Make it Plain

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 com...

➡️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...

➡️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...

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 tha...

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 Brit...

Nation States Don't Have Rights: Israel-Palestine + A Black European Experience W/Helio (@JupiterBaal) - S2 EP14 - In this week's Black Rant, @KehindeAndrews highlights how Whiteness is going to kill us all if Israel-Palestine takes us to the brink of World War 3, some mentions (links below) include Ta Nehisi Coates's recent CBS interview about his new book 'The Message' + Kemi Badenoch's "not all...

New Feature: Making Politics Plain W/Busayo Twins + No Further Action W/House Negro Case - S2 EP13 In this week's Black World News , the UK police have said there will be "No Further Action" in Kehinde Andrew's "house negro" non-case made by Calvin Harris in response to Kehinde's " It's not a crime to call a Coconut a Coconut " video calling out Calvin's "house negro" nonsense video on YouTube. To...

"COCONUT TRIAL" LIVE REACTION W/NELS ABBEY + SCHOOLS ARE COPYING PRISONS - S2 EP12 ➡️Video (filmed by Shezal Laing founder of Sankofa Day ) of the Marieha Hussain "Coconut Trial" Reaction w/Nels Abbey + Kehinde: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_3UwFsIdh3/ In this week's Black World News Kehinde Andrew has been looking at secondary schools for his son, Kadiri, which reminded him of how the schools are...

No official guests this week, instead Kehinde Andrews drops some POLITICAL EDUCATION and cracks these coconuts for us, keeping us sane in a racist world. He highlights two recent, related, and ongoing events: he's facing a "house negro" police probe and  Marieha Hussain's current "coconut trial" (taking place at Westminister Magistrates Court yesterday and today).  Kehinde is facing a criminal inv...

In this week's Black World News ,   Kehinde nearly got arrested. The police, a Black police officer (at that) politely invited Kehinde for a voluntary interview at the police station about a video he put online. The video was posted on YouTube two months ago called  It's not a Crime to Call a "Coconut" a "Coconut." Posted in response to  Marieha Hussain's arrest for carrying a placard during a pro...

This week we're rerunning the final episode from S1 of the MIP podcast with a (first on the pod) cameo appearance from executive producer Weyland McKenzie-Witter explaining the rerun. In short, it's due to the award-winning undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Arts) in Black Studies (which Kehinde co-created) being shut down by Birmingham City Uni (BCU). A life-changing and grounding break course. Th...

Today's episode opens with Kehinde making the realities of Black studies in the UK plain. Despite winning an award for critical pedagogy, the undergraduate Black Studies degree at BCU is being discontinued due to low recruitment and financial constraints. We are also joined by   Shani Akilah, a Black British Caribbean writer and screenwriter from South London. She is a book influencer, co-founded...

In this week's Black World News , Kehinde Andrews makes plain the irony of Birmingham being a majority-minority city with a social housing crisis that hosted the 2022 Commonwealth Games. This week's interview is with Robert Beckford a scholar-activist researching the intersections of faith and racial justice in and through diverse media texts. He has written multiple books and man made numerous do...

  In this week's  Black World News , Kehinde Andrews makes plain the UK's week of White Race Riots highlighting the role of White rage in fuelling these incidents. He also delves into the complexities of immigration, tracing the roots of the current crisis to the British Empire's history of colonization and exploitation. This Week's guest is Nottingham-based Doula, Chef, and Activist Eshe Kiama Zu...

In this week's Black World News , Kehinde Andrews makes plain the mirage of the Paris '24 Olympics (26 July 2024 – 11 August 2024) following his family road trip to Lille in France to watch live the (Black) Women of Team USA dominate the Japanese in basketball. He makes plain the assimilationist policy and color-blind approach of France to race; he debunks the myth of "Black" and "White" "genetic...

CONTENT WARNING: Recent Sonya Lynaye Wilburn-Massey Police Murder + Racially Motivated Murder of Anthony Walker. - In this week's  Black World News , Kehinde Andrews makes plain three news items. Firstly the recent unlawful murder of Sonya Massey by the police for no reason; and the need to center Black women killed by the police too (#SAYHERNAME). Secondly, he makes plain that  Jamaica (and the C...

CONTENT WARNING:  Racialised Trauma - In this week's  Black World News , Kehinde Andrews makes plain Trump's so-called assassination attempt (leaving one person dead and two wounded) and as Malcolm said of Kennedy's assassination, "it's chickens coming home to roost." However, it's not surprising as America is founded and sustained on political violence: the first violence of the genocide of nativ...

In this week's Black World News , Kehinde Andrews makes plain the racism in continental Europe and how it hits differently to the UK; how Jamaica and other Black Caribbean islands (like Haiti) are not our home, they're prison colonies, and the solution: a global Black nation. - In this week's  Black United Front interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Mitchell Esajas "A Voice of Black Holland," from...

In this week's Black World News , Kehinde Andrews makes plain the "All eyes on Congo" image trending recently after the "All eyes on Rafa [a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip]" AI-generated image went viral. Kehinde says we need to have eyes on Congo due to the conflict, and child labor exploitation for corporate resources. But, the reality is that the resources being mined at poverty wa...

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,...

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 res...

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...

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...

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...

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 th...