//podcastplus.net/feed/our-common-ground-with-janice-graham~3af3e194 OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham ALTERNATIVE ∞ ACTIVIST ∞ PROGRESSIVE ∞ EMPOWERMENT TALK RADIO “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves” XX//^\u005CXXXX//^\u005CXX “Transforming Truth to POWER, ONE Broadcast At A Time” XX//^\u005CXXXX//^\u005CXX OUR COMMON GROUND explores and examines history and culture, the socio-economic and political issues and conditions of Black people in America. Discussion with our community, “speaking Black truths” toward the best of our collective interests. We present the best Black minds who work in our interests in the activist, non-profit, policy interest-research and the academy communities. Workers, thinkers and builders in in-depth discussions and on-going learning in the context of RACE, in HOPE and with COURAGE. A weekly symposium of ideas. A national weekly town hall. A Sanctuary. XX//^\u005CXXXX//^\u005CXX XX//^\u005CXXXX//^\u005CXX “Speaking Truth to Power and Ourselves”XX//^\u005CXXXX//^\u005CXX Broadcasting since 1985 XX//^\u005CXXXX//^\u005CXXFollow us on Twitter: @Janice OCG ∞ IG: https://www.instagram.com/sankofaocg/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OCGTALKRADIOI’m Janice Graham and I'll Be Listening for YOU !email: ocginfo@ourcommonground.com Mon, 04 May 2026 08:23:57 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/06/20/ocg-history-matters-broadcast--juneteenth-emancipation-of-the-us-slaves.mp3 ::: "Juneteenth: A Celebration of  the Emancipation of the Slaves" :::An OUR COMMON GROUND #HISTORYMATTERS SPECIALWe provide a history of the event and the celebration of Juneteenth as we celebrate its first year as a national holiday.Juneteenth is specifically a celebration of Black emancipation. Race-based chattel slavery intentionally ensnared people of African descent and labeled them as property. Juneteenth was made possible because of the courage and resilience of Black people who persistently fought for their liberation.  American Black freedom struggle is the central place in Juneteenth celebrations.Returning LIVE 6/26/21  "REPARATIONS: The Debt That Is Owed" Listen & Call-In Line: 347-838-9852"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCGJoin  our Exchange Community Sun, 20 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/06/20/ocg-history-matters-broadcast--juneteenth-emancipation-of-the-us-slaves.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/06/13/a-debt-that-is-owed-episode-2-reparations-the-paradigm-shift.mp3 ::: “Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed” :::An OUR COMMON GROUND Reparations Discussion SeriesEpisode #2: “Reparations: The Paradigm Shift”Examining the demand for reparations through many eras of Black Struggle: Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, the Black Power eras and Black Lives Matters protests.Guest: Dr. Rutledge M. Dennis, Sociologist, Anthropologist:  Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; expert scholar and author in the areas of urban politics, research methods in race and ethnicity, Black Intellectuals, W.E.B.Du Bois, the Black Middle Class, race and ethnic politics, comparative and theoretical approaches to race and ethnicity.What is the debt that is owed ?Listen & Call-In Line: 347-838-9852"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCGJoin  our Exchange Community Sun, 13 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/06/13/a-debt-that-is-owed-episode-2-reparations-the-paradigm-shift.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/06/06/the-debt-that-is-owed-reparations--the-descendants-of-us-chattel-slavery.mp3 Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed ::: Reparations SeriesEpisode #1:  "The Debt That Is Owed": Reparations  & the Descendants of US Chattel Slavery     Guest:  Dr. William "Sandy" Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen  Co-Authors, "From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century",A. Kirsten Mullen is a lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history, and politics; Darity Jr. is an American economist and researcher.The wealth of the United States was for the most part greatly enhanced by the exploitation of African American slave labor: some argue it is the bedrock for the U.S. economy and capitalism. However, former slaves and their descendants are among the poorest demographic in America. Accordingly, reparations would be valuable primarily as a way of correcting modern economic imbalances. The call for reparations has intensified in 2020. More injustices and discrimination have continued since slavery was outlawed in the US. Black communities and civil right... Sun, 06 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/06/06/the-debt-that-is-owed-reparations--the-descendants-of-us-chattel-slavery.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/05/30/the-tulsa-massacre-100-yrs-later-we-remember-as-to-never-forget.mp3 The Tulsa Massacre So that we never forget.Memorial Day marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence and domestic terrorism in U.S. history. When the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma — known as "Black Wall Street" — was burned and bombed to the ground by a white mob. An estimated 300 Black Americans, descendants of slavery were killed and over 1,000 injured. Whites in Tulsa actively suppressed the truth, and Blacks were intimidated by more violence into silence. But efforts to restore the horrific event to its rightful place in U.S. history are beginning this 100 years later. Black children of my generation were taught to know and never forget. Tulsa was not the only sight of violent pogroms attacking Blacks in that era.  Tonight, we teach the story of Tulsa.June 5, 2021, we begin our series "Reparations: The Debt That Is Owed" with guest, Dr. William J. "Sandy" Darity. Sun, 30 May 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/05/30/the-tulsa-massacre-100-yrs-later-we-remember-as-to-never-forget.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/05/23/black-in-americas-weimar-moment--our-common-ground.mp3 "Black in America's "Weimar" Moment"Pascal Robert ::: Co-Host, THIS IS REVOLUTION Podcast &OUR COMMON GROUND IN-TER-LOCU-TORSeventy-five years ago, Hitler came to power, ending the Weimar Republic. Did Germany's experiment with democracy between 1919 and 1933 ever stand a real chance? Is America at that same juncture and will democracy have more of a chance? We'll analyze the similarities in our current political environment."Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCGJoin  our Exchange Community Sun, 23 May 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/05/23/black-in-americas-weimar-moment--our-common-ground.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/05/16/ocg-when-we-stand-the-intersection-of-black-justice-wealth-and-health.mp3 "When We Stand: The Intersection of Black Justice, Wealth and Health"Guest: Malik Ali, CEO/Founder, Justice, Wealth and Health, SC JWH's  Mission is to save lives from Injustice, Poor Health, and Lack of Financial Wealth.             Marching has stopped             Protesting has stopped             Making the Next StandListen & Call-In Line: 347-838-9852"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCGJoin  our Exchange Community Sun, 16 May 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/05/16/ocg-when-we-stand-the-intersection-of-black-justice-wealth-and-health.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/05/02/black-hustlers-tap-dancing-and-soul-corrosion--the-matter-of-black-traitors.mp3 "Black Hustlers: Tap Dancing and Soul Corrosion”What Tim Scott did was not brave. It was not honest and it was not leadership. He lied to the American people on behalf of a Republican Party that neither values nor respects him. How does a Black man relieve himself of all dignity and his own history? What life experiences lend themselves to a man to renounce the truth about his Black experience and ally himself with racists who have no honor for his manhood?Listen & Call In Line: 347-838-9852"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCGJoin  our Exchange Community Sun, 02 May 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/05/02/black-hustlers-tap-dancing-and-soul-corrosion--the-matter-of-black-traitors.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/04/25/our-common-ground--in-conversation-with-efia-nwangaza.mp3 In Conversation with Efia NwanganzaPioneer Human Rights Activist :::  Pioneer Black Talk Host ::: Civil Rights AttorneyExec. Dir., Malcolm X Center, Greenville, SC"Black Truth on Black Justice"ABOUT EFIA NWANGANZAEfia Nwangaza is a lifelong civil/human rights activist and freedom fighter who first worked for the liberation of African/Black people as a child in her Garveyite parents' apostolic faith church, in her birthplace of Norfolk, Virginia. "The Chauvin Trial: Black Truth on Black Justice"It was a defense based on that Black people deserve to be murdered. The path that is drenched by the grief and tears of a people in their witness to this, not just injustice, but America's brand of Black justice."Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCGJoin  our Exchange Community Sun, 25 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/04/25/our-common-ground--in-conversation-with-efia-nwangaza.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/04/18/seeking-mercy.mp3 “Seeking Mercy"PodcastJanice will return on April 24, 2021 ::: LIVETonight, we offer discussions on criminal justice and the history of lynching with Bryan Stevenson. He is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a law professor at New York University School of Law.He's the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. He is the author of, "Just Mercy" More "Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCGJoin  our Exchange Community Sun, 18 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/04/18/seeking-mercy.mp3 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/03/14/our-common-ground-under-the-new-confederacy-can-there-be-any-justice.mp3 “Under the New Confederacy: Can There Be Any Justice?”One year later, we remember Breonna Taylor. We ask, can there be any kind of Justice in Amerikka in the "new Confederacy"? The Chauvin trial is underway. What do we expect and how much will we tolerate further?"Transforming Truth to Power, One Broadcast At a Time"To support OUR COMMON GROUND visit our website. Follow us on FB and Twitter #JaniceOCGJoin  our Exchange Community Sun, 14 Mar 2021 03:00:00 +0000 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ocg/2021/03/14/our-common-ground-under-the-new-confederacy-can-there-be-any-justice.mp3