Black Talk Radio News w/ Scotty Reid

I'll respect Marc Lamont Hill as a journalist and a human rights defender but I strongly disagree with his hot take on Bernie Sanders on the issue of federal legislation in support of reparations but more important, support for legislation that gets you to actual policy proposals that will come out of the HR 40 path. Mr. Sanders campaign does seem to understand the issue of reparations specificall...

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[the_ad id="35245"] BTR News - Nicki Minaj sends mixed messages on why she decided against performing in Saudi Arabia and gets taken to task for suggesting Jaimaca has similar human rights abuses as Saudi Arabia. An African American woman who had been drinking attacked a Hispanic woman claiming the woman was stealing jobs. An article recently came out discussing the non-codification of the ADOS mo...

BTR News - Presidential Candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were both caught lying about their past support for policies concerning building state prisons and reporting children to ICE for deportation. Billionaire Jeffery Epstein who counts a number of high profile people as his friends were busted on sex trafficking charges over the weekend. Epstein counts both Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and...

[the_ad id="35245"] BTR News: Trump's flubs 4th of July Speech during celebration likely to costs millions to taxpayers. Black women lost her mind and fought with protesters staging a US flag burning. Eight Black US Congress members have failed to sponsor reparations study bill, who are they? Western media and government officials including US VP Mike Pence are excusing violent protest in Hong Kon...

[the_ad id="35245"] Today Kwabena Rasuli of Clear The Airwaves project drops by to discuss the issues related to gun violence in the Black community and the violent programming of the rap music industry that targets Black people. Young people fed up with gun violence in Philly organized a rally which was also attended by city officials. Officials are also calling for city, state and federal resour...

[the_ad id="35245"] BTR News - A video has gone viral of a Black woman rejecting the services of a Confederate contractor who pulled up to her home with an oversized confederate flag flying from the back of his trailer. Her response was textbook anti-racism codification. Referencing photos migrants and asylum seekers in facilities at the southern border, Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted that "human b...

[the_ad id="35245"] BTR News - Iran has followed through on its threat to exceed the limit of enriched uranium limit because of US sanctions after the Trump administration pulled out of the 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated with the Obama administration. In 2015, Iran agreed to a long-term deal on its nuclear program with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russi...

[the_ad id="35245"] The SCOTUS ruled that state legislatures can create political districts as they see fit and no one can challenge it in Federal Court. Senator Kamala Harris lit into Joe Biden over school racial segregation with facts. Harris mentioned her childhood as a Black child in the second generation of children who go to a desegregated school while Biden was colluding with segregationist...

  BTR News - Bank of America continued a trend among the largest US banks by divesting from servicing companies in the business of private prison slavery. A huge momentum win in the centuries-long ongoing battle against the institution of slavery under the jurisdiction of USA Inc. While Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase and now Bank of America has delivered crippling sanctions against the private priso...

[the_ad id="35245"] BTR News - On this program, I will be discussing Afro-Christophobia in the Black community that is hindering unity and prohibiting Black people from having healthy relationships. At the same time, we have some non-Christian Black people being discourteous and engaging in name-calling and spreading disinformation about Christianity, we have some Black people who say they are Chr...

BTR News - News of the day and more covered on today's broadcast. The Game was asked if he supported reparations for African-Americans to which he responded that the US government should give every Black person 40 Acres of land and a Lambo. He was also asked if it would bankrupt the USA to which he replied, "I would not care". Let us answer the bankruptcy question based on the Bush and Obama hundr...

[the_ad id="35245"] BTR News - A Washington, DC-based conservative lawyer named Hans Bader, wrote an article calling reparations "racial handouts" to make an argument against them using racial dog whistles. In addition to that, he also claims the 13th Amendment abolished slavery 150 years ago and that is not what the 13th Amendment did but rather created a new form of slavery in the United States....

[the_ad id="35245"]   Donald Trump this morning is saying that he called off a strike against Iran because too many people would die. Yesterday Trump said that the shootdown of the US spy drone was possibly accidental. It has finally happened! Cable news pundit and writer Charles Blow, in a debate with Republican Rick Santorum, introduced the 13th Amendment's exception clause to his argument for r...

[the_ad id="35374"]   BTR News will take a look at some of the recent news to come out in the last 24 hrs. Iran reportedly shot down a US surveillance drone it says entered their territory. The NAACP is partnering with Ghana officials to mark 400 years of African enslavement and to connect those in the Diaspora with the homeland. Joe Biden is taking criticism once again for his remarks about being...

Kicking off Juneteenth Celebrations A Congressional Panel will hold a hearing on the HR 40 Bill which would create a reparations commission to study, document and recommend proposals for reparative justice. Sen. Mitch McConnel disparagingly referred to as Turtle Man, expressed his opposition to reparations for African Americans who come from an American lineage that began in slavery which despite...

Kicking off Juneteenth Celebrations A Congressional Panel will hold a hearing on the HR 40 Bill which would create a reparations commission to study, document and recommend proposals for reparative justice. Sen. Mitch McConnel disparagingly referred to as Turtle Man, expressed his opposition to reparations for African Americans who come from an American lineage that began in slavery which despite...

[the_ad id="35245"] Today we will take a look at some the international and national news headlines like Iran says it will enrich uranium outside of the agreement it has with other nations from which the Trump administration withdrew. Have you noticed how differently MSM covers protests in Hong Kong over an extradition law versus protests against police violence in the United States? This news and...

[the_ad id="35245"] 'BTR News - Scotty t. Reid and guest contributor Kwabena Rasuli of Clear The Airwaves Project discuss the Miley Cyrus rehashed controversy concerning her 2017 comments about rap music and how some of the lyrics coming out by artists made her as a woman in the music. Of course, after the backlash, Cyrus apologized once again for the ill-advised comments unless of course, it was...

[the_ad id="35245"] BTR News 6/19/2019 - A media firestorm has erupted over Donald Trump saying he may or may not accept information on an opponent even if it came from a foreign source and he may or may not contact the FBI about it. The Steele Dossier was oppositional research that used foreign sources to dig up dirt on Trump and was paid for by the Clinton campaign. 24 cops were reportedly injur...

[the_ad id="35245"] Apparently, repealing the Hyde Amendment, the federal law that prohibits organizations like Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother,  has been a goal of Democrats since 2016 although Hillary Clinton nor Bernie Sander's talked about it much during the primary and general election. Recently,...

[the_ad id="35245"] On today's podcast, I will be discussing the United Surveillance State of America which consists of government agencies on the local, state and federal level in partnership with private corporations like Amazon to unconstitutionally put American citizens under mass unwarranted surveillance to prevent social movements for justice and to increase the world's largest prison slave...

[the_ad id="35245"] BTR News - Multiple videos of superstar rapper Cardi B confessing to using the allure of sex used to drug and rob men. One of her admissions isn't really getting the scrutiny that it deserves and that is her admission to getting revenge on boyfriends she accused of cheating by tricking them into having sex with a transexual male. Considering the level of attention other forms o...

BTR News - After a rapper made some inappropriate comments about the girlfriend of recently murdered rap artist and community activist Nipsey Hussle, Power 106, LA’s top hip-hop station, announced they’d no longer play the music of Kodak Black and one its DJs, Justin Credible tweeted, “We stand with the family of Nipsey Hussle and are appalled by the disrespectful and poor comments made by Kodak B...

BTR News host Scotty Reid talked with Grammy-nominated Maxwell Melvins of the Lifer's Group about the killing of activist rapper Nipsey Hustle, the events that led him to spend decades in prison and his thoughts on hip hop's beginning and where it is now. Maxwell Melvins will be on the presenters in the upcoming 3rd Annual Hip Hop Education Conference that will be hosted by Harvard University. [th...