Groundings is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. It's where the past meets the present, and political education happens. The title "Groundings" is in honor of the revolutionary educator Walter Rodney, whose concept of "groundings" as a form of radical, political, and communal education inspires the conversations on this podcast. Groundings: we sit, we listen, we talk, we share, and we learn.
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Groundings is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. It's where the past meets the present, and political education happens. The title "Groundings" is in honor of the revolutionary educator Walter Rodney, whose concept of "groundings" as a form of radical, political, and communal education inspires the conversations on this podcast. Groundings: we sit, we listen, we talk, we share, and we learn.
Leyla, taylor, and Dartricia are joined by Dr. Akinyele Umoja to talk about the book he co-edited, "The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity."
In this episode of RAP, Dartricia and Musa give a history of the New Jewel Movement and the Grenada Revolution and the U.S. Invasion and overthrow in 1983 under the Reagan Administration.
We are joined by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly to discuss her work on 'Black Scare, Red Scare,' examining the intertwined nature of anti-blackness and anti-communism in the U.S. legal and political order.
Community organizer and heritage interpreter Erica Veal discusses the Stono Rebellion, one of the most significant uprisings of enslaved Africans in U.S. history.
Confederate rallies at Stone Mountain, repression against activists by DHS, and an interview with ATL rapper and poet Khamansha Raphael about the importance of cultural work, hip-hop, and poetry.
First Revolutionary African Perspectives (RAP) program with all new hosts, talking about Bowen Homes, Andre Dickens' run for reelection, Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, and Cuba's initiative for sustainable power grid.
Professor Haruki Eda discusses the Korean struggle for sovereignty, the impact of U.S. imperialism on the Korean Peninsula, and the ongoing U.S. Out of Korea campaign by Nodutdol.
Dr. Gerald Horne discusses his new book, "Armed Struggle: Panthers and Communists, Black Nationalists and Liberals in southern California, Through the Sixties and Seventies"
Political organizer, community worker, and former political prisoner Jihad Abdulmumit discusses his life, and the Jericho Movement for Political Prisoners.
Palestinian prisoners and their courageous struggles, popular figure Walid Daqqa, and the importance of fighting for the liberation of Palestine are all discussed in this episode.
Organizer Hiram Rivera discusses the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, capitalist co-optation, and community organizing history with Erica Caines and Musa Springer.
The goat 🐐 himself Dr. Gerald Horne joins a special bonus episode discussing the current state of global politics, imperialism in crisis, the potential for a new multipolar world, and the rising fascism across the west.
Author and activist Nick Estes discusses the war waged by the U.S. government against the American Indian Movement, and the framing of political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
Groundings is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. It's where the past meets the present, and political education happens. The title "Groundings" is in honor of the revolutionary educator Walter Rodney, whose concept of "groundings" as a form of radical, political, and communal education inspires the conversations on this podcast. Groundings: we sit, we listen, we talk, we share, and we learn.
