celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa with serious study of the N’Guzo Saba with us. HABARI GANI? As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. The symbolic nature of the holiday has a profound significance  for African Americans and indeed, the world African community. it is imperative that an authoritative source and site be made available to give an accurate and expansive account of its origins, concepts, values, symbols and practice. Learn more about Kwanzaa and the N'Guzo Saba BROADCASTING   BOLD   BRAVE &    BLACK "Speaking Truth to Power and OURselves"  Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast at a Time Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode   OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum:  http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.c

Debt and Credit Scores:  Personal Economic Depression Can you imagine how your life would change if you had good credit? Or had a workable financial plan ?  Debt that overloads can cause financial distress and trauma. Life altering disaster which affects your children, partner or marriage.  Even your employment. Budgeting       Debt reduction    Credit repair   Establishing business credit and financials    Financial literacy Group coaching Learn those things you can do, without expensive professional assistance. Our Guest: Harrine E. Freeman Best-selling author of "How to Get out of Debt: Get An “A” Credit Rating for Free", a self-help book that provides consumers with a step by step plan on how to get out of debt, increase their credit rating, track their spending and plan for the future. Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode   OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum:  http://www.ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @JaniceOCG #TalkthatMatters

"Terrorism and Revolt: Connecting the Dots" A Conversation on Amerikka with Thought Merchant, Pascal Robert OUR GUEST:  Pascal Robert, Journalist, Political, Global Affairs and Historical Commentator Pascal Robert (pronounced Ro-Bear like Stephan Colbert) is: A Blogger who loves all things politics. SHEER political independent; unafraid to slay the most sacred cows of ideological orthodoxy from the Left, or the Right and one who enjoys global affairs and aspects of pop culture. In all ways he is a child of the Haitian Revolution. Pascal Robert has been known for years to the online world as THOUGHT MERCHANT. Since 2007 he has been recognized for his hard hitting, blunt unvarnished style of bringing attention to current events and global affairs, especially those affecting communities of color. He is featured in the Huffington Post, The Black Agenda Report and the Black Commentator Join us on FACEBOOK and Learn More abut this episode   OCG on the Web: http://ourcommonground.com/ Community Forum:  http

OUR COMMON GROUND  with Janice Graham REBROADCAST "Modern Day Enslavement: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE  TRAP" A Talk with Black Liberation Expositor  Professor Emeritus Vernellia Randall University of Dayton Law School, Dayton, OH Learn more about this Broadcast and Professor Randall           BROADCASTING    BOLD  BRAVE    BLACK "Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves" Email Us: OCGINFO@ourcommonground.com On the Web:  www.ourcommonground.com  Twitter: @JaniceOCG l Facebook: OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham l COMMUNITY FORUM l Website