Groundings

Activist and musician Baba Bilal Sunni-Ali joins to discuss the current movement to free political prisoner Jamil Al-Amin....

Organizers Jay and Rock join Musa to discuss the current movement to free political prisoner, activist, and jailhouse lawyer Sundiata Jawanza....

Poet and activist Too Black dives into the story of the Pendleton 2, John 'Balagoon' Cole and Christopher 'Naeem' Trotter, and the new documentary he helped produce on the topic. T...

We sit down with rapper/producers Slank and Sunny Ture to discuss their new album "Nation Time." We get into the creative process behind this politically charged project, their ins...

Organizer and lawyer Kamau Franklin breaks down the movement to #StopCopCity in Atlanta, showing how it's just one part of a larger legacy of state repression of working class Blac...

Two months before his 20th birthday, Jalil Muntaqim was captured by enemy forces along with Albert “Nuh” Washington, and made into one of the longest-held political prisoners in U....

Jalessah Jackson - educator, organizer, and founding members of the Decolonial Feminist Collective - discusses feminist solidarities forged by mutual commitments, as opposed to pri...

Jalessah Jackson and Debbie Billings discuss abortion, the recent assaults on bodily autonomy by the capitalist state, the struggle for reproductive justice domestically and abroad...

We chatted with the people's historian, Dr. Gerald Horne about Europe, the US, and the apokalyptic beginnings of settler colonialism and slavery....

Documentary producer Onuora Abuah, whose work focuses on the history of Africa, joins Groundings to discuss the role of Christianity in Africa's colonization, from missionaries to ...

Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Erica Caines join Groundings to discuss the groundbreaking intellectual work, organizing, and legacies of Black communist women....

Writer Q. Anthony Omene discusses the historical importance and context of slave revolts across the Caribbean, the impact of Jamaica's Christmas Rebellion, how eurocentrism and whi...