Make It Plain Podcast

WELCOME BACK TO THE MAKE IT PLAIN PODCAST - Thanks for coming back! If you slept on S1 you can return to our earlier episodes (S1 was funded by the Evens Foundation in Europe, themed on Black Studies, featuring Patricia Hill Collins, Kimberlee Crenshaw, David Harewood + more).  This is S2, and we're taking a slightly different tact than S1. We'll still be interviewing official guests in academia, politics, and elsewhere. What's new is that we'll also be talking to interesting people on the ground from organizations on the Black United Front (BUF, a directory of Black orgs across the globe that Make it Plain has begun developing). - In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain the House Negro nonsense of the coconut trial of Mariah Hassan, a person who was charged with carrying a placard that pictured Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts. This isn't up for debate, this is not a criminal offense it's a defense of the Black radical intellectual tradition. Kehinde also makes plain the general election, the ways you can and can't represent as a Black MP, and the myth and propaganda of the Black Vote. Not discounting our influence in marginal seats, the myth of the Black vote is a really bad way of understanding Black political power. Kehinde makes plain a better (local, national, and global) way of understanding politics through a Black mass membership international organization. - In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with George the Poet (featuring his son in the background hehe) about his new book Track Record. George shares a section of the book that never made it to his book, "The Anti-Afrikan." They also discuss, turning down an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) honor, despite it "opening doors" and networking opportunities (but the question is, "which doors?" and"whose doors?").   - George the Poet AKA George Mpanga is a multi-dimensional man with lived experience and a London-born spoken word performer of Ugandan heritage. His innovative brand of musical poetry has won him critical acclaim both as a recording artist and a social commentator. George is also a husband, father, and Cambridge graduate. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS It’s not a crime to call a "Coconut" a "Coconut." Professor Kehinde Andrews explains why the terms Coconut, House Negro, Coon, and Uncle Tom are vital expressions of Black political thought that should be celebrated and not policed. Drawing on work in his book 'The Psychosis of Whiteness' this is a handy guide through the use of the words complete with many examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZkD-e-b6Iw - GUEST LINKS George the Poet https://www.georgethepoet.com/ George's book: Track Record Delving into the music scene and iconic films from his childhood, as well as crucial political and economic moments in history, this book provides the backstory of where we are today. Honest, thought-provoking, and passionate, Track Record is a ground-breaking memoir by one of the UK's most unique voices.https://afroribooks.co.uk/products/track-record-me-music-and-the-war-on-blackness-by-george-the-poet-published-25th-april-2024 Have You Heard George's Podcast? The award-winning and critically acclaimed podcast from George the Poet delivers a fresh take on inner-city life through a mix of storytelling, music, and fiction. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07915kd Downstream: The West is Poor, Africa is Rich w/ George The Poet https://www.tapesearch.com/episode/downstream-the-west-is-poor-africa-is-rich-w-george-the-poet/7SpXBeDiuocHoYSALAQ4NP - MIP LINKS CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 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/ 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. Policing terms like House Negro insults Black political thought "Terms like Coconut, House Negro, and Uncle Tom are not, and never were racial slurs. To view them as such is to fall down the rabbit hole of 'reverse racism'."https://make-it-plain.org/2021/02/19/policing-terms-like-house-negro-insults-black-political-thought/ From the growling wolf to the smiling fox "Malcolm already warned us of the dangers of running from the clutches of the wolf into the arms of the smiling fox." https://make-it-plain.org/2020/11/07/from-the-growling-wolf-to-the-smiling-fox/ - Guest: georgethepoet (IG)  GeorgeThePoet (X) Host:  @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (X) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Blog) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT) - 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 World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses a current case in Barbuda being fought about the construction of a new private airport and beach developments by largely US, UK, and Chinese foreigners. It's a fight by local "land defenders" against foreign multinationals carving up the island for tourism, "freedom," and tax reduction purposes. Developers are destroying the island's resources, including food security, culture, and livelihoods This case is part of a larger problem with the Carribean's legacy as slave colonies.  - Check out the MIP YouTube Channel - This is going to be the final episode of Season 1 of MIP's Black Studies Podcast Series, we hope you've enjoyed it! To wrap it up, this week Kehinde Andrews asks a mixture of Black Studies undergraduates and MA students from all three Black Studies degree courses at Birmingham City Uni (@MYBCU) about their POVs of the course. The students featured are Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte. The courses are pretty much all female students currently.  - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS Barbudans battle for island in London courthttps://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-news/2023/11/08/barbudans-battle-for-island-in-london-court/ Gov’t to finance new prison itself – Chang https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20200608/govt-finance-new-prison-itself-chang ‘Black face of white supremacy’ https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/features-news/2023/11/02/black-face-of-white-supremacy/ Voice Online: Britain's Favourite Black Newspaper https://www.voice-online.co.uk/ Proudjamaicans (reel about neo-colonization of Jamaica's beaches)https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxojVXwxFiF/ Biographies of the Justices https://www.jcpc.uk/about/biographies-of-the-justices.html David Cameron rules out slavery reparation during Jamaica visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34401412 - GUEST INTERVIEW LINKS Birmingham City Universityhttps://www.bcu.ac.uk/ BLACK STUDIES (CRIMINAL JUSTICE) - BA (HONS) https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-in-criminal-justice-ba-hons-2024-25 BLACK STUDIES - BA (HONS) https://bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-ba-hons-2024-25 BLACK STUDIES - MA https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-ma-2024-25 - Guest: Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte (Black Studies Students) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT) - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World By Kehinde Andrews Buy the Book:https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the MET police's nonsense claim that the use of the political term "coconut" is a hate crime following a MET tweet (since removed) in the form of a protest poster of Rishi "Rish" Sunak and Cruella Vader-man. He argues that terms of political critique like "coconut" and "coon," which point out agents of White Supremacy especially if they are Black and Brown aren't racist terms and slurs. We must continue to defend our history, language, political critique, and ultimately our Black political thought.   - Check out the MIP YouTube Channel - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Dr Kadian Pow about her part-autobiographical book "Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness." It looks at how different aspects of love have shaped Kadian's Black feminine identity, from family lessons to romantic love to love of Blackness and community. Using anecdata from early life to her 30s, tracing themes of feminism. They also discuss her teaching Black Studies, her Black-owned business, respectability politics, and her transition from being a former born-again Christian.  Her new book also part-inspired a mini summit event next Saturday, November 25th at Birmingham City University (BCU Curzon Building, B4 7BD) called "Black Women & Undoing Sexual Shame" (18+), organized by Black Ballad, event tickets are available here (For support: if you're a BCU student email Kadian.Pow@bcu.ac.uk and if you need help email support@blackballad.co.uk). - Kadian is currently a lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies at Birmingham City University (BCU), where she teaches courses in both Sociology and Black Studies with Kehinde Andrews (and his former PhD student). Her interest includes Black feminism, intersectionality, TV and social media, the sociology of Black natural hair, sexuality, and queer studies. She's also the creator of Bourn Beautiful Naturals (BB Naturals), a Black-owned solution-based skincare company.  - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS Kehinde's tweet response to MET investigation call out for person holding "coconut" poster (MET tweet has been removed) https://twitter.com/kehinde_andrews/status/1723630406577029137 MIP tweet of poster https://twitter.com/makeitplainorg/status/1723690666025230351 - GUEST INTERVIEW LINKS Kadian's Link Treehttps://linktr.ee/kadianpow Kadian's Black-owned company creation: Bourn Beautiful Naturals (BB Naturals) https://bournbeautifulnaturals.uk/ Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness (Black Studies)https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Black-Female-Identity-Making/dp/1915271452 Mini Summit Black Ballad: Black Women & Undoing Sexual Shame - SAT NOV 25 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-women-undoing-sexual-shame-tickets-749380746987 Black Ballad (UK-based lifestyle platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of Black British women) https://blackballad.co.uk/ Policing terms like House Negro insults Black political thought https://make-it-plain.org/2021/02/19/policing-terms-like-house-negro-insults-black-political-thought/ - Guest: @luddite_in_training (IG) @kadianpow (T) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT) - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World By Kehinde Andrews Buy the Book:https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews rants about reparations washing, and the recent case in point of Lloyd's of London's "slavery" report; why he'd need to report himself under the new UK gov plans to criminalize dissent that also directly focuses on Muslims, which essentially conflates extremism with radicalism, and more on Israel-Palestine. - Check out the MIP YouTube Channel - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Dawn Butler Labour Member of Parliament (MP) about how she navigates work as a Black female MP. Since day she has managed to represent, talk the truth, and most importantly stayed Black while doing her job in parliament—one of the Whitest places—despite the advice when she first came into parliament of "not to be too Black."  She's therefore an amazing example of what we need to see more of from politicians in electoral politics. In this interview, she offers examples, like THE coup ran against her when she ran for deputy speaker, of how she manages and balances the impact of engaging with the constant gendered and racial reminders that arise for a Black Woman in one of the UK's Whitest and highest-profile workplaces.  - Dawn Butler a Labour Member of Parliament for Brent Central, London, the third Black woman to be elected an MP, the first ever to speak at the dispatch box and the first Black female chair of the women’s Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP). She's the author of "A Purposeful Life: What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change" (2023). She was named the "most promising feminist under 35" by New Statesman magazine, honored as MP of the year at the 2009 Women in Public Life Awards, and was named one of the 25 most influential women in the UK by Vogue in 2020. - BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS Lloyd’s of London slavery review fails to settle heated question of reparations https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/08/lloyds-of-london-slavery-review-fails-to-settle-heated-question-of-reparations The transatlantic slave trade https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/history/the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade The materials are drawn from the collection of Lloyd’s the Insurance Market https://underwritingsouls.org/ Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values?CMP=share_btn_tw - GUEST INTERVIEW LINKS Dawn's book "A Purposeful Life What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change" https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456329/a-purposeful-life-by-butler-dawn/9781911709329 Alison Hammond responds to complaint about her ‘Rolex’ on This Morning: ‘Sorry you felt uncomfortable’ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/alison-hammond-rolex-this-morning-b2436860.html Dawn Butler Talks Honesty, Purpose & Surviving Cancer https://blackballad.co.uk/people/dawn-butler-a-purposeful-life?listIds=62948f6b18dc9806e42955cf Teachers presenting White privilege as fact are breaking the law, warns minister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIa4bvXjDhA - Guest: @dawnbutlerbrent (IG + T) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT) - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World By Kehinde Andrews Buy the Book:https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the "end" of Black Employment Month aka Black History Month, King Charles' unapologetically White speech during a recent state visit to Kenya, what is and isn't authentic reparatory justice, and the ongoing White psychosis of the British royal family. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Nels Abbey. They discuss amongst many tings, his formative years in foster care and boarding school and his working years from asset banker to media exec. They also discuss, topical news including the current UK's most diverse yet most far-right government in history, Nel's new book out next year The Hip Hop MBA uses hip hop as a model for how we think about economics. his new event Uppity a monthly forum for discussing Black issues in Black communities with the first event The Trial of Dominique Samuels happening earlier this week at The Africa Centre.  - Nels Abbey is a former asset management banker turned public intellectual, medical executive, broadcaster, satirist, author of "Think Like A White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black" (2019) and The Hip Hop MBA: Lessons in Cut-Throat Capitalism from Rap’s Moguls (out spring 2024) and most recently founder of "Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujee." - Guest: @nelsabbey (IG + T) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - King Charles stops short of apology for ‘abhorrent’ colonial violence in Kenyahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/king-charles-stops-short-of-apology-for-british-colonial-violence-kenya Nels Abbey's Guardian Column https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nelson-abbey Boarding Schools: The System That Rules Britain - BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fcl1 UK to compensate Kenya's Mau Mau torture victims https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/uk-compensate-kenya-mau-mau-torture ‘Black face of white supremacy'’ https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/features-news/2023/11/02/black-face-of-white-supremacy/ Canongate scoops banker-turned-writer Abbey's hip hop business 'bible'https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/canongate-scoops-banker-turned-writer-abbeys-hip-hop-business-bible The Hip-Hop MBA: What the Empires, Moguls, and Business of Rap Can Teach the World https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60741847-the-hip-hop-mba Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujeehttps://www.instagram.com/uppityhq/ Why It’s Okay to Change (I Did After Doing Psychedelics) https://medium.com/@dominiquetsamuels/how-psychedelics-changed-and-destroyed-my-life-768f10b7640d - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World Buy the Book:https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the theme of Black Employment Month AKA Black History Month "Saluting Our Sisters," the past and present overlooking of Black Women, and the importance of the Black feminist standpoint in understanding the world better. For example, why we mobilize more around the public spectacle of anti-Black violence against predominantly Black men that leads to liberal reforms and why we need to also look at the private violence that predominantly affects Black women, such as deaths in childbirth. Focussing on both will lead to more radical solutions. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Patricia Hill Collins about her new book “Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence,” the appropriation of intersectionality and what it is and isn’t, navigating her career in academia, the “public intellectual” and what it will take for Black people to be free. Patricia Hill Collins is a distinguished US professor emerita of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of numerous award-winning books including her best-known and fundamental title "Black Feminist Thought" (originally published in 1990) and more (see below). She was the first ever elected Black female to be president of the American Sociological Association (ASA). This week Patricia was the winner of the very prestigious Berggruen Philosophy Prize, the first Black person to win this prize.  - Black women four times more likely to die in childbirthhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59248345 More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/oct/11/black-prison-population-increase-england Feminist Icon Patricia Hill Collins Becomes First Black Winner Of $1 Million Berggruen Prize https://www.essence.com/news/patricia-hill-collins-berggruen-prize/ Black Feminist Thought Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowermenthttps://www.routledge.com/Black-Feminist-Thought-Knowledge-Consciousness-and-the-Politics-of-Empowerment/Collins/p/book/9780415964722 Intersectionality, 2nd Edition (General book) https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=intersectionality-2nd-edition--9781509539673 Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory https://www.dukeupress.edu/intersectionality-as-critical-social-theory Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence (Intersectionalities original intent) https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=lethal-intersections-race-gender-and-violence--9781509553150 Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration https://markingtimeart.com/ Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought https://academic.oup.com/socpro/article/33/6/s14/1610242 Set the World on Fire Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedomhttps://www.pennpress.org/9780812224597/set-the-world-on-fire/ Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement A Radical Democratic Vision https://uncpress.org/book/9780807856161/ella-baker-and-the-black-freedom-movement/ The Revolution Has Come Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oaklandhttps://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-has-come - Guest: Patricia Hill Collins Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - KEHINDE ANDREWS EVENTS Unmasking Brilliance: Black British Voices in Media w/ 28th October Black British Book Festival, Southbank Centre https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/black-british-book-festival THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS Buy the Book:https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the 14-year-old Black male being held in a headlock and tasered to the ground by a UK police officer and the problem with Black Employment Month aka Black History Month.  - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Abdul Alkalimat, Black Studies OG and professor emeritus of African American Studies about what is Black studies, his books “The History of Black Studies” (2021) and “The Future of Black Studies” (2022) the battle for Black Studies in the US and the UK, and Black students today and our future.  Abdul Alkalimat (PhD University of Chicago) is one of the founders of the Black Studies movement, involved in the Black Radical Congress and Institute for the Black World, and a professor emeritus (retired) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He was one of three founders of the Organisation of Black American Culture (OBAC) and served as its first chairperson. - Outcry as shocking footage shows police tasering 14-year-old boy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-taser-black-teenager-birmingham-b2431070.html The History of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344225/the-history-of-black-studies/ The Future of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimathttps://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347004/the-future-of-black-studies/ Black Studieswww.blackstudies.net https://web.archive.org/web/20230330200305/http://blackstudies.net/ Abdul Alkalimathttps://alkalimat.org/ The Ideology of Black Social Science https://alkalimat.org/426%20ALKALIMAT%20and%20McWORTER%20-%201969%20-%20THE%20IDEOLOGY%20OF%20BLACK%20SOCIAL%20SCIENCE.pdf/ The Death of White Sociology by Joyce Ladner - Guest: Abdul Alkalimat Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS More Book Tour Dates (this month): https://linktr.ee/KehindeAndrews 25th October London School of Economics, Sheikh Zayed Theatre 28th October Black British Book Festival, Southbank Centre  Buy the Book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses how we can understand the Israel-Palestine conflict through the prism of Black radicalism—understanding the universal of the world through the particular of Blackness—to see the world differently.  - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Beverely Bryan about Black women in the movement and in Britain, teaching and Black Studies in the Carribean, US, and the UK, Black women organizing, and the future of Black community education on the ground. Beverley Bryan is a retired professor of language education at the University of the West Indies for over 20 years, heavily involved in the Black Power movements and Black orgs in Britain (Black Panthers, early Black British Feminism, founding member of Brixton’s Black Women’s Group (BWG), Black Arts Workshop and Black Supplementary Schools), and co-author of recently republished Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain. "It's really important to put [Black women] back in history, to see through those eyes too," says Kehinde.  - We should never confuse terror with revolution (MIP) https://make-it-plain.org/2023/10/11/we-should-never-confuse-terror-with-revolution/ Sabaar Bookshop https://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/sabaar-bookshop/ Beverley Bryan: the British Black Panther who inspired a generation of women https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/28/beverley-bryan-the-british-black-panther-who-inspired-a-generation-of-women Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/662-heart-of-the-race How Olive Morris Fought for Black Women’s Rights in Britain https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/civil-rights-movement/how-olive-morris-fought-for-black-womens-rights-in-britain/ Nigrescence (Negro to Black conversion theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigrescence The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Frederick Engels Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain by Amrit Wilson - Guest: Beverley Bryan Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch's "Best Place to be Black” speech, and the mainstream popularity of today's Black and Brown politicians in the UK/US.  - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde talks with Pan-Afrikan OG Cecil Gutzmore about Pan-Afrikanism past and present in the UK, the race & class debate, Black success in White academia, young people, and revolutionary change.   Cecil Gutzmore is a veteran community activist, intellectual, historian, and educator, a former factory worker, community worker, and university academic lecturer in London and the West Indies, whose work within community activism stretches back to the late 1960s. - "Britain’s the best place to be Black, says Kemi Badenoch. But ask yourself: is it as good as being white?" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/03/britains-best-place-to-be-black-kemi-badenoch-tory "Forty years on from the New Cross fire, what has changed for black Britons?" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/17/forty-years-on-from-the-new-cross-fire-what-has-changed-for-black-britons New Cross massacre (January 18, 1981) https://make-it-plain.org/2023/01/16/new-cross-massacre-january-18-1981/ HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITYhttps://www.blackunity.org.uk/  - Guest: Cecil Gutzmore Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses a big survey (with "over 10,000 voices") out this week on the "Black British" experiences by the Black British Voices Project.  - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde talks with Leila Hassan Howe about her life in Zanzibar and coming back to Britain in the 60s, working for the Institute of Race Relations (IRR, directed by A. Sivanandan) and the journal Race Today Collective (edited by Darcus Howe), building independent Black institutions and alternatives to the British education system, New Cross Fire (1981) and the National Black People’s Day of Action (1981). Leila Hassan Howe is a veteran activist and organizer. In 1981 through the New Cross Massacre Action Committee she co-organized the famous Black People’s Day of Action march that followed the New Cross Fire. She was an active member of the Race Today Collective, edited its journal, joined the Black Unity and Freedom Party (BUFP), and was involved in all of its key struggles. - BLACK DIMENSIONS READING LIST Black Power: The Politics of Liberation Book by Charles V. Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael Soul on Ice Book by Eldridge Cleave The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks Book by Frantz Fanon The Souls of Black Folk Book by W. E. B. Du Bois Message to the Blackman in America Book by Elijah Muhammad Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism Book by Kwame Nkrumah The Black Jacobins Book by C. L. R. James - Black British Voices Project (BBVP): https://www.bbvp.org/ Black British Voices The Findings https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/black-british-voices-report   (Interview by Kehinde Andrews) Leila Hassan Howe: "My life was made hell. You’d just hear a tirade against immigrants" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/08/leila-hassan-howe-black-power-london-revolution-black-lives-matter 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 THE ZANZIBAR REVOLUTION OF 1964 https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-zanzibar-revolution-of-1964/ How Olive Morris Fought for Black Women’s Rights in Britain https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/civil-rights-movement/how-olive-morris-fought-for-black-womens-rights-in-britain/ Race Today - archive chronicling lives of Black Britons to launch online https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/race-today-archive-chronicling-black-britons-lives-launches-online Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339757/here-to-stay-here-to-fight/ Ambalavaner Sivanandan (director of the IRR) obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/07/ambalavaner-sivanandan HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITYhttps://www.blackunity.org.uk/  - Guest: Leila Hassan Howe Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476