Make It Plain Podcast

👉🏿 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO OF THE EPISODE:  This week Kehinde answers some mailbag questions from our listeners. Topics included the Jay-Z news, Lammy's response to the arrest of Marcus Fakana in Dubai, the role of Black academics and how we build Black solidarity. We also pay tribute to Nikki Giovanni This is our final episode for 2024 and also the last episode in season 2 (S2) of the Make It Plain Podcast. Season 3 (S3) will be back next year. We are super grateful for your support, and we'll see you in 2025. JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25/26 (Virtual/In-Person) - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - April 2026 (Everyone's Welcome*) The event was originally booked for May 2025 and has been postponed to April 2026 but will still occur in the Gambia. CAP25 will ideally take place as a virtual convention in preparation for CAP26. On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"  BUF - Black United Front  This is a global directory of Black organizations. It will be hosted completely free of charge, so if you run a Black organization, please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. KEHINDE ANDREWS Malcolm X Documentary Kehinde will film in New York on February 19, 20, and 21, 2025, around the 60th anniversary of Malcolm's assassination. The documentary will be about Malcolm's life and what Malcolm would say if he were here with us today. If you know any organizations or people Kehinde can talk to in New York for the documentary, please email mip@blackunity.org.uk. Thank you. New Book Coming Out (01/05/2025): Nobody Can Give You Freedom The Real Mission of Malcolm X https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460078/nobody-can-give-you-freedom-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241681176 MIP SOCIALS LINK Subscribe + Support Make It Plain https://make-it-plain.org/support-us/ Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews  (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk Linktree: https://linktr.ee/KehindeAndrews For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity

👉🏿 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/bdhvMOBaq6c?si=t3iBJjVuo6fUaO7q As we wrap up 2024, Kehinde Andrews links up with co-host Busayo Twins to share their views of this year's headline events and stories as they relate to us. For this special feature, Busayo will be a regular cohost with Kehinde, where they chop it up about the politics of the day, highlighting the news of the day and underlining their relevance to our communities. We need a name for this special feature so please send in your ideas and any questions for our hosts' next show through our socials channel or please email mip@blackunity.org.uk and we'll consider them.  - Busayo Twins is a thought leader doing political content online, including her show "Everything is Political" (get us all to realize that there is politics in most things we talk about or engage in) and Political Intrusive Thoughts. Busyao has been involved in the London School of Economics (LSE) Students' Union as both president and general secretary (social mobility and outreach stuff), president of the African and Caribbean Society at LSE, a strategic policy advisor at the Office for Students (working on closing attainment gaps), and community policy and strategy (at Black Curriculum), and most recently as strategic business development manager at ClearView Research (creating inclusive research). BUSAYO SOCIALS LINKS (IG) @busayotwins (TikTok) @busayotwins SHOW LINKS Katt Williams on Diddy, Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly And Michael Jackson | CLUB SHAY SHAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFNUPFRW_o Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31071.Martin_and_Malcolm_and_America Armband message one of truth & inclusivity - Guehi https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clyj2e3dg14o Assisted dying bill: How did my MP vote? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wr95nkrr1o JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"  BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. MIP SOCIALS LINK Subscribe + Support Make It Plain https://make-it-plain.org/support-us/ Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews  (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity

👉🏿 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC8g-wk0RIg&t=1s In this week's Black World News Kai discusses the news of Paul Stephenson's passing earlier this month. Paul was a civil rights legend in the UK and a great example of a Black historical figure who should to be on the curriculum. Talking of the curriculum, this week's official guest interview is with Lavinya Stennett, founder and CEO of The Black Curriculum (aka TBC).  They discuss her important work and her important new book ‘Omitted‘ (OUT NEXT YEAR: Feb 13, 2025), which dives into popular misconceptions about Black history, and asks why education still hasn’t changed, even in schools now. Lavinya makes plain some of TBC's challenges when working with institutions and sponsors, the impact of TBC, and whether the curriculum will ever change.  Lavinya is a writer, author, founder & director of TBC. Having graduated with a BA in African Studies and Development from SOAS University, London in 2019, Lavinya was inspired by her learning and experience in New Zealand to set up TBC in 2019 aged 22. During university, she was engaged in student activism as the "Working Class Student Officer" and co-founded a society called Art and the African Mind, which aimed to promote and provide African-centred art and information as well as support for students. Continuing to engage in her love of writing, Lavinya published her dissertation which won the inaugural Walter Rodney Prize, and has written on social and cultural themes throughout the African diaspora for outlets including the Guardian, Black Ballad, and Quartz Africa. TBC was co-founded in 2019 by Lavinya (CEO), Bethany Thompson, and Lisa Kennedy. TBC is a national movement and social enterprise that seeks to change the way Black history is engaged with by everyone. It works to ensure histories of Black people in Britain are integrated into schools and educational facilities. It was supported by Virgil Abloh who was a patron and continues to be supported by Edward Enninfull, David Olusoga, and Jade Bentil. Their work has made real-life differences including learning resources, introducing an accredited Black British history course and Lavinya continues to speak about it worldwide. For her efforts, she’s been awarded the Freedom to the City in London and MIPAD (Most Influential People of African Descent) in New York.  LAVINYA STENNETT + THE BLACK CURRICULUM SOCIALS LINKS (IG) @gottabelavin_ya @theblackcurriculum (X) @CurriculumBlack INTRO LINKS Paul Stephenson obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/22/paul-stephenson-obituary Black Lives: Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/06/roy-hackett-the-civil-rights-hero-who-stood-in-front-of-a-bus-and-changed-britain-for-ever Interview: Guy Reid-Bailey: the man who sparked the Bristol bus boycott and then fought to desegregate housing https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/guy-reid-bailey-the-man-who-sparked-the-bristol-bus-boycott-and-then-fought-to-desegregate-housing Black Lives: Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/01/paul-stephenson-the-hero-who-refused-to-leave-a-pub-and-helped-desegregate-britain 'War is madness': Steve McQueen and Saoirse Ronan on Britishness, trauma and new drama Blitz https://www.bigissue.com/culture/film/blitz-steve-mcqueen-saoirse-ronan-interview-war-britain/ LIMITED EDITION HARDBACK Memoirs Of A Black Englishman https://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/shop/pre-order-memoirs-of-a-black-englishman-limited-edition-hardback OFFICIAL GUEST LINKS The Black Curriculum  https://theblackcurriculum.com/ 27 by Lavinya Stennett 27 a poetry collection about cultural rebirths, the cycles of life and a new future https://www.lavinyastennett.co.uk/p27/p/ryua6j4gsjfzev4xot3za0u7a6v1i5 Lavinya's Stennett's Website https://lavinyastennett.co.uk/ Fourth Estate lands Stennett's debut book on Black history https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/4th-estate-lands-stennetts-debut-book-black-history-1266800 Lavinya's Most Influential People of African Descent Award https://blog.mipad.org/lavinya-stennett/ Lavinya awarded the Freedom of the City https://www.instagram.com/gottabelavin_ya/p/DBtX13jIC5e/?img_index=1 JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make It Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make It Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"  BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. MIP SOCIALS LINK Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk Subscribe + Support Make It Plain https://make-it-plain.org/support-us/ For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make It Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity

👉🏿 WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y34bkZeNBQg "There's No Such Thing as a Racist, There is Racism" - Kehinde Andrews No guest this week, instead listen in for a Political Education feature from Kehinde Andrews (@Kehinde_Andrews). He highlights the difference between racially prejudiced people and racism, between individual racists and structural racism. "Racism is always systemic," says Kehinde, and if we don't get this we then misdiagnose the problem and come up with the wrong solutions like representation and DEI eg tackling racism in UK club football, and the achievement gap in UK and US higher education. It gets us nowhere. Kehinde has a Malcolm X book out for Malcolm's 100th birthday in May 2025. The book's entitled. "Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Real Mission of Malcolm X: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460078/nobody-can-give-you-freedom-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241681176 With money from the book Kehinde's also filming in New York on February 19, 20, and 21, around the 60th anniversary of Malcolm's assassination. The doc-film is about Malcolm's life and what he would say if he were here with us today. He's filming for the doc in New York. If you know any organization or people Kehinde can talk to, for the documentary, please email mip@blackunity.org.uk. Thank you.  POLITICAL EDUCATION LINKS Malcolm X's family sues NYPD, FBI, and CIA over assassination in $100 million lawsuit https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/malcolm-x-family-lawsuit-nypd-fbi-cia/ It’s coming home? Racism is home https://make-it-plain.org/2021/07/12/its-coming-home-racism-is-home/ JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make It Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make It Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"  BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. MIP SOCIALS LINK Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk Subscribe + Support Make It Plain https://make-it-plain.org/support-us/ For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make It Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity

➡️WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_GTfGBU7Y0&t=3s After Haiti got pawned in the US election Kehinde Andrews interviews Haitian-American filmmaker, Etant Dupain, about his new doc (film) "The Fight For Haiti." It tells the truth about the historical and current story around the Venezuelan PetriCaribe Oil Alliance scandal in Haiti. PetriCaribe was set up by former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez. A program for LAC countries (Haiti joined in 2006) to buy oil through a repayment plan for preferential prices, resell to its oil suppliers at international prices, and use the savings for development projects such as infrastructure, health care, and education. This was a chance for Haiti to invest in itself. However, billions of dollars from the fund were wasted, embezzled, and stolen by those entrusted with it, taking it from those who needed it most. The film amplifies the self-determined grassroots struggle of Haitian activists aka Petrochallengers, who put everything on the line to lead the fight against government corruption, impunity, and state-sanctioned violence. It also follows how politicians and oligarchs have attempted to use gangs to destroy the popular movement. Etant Dupain is a journalist and filmmaker. Etant founded an alternative media project in Haiti to enable citizen journalists to provide access to information in Haitian Creole for and about internally displaced people, aid accountability, and politics.  A FREE SCREENING of "The Fight For Haiti" will run next week (Nov 19) at the BLOC Cinema at Queen Mary's School of Law. Tickets are available on Eventbrite (link below) Etant will be there, go say hello. ETANT DUPAIN SOCIALS LINKS (IG) @mr_dupain @thefightforhaiti (X) @EtantDupain @fightforhaiti  SHOW LINKS Official Site + Trailers https://thefightforhaiti.com/ Free Screening of ‘The Fight for Haiti' & Live Q&A With Etant Dupain (When: Tuesday, 19 November at 6pm-8pm | Where: BLOC Cinema, Arts One Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-screening-of-the-fight-for-haiti-live-qa-with-etant-dupain-tickets-1037802504227 The Fight For Haiti Review: "Opinion: Hate against Haitian immigrants ignores how US politics pushed them here" https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/10/02/trump-vance-lie-haitian-immigrants-fight-for-haiti/75408449007/ JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"  BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. MIP SOCIALS LINK Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews  (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk Subscribe + Support Make It Plain https://make-it-plain.org/support-us/ For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity  

After the US election this week, today's show host, Kehinde Andrews, links up with co-host Busayo Twins to weather this gloomy political climate and share some optimism for the future.  For this special feature, Busayo will be a regular cohost with Kehinde, where they chop it up about the politics of the day, highlighting the issues that matter and underlining their specific relevance to Black communities. We need a name for this special feature so please send in your ideas and any questions for our hosts' next show through our socials channel or please email mip@blackunity.org.uk and we'll consider them. Thank YOU.  Busayo Twins is a thought leader doing political content online, including her show "Everything is Political" (get us all to realize that there is politics in most things we talk about or engage in) and Political Intrusive Thoughts. Busyao has been involved in the London School of Economics (LSE) Students' Union as both president and general secretary (social mobility and outreach stuff), president of the African and Caribbean Society at LSE, a strategic policy advisor at the Office for Students (working on closing attainment gaps), and community policy and strategy (at Black Curriculum), and most recently as strategic business development manager at ClearView Research (creating inclusive research).  BUSAYO SOCIALS LINKS (IG) @busayotwins (TikTok) @busayotwins SHOW LINKS Black Equity Org: "Our statement on Kemi Badenoch" https://x.com/BlackEquityOrg/status/1854528051071131658/photo/1  Operation Black Vote: Statement On Election of Kemi Badenoch to Leader of the Opposition https://www.obv.org.uk/blog-post/statement-on-election-of-kemi-badenoch-to-leader-of-the-opposition JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"  BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. MIP SOCIALS LINK Subscribe + Support Make It Plain https://make-it-plain.org/support-us/ Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews  (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity

➡️WATCH THE FULL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMyfw36nts Ahead of next week's US election, today's show is a deep dive into everything you need to know with views from our official guest, Renee Johnston.  Renee is a registered member, and committee chairperson of the Green Party of NJ; and weekly co-host of "Saturdays with Renee" on Black Liberation Media (formerly Black Power Media). She actively volunteers with several mutual aid and political organizations that focus on organizing educational opportunities to engage with people regarding abolition and other issues most impacting the material conditions of communities. Johnston is a former educator and union member for 20 years.  RENEE SOCIALS LINKS (IG) @isyourlifebetter (X) @isyourlifebett1 RENEE GUEST LINKS Is Your Life Better? (Renee on Substack) https://reneecj.substack.com/ Saturdays With Renee (Renee's Show W/Jared Ball on BLM) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7_X-VeroWRse7PIDno7dy4jOHQCjEiJJ Ballots Or Streets Or Both? ft Prof August Nimtz (SwR 55) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeaMlpFfPds JOIN THE STRUGGLE>> THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"  BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. MIP SOCIALS LINK Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews  (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity

➡️JOIN THE STRUGGLE + BECOME A MEMBER OF THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY (HOBU): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/membership In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde (@Kehinde_Andrews) discusses how we understand Monday's not-guilty verdict of Sgt. Martyn Blake's trial, a White MET police marksman who killed an unarmed Black man, Chris Kaba in 2022. Kehinde links this to other cases of Black men killed by the police, to-date UK stats on police killings of Black people; and the relevance of Malcolm's concept of "The Negro" that's still with us today. He makes plain that the racism of the police is the racism of the society. The police are as racist as the society allows them to be. We have the police force that society wants. The police, police with the consent of the racist society. The fears, prejudices, negative criminal stereotypical assessments, hallucinations, and "perceptual distortions" of the police are all features of the psychosis of Whiteness, a global phenomenon, that leads to our deaths.  In this week's Interview Kehinde talks with award-winning Sylvia Arthur (LOATAD founder) and Seth Avusuglo (LOATAD manager) from the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora Archive. They discuss the origin, mission, and development of LOATAD, the difficulty of getting Black books on the continent, the writing residencies + more.  The Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) is a decolonizing private library, archive, writing residency, research institute, and museum dedicated to the work of Afrikan and Diaspora writers from the late 19th century to the present day. Based in Accra, Ghana, it was founded by Sylvia Arthur in 2017 using 1300 of her own books. LOATAD’s current collection contains around 4000 books by writers from 41 of Africa’s 54 countries and Black authors from the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, and around the world. LOATAD's mission: to celebrate and champion Africa’s rarely acknowledged contribution to the global literary canon. LOATAD SOCIALS LINKS (IG) loatad_orgloatad_org @Barrist (X) @loatad_org @circa1957 (Sylvia Arthur) @Barrist (Seth Avusuglo) (Email) info@loatad.org BLACK POLITICAL RANT LINKS Schomburg Center to Display Never-Before-Seen ‘Lost’ Chapter of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Manuscript and Notes https://www.nypl.org/press/schomburg-center-display-never-seen-lost-chapter-autobiography-malcolm-x-manuscript-and-notes The 4Front Project (Temi Mwale, Executive Director): https://www.4frontproject.org/about 4Front Linktree https://linktr.ee/4frontproject United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) IG: https://x.com/uffcampaign?lang=en United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) X: https://www.instagram.com/uffcampaign/ "During the trial, the jury heard how [Martyn] Blake was from a middle-class background, a voracious reader who first worked in finance before joining the Met to escape a desk job." https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/21/what-we-now-know-about-the-13-seconds-before-chris-kaba-was-shot Police footage shows moment Chris Kaba was shot by officer now acquitted of murder – video: https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2024/oct/21/police-footage-shows-moment-chris-kaba-was-shot-by-officer-now-acquitted-of-video BLACK UNITED FRONT (BUF) LOATAD LINKS Sylvia Arthur https://sylvia-arthur.com/ Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora: https://loatad.org/ Support (Donate) to LOATAD https://ko-fi.com/loatad JOIN THE STRUGGLE>THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK): https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone: https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included"  BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. MIP SOCIALS LINK Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews  (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity

In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde Andrews (@KehindeAndrews) debunks the psychosis of Whiteness in the spirit of Black Employment Month. The arguments and myths are based on Kehinde's book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Rule the World: including Arab slavery in Afrika, why Britain really abolished the Atlantic Slave Trade (nothing to do with morals), not everything that's anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist is Marxist + more.   - In this week's Official Guest Interview, Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu joins Kehinde Andrews to chop it up on Gaza, racial gatekeepers, Kemi "not bad enough" Badeoch and Kamala Harris potentially becoming the two first Black female heads of government supporting genocide + more. DR. SHOLA’S MOS-SHOGBAMIMU SOCIALS LINKS (IG) sholamos1 (X) SholaMos1 (TikTok) @sholamos1 BLACK POLITICAL RANT LINKS The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316672/the-new-age-of-empire-by-andrews-kehinde/9780141992365 A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/971-a-kick-in-the-belly OFFICIAL GUEST LINKS Black activist threatened with ‘execution’ by British ‘Neo Nazi group’ in chilling letter https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/shola-mos-shogbamimu-death-threat-b2286089.html This is Why I Resist by Shola Mos-Shogbamimu https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/shola-mos-shogbamimu/this-is-why-i-resist/9781472280794/#:~:text=This%20is%20Why%20I%20Resist,non%2Dfiction%20books%20and%20ebooks THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk  CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. MIP SOCIALS LINK Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews  (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org  (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity

Yomi Adegoke on "The List" + British Empire Legacy W/Chagos Islands "Return" - S2 EP15 In this week's Black Political Rant, Kehinde Andrews talks about the positives and negatives of UK foreign secretary David Lammy announcing that Britain will be "returning" sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to the Mauritian government. Highlighting that the larger issue is that Britain and Empire continue to take Black and Brown lives through their legacies and violent presence in the world. For example, a UK-US military base on Diego Garcia (the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago) will remain under UK-US control. He also rants about Kemi Badenoch potentially becoming Britain's first Black Prime Minister after recently reaching the top 2 for the Tory leadership race. - This week, official guest Yomi Adegoje joins Kehinde Andrews, they talk about her award-winning debut book The List. A novel about secret lives and lives online, including social media, relationships, sexual harassment in the media + more. Yomi shares the process of writing the book, pitching it to agents + more. - Yomi Adegoke is a multi-award-winning author, broadcaster, and journalist who has a monthly column at The Guardian and is a contributing editor at Elle. In 2018 she co-authored the bestselling book Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible and was named one of the most influential people in London by the Evening Standard. In 2023, her instant Sunday Times bestselling debut novel The List was released and nominated for two British Book Awards. - YOMI ADEGOKE SOCIALS (IG) @yomi.adegoke (X) @yomiadegoke - BLACK POLITICAL RANK LINKS UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o Foreign Secretary's statement on the Chagos Islands, 7 October 202: Foreign Secretary's statement on the Chagos Islands, 7 October 2024 Foreign Secretary David Lammy gave a statement on the conclusion of negotiations on the exercise of sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/foreign-secretary-oral-statement-on-the-chagos-islands-7-october-2024 Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius?: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/4/why-is-the-uk-handing-the-chagos-islands-back-to-mauritius Badenoch and Jenrick reach final two in Tory race https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje343q1zy8o "'Jesus' of Lubeck" (The first slave ship to arrive in Africa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgeaRCr3N4 How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years By Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians New soil study confirms 1943 Bengal famine was caused by Winston Churchill’s policies, not drought https://www.dhakatribune.com/magazine/arts-and-letters/200832/new-soil-study-confirms-1943-bengal-famine-was Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169 - OFFICIAL GUEST LINKS Yomi Adegoke https://www.yomiadegoke.com/ The List https://www.yomiadegoke.com/the-list Yomi Adegoke's Guardian Column https://www.theguardian.com/profile/yomi-adegoke - THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK) https://www.blackunity.org.uk/ (IG) @harambeeobu (X) @HarambeeOBU (FB) OBUBirmingham Make it Plain - Black Education Community Resource Bank We are creating an educational community resource bank., to provide the education that Black children need. Please email us your resource links and we'll create a Black education resource page on Make it Plain.  mip@blackunity.org.uk CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome*) On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone. *On the CAP Steering Committee, we have a Marginalized identities group that looks at LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identities within Blackness, to ensure all Black people are included. https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/ BUF - Black United Front  Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed. - SOCIALS Host: (IG) @kehindeandrews (X) @kehinde_andrews  Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: (Blog) www.make-it-plain.org (YT) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964  Email: mip@blackunity.org.uk - For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/ - Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity