Make It Plain Podcast

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses the murder charge of the police officer who killed Chris Kaba. - In this week's interview, Kehinde talks with Professor Nicola Rollock about the under-representation of Black women at the post-graduate and professorial level, why they’re not optimistic about change in their field, the question of White antiracist allyship, her new book The Racial Code, and Nicola’s top three things to address racial issues.  Professor Nicola Rollock is a Professor of Social Policy & Race at King’s College London, a Distinguished Fellow at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, and also runs her own consultancy business.  She helps people think critically about how they understand racial justice and, as a result, implement better strategies for change. She is also the author of “The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival” (2022), released in paperback form this week, where she makes a case for everyday and more subtle forms of racism.   - Chris Kaba: Police officer who shot dead unarmed Black man charged with murder https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/chris-kaba-shooting-murder-police-b2414890.html Deaths in police custody https://www.inquest.org.uk/deaths-in-police-custody NEW REPORT: Black men seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism not being addressed https://www.inquest.org.uk/police-racism-report-2023 The Racial Code publisher purchase link: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/444010/the-racial-code-by-rollock-nicola/9780141997544 Professor Nicola Rollock's website:  https://nicolarollock.com/ Staying Power: the career and experiences of Black female professors (2019): https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/10075/Staying-Power/pdf/UCU_Rollock_February_2019.pdf Dr Nicola Rollock appointed as Professor at King's College London (2021)https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-nicola-rollock-appointed-as-professor-at-kings-college-london HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITYhttps://www.blackunity.org.uk/  - Guest: @profnicolarollock (IG) @NicolaRollock (T) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg - Psychosis of Whiteness Book Tour Has Ended

Kehinde Andrews talks with David Harewood live from a book launch event of Kehinde’s book “The Psychosis of Whiteness” (OUT NOW). They talk about David’s experience of psychosis, acting while Black, growing up in Whitenss, Black mental health & therapy, the psychosis of Whiteness, and more. David Harewood is a top actor, director, and author of "Maybe I Don't Belong Here" his first book.- David Harewood: Psychosis and Me https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00052mn Call to boycott Black hair stores after woman is assaulted https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/09/12/call-to-boycott-black-hair-stores-after-woman-is-assaulted/ Maybe I Don't Belong Here https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/david-harewood/maybe-i-dont-belong-here/9781529064131 Kehinde Andrews Author of The New Age of Empire (Allen Lane) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/05/the-best-books-of-2021-chosen-by-our-guest-authors#:~:text=an%20unremembered%20life.-,Kehinde%20Andrews,Author%20of%20The%20New%20Age%20of%20Empire%20(Allen%20Lane),-Kehinde%20Composite%3A%20Guardian HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITYhttps://www.blackunity.org.uk/  - Guest: @davidharewood Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) / @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast: @makeitplainorg - Psychosis of Whiteness Book Tour Dates 17 (Sun) with @bbbookfestival @Manchester City Library Ticket: https://linktr.ee/KehindeAndrews

Kehinde Andrews talks with Wesley Lowrey at a live event earlier this year about his arrest while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and about his new book American Whitelash. A book about the rise in racial violence in the decade following the election of the US' first Black president.  Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, reporter, editor, and best-selling author known for his written audio, and on-camera work. He has served as a national correspondent for the Washington Post and an on-air correspondent for CBS News and 60 Minutes. His first book “They Can’t Kill Us All” published right after Trump’s election, chronicles his experience covering the protest movement that emerged following the death of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown. - American Whitelash The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443220/american-whitelash-by-lowery-wesley/9780241517123 Wesley Lowery's Arrest:https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/wesley-lowerys-arrest African and Caribbean People in Britain by Hakim Adi review – long before the Windrush docked: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/28/african-and-caribbean-people-in-britain-by-hakim-adi-review-long-before-the-windrush-docked We Are Black and Britishhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014t9r - Guest: @wesleylowery Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) / @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast: @makeitplainorg - Psychosis of Whiteness Book Tour Dates 7 (Thurs) with @nelsabbey in London 11 (Mon) @toppingsbath 12 (Tues) online @guardianlive 13 (Wed) with @afuahirsch @lrbbookshop 17 (Sun) with @bbbookfestival @Manchester City Library Ticket: https://linktr.ee/KehindeAndrews

Kehinde Andrews talks with Kelechi Okafor about the responsibility of having a media platform, education (not schooling), erasure and silencing of private violence against Black women, mashing up White supremacy and the more we need to do.  Kelechi Okafor is a Black-British writer, actor, and host of Say Your Mind podcast, born in Nigeria and raised in London. - Kelechnekoff’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Kelechnekoff Say Your Mind Podcast https://www.kelechiokafor.com/say-your-mind-podcast Kelechnekoff Pole Dance Studio https://www.kelechnekoff.com/ Jonathan Mattingly’s Book Conflicts With Other Accounts Of Breonna Taylor Raid, Is Filled With Conservative Buzzwords https://www.leoweekly.com/2022/03/jonathan-mattinglys-book-conflicts-with-other-accounts-of-breonna-taylor-raid-is-filled-with-conservative-buzzwords/ - Guest: @kelechnekoff Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) / @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast: @makeitplainorg - Psychosis of Whiteness book tour dates :  on 4th with @davidharewood at #BlackStudiesBCU Tue 5th @internationalslaverymuseum Wed 6th with @afrikanconnex @stpaulslearningcentre Thurs 7th with @nelsabbey in London Mon 11th @toppingsbath Tuesday 12th online @guardianlive Wed 13th with @afuahirsch @lrbbookshop Sun 17th with @bbbookfestival @ Manchester City Library Tickets:  https://linktr.ee/KehindeAndrews

For Make it Plain's (MIP) first-ever podcast episode Kehinde Andrews talks with Kimberlé Crenshaw about CRT, intersectionality, #SayHerName, and the attack on antiracism.  Kimberlé Crenshaw is an American Civil Rights Advocate, the co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and the founder and executive director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School. She is the Promise Institute Professor at UCLA Law School and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor at Columbia Law School. She is popularly known for her development of “intersectionality,” “Critical Race Theory,” and the #SayHerName Campaign, and is the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters!- Broke-Ish https://brokeish.com/podcast Blackness at the Intersection, Kimberlé Crenshaw (Editor) and Kehinde Andrews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54434924-blackness-at-the-intersection Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law by Dr. Kimberlé W. Crenshaw: https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Crenshaw-Race-Reform-and-Retrenchment-pdf.pdf THE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM (Kim's org): https://www.aapf.org/ -Guest: @kimberlecrenshaw Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) / @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast: @makeitplainorg